CDS Lecture Series: Upcoming Lectures

Lecture Series

Upcoming Events

The ISL web site is maintained by
Pamela L. White
. Most recent update 08/06/03.

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

Please click on lecture title for an abstract.
Please click on speaker's name for a brief biography.

Thursday, June 19, 2003, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad: Stability of Phase Locking Behavior of Coupled Oscillators
Dirk Aeyels
University of Ghent

Friday, May 9, 2003, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Juggling dynamics and a billiard control problem
Rodolphe Sepulchre
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Liege

Friday, April 25, 2003, 4:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad This lecture is presented as part of the ISR Systems Seminar Series: Why Be Backward? Forward Evolution Equations for Barrier Options
Ali Hirsa
Morgan Stanley, New York

Friday, April 11, 2003, 2:00 p.m.
A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168
Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad

Controller Design for a Five-Line Planar Biped Robot
Jessy W. Grizzle
Control Systems Laboratory
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
University of Michigan

Friday, February 28, 2003, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Control of Multi-robot Systems
Vijay Kumar
GRASP Laboratory
University of Pennsylvania

Friday, February 7, 2003, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Drive-by Sensing: Lessons Biology Can Teach Robots
Roman Kuc
Intelligent Sensors Laboratory
Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University

Thursday, December 19, 2002, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Invariant Subspace Computation - A Geometric Approach
Pierre-Antoine Absil
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Institut Montefiori
University of Liege

Monday, November 25, 2002, 2:00 p.m. A. V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad This lecture is presented as part of the ISR Systems Seminar Series: A Generative Theory of Shape
Michael Leyton
Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS)
Rutgers University

Friday, November 15, 2002, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Dynamics and controls of Formation Flying Satellites in Earth Orbits
Sesha Sai Vaddi
Department of Aerospace Engineering
Texas A&M University

Monday, November 11, 2002, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Some issues in the control of distributed/stochastic systems
Yannis Kevrekidis
Department of Chemical Engineering
Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Princeton University

Friday, November 1, 2002, 2:00 p.m. A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis: Linguistic control of mobile robots
Magnus Egerstedt
Department of Electrical anad Computer Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology