Program

5:30-7:30 pm

Reception

William "Brit" Kirwan
Chancellor
University System of Maryland

9:00–10:00 am

Filtering and Control
Session Chair: Steve Marcus

Nonlinear filtering in discrete time and application to inventory problems
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Alain Bensoussan
Distinguished Research Professor of Operations Management
Director, International Center for Decision and Risk Analysis
School of Management
University of Texas at Dallas

Behavior of freeway traffic and effectiveness of ramp control
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Pravin Varaiya
Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

Signal Processing and Communications
Session Chair: Prakash Narayan

Maximum likelihood estimation of Wiener models
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Lennart Ljung
Professor of Automatic Control
Director, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research Center for Modeling, Visualization and Information Integration
Department of Electrical Engineering
Linköpings Universitet, Sweden

Tracking a time-varying harmonic: a simple stochastic state-space model and frequency demodulation in software defined radios
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Nikos Sidiropoulos
Professor, Telecommunications Division,
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Technical University of Crete
Chania—Crete, Greece

Some open problems in semiconductor manufacturing control
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Nital Patel
Process Control Systems Manager
Intel Corporation
Chandler, Ariz.

Government and Industry Perspectives
Session Chair: Ananthram Swami

Signaling, fingerprinting and information
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Brian Sadler
Army Research Laboratory
Adelphi, Md.

University-industry collaboration: A success story
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John Kenyon
Senior Vice President, Engineering
Hughes Network Systems
Gaithersburg, Md.

Physics and Control
Session Chair: P.S. Krishnaprasad

Quantum control as a guide to quantum phenomenology
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Roger Brockett
ISR affiliate faculty member
An Wang Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Founder of the Harvard Robotics Laboratory
Harvard University

Modeling Jamming Attacks via Network Flows
Radha Poovendran
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Washington

Towards quantum systems engineering
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Matthew James
Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia