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. Most recent update 01/13/09.

Introduction

There has been a steady growth in the interactions between control theory and various branches of the physical and biological sciences. These interactions have been significantly influenced by the increasing role of the dynamical systems perspective in these sciences. This series of talks is designed to highlight some of the exciting developments now taking place at the forefront of research in Control and Dynamical Systems and to draw attention to some of the emerging interdisciplinary connections. Since its establishment in 1996, this series has included contributions by engineers, mathematicians, physicists, and biologists engaged at the forefront of research in control systems, computation, cell biology, robotics, networking, cooperative pheonomena and other areas.

This series has been supported in part by the Army Research Office under the ODDR&E MURI97 Program Grant No. DAAG55-97-1-0114 to the Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures (through Harvard University), and the ODDR&E MURI01 Program Grant No. DAAD19-01-1-0465 to the Center for Communicating Networked Control Systems (through Boston University), and by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under AFOSR Grant No. F49620-01-0415.

The CDS lecture series is associated with the Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory and the Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures. Please visit the listing of all previous CDS lectures.


Lecture Schedule

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Please click on speaker's name for a brief biography.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168
Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad
Feedback loops in lamprey swimming
Eric Tytell

Department of Biology
University of Maryland

Monday, March 3, 2008, 2:00 p.m.
A.V. Williams Building, Room 1146
Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad
Challenges for Autonomous Mobile Microrobots
Sarah Bergbreiter

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland

Wednesday, December 5, 2007, 2:00 p.m.
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168
Hosts: P.S. Krishnaprasad and Vijay Gupta
Simple, effective scheduling strategies based on radomized load balancing
Randy Cogill
Department of Systems and Information Engineering
University of Virginia

Thursday, October 25, 2007, 2:00 p.m.
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168
Hosts: P.S. Krishnaprasad and Vijay Gupta
Hamiltonian Systems on Lie Groups
James Biggs

Department of Systems Engineering
University of Reading, England

Wednesday, September 19, 2007, 2:00 p.m.
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168
Hosts: P.S. Krishnaprasad and Vijay Gupta
Some Questions in Distributed Control
Cedric Langbort

Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamgaign