FINAL PROGRAM

 

FRIDAY, FEB. 8th, 2002

 

8:30-8:45      Matthew Tirrell             Welcoming Remarks

8.45-9.15      Petar Kokotovic              Mohammed Dahleh's creative legacy     

 

CONTROL/COMMUNICATION   Chair: M. Khammash

9.15-9.40     Jeff Shamma                  A decomposition approach to distributed control 

9.40-10.05   Andy  Teel                      Why care about the regularity of the value function in discrete-time   

            receding horizon optimal control?

10.05-10.30 Fernando Paganini         A control theoretical look at internet congestion control   

10.30-10.55  Nicola Elia                     Stabilization of Linear Systems with Quantized State Information

                                        

Break

 

C. PHYSICS  Chair: M. Salapaka

11.15-11.55  John Doyle                    Robustness in multiscale physics

11.55-12.20  Igor    Mezic                   Ergodic theory and control theory  

Lunch

 

 

QUANTUM CONTROL Chair: B. Bamieh

1.30-2.10     Antony  Peirce                 Fifteen years of quantum control: from concept to experiment

2.10-2.35     Hideo Mabuchi               Control theory and foundations of quantum mechanics        

2.35-3.00     D. D'Alessandro              A survey on geometric control theory of quantum mechanical systems 3.00-3:25     Atac Imamoglou                       Controlling photons 

Break

 

 

BIOLOGY Chair: D. D’Alessandro

3.45-4.10     Marie   Csete                  Stem cells from the outside in   

4.10-4.35     Mustafa Khammash       Feedback regulation of bacterial stress response

4.35-5.15    Allen   Tannenbaum        Optimal Mass Transfer and Image Warping

 

HANDS ON WORKSHOP & Reception 

5:30-7:00    J. Carlson & M. Dahleh    Hands on demonstrations for kids and adults including physics circus,

                                                           devil’s bicycle, AFM and MEMS

 

 

SATURDAY, FEB. 9th, 2002

 

CONTROL Chair: L. Giarre’

9.00-9.40     Karl   Astrom                   Control:the hidden technology

9.40-10.05   Anna Stefanopolou         Valves tapping in rhythm            

10.05-10.30 Alexandre Megretski       Robust design of stochastic automata 

10.30-10.55 Petros Voulgaris              Optimal control design under structural and communication constraints

 

Break

 

COMPUTATION Chair: A. Pierce

11.15-11.40 Linda Petzold                 Sensitivity analysis for differential-algebraic equations

11.40-12.05 Tryphon Georgiou           Power spectra consistent with covariance data: an  inverse problem

solvable using analytic interpolation theory  

12.05-12.30 Alberto Tesi                    On convexification of distance problems: an LMI-based approach 

 

Lunch

 

NANOTECH Chair: J. Shamma

1.30-2.10   Arun  Majumdar                Mechanics and Manipulation of Biological Molecules

2.10-2.35   Murti Salapaka                 System theory and the dynamics of micro-cantilever based systems

2.35-3.00   Kimberly Turner                Nonlinear dynamics in Microelectromechanical Systems: 

Sensor and Filter  Applications

 

Break

 

CONTROL/LEARNING Chair: P. Voulgaris

3.20-4.00  Antonio Vicino                    Identification and estimation: the set membership viewpoint:

Part 1, Part 2.

4.00-4.25  Andy  Packard                   Prediction uncertainty from models and data

4.25-4.50  Mario Milanese                  Learning complex systems from data: the set membership approach