Fall 2012- Spring 2013

Sept. 14
Lucy Pao, Colorado University
Control of Wind Turbines: Accomplishments and Continuing Challenges

Sept. 28
Stephen L. Smith, University of Waterloo
Optimizing Motion for Robotic Monitoring and Information Gathering

Oct. 5
Jian Li, IBM Austin Research Lab
Big Data Systems and Architecture

Oct. 12
Ohad Shamir, Microsoft
Machine Learning in Non-Classical Settings: Information Trade-Offs and Distributed Learning

Oct. 19
Stefano DiCairano, MERL
Real-Time Constrained Optimization Frameworks for System-Level Feedback Control in Mechatronics, Automotive and Aerospace

Oct. 26
Marco Pavone, Stanford University
On Stochastic Optimal Control with Risk Constraints: Applications to Planetary Missions and Time Consistent Formulations

Nov. 2
Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University
From Sampled-Data Control to Signal Processing – Beyond the Shannon Paradigm

Nov. 9
Geir Dullerud, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
On Variance Reduction for Simulation and Estimation of Markov Jump Processes

Nov. 16
Shreyas Sundaram, University of Waterloo
Robustness of Complex Networks with Implications for Consensus and Contagion

Nov. 29
Clayton Scott, University of Michigan
Classification with Asymmetric Label Noise

Nov. 30
Christoforos Hadjicostis, University of Cyprus
Average Consensus in Distributed Control Systems with Dynamically Changing Interconnections and Delays

Dec. 14
Moti Geva, Bar Ilan University
Internet QoS During Bandwidth DDoS Attacks

Feb. 1
Les Servi, MITRE
A Mathematical Approach to Identifying and Forecasting Shifts in the Mood of Social Media Users

Feb. 15
Liron Yedidsion, Technion – Israeli Institute of Technology
Managing Operations in a Smart Home Environment

Feb. 22
Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology
Datacenter-Scale Cloud Management: Experience, Insights and Future Challenges

March 1
Ani Hsieh, Drexel University
Collaborative Robot Tracking of Geophysical Flows: How Local Measurements Discover Global Structures

March 22, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 203
Naira Hovakimyan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
L₁ Adaptive Control and Its Transition to Practice

March 29
Satish Narayanasamy, University of Michigan
Taming Concurrency

Apr. 5
Yue Lu, Harvard University
Sampling and Inference for Spatiotemporal Single-Photon Imaging

Apr. 12
Frank Doyle, University of California, Santa Barbara
Robustness in Nature: Challenges and Opportunities for the Control Community
Faculty Host: Christos Cassandras
Student Host: Jie Meng

Vitus Leung, Sandia Labs
Task Mapping for Non-Contiguous Allocations

Apr. 26
Sayan Mitra, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
From Simulation to Verification of Hybrid and Distributed Systems

May 3, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Room 901
D. Matthew Andrews, Bell Labs
Economics of Sponsored Content in Mobile Data Networks under Uncertain Demand

May 10
Michael Langberg, Open University of Israel
Three Open Problems in Network Communication

May 15
Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Institute of Technology
Interacting with Multi-Robot Networks

June 3
Elias Manolakos, University of Athens, Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
Computational Tools to Accelerate Systems Biology Investigations

June 4
Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University
Temporal Logic Testing and Verification for Cyber-Physical Systems