Fall 2024 Seminars

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Control Seminars: Fridays 3:30 – 4:30

Room 1303 EECS Bldg + Zoom (Zoom Link and password will be distributed to the Controls Group)

September 6, 2024 (Hybrid)

Peter Seiler, University of Michigan.
“Robust Online Convex Optimization for Disturbance Rejection”
Abstract and event details here.  Video
September 13, 2024 (Hybrid)

Bryan Maldonado, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Buildings and Transportation Science Division.                                                  
“Enabling automatic building envelope retrofits using controls and machine learning”
Abstract and event details here.  Video
September 20, 2024 (Hybrid)

Hamidreza Modares, Michigan State University.
“Competence-aware Planning and Control”
Abstract and event details here. Video
September 27, 2024 (Hybrid)

Dimitra Panagou, University of Michigan.
“Towards safe and resilient autonomy using synergistic control, observation and learning”

Abstract and event details here.  Video
October 4, 2024 (Hybrid)

Xunyuan Yin, Nanyang Technological University.
“Learning-based Koopman modeling for efficient state estimation and control of nonlinear processes”
Abstract and event details here. Video
October 11, 2024 (Hybrid)

Nikolai Matni, University of Pennsylvania.
“What makes learning to control easy or hard”
Abstract and event details here. Video
October 18, 2024 (Hybrid)

Anna Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan.
“2024 Nyquist Lecture: deep State of Health Estimation from Manufacturing to End of Life”
Abstract and event details here.
October 25, 2024 (Hybrid)

Yanran Ding, University of Michigan.
“Optimization-Based Control and Planning for Agile Legged Robots”
Abstract and even details here.  Video
November 1, 2024 (Hybrid)

Vladimir Dvorkin, University of Michigan.
“Regression Nash Equilibrium in Electricity markets”
Abstract and event details here. Video
November 8, 2024 (Hybrid)

Dominic Liao-McPherson, University of British Columbia.
“Game-theoretic Control of Socio-technical Systems”
Abstract and event details here.

November 15, 2024  (Hybrid)

Kevin Kircher, Purdue University.
“Control Opportunities in Electrified Homes”
Abstract and event details here. Video

November 22, 2024 (Hybrid)

Helen Durand, Wayne State University.
“Cybersecurity and Quantum Computation in Control of Cyberphysical Systems for Next-Generation Manufacturing”
Abstract and event details here. Video

December 6, 2024 (Hybrid)

Jorge Cortez, University of California, San Diego
“The safe gradient flow: a system-theoretic approach to anytime
constrained optimization through control barrier functions”
Abstract and event details here. Video