Dynamics & Controls Seminars

Academic Year 2003-2004

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May 28, 2004

10:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Shawn Liu
LabVIEW Real-Time Product Manager
National Instruments
LabVIEW Graphical Development: Tools for Interactive Controls Education and Research”

 

May 19, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Jason L. Speyer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department
University of California, Los Angeles
“Characterization of LQG Differential Games with Different Information Patterns”

 

April 21, 2004

10:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Faryar Jabbari
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine
“Disturbance Attenuation with Bounded Actuators:
Scheduled Output Feedback Controllers”

 

April 2, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Alison L. Marsden
Mechanical Engineering
Stanford University
“Suppression of vortex-shedding noise via derivative-free shape optimization”

 

March 18, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Izhak Bucher
Mechanical Engineering
Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Haifa, Israel

“Tailoring the Dynamics of a Miniature (MEMS) Scanning Mirror”

 

March 3, 2004

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Professor Wendell Fleming
Division of Applied Mathematics
Brown University
"Max-plus probability and deterministic control"

 

 

March 2, 2004

3:30 p.m.
479 EBU-II

Mark J. Balas
AES Department
University
of Colorado
“Dynamics and Control of Modern Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines”

 

February 27, 2004

10:30 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Jeff S. Shamma
Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering
University
of California, Los Angeles
Multiagent Repeated Games and Convergence to Nash Equilibria

 

February 23, 2004

11:00 a.m.
584 EBU-II

W. Paul Malcolm
Haskayne School
of Business
University
of Calgary
School
of Applied Mathematics
University
of Adelaide, Australia
“A General Smoothing Theorem for Discrete-Time Gauss-Markov Jump Linear Systems”

 

February 13, 2004

2:00 p.m.
584 EBU-II

Frank Allgower
Institute for Systems Theory in Engineering
University of Stuttgart, Germany
(Currently on sabbatical leave at UCSB)
“Nonlinear Model Predictive Control: From Theory to Applications”

 

February 13, 2004

10:30 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Kenny Breuer
Division of
Engineering
Brown University

“Challenges, Successes and Failures in the Control of Turbulence”

 

February 3, 2004

10:30 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Ann Marie Sastry
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Biomedical Engineering
The University of Michigan

“Cluster, Connections and Transport: Use of Percolation Concepts in Modeling Intracellular Ion Migration”

 

 

December 4, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Prof. Michael J. Grimble
Industrial Control Centre
University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, Scotland

“Nonlinear Predictive Control for Industrial Applications”

 

 

December 3, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. Peter Dower
Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
The
University of Melbourne

“Analysis of input to state stability for discrete time nonlinear systems via dynamic programming”

 

 

November 18, 2003

11:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Michel Gevers
Center
for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics
(CESAME)
Iterative Feedback Tuning: from the bare essentials to some recent developments

 

 

November 12, 2003

11:00 a.m.
584 EBU-II

Michael Overton
Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences
New York University
, New York
, NY
Optimizing Stability and Controllability via Pseudospectra

 

 

October 30, 2003

10:00 a.m.
479 EBU-II

Dr. D. Hrovat
Corporate Technical Specialist
Ford Research Laboratory
Dearborn, Michigan
“Automotive Control Systems and Related Developments”

 

October 17, 2003

10:30 a.m.
479 EBU-II

I. D. Landau
Laboratoire d’Automatique de Grenoble
France
“Adaptive rejection of unknown disturbances - 
Application to active vibration control”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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