CDS Lecture Series 1998

Lecture Series 1998

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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 1998, 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 ISL Events web site for a listing of all past and future CDS lectures.

Lecture Schedule

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

Monday, December 14, 1998, 10:00am A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: On Minimality and Similarity Invariance and its Relation with Input-Output Notions for Nonlinear Systems
Jacquelien Scherpen
Delft University of Technology
Wednesday, November 11, 1998, 3:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Some new results related to two contributions of G.I. Taylor: (i) swimming micro-organisms and (ii) hydrodynamic dispersion
Howard A. Stone
Harvard University
Monday, November 2, 1998, 3:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 3258 Hosts: John Baras and P. S. Krishnaprasad: A Behavioral Approach to H_infinity Control
Jan C. Willems
University of Groningen, NL
Monday, October 19, 1998, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 3258 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: MEMS Arrays for Fluidic and Optical Control
Thomas G. Bifano
Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, Boston University
Friday, October 16, 1998, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Nonlinear Optical Systems with 2D Feedback: Pattern Formation, Phase Distortion Suppression and Image Processing
Mikhail A. Vorontsov
Army Research Laboratory
Friday, October 9, 1998, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: U.S. Navy Micro Air Vehicle Development
Richard J. Foch
Naval Research Laboratory
Friday, September 25, 1998, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Averaging Second-Order Control Systems: Spatial Invariance
John Baillieul
Boston University, College of Engineering
Friday, August 7, 1998, 11:00am A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Nonholonomic Visual Servoing
Dimitris P. Tsakiris
INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis
Thursday, May 21, 1998, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: John S. Baras: Stability and Convergence of Stochastic Approximation Algorithms by the O.D.E. Method
Vivek S. Borkar
Indian Institute of Science, Department of Computer Science and Automation
Friday, April 3, 1998, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Development of a GPS Based Tracking System for Missle Test and Evaluation
Larry Levy
Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory
Monday, March 16, 1998, 11:00am A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Merging of IC Fabrication and Traditional Manufacturing Methodologies
Marc J. Madou
Ohio State University