Seminars

2011b Spring
Date, location Seminar Series Videos
06/01/11 1:00pm, Elings Hall 1605 Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series Stephen Boyd, Convex Sets and Functions
06/02/11 1:00pm, Elings Hall 1605 Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series Stephen Boyd, Convex Problems Link
06/03/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Alessandro Pinto, Model-based Design of Uncertain Systems: Why and How Link
06/06/11 1:00pm, Elings Hall 1605 Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series Stephen Boyd, Convex-Cardinality Problems Link
06/08/11 1:00pm, Elings Hall 1605 Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series Stephen Boyd, Code Generation for Embedded Convex Optimization (Joint work with Jacob Mattingley, Yang Wang)
06/09/11 1:00pm, Elings Hall 1605 Petar Kokotovic Distinguished Visiting Professor Lecture Series Stephen Boyd, Distributed Optimization via the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (joint work with N. Parikh, E. Chu, B. Peleato, and J. Eckstein)
06/17/11 3:00pm, 2243 Eng. II CCDC Extra Seminar Paolo Frasca, Discontinuous feedback in consensus-seeking systems: bounded confidence, quantization, hysteresis.
07/05/11 3:00pm, 4164 HFH CCDC Seminar Series Carlo Novara, A New Approach to Optimal Filter Design for Nonlinear Systems

2011a Winter
Date, location Seminar Series Videos
01/14/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Ming Gu, Structured Matrix Computations: Algorithms and Applications
01/21/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Andy Ruina, Rotation with Zero Angular Momentum: Demonstrations of the Falling Cat Phenomenon Gone Sour
01/28/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Randy Beard, Aerial Recovery of Miniature Air Vehicles Link
02/04/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Shivkumar Chandrasekaran, High-Order Finite-Difference Methods on Irregular Grids for Elliptic PDEs
02/11/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Jeff Shamma, Dynamical and Equilibrium Selection in Evolutionary Systems Link
02/18/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Ivo F. Sbalzarini, From Stochastic Optimization to More Efficient Simulation Algorithms Link
02/25/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Lucy Pao, Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Challenges Link
03/04/11 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Jorge Goncalves, Biochemical Network Inference from Data Link
04/11/11 4:00pm, ESB 1001 Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished Lecture Daron Acemoglu, Cascades in Networks and Aggregate Volatility

2010d Fall
Date, location Seminar Series Videos
10/01/10 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Torbjorn Nielsen, Hydro Power Plants with Focus on the System Dynamics Link
10/08/10 8:00am, Loma Pelona Southern California Control Workshop Various speakers, 19th Southern California Nonlinear Control Workshop, UC Santa Barbara, October 2010
10/15/10 3:00pm, 1100 Webb CCDC Seminar Series Hyungbo Shim, Analysis and Synthesis of Disturbance Observer as an Add-on Robust Controller Link

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