Program - Thursday, December 18, 2014
Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) 132
| 9:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration |
| 9:30am | Welcome and a Vision of Controls at USC - Petros Ioannou, Rahul Jain, Urbashi Mitra & Ashutosh Nayyar |
| 9:50am | Henrik Sandberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Implementation costs and information flow in Kalman-Bucy Filters |
| 10:10am | Aditya Mahajan, McGill University, Team Optimal Decentralized Control of Mean-field Coupled Subsystems |
| 10:30am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00am | Serdar Yuksel, Queen's University, Asymptotic Optimality of Quantized Policies and Finite Approximations in Stochastic Control |
| 11:20am | Danielle Tarraf, Johns Hopkins University, Less is More: A New Paradigm for Control |
| 11:40am | Poster previews |
| We have more than a dozen posters from post-doctoral researchers and graduate students from Caltech, Georgia Tech, KTH, Michigan, MIT, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, UIUC, the University of Maryland, the University of Washington, Lund University and USC. | |
| 12:10pm | Lunch and Poster Session |
| 1:50pm | Jason Marden, University of Colorado at Boulder, Selecting Efficient Correlated Equilibria Through Distributed Learning |
| 2:10pm | Tara Javidi, University of California, San Diego, Social Learning and Hypothesis Testing |
| 2:30pm | Modern Networks, Optimization & Control: What is it? A Panel Discussion and Interrogation Michael Demetriou (WPI), Fariba Fahroo (DARPA), Massimo, Franceschetti (UCSD), Angelia Nedich (UIUC), George Pappas (University of Pennsylvania) |
| 3:40pm | Michael Rotkowitz, University of Maryland, Stabilization of Decentralized Systems with Arbitrary Information Structure |
| 4:00pm | Mihailo Jovanovic, University of Minnesota, Dynamics and Control of Distributed Systems: Lessons, Opportunities, and Challenges |
| 4:20pm | Coffee Break |
| 4:50pm | Javad Lavaei, Columbia University, Graph-Theoretic Algorithm for Arbitrary Polynomial Optimization Problems with Applications to Distributed Control, Power Systems, and Matrix Completion |
| 5:10pm | Eilyan Bitar, Cornell University, Transitioning to a Modern Power System: the Role Control, Optimization, and Human Behavior |