2012 – 2013 Seminars

Spring 2013

5/14/2013

Associate Professor Rachid El-Azouzi, University of Avignon, France
Online content diffusion: a connection through the control of
epidemics

5/1/2013

Associate Professor Rajesh Sundaresan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Asymptotics of the invariant measure in a mean-field model with jumps

4/22/2013

Professor Anthony Yezzi, Georgia Tech University
Visual Tracking with Active Contours in Sobolev Spaces

4/25/2013

Assistant Professor Jason R. Marden, University of Colorado
Game Theory: A Modern Approach to Multiagent Coordination

4/3/2013

Associate Professor David Gamarnik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management
Statistical physics methods for optimization and inference on networks

3/28/2013

Professor Donatello Materassi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Identifying the connectivity structure of networks of dynamical systems

3/27/2013

Professor Jessy W. Grizzle, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Highly Agile and Robust Robotic Bipedal Locomotion

3/13/2013

Professor Kameshwar Poolla, University of California, Berkeley
The Grid with Intelligent Periphery

3/6/2013

Professor Andrey Sarychev, Florence University
Controlling Velocities and Domains of the Incompressible Fluid by Means of Degenerate Distributed Forcing

2/27/2013

Professor Benedetto Piccoli, Rutgers University
Multiscale Models and Sparse Controls for Crowd Dynamics and Vehicular Traffic

2/15/2013

Professor Raphael Jungers, Universite Catholique de Louvain
Joint Spectral Characteristics: A Tale of Three Disciplines

2/13/2013

Professor Noah J. Cowan, Johns Hopkins University
Antagonistic Thrust Forces Enhance Controllability and Stability at the Expense of Energy in the Glass Knifefish

2/6/2013

Dr. Robert Gregg, Northwestern University
Translational Control Design for Lower-Limb Prosthetics and Orthotics: Lessons from Robot Locomotion

1/30/2013

Dr. Dimitra Panagou, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
A Feedback Control Design Methodology for Underactuated Systems Subject to State Constraints and Disturbances

Fall 2012

12/5/2012

Professor Semyon Meerkov, University of Michigan
DCL Lecture Series: Quasilinear Control: Performance Analysis and Design of Feedback Systems with Nonlinear Actuators and Sensors

11/28/2012

Professor Craig Woolsey, University of Michigan
DCL Lecture Series: Prof. Crag Woolsey

11/14/2012

Professor Anna Stephanopoulou, University of Michigan, Energy Institute
DCL Lecture Series: Prof. Anna Stephanopoulou

11/7/2012

Professor R. Scott Erwin, Kirtland Air Force Base
DCL Lecture Series: R. Scott Erwin

10/24/2012

Professor Behcet Acikmese, University of Texas at Austin
DCL Lecture Series: Onboard Convex Optimization for Autonomous Spacecraft Control

10/19/2012

Professor Paul Van Dooren, Universite Catholique de Louvain
DCL Lecture Series: Dynamical Models Explaining Social Balance and Evolution of Cooperation

10/17/2012

Dr. Alberto Speranzon, United Technologies Research Center
DCL Lecture Series: Positioning in GPS Denied Environments: From Adaptive Filtering and Graph Embedding to Topological Methods

10/15/2012 – 10/16/2012

The 2012 Symposium on Emerging Topics in Control and Modeling: Networked Systems

10/10/2012

John A. Burns, Hatcher Professor of Mathematics, Virginia Tech
DCL Lecture Series: Mathematical and Computational Challenges for Optimization and Control of Spatially Varying Systems

10/1/2012

Karl Johan strm, Lund University, Sweden
Golden Anniversary Jubilee Lecture: “Controls – Past, Present, and Future”

10/1/2012 – 10/5/2012

50th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing

9/26/2012

Puneet Singla, Assistant Professor, University of Buffalo
Decision and Control Lecture Series: Certain Thoughts on Uncertainty Analysis for Dynamical Systems

9/19/2012

Professor Rafal Goebel, Loyola University Chicago
Consensus, Continuum of Equilibria, and Set-Valued Lyapunov Functions

9/12/2012

Professor Vijay Gupta, University of Notre Dame
On Control with Time-varying Processor Availability

8/10/2012

Dr. Emrah Akyol, University of California, Santa Barbara
On Resource Constrained Communications and Stochastic Networked Control