Speakers and Schedule

Thursday November 23

• 18.00-19.00: Informal welcome reception

Friday November 24
Location: KTH Openlab, Valhallavägen 79

• 8.00: Registration and coffee
• 8.30: Welcome
  • Stefan Östlund
    (Vice president for global relations, KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    
• 8.40-10.20: Session 1
  • 8.40: Claudio Altafini (Linköping University)
    Representing externally positive systems through minimal eventually positive realizations
  • 9.05: John Burns (Virginia Tech)
    Observers for PDE Systems & Sensor Location Problems: A Short Survey
  • 9.30: Jie Chen (City University of Hong Kong)
    Delay Margin: A “Trivial” Application of Moment Theory to a Nontrivial Problem
  • 9.55: Manfred Deistler (Technische Universität Wien)
    Presentation Slides
• 10.20: Coffee break
• 10.40-12.20: Session 2
  • 10.40: Sjur Flåm (University of Bergen)
    Blocks of Coordinates, Stochastic Programming, and Markets
  • 11.05: Tryphon Georgiou (University of California)
    Dynamics in Wasserstein space
  • 11.30: László Gerencsér (Eötvös Loránd University)
    Epileptic seizure detection via statistical analysis of Hawkes processes
  • 11.55: Per-Olof Gutman (Technion, Israel)
    A tribute to alq: the control of a virtual skydiver
• 12.20: Lunch
• 14.00-15.40: Session 3
  • 14.00: Lihua Xie (Nanyang Technological University)
    
  • 14.25: Alexander Kurzhansky (Moscow State University)
    On the theory of fast controls
  • 14.50: Shaoyuan Li (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
    
  • 15.15: Lennart Ljung (Linköping University)
    Avoiding local maxima in ML estimation
• 15.40: Coffee
• 16.00-17.15: Session 4
  • 16.00: Armand Makowski (University of Maryland)
    
  • 16.25: Bart De Moor (KU Leuven)
    Back to the roots: solving sets of multivariate polynomials with numerical linear algebra tools
  • 16.50: Giorgio Picci (University of Padova)
    Why is vector covariance extension so difficult?
• Dinner: 19.00

Saturday November 25
Location: F3, Lindstedtsvägen 26

• 9.00: Coffee
• 9.15-10.55: Session 5
  • 9.15: Anders Rantzer (Lund University)
    Adaptive control (contact Anders Rantzer for slides)
  • 9.40: Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge)
    Distances between spectral densities
  • 10.05: Malcolm Smith (University of Cambridge)
    Stochastic Optimal Control and the McLaren 720S
  • 10.30: Alberto Isidori (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
    Open problems in feedback design for MIMO nonlinear systems
• 10.55: Coffee
• 11.15-12.30: Session 6
  • 11.15: Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    How to control vehicle platoons
  • 11.40: Yutaka Yamamoto (Kyoto University)
    Hypertracking for signals beyond the Nyquist frequency
  • 12.05: Karl-Johan Åström (Lund University)
    Stochastic Control with Atomic Resolution
• 12.30: Thanks and Closing,
  • Anders Lindquist
    
• 13.15: Lunch

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