2016 – 2017 Seminars

Spring 2017

Structured Stochastic Uncertainty in Dynamical Systems” – Bassam Bamieh, Ph.D., University of California at Santa Barbara – May 3, 2017

Aligning and Assembling Networks without Labels” – Matthias Grossglauser, Ph.D., École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – April 19, 2017 (Co-sponsored with SINE)

Path-Complete Lyapunov Techniques: When Algebra and Combinatorics meet in Control” – Raphaël Jungers, Ph.D., Université catholique de Louvain – April 5, 2017

Robust Cyber-Physical Systems: A utopia within reach” – Paulo Tabuada, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles – March 29, 2017

Collaborative Road Freight Transport” – Karl Henrik Johansson, Ph.D., KTH Royal Institute of Technology – March 15, 2017

Analytic Left Inversion for Multivariable Input-Output Systems” – Luis A. Duffaut Espinosa, Ph.D., University of Vermont – March 8, 2017

Multirobot Coordination from High-level Specification” – Nora Ayanian, Ph.D., University of Southern California – March 1, 2017

From Planetary Mapping to Rover Surface Navigation” – Ara Nefian, Ph.D., NASA Ames Research Center – February 15, 2017

Adaptive Wings: A Pathway Towards Birds’ Superior Flight Performance” – Aimy Wissa, Ph.D., University of Illinois – February 8, 2017

Computational Design of Artificial Animals” – Mattia Gazzola, Ph.D., University of Illinois – February 1, 2017

Entropy and Minimal Data Rates for State Estimation and Model Detection” – Daniel Liberzon, Ph.D., University of Illinois – January 25, 2017

Fall 2016

Controlled Equilibrium Selection in Stochastically Perturbed Dynamics Under Critical Noise” – Aristotle Arapostathis, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin – December 7, 2016

Secure Control of Multiagent Systems” – Nikhil Chopra, Ph.D., University of Maryland – November 16, 2016

Optimality in Collectives” – P. S. Krishnaprasad, Ph.D., University of Maryland – Novemeber 2, 2016

Differentially Constrained Machine Learning for Distributed Autonomy” – Girish Chowdhary, Ph.D., University of Illinois – October 26, 2016

Cyber-Physical-Human Systems: Results and Challenges” – Vijay Gupta, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame – October 19, 2016

The Problem of Autonomy” – Kartik B. Ariyur, Ph.D., Purdue University – October 12, 2016

Fragility in the Human Decision Making System: When Irrationality Hijacks Logic” – Sridevi Sarma, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University – October 5, 2016

Distributed Optimization Algorithms for Wide-Area Monitoring of Power Systems Using Synchrophasors” – Aranya Chakrabortty, Ph.D., North Carolina State University – September 21, 2016

Some Control Problems Where Convex and Set-Valued Analysis is Helpful” – Rafal Goebel, Ph.D., Loyola University Chicago – September 14, 2016