Mathematical Control and Systems Theory
2003 spring
Seminar program
Tuesday, June 10, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Guangyue Han, Notre Dame
Multiple antenna communication system and packing problem on Stiefel Manifold
15:30-16:30 Clyde Martin, Lubbock
Smoothing splines are approximate linear filters
Thursday, June 5, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Christopher I. Byrnes, St. Louis
Shaping the steady state responses of nonlinear control systems
15:30-16:30 Alexei S. Matveev, St. Petersburg
Illposedness of standard optimal control problems by perturbation of time delay
Tuesday, June 3, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Mikhail I. Zelikin, Moscow
Operator cross-ratio on infinite-dimensional Sato's Grassmannian
15:30-16:30 Yishao Zhou, Stockholm
Carleman linearization, polynomial systems and observability
Tuesday, May 27, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Alberto Isidori, Rome
Robust tracking of uncertain trajectories
15:30-16:30 Laurent Praly, Paris
Forwarding: Theory and "Applications"
Thursday, May 22, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Sergei Treil, Providence
Control theory methods in harmonic analysis and vice versa
15:30-16:30 Wolfgang Kliemann, Ames
Bifurcations in control systems
Tuesday, May 20, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Uwe Helmke, Würzburg
Projection algorithms for convex and nonconvex feasibility problems
15:30-16:30 Hector J. Sussmann, Piscataway
Set-valued derivatives
Thursday, May 15, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Anthony Bloch, Ann Arbor
Measure preservation and asymptotic stability in Hamiltonian and nonholonomic mechanical systems
15:30-16:30 Arthur J. Krener, Davis
The global convergence of the minimum energy estimator and the local convergence of the extended Kalman filter
Tuesday, May 13, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 James L. Massey, Copenhagen
A simple system description of a class of stream ciphers
15:30-16:30 Joachim Rosenthal, Notre Dame
convolutional codes with maximal or near-maximal distance
Thursday, May 8, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Joachim Rosenthal, Notre Dame, Indiana
Claude Shannon's three challenges
15:30-16:30 Jakob Stoustrup, Aalborg
A unified algebraic approach to (some) linear control problems
Tuesday, May 6, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Alexander Kurzhanski, Moscow
Optimization methods for reachability under uncertainty and target control
15:30-16:30 Tryphon Georgiou, Minneapolis
Robustness of feedback systems
Tuesday, April 29, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Hidenori Kimura, Tokyo
Stochasticity and regulation of biochemical reactions in the cell
15:30-16:30 Anton Shiriaev, Odense
How to stabilize a nonlinear system by output via the famous Circle criterion
Thursday, April 24, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Anders Lindquist, KTH, Stockholm
A global analysis approach to robust control
15:30-16:30 Ryozo Nagamune, KTH, Stockholm
Robust control design based on Navanlinna-Pick interpolation with degree constraint
Tuesday, April 22, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Vincent Blondel, Louvain-la-Neuve
On dynamical systems that have universal computational capabilities
15:30-16:30 Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto
New characterization of invariant subspaces of $H^2$ with applications to the optimal sensitivity problem
Thursday, April 10, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Anders Rantzer, Lund
On dissipation, density and decentralization
15:30-16:30 Alexander Megretski, Cambridge, MA
Robustness of finite state automata
Tuesday, April 8, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Velimir Jurdjevic, Toronto
Mechanical tops and their elastic extensions
15:30-16:30 Amol Sasane, Groningen
Hankel norm approximation for infinite-dimensional systems
Thursday, April 3, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Arthur J. Krener, Davis
Control bifurcations
15:30-16:30 Boris Polyak, Moscow
A convexity principle and its applications in linear algebra, optimization and control
Tuesday, April 1, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Michiel Hazewinkel, Amsterdam
Multivariable recursiveness, realization theory, and cofree coalgebras
15:30-16:30 Bijoy K. Ghosh, Saint Louis
Riccati equations in cyclopian vision
Thursday, March 27, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Velimir Jurdjevic, Toronto
SONYA KOWALEWSKI - The passion, the genius and the mystery
15:30-16:30 A.A. Agrachev, Trieste and Moscow
On controllability of the Navier-Stokes equation by low modes forcing
Tuesday, March 25, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Andy Teel, Santa Barbara
Discrete-time Lyapunov functions, robustness and model predictive control
15:30-16:30 W.P. Dayawansa, Lubbock
Nonlinear control of microactuators
Thursday, March 20, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Witold Respondek, Mont Saint Aignan
Symmetries and flat outputs of nonlinear control systems
15:30-16:30 Torkel Glad, Linköping
Lyapunov functions for control of rigid bodies, with applications to aircraft stabilization
Tuesday, March 18, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Fritz Colonius, Augsburg
Controllability and dynamic homotopies
15:30-16:30 Bronislaw Jakubczyk, Warsaw
Phase portraits and bifurcations of control systems in the plane
Friday, March 14, 2003: Institute seminar
9:30-10:30 Barbara Caputo, KTH Stockholm
Building taxonomies for categorization
11:00-12:00 Stefan Carlsson, KTH Stockholm
Shape characterization using order types
12:00-13:00 Jitendra Malik, Berkeley
Recognizing objects and actions in images and video
Thursday, March 13, 2003: Institute seminar
9:30-10:30 James Damon, Chapel Hill
Determining the geometry of boundaries of regions from medial data
11:00-12:00 Kalle Åström, Lund
Vision on a 1-D retina
12:00-13:00Fredrik Kahl, Lund
Critical configurations for 3D reconstruction, elliptic curves, generalizations of Pascal's theorem
14:30-15:30 David Mumford, Providence
Shape and Riemann metrics
Wednesday, March 12, 2003: Institute seminar
9:30-10:30 Cristian Sminchisescu, Grenoble
Modeling and tracking of articulated human motion in 3D
11:00-12:00 Daniel Fagerström, KTH Stockholm
Galilean invariants for optical motion
12:00-13:00 Bill Triggs, Grenoble
To be announced
14:30-15:30 Bijoy Ghosh, St Louis
Appearance dynamics and internal models
16:00-17:00 Jan Koenderink, Utrecht
To be announced
Tuesday, March 11, 2003: Institute seminar
10:30-11:30 Eitan Sharon, Providence
Hierarchical adaptive segmentation
12:00-13:00 Eitan Sharon, Providence
Hierarchical adaptive segmentation. cont.
14:30-15:30Joachim Buhmann, Bonn
Image segmentation byt path-based and probabilistic clustering
16:00-17:00Jitendra Malik, Berkeley
Ecological statistics and visual grouping
Monday, March 10, 2003: Institute seminar
10:30-11:30 James Sethian, Berkeley
Level set methods
12:00-13:00 Laurent Younes, Cachan
Metamorphoses
14:30-15:30 Joachim Weickert, Saarbrücken
What can we learn from two pixels
Thursday, March 6, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Tryphon Georgiou, Minneapolis
High resolution spectral analysis via analytic interpolation
15:30-16:30 Anders Lindquist, Stockholm
A convex optimization approach to generalized moment problems with complexity contraint
Tuesday, March 4, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Laurent Baratchart, Sophia Antipolis
Identification and design of linear systems in the frequency domain and function theory
15:30-16:30 Michele Pavon, Padova
Quantum Schroedinger bridges and quantum control
Thursday, February 27, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Olof Staffans, Åbo
Spectrally minimal realizations of some cyclic transfer functions
15:30-16:30 Kalle Mikkola, Helsinki
Riccati equations and optimal control for regular linear systems and beyond
Tuesday, February 25, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Andrea Gombani, Padova
On the parametrization of Schur and positive real functions of degree $n$ with fixed interpolating conditions
15:30-16:30 Fabio Celani, St. Louis
Omega-limit sets of nonlinear systems with high-gain feedbacks
Thursday, February 20, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Harry Dym, Rehovot
Riccati equations and bitangential interpolation
15:30-16:30 Dima Z. Arov, Odessa
Criteria for the similarity of all passive minimal realizations of transfer functions and applications to control and prediction
Tuesday, February 18, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Israel Gohberg, Tel Aviv
Orthogonal systems and convolution equations
15:30-16:30 György Michaletzky, Budapest
On the quasi-similarity of compressed shift operators
Thursday, February 13, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Ruth F. Curtain, Groningen
Reciprocals of well-posed linear systems
15:30-16:30 Paul A. Fuhrmann, Beer Sheva
Observer theory
Tuesday, February 11, 2003:Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Joseph A. Ball, Blacksburg
Robust control of systems with noncommutative structured uncertainty, formal power series in noncommuting indeterminates, and systems with evolution along a free semigroup
15:30-16:30 Rien Kaashoek, Amsterdam
Commutant lifting and metric constrained interpolation
Thursday, February 6, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Roberto Triggiani, Charlottesville
Carleman/obervability estimates without lower order terms: Global uniqueness and observability in one shot
15:30-16:30 Jarmo Malinen, Helsinki
When is a linear system conservative?
Tuesday, February 4, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Irena Lasiecka, Charlottesville
Mathematical control theory of coupled PDE systems with an interface
15:30-16:30 Pirkko Kuusela, Helsinki
Internet and control theory: What is the connection?
Thursday, January 30, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Martino Bardi, Padova
PDE methods for singular perturbations of controlled degenerate diffusions
15:30-16:30 Hector Sussmann, Piscataway
The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for finite-dimensional deterministic optimal control problems. Part II
Tuesday, January 28, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Piermarco Cannarsa, Rome
Null controllability of the heat equation in unbounded domains
16:00-17:00 NOTE THE TIME! Anders Szepessy, KTH, Stockholm
Optimal control with multigrid and adaptivity
Thursday, January 23, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 John A. Burns, Blacksburg
Distributed parameter control, sensitivity analysis and transition to turbulence
15:30-16:30 Christopher I. Byrnes, St. Louis
Shaping the steady state responses of nonlinear control systems
Tuesday, January 21, 2003: Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 David Gilliam, Lubbock
Small-scale spatial mollifiers with application to output regulation for distributed parameter systems
15:30-16:30 Victor Shubov, Lubbock
Stability of fluid flows containing solid particles. Uniform regularity of control systems governed by parabolic equations
Thursday, January 16, 2003:Institute seminar
14:00-15:00 Hector Sussmann, Piscataway
The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation for finite-dimensional deterministic optimal control problems
15:30-16:30 Thomas Banks, Raleigh
Relaxed controls, Preisach hysteresis, and mixing distributions in statistical inverse problems
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