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Lecture Series 2000

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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. In 1999, this series will include contributions by engineers, mathematicians, physicists, materials scientists and neuroscientists, exploring work ranging from algorithms for GPS, to manufacturing techniques for micro-sensors, to problems in auditory localization of interest in bio-mimetic robotics, to the design of smart actuators and sensors for control systems, based on advances in materials science, to the creation of learning algorithms for adaptive systems.

This series is 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).

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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Monday, February 14, 2000, 2:00pm
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460
Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad
A comparison of the rigid body equations and the incompressible, inviscid ideal fluid flow equations, with the extremals of two optimal control problems
Peter E. Crouch
College of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Arizona State University

Friday, February 25, 2000, 2:00pm
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168
Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Fluid with Applications to Turbomachinery
Richard M. Murray
United Technologies Research Center

Monday, March 27, 2000, 2:00pm
A.V. Wiliams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad
Audio and Video Signal Acquisition in Challenging Environments: Current Research at the Harvard Intelligent Multi-Media Environments Laboratory (HIMMEL)
Michael Brandstein
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University

Monday April 3, 2000, 10:30am
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad

The CDS Invited Lecture Series is honored to host Philip Holmes as part of the Institute for Systems Research Special Colloquium Lecture Series.

Models for Insect Locomotion: Why Cockroaches Get Away
Philip Holmes
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Princeton University

Friday, May 5, 2000, 2:00 pm
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168
Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad
Active Shielding and Control of Environmental Noise
Josip Loncaric
Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering
NASA Langley Research Center

Monday, May 15, 2000, 11:00 am
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460
Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad
Nonlinear Model Reduction: Control and Computational Mechanics
Jerrold E. Marsden
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
California Institute of Technology

Friday, May 26, 2000, 2:00 pm
A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460
Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad
Low Energy Routes Using Chaos in Space Travel and Astronomy
Edward Belbruno
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Princeton University