General information
The Biennial Meeting on Systems and Control Theory is a gathering of Canadian researchers and their students/postdocs. The objective of the meeting is to share ideas, and to allow colleagues to present their research results in a friendly and supportive setting. The emphasis of the meeting is on research results with a fundamental theoretical component of interest to a general systems control audience.
Students give 30-minute talks (25 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions), while professors can either give 30-minute (25+5) or 50-minute (45+5) talks.
The first meeting of this kind was held at Queen's University in 2004, then at the University of Toronto and University of Waterloo. Since 2004, meetings have been rotating between these three institutions. While attendees of early meetings were for the most part affiliated with one of the three hosting institutions, nowadays the Meeting on Systems and Control Theory is attended by researchers from a wide variety of Canadian institutions, as well as some universities in the United States.
Abstract submission and adjudication
Abstract submission is now closed. We are no longer accepting abstracts.
Abstract submission instructions
- Please send an email to maggiore@ece.utoronto.ca with subject “MSCT submission”.
- If you are a professor, in the body of your email indicate if you intend to give a 30 or 50-minute presentation. If you are a student/postdoc, your talk will be 30 minutes long.
- Attach to your email a text file containing the abstract named according to this format:
- if you are a graduate student or postdoc, name your abstract file yoursupervisorname_yourlastname.txt
- if you are a professor, name your abstract file yourlastname.txt
- if you are a professor and want to submit multiple abstracts for your students, just attach multiple files, named according to the convention above.
- Your abstract should be as concise as possible, but no longer than one page in latex 12pt article format. Please make the abstract maximally non-technical. Avoid mathematical symbols and focus on the big picture. What is the problem you will talk about? Why is the problem important and interesting? What are your main results/ideas?
Review process
Abstracts will be adjucated by a program committee whose members
are Manfredi Maggiore (Toronto),
Mireille
Broucke (Toronto),
Andrew Lewis (Queen's), and
Chris Nielsen (Waterloo).
The committee will evaluate abstracts according to the following
criteria:
- Theoretical content: we will accept purely theoretical as well as application-based talks. But in the latter case, we will give preference to those presentations that focus on fundamental principles underlying the application under consideration. To illustrate, if you developed a novel actuator, this meeting is not the best venue to talk about it. But if you had an interesting idea to solve the path following problem for an underactuated ship model, we want to hear about it.
- Broad interest of the subject matter.
- Number of submissions from each research group. If you are a professor with several students submitting abstracts, we might have to limit the presentation slots for your group to promote wide contributions from our community.
- We will try to be as inclusive as possible by forming a program that samples widely from all submissions.