Ufuk Topcu, 27 Nov 07

Ufuk Topcu, a graduating PhD student with Andy Packard at UC Berkeley, is going to be visiting Caltech on Tue, 27 Nov. He's working on a number of things that might be of interest to the group:

• nonlinear system verification and certification with Andy Packard
• nonlinear system analysis and model reduction with Prof. Ken Mease of UC Irvine
• optimal control, optimization with applications in finance, cancer treatment, and classification with Laurent El Ghaoui (UC Berkeley)
• control and estimation in networked systems with Kameshwar Poolla
• GPS-denied navigation using vision-based SLAM (which I got involved in during an internship at the Honeywell Labs).

Schedule:

Time	Person
9:30a	Arrival; meet briefly with Richard
10:00a	Open
10:30a	Open
11:00a	Seminar - 114 Steele
12:00p	Lunch with Richard, John D
1:30p	Julia
2:00 p	Dennice
2:30 p	Open
3:00 p	Pete
3:30 p	Open