CDS Lecture Series: Upcoming Lectures

Lecture Series

Upcoming Events

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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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Thursday, February 16, 2012, 5:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Bldg, Room 1146 University of Maryland at College Park Host: Andre Tits: The Interplay of Convexity and Algorithmic Algebra in Optimization and Systems Analysis
Amir Ali Ahmadi
Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wednesday, October 5, 1:30 p.m. A. V. Williams Bldg, Room 1146 University of Maryland at College Park Host: Steve Marcus: Actor_Critic Algorithms with Function Approximation for Constrained Markov Decision Processes: An Application to Traffic Signal Control
Shalabh Bhatnagar
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

Wednesday, April 21, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Bldg, Room 2460 University of Maryland at College Park Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Challenges in Robotic MRI-guided interventions: From Macro-scale to Meso-scale
Jaydev P. Desai
Director - Robotics, Automation, and Medical Systems (RAMS) Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland at College Park

Thursday, March 25, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Bldg, Room 2168 University of Maryland at College Park Hosts: P. S. Krishnaprasad and Andre Tits: Gotchas in nonlinear systems analysis
Pierre-Antoine Absil
Department of Mathematical Engineering
Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Bldg, Room 2460 University of Maryland at College Park Host: Nuno Martins: Phase transition in large population games: An application to synchronization of coupled oscillators
Prashant Mehta
Coordinated Science Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Science & Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Tuesday, December 1, 2009, 3:30 p.m. A.V. Williams Bldg, Room 1148 University of Maryland at College Park Host: Nuno Martins: Event-triggered and self-triggered control
Paulo Tabuada
Department of Electrical Engineering
CyPHyLab
University of California, Los Angeles

POSTPONED! NEW DATE TBA Friday, November 20, 2009, 2:00p.m. A.V. Williams Bldg, Room 2120 University of Maryland at College Park: Forces generated by actin polymerization: from lipid vesicles to immune cells
Arpita Upadhyaya
Department of Physics
IPST
University of Maryland at College Park

Wednesday, October 28, 2009, 5:00 p.m. Computer Science Instructional Center (Building 406), Room 1115 University of Maryland at College Park A reception will precede the lecture at 4:30 in the lobby of the CSIC Building: Quantum Information Science
Christopher Monroe
Bice Zorn Professor, Department of Physics
University of Maryland at College Park

Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad Reception will follow lecture: UAV Motion Planning and Resource Management of Heterogeneous Platform and Sensor Ensembles
Andrew J. Newman
The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Wednesday, October 14, 2009, 11:00 a.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle
Sean Meyn
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Coordinated Science Lab
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign