CDS Lecture Series 1999

Lecture Series 1999

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

Lecture Schedule

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Please click on speaker's name for a brief biography.

Friday February 12, 1999, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: General Input Balancing and Model Reduction for Linear and Nonlinear Systems
W. Steven Gray
Old Dominion University, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Monday, March 15, 1999, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Modeling and Control Issues Concerning Smart Materials with Hysteresis
Ralph C. Smith
North Carolina State University, Raleigh
CRSC, Department of Mathematics
Friday, March 26, 1999, 3:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad: Stabilization of Strongly Nonlinear Systems with Incomplete Model Information
Kristi Morgansen
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Wednesday, March 31, 1999, 3:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P.S. Krishnaprasad: Motion Control with Limited Communication
Dimitris Hristu
Division of Engineering & Applied Sciences
Harvard University
Friday, April 9, 1999, 11:00am A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Characterization, Design, and Modeling of Megnetostrictive Transducers
Alison B. Flatau
Program Director, Dynamic Systems & Control Program
National Science Foundation
Monday, May 24, 1999, 2:00pm A.V. Williams Building, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Scale Independent Hysteresis Switching and Some of Its Applications
A. Stephen Morse
Center for Computational Vision and Control
Department of Electrical Engineering
Yale University
Friday, August 13, 1999, 2:00pm A.V. Williams, Room 3259 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Long-Duration Carrier-Smoothed-Code Algorithm for GPS Positioning
Li-Sheng Wang
Institute of Applied Mechanics
National Taiwan University
Wednesday, October 6, 1999, 2:30pm A.V. Williams, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Computation of Space and Spectrum in the Owl's Auditory System
Terry T. Takahashi
Institute of Neuroscience
University of Oregon
Wednesday, October 20, 1999, 2:00pm A.V. Williams, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Stabilization by the Method of Control Lagrangians
Anthony Bloch
Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
Friday, October 22, 1999, 3:00pm A.V. Williams, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Bursts
Edgar Knobloch
Physics Department
University of California, Berkeley
Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 3:00pm A.V. Williams, Room 2168 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Learing algorithms for MDPs: recent results
Vivek S. Borkar
School of Technology and Computer Science
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay
Wednesday, November 10, 1999, 1:30pm A.V. Williams, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Riddle Basins of Attraction of Chaotic Systems: Inevitable uncertainties in the outcomes of experiments
Edward Ott
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
Friday, November 19, 1999, 3:00pm A.V. Williams, Room 2460 Host: P. S. Krishnaprasad: Chaotic Laser Dynamics: Control and Noise
Rajarshi Roy
Department of Physics
University of Maryland, College Park