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. 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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Friday, May 10, 2002, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Audiomotor integration for spatially-guided behavior in the echolocating bat
Cynthia Moss
Department of Psychology
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland at College Park

Friday, May 3, 2002, 1:30 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: B. Balachandran: Dynamics, Stability and Reduction of Fluctuating Mechanical Systems
Sri Namachchivaya
Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Nonlinear Systems Group
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thursday, April 25, 2002, 11:00 a.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Modeling Adaptation in Insect Visual Motion Processing
Patrick Shoemaker
Tanner Research Labs
Pasadena, California

Wednesday, March 6, 2002, 3:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Geometric strategies for motion planning and coordination
Francesco Bullo
General Engineering Department
Coordinated Science Lab
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Friday, February 22, 2002, 2:00p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Control of Underactuated Mechanical Systems or, How to Parallel Park a 10 m Blimp
Jim Ostrowski
General Robotics Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Laboratory
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
University of Pennsylvania

Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: H_2/H_Infinity Control of Singularly Peturbed Systems
K. B. Datta
Department of Electrical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Friday, November 30, 2001, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168: Temporal Patterns in Control
P. S. Krishnaprasad
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland at College Park

Monday, October 15, 2001, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad: Modeling and Control of Thin Film Deposition
Martha Gallivan
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Control and Dynamical Systems
California Institute of Technology

Friday, September 28, 2001, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad CDS Lecture Series is pleased to present as part of the ISR SYSTEMS SEMINAR SERIES: High-resolution otpical wave front sensing and control
Eric Justh
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland
Intelligent Optics Laboratory
Army Research Lab

Friday, September 14, 2001, 10:30 a.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2120 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad

Controlling the central pattern generator locomotion after spinal cord injury: Problem and solutions
Avis Cohen
Neuroscience and Cognitivie Sciences
Institute for Systems Research
University of Maryland