Past Seminars
| ** SEMINAR CANCELLED ** | ||
| Speaker | Prof. Ravi R. Mazumdar | |
| Univ. Research Chair, Dept. of ECE, Univ. of Waterloo | ||
| Title | A Generalized Lyapunov Theorem for Markov Processes with | |
| Applications to Stability of Contention Based MAC and | ||
| Distributed Scheduling in Wireless Networks | ||
| Date & Time | 9 Dec. 2009, Wed. 2 p.m. | |
| Location | Room GB220 |
| Speaker | Professor Li Qiu | |
| Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering | ||
| Hong Kong University of Science and Technology | ||
| Title | Measure of Instability and Multivariable Networked | |
| Stabilization with Channel Capacity Allocation | ||
| Date & Time | 11 August 2008, 2 p.m. | |
| Location | Room 221 Galbraith Bldg. |
| Speaker | Professor Shinji Hara | |
| Dept. of Information Physics & Computing | ||
| University of Tokyo | ||
| Title | When is a Linear System Easy or Hard to Control? | |
| Date & Time | 25 July 2007, Wed., 11 a.m. | |
| Location | Room 248, Galbraith Bldg., 35 St. George St. |
| Speaker | Professor Sean Victor Hum | |
| Electromagnetics Group | ||
| Edward S. Rogers Sr. Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering | ||
| University of Toronto | ||
| Title | Antenna Arrays Based on Reconfigurable | |
| Antenna Technology | ||
| Date & Time | Friday, 13 October 2006 at 11 a.m. | |
| Location | Room 208, Rosebrugh Bldg., 164 College Street |
| Speaker | Dr. Min Wu | |
| Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering | ||
| University of Maryland, College Park | ||
| Topic | A Digital Forensic Ride in Multimedia World | |
| Date & Time | Friday, 21 April 2006, 2:00 p.m. | |
| Location | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 1170 |
| Speaker... | Professor J. Karl Hedrick | |
| Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | ||
| University of California, Berkeley | ||
| Topic... | Collaborative Control of Unmanned Vehicles | |
| Date & Time... | Monday, 24 April 2006, 11 a.m. | |
| Location... | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 1200 |
| Speaker... | Professor Swaroop Darbha | |
| Dept. of Mechanical Engineering | ||
| Texas A & M University | ||
| Topic... | Information flow and its relation to the stability | |
| of motion of vehicles in a rigid formation | ||
| Date & Time... | Monday, 24 April 2006, 2:30 p.m. | |
| Location... | Bahen Centre for Information Technology, Room 1200 |
| Speaker... | Professor Vijay Kumar | |
| Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics | ||
| University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Title... | Scalable Approaches to Deploying Swarms of Multiple Vehicles | |
| Date & Time... | Friday, 9 Sept. 2005, 3 p.m. | |
| Location... | Room 1200, Bahen Centre For Information Technology, 40 St. George St. |
| Speaker... | Professor Tomomichi Hagiwara | |
| Department of Electrical Engineering | ||
| Kyoto University | ||
| Title... | Robust Stability Analysis of Sampled-Data | |
| Systems via Periodically Time-Varying Scaling | ||
| Date & Time... | 22 July 2005, Friday, 11 a.m. | |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg., Room 248 |
| Speaker... | Professor Sirish L. Shah | |
| Dept. of Chemical & Materials Engineering | ||
| University of Alberta | ||
| Topic.. | Process and Performance Monitoring | |
| Date & Time... | Wednesday, 23 Feb. 2005, 10 - 11 a.m. | |
| Location... | Bahen Building, Room 1220 |
| Speaker... | Professor Ian Mitchell | |
| Dept. of Computer Science | ||
| University of British Columbia | ||
| Title... | The Hamilton-Jacobi Equation: A Toolbox for Accurate Numerical | |
| Approximation and Applications to Control and Verification | ||
| Date & Time... | Monday, 26 July 2004, 2 p.m. | |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room 248 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Elmer Gilbert | |
| Dept. of Electrical & Computer Science and | ||
| Dept. of Aerospace Engineering | ||
| The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | ||
| Title... | Control Systems with Hard Constraints: Constrained Stability Regions | |
| and Their Application to the Implementation of Reference Governors | ||
| Date & Time... | Thursday, 3 June 2004, 2 - 3:30 p.m. | |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg., Room 248 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Carolyn Beck | |
| Dept. of General Engineering | ||
| University of Illinois | ||
| Title... | Modeling for Control Design and Analysis with | |
| Applications to Anesthetic Pharmacodynamics | ||
| Date & Time... | Monday, March 22, 2004, 3 - 4 p.m. | |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg., Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Geir Dullerud | |
| Dept. of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering | ||
| University of Illinois | ||
| Title... | Control of Heterogeneous Distributed Systems | |
| Date & Time... | Wednesday, March 24, 2004, 11 a.m. - 12 noon | |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg., Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Prof. P.S. Thiagarajan | |
| School of Computing | ||
| National University of Singapore | ||
| Title... | Communicating Transaction Processes | |
| Date & Time... | Monday, 17 November 2003, 4 - 5 pm | |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Oded Maler | |
| CNRS-VERIMAG | ||
| Grenoble, France | ||
| Title... | What is Verification? (Control from a Computer Science Perspective) | |
| Date & Time... | Tuesday, 23 July 2002, 11 am - 12 noon | |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room 248 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Jan H. van Schuppen |
| CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| on Leave at: CSL, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL | |
| Title... | Decentralized control and decentralized failure diagnosis for |
| discrete-event systems with communication between controllers/diagnosers | |
| Date & Time... | Monday, 17 June 2002, 11:00 a.m. |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg., Room 248 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Jan H. van Schuppen |
| CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| on Leave at: CSL, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL | |
| Title... | Control and Realization of Piecewise-Linear Hybrid Systems |
| Date & Time... | Tuesday, 18 June 2002, 11:00 a.m. |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg., Room 248 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Steve Morse |
| Yale University | |
| Title... | Stability of Some Switched Dynamical Systems |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, November 15, 2001, 2:30 p.m. |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg. Room 449 |
| Speaker... | Prof. B. Ross Barmish |
| Dept. of Electrical & Engineering & Computer Science | |
| Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio | |
| Title... | An Introduction to Distributionally |
| Robust Monte Carlo Simulation | |
| Date & Time... | Friday, November 9, 2001, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. |
| Location... | Galbraith Bldg. Room 449 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Howard Goodfellow |
| Stantec Global Technologies, Mississauga, Ontario | |
| Title... | A New Neural Type Controller for Industrial Processes |
| Date & Time... | Friday, May 11, 2001, 11am - 12 noon |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room 449 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Daniel Liberzon |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering, Univ. of Illinois | |
| Title... | Case Studies in Hybrid Control Design |
| Date & Time... | Friday, 16 March 2001, 11 a.m. - 12 noon |
| Location... | Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1101 |
| Speaker... | Dr. M. Vidyasagar |
| Executive Vice President (Advanced Technology) | |
| Tata Consultancy Services, Secunderabad, India | |
| Title... | An Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory |
| Date & Time... | Tuesday, 13 March 2001, 12 noon - 1 p.m. |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Pierre T. Kabamba |
| Aerospace Engrg. Dept., University of Michigan | |
| Title... | An LQR/LQG Theory for Systems with Saturating Actuators |
| Date & Time... | 1 December 2000, 1:30 - 2:30 p.m. |
| Location... | Nursing Building, Room 104 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Raul Ordonez |
| Rowan University, New Jersey | |
| Title... | Control Applications: Driving Control Research? |
| Date & Time... | 24 November 2000, 11 a.m. - 12 noon |
| Location... | Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 102 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Greta T. Chikrii |
| Glushkov Cybernetics Institute, NAS of Ukraine | |
| Title... | Recent Results in Differential Game Theory |
| Date & Time... | 3 November 2000, 11 am - 12 noon |
| Location... | Wallberg Building, Room 144 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Bertil Brandin |
| Siemens Corporate Research, Germany | |
| Title... | VALID Tool Set: Validation of Software Applications |
| Date & Time... | 7 July 2000, 2 - 3 pm |
| Location... | Galbraith Building Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Shinji Hara, Dept. of Mech. & Environmental Informatics |
| Tokyo Institute of Technology | |
| Title... | A Probabilistic Approach to Model Set Identification and Robust Controller Synthesis |
| Date & Time... | 26 June 2000, 11 - 12 noon |
| Location... | Galbraith Building Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Mr. Nabil Aouf, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, |
| McGill University | |
| Title... | Robust Control of a Flexible Aircraft: Gust Load Alleviation |
| Date & Time... | Tuesday, 6 June 2000, 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
| Location... | Galbraith Building Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Peter J. Ramadge, Dept. of Electrical Engineering |
| & Computer Science, Princeton University | |
| Title... | Can Sequential Image Registration Be Stabilized? |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, 25 May 2000, 11:00 am - 12 noon |
| Location... | Galbraith Building Room 244 |
| Speaker... | Prof. V.I. Utkin, Dept. of Elect. Engrg., Ohio State University, Ohio |
| Title... | Sliding Mode Control in Automotive Applications |
| Date & Time... | Monday, 13 September 1999, 11-12 noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Rene BOEL, SYSTems, Universiteit Gent, Belgium |
| Title... | Control Synthesis for Timed Petri Net Models |
| Date & Time... | Friday, October 16, 1998; 2-4 pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Zongji Chen, Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics, China |
| Title... | Hierarchical Hybrid Control Systems |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, July 23, 1998; 3-4 pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Mats Akesson, Department of Automatic Control, Lund, Sweden |
| Title... | A Probing Strategy for Substrate Feeding in Escherichia Coli Cultivations |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, May 7, 1998; 11:00 - 12:00 noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Bruno Scherzinger, Applied Analytics Corporation, Toronto |
| Title... | Theory and Practice of Navigation Technology: Kalman Filtering and Inertia Navigation |
| Date & Time... | Friday, March 13, 1998; 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Dan Chi Jiang, Dept. of Mechanical & Automation Engineering, Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Title... | Gradient Flows and Recurrent Neural Networks for Optimization Problems in Systems and Control |
| Date & Time... | Monday, February 9, 1998; 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Mr. Xin Zhang, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Ontario |
| Title... | Bifurcation, Chaos and Nonlinear Controller Design in Power Systems |
| Date & Time... | Wednesday, July 16, 1997, 11:00 - 12:00 noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, LP473 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Japan |
| Title... | Sampled-Data Control and Digital Signal Reconstruction |
| Date & Time... | Wednesday, July 9, 1997, 11:00 - 12:00 noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Charles Andre, I3S Laboratory, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis/CNRS |
| Title... | SyncCharts: A Model for Reactive Systems |
| Date & Time... | Friday, June 6, 1997, 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, LP473 |
| Speaker... | Rob B. Gorbet, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo |
| Title... | Stability of Control for the Preisach Hysteresis Model |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, May 29, 1997, 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
| Location... | West Annex Building, WB104, 40 St. George Street |
| Speaker... | Seung Kyu Park, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Changwon National University, Changwon Kyungnam, 641-773 Korea |
| Title... | A Design of H-infinity Robust Controller for Adaptive Control Systems |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, February 27, 1997, 2:00 - 3:00 pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, LP473 |
| Speaker... | Martin Fabian, Control Engineering Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Title... | Integrating Process Planning and Control for Flexible Production Systems Using Supervisory Control Theory |
| Date & Time... | Monday, December 2, 1996, 3:00 - 4:00 pm |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, GB221 |
| Speaker... | Professor Carolyn Beck, Electrical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh |
| Title... | Model Reduction for Uncertain and Multi-Dimensional Systems |
| Date & Time... | Monday, November 11, 1996, 10:00 - 11:00 am |
| Location... | Pratt Building, LP473 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Semyon Meerkov, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI |
| Title... | Improvability of Production Systems: Theory and Applications |
| Date & Time... | Friday, October 25, 1996, 11:00 - 12:00 noon |
| Location... | Sandford Fleming Building, SF3201 |
| Speaker... | Carlos Martinez-Mascarra, Centre for Intelligent Machines, McGill University |
| Title... | Macro COCOLOG With an Application to a Discrete Event Water Tank System |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, October 24, 1996, 11:00 - 12:00 noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Nikolay Dakev |
| Title... | An Evolutionary Algorithm Approach for Solving Optimal Control Problems |
| Date & Time... | Wednesday, October 2, 1996, 2:00 - 3:00pm |
| Location... | Wallberg Building, WB342 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Bassam Bamieh, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois |
| Title... | Intersample and Finite Wordlength Effects In Sampled-Data Systems |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, August 1, 1996, 11:00 - 12:00noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Prof. David Levy, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia |
| Title... | Self Organizing Neural Network Schemes For Chemical Images From Artificial Olfactory Systems |
| Date & Time... | Monday, July 8, 1996, 11:00 - 12:00noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Ady Solomon, Pratt and Whitney Canada Inc., Mississauga, Ontario |
| Title... | Control Systems Development for Turbofan Engines: An Industry Perspective |
| Date & Time... | Tuesday, July 16, 1996, 3:00 - 4:00pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Kim J. Vicente, Cognitive Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engrg., University of Toronto |
| Title... | How Can Control Engineering Help Cognitive Engineering |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, May 30, 1996, 3:00 - 4:00pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Mr. Sergei V. Gusev, St. Petersburg State University, Russia (on leave at Ford Motor Co., Dearborn, MI) |
| Title... | Method of Moment Restrictions in Robust Control |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, May 9, 1996, 3:00 - 4:00pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Mr. A. Meystel, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA; National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD |
| Title... | Language-Based, Object-Oriented Supervisory Control Systems |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, April 25, 1996, 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room GB204G |
| Speaker... | Dr. Michael Tittus, Control Engineering Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| Title... | Control Synthesis for Batch Processes |
| Date & Time... | Tuesday, April 9, 1996, 4:00 - 5:00pm |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room GB204G |
| Speaker... | Mr. Joseph Lam, Vice-President Systems Divison, Delcan Corporation, Toronto |
| Title... | Computer Engineering Applications in Traffic Management and Control |
| Date & Time... | Monday, December 4, 1995, 3:00 - 4:00pm |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room GB120 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Stephen R. Hall, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, MIT |
| Title... | Popov Controller Synthesis Using Linear Matrix Inequalities |
| Date & Time... | Friday, November 10, 1995, 10:00 - 11:00am |
| Location... | Galbraith Building, Room GB248 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Felipe M. Pait, Department of Automatic Control, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| Title... | Parallel Algorithms for Adaptive Control |
| Date & Time... | Thursday, November 9, 1995, 11:00am - 12:00noon |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Bruno Scherzinger, Applied Analytics, Toronto |
| Title... | Estimation Techniques in Precision Navigation Using The Global Positioning System |
| Date & Time... | Wednesday, October 25, 1995, 3:00 - 4:00pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Dr. Joerg Raisch, Stuttgart University, Germany |
| Title... | Simple Hybrid Control Systems -- Two Complementary Approaches |
| Date & Time... | Wednesday, October 11, 1995, 3:00 - 4:00pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |
| Speaker... | Prof. Gunnar Hillerstrom, Control Engineering Group, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden |
| Title... | On Repetitive Control |
| Date & Time... | Monday, October 2, 1995, 3:00 - 4:00pm |
| Location... | Pratt Building, Room LP473 |