View source for Southern California (Nonlinear) Control Workshop, 22 May 2009

This workshop is intended as a forum for students and postdocs working in control systems in the Southern California area to present their research in an informal setting.  If you would like to attend, please contact on of the organizers:

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* Caltech: Richard Murray
* UCI: Ken Mease
* UCLA: Paulo Tabuada
* UCSB: Francesco Bullo
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* UCSD: Jorge Cortes
* USC: Petros Ioannou
* UCR: Jie Chen
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== Location ==

* The workshop will be held at the Beckman Institute Auditorium on the Caltech campus [http://www.caltech.edu/map/Caltech-map-2006-02-10.pdf map].  Registration is free.
* [[Directions|Directions to Caltech]].  You can use [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=340+S.+Wilson+Ave,+pasadena,+ca&sll=34.139976,-118.128004&sspn=0.009164,0.012295&g=515+S.+Wilson+Ave,+pasadena,+ca&ie=UTF8&ll=34.141894,-118.128026&spn=0.009164,0.012295&z=16&iwloc= Google Maps]
* The closest place to park is the north Wilson parking structure (building 123 on the [http://www.caltech.edu/map/Caltech-map-2006-02-10.pdf campus map]).  You can pick up a ticket from the kiosk ($6 for the day) and park in any unnamed space.   The Beckman Institute is building 74 on the [http://www.caltech.edu/map/Caltech-map-2006-02-10.pdf campus map] (just across the street from the parking lot).

== Agenda ==

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{{agenda item|8:15a|Coffee and pastries}}
{{agenda item|8:45a|Session 1: Paulo Tabuada}}
* Amir A. Emadzadeh (UCLA) - On Modeling and Pulse Phase Estimation of X-ray Pulsars
* Erkut Aykutlug (UCI) - Multiple Timescale Structure in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
* Srideep Musuvathy (USC) - Chaos control via  special euclidean extension
* Anantha Karthikeyan (USC) - On the LQ feedback formulation of H∞ Output Feedback Control
{{agenda item|10:15a|Break}}
{{agenda item|10:30a|Session 2: Francesco Bullo}}
* Nok Wongpiromsarn (Caltech) - Receding Horizon Temporal Logic Planning for Dynamical Systems
* Stephen Smith (UCSB) - Pursuit of Translating Targets in Dynamic and Stochastic Environments
* Yiqian Li (UCR) - Tracking Performance of Linear Systems over Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constrained Channels
{{agenda item|12:00p|Speed talks - 1 PDF slide, 90 seconds each (sign up at workshop)}}
* James Allington
* Hanqiao Gao
{{agenda item|12:15p|Lunch}}
{{agenda item|1:15p|Session 3: Jorge Cortes}}
* Bi Song (UCR) - Scene Analysis, Control and Communication in Distributed Camera Networks
* Krister Jacobsson (Caltech) - Stability and Robustness Conditions using Frequency Dependent Half Planes
* Federico S. Cattivelli (UCLA) - Diffusion Strategies for Distributed Kalman Filtering and Smoothing
* Shujun Liu (UCSD) - Stochastic Averaging in Continuous Time and Its Applications to Extremum Seeking
{{agenda item|3:15p|Break}}
{{agenda item|3:30p|Session 4: Petros Ioannou}}
* Yanina Landa (UCLA) - Discovering a point source in unknown environments
* David Zhang (UCSD) - Hybrid Ensemble / Variational Algorithms for Data Assimilation and Adaptive Observation in Multiscale Uncertain Environmental Flow Systems
* Jason T. Isaacs (UCSB) - Optimal TDOA Sensor Placement For Uncertain Source Locations
{{agenda item|5:00p|Adjourn}}
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