Hybrid Thermodynamic Control Systems
Peter Caines
Abstract
Speaker's Bio
Peter Caines received the BA in mathematics from Oxford University in 1967 and the PhD in systems and control theory in 1970 from Imperial College,University of London, under the supervision of David Q. Mayne, FRS. After periods as a postdoctoral researcher and faculty member at UMIST, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Toronto and Harvard, he joined McGill University, Montreal, in 1980, where he is James McGill Professor and Macdonald Chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Peter Caines is a Fellow of the IEEE, SIAM and the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2003 and received the IEEE Control Systems Society Bode Lecture Prize in 2009; he is the author of Linear Stochastic Systems, John Wiley, 1988, and his research interests include stochastic, multi-agent and hybrid systems theory together with their links to physics, economics and biology.