Spring 2018
Decentralized and Reinforcement Learning Approaches to Congestion Control – Neil Walton, Ph.D., University of Manchester – March 13, 2019
The Barycenter Method for Direct Optimization: an Overview, with Applications to Estimation of Switched Linear Models – Felipe Pait, Ph.D., University of S Paulo, Brazil – March 6, 2019
Optimization Over Probability Measures – Yongxin Chen, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology – February 20, 2019
Decentralized Control Over Unreliable Communication Links – Ashutosh Nayyar, Ph.D., University of Southern California – February 13, 2019
Programming Dynamic Behaviors in Molecular Systems and Materials– Elisa Franco, Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles – February 6, 2019
Cyber-Attack Resilient and Communication-Aware Networked Control Systems– Erick J. Rodriguez-Seda, Ph.D., United States Naval Academy – January 23, 2019
Fall 2019
Can I be of Assistance?: Socially Assistive Robots and the Future of Healthy Aging – Goldie Nejat, University of Toronto – November 28, 2018
Structure Theory for Ensemble Control and Estimation of Nonholonomic Systems – Xudong Chen, University of Colorado, Boulder – November 14, 2018
Feedback Control with Minimum Directed Information – Takashi Tanaka, University of Texas at Austin – November 7, 2018
Evolutes of the ideal polygons – Maxim Arnold, University of Texas at Dallas – October 31, 2018
The proximal augmented Lagrangian method for nonsmooth composite optimization – Mihailo Jovanovic, University of Southern California – October 24, 2018
Transportation Systems Resilience: Value of Information and Capacity-Aware Control – Saurabh Amin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – October 17, 2018
A variational formula for risk-sensitive control – Vivek Borkar, IIT Bombay, Mumbai – October 10, 2018
Computer Vision and Robotics in Interventional Procedures: From Intra-Operative Image Mapping to Interactive Robotic Surgical Training – Liangjing Yang, Zhejiang University/University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (ZJU-UIUC) Institute – September 26, 2018
Controlling Physical Human-Robot Interaction – Milos Zefran, University of Illinois at Chicago – September 19, 2018