2014 – 2015 Seminars

Spring 2015

“Network Small-Gain Theorems in Quantized and Event-Triggered Nonlinear Control” – Zhong-Ping Jiang, NYU-Polytechnic School of Engineering – April 29, 2015

“Differentially Private Filtering” – Jerome Le Ny, Polytechnique Montreal – April 15, 2015

“Robust Analysis and Synthesis for Linear Parameter Varying Systems” – Peter Seiler, University of Minnesota – April 8, 2015

“Remote and Distributed Estimation over Shared Networks: New Results and Open Problems” – Nuno Martins, University of Maryland – April 1, 2015

“Distributed Coordination for Separable Network Optimization with Coupling Constraints” –  Jorge Cortes, University of California, San Diego – March 18, 2015

“Optimal control with non-renewable and reset-renewable resources” – Alex Vladimirsky, Cornell University – March 11, 2015

“Stability versus Maneuverability in Hovering Flight” – Eva Kanso, University of Southern California – March 4, 2015

“The Strategic Formation of Multi-Layer Networks” – Shreyas Sundaram, Purdue University – February 25, 2015

“Exact Algorithms for Semi-Random k-Clustering” – Alexandra Kolla, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – February 18, 2015

“Demand Response and Fluctuation Reduction in Smart Grid” – Ermin Wei, Northwestern University – February 11, 2015

“Robust Stability and Feedback Stabilization for Systems with a Continuum of Equilibria” – Rafal Goebel, Loyola University – February 4, 2015

Fall 2014

“Resilient Monitoring and Control of Distribution Networks” – Saurabh Amin, MIT – December 3, 2014

“Concentration Inequalities in Systems and Control” – Maxim Raginsky, University of Illinois – November 12, 2014

“Improving the Performance and Autonomy of Mobile Robots by Enabling Them to Learn from Past Experience” – Angela Schoellig, University of Toronto – October  22, 2014

“Management of energy resources for flexibility and efficiency in next generation power systems” – Dennice Gayme, Johns Hopkins University – October 15, 2014

“Control of the Grid in 2020 and How Economics Can Help Us” – Sean Meyn, University of Florida – October 8, 2014

“Limitations and tradeoffs in control of large-scale stochastic networks” – Umesh Vaidya, Iowa State University – September 24, 2014

“An input/output approach to networked dynamical systems” – Murat Arcak, University of California, Berkeley – September 17, 2014

From Data to Doing: Human-Inspired Autonomous Robotic Systems  – Prof. Amy LaViers, University of Virginia – September 10, 2014

How large is the norm of a random matrix? – Prof. Ramon van Handel, Princeton University – September 3, 2014