Winter 2025 Seminars

Controls Group/Seminars/Winter 2025 Seminars

Control Seminars: Friday, 3:30 – 4:30pm

Room 1311 EECS Bldg + Zoom (Zoom Link and password will be distributed to the Controls Group)

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January 17, 2025 (Hybrid)

Inigo Incer, University of Michigan.
“Designing Complex Systems Using Assume-Guarantee Contracts”
Abstract and event details here. Video
January 24, 2025 (Hybrid)

Jing You, University of Michigan.                                                 
“Learning-based Control for Large-scale Sustainable Energy Systems”
Abstract and event details here. Video
January 31, 2025 (Hybrid)

Uday Shanbhag, University of Michigan.
“Smoothing-enabled Zeroth-order Schemes for Stochastic Optimization Problems: Addressing Stochasticity, Nonsmoothness, Nonconvexity, and Hierarchy”
Abstract and event details here. Video
February 7, 2025 (Hybrid)

James Anderson, Columbia University.
“Accelerating Control Algorithms with Randomized Linear Algebra””
Abstract and event details here. Video
February 14, 2025 (Hybrid)

Herschel Pangborn, Pennsylvania State University.
“Set-theoretic Methods for Verification of Closed-loop Systems, Motions Planning, and Energy-aware Autonomy”
Abstract and event details here. Video
February 21, 2025 (Hybrid)

Roy Smith, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
“Data as models? A closer look at data-driven control systems”
Abstract and event details here. Video
March 14, 2025 (Hybrid)

Torbjorn Cunis, University Stuttgart Institute of Flight Mechanics and Control.
“Metric Regularity and Its Role in the Systems Theory of Nonlinear Optimization”
Abstract and event details here. Video
March 21, 2025 (Hybrid)

Necmiye Ozay, University of Michigan.
“Some fundamental limitations of learning for dynamics and control”
Abstract and even details here. Video
March 28, 2025 (Hybrid)

Firas Khasawneh, Michigan State University.
“A Topological Approach For Data Assimilation (TADA)”
Abstract and event details here. Video

April 4, 2025 (Hybrid)

Ryan Coe, Sandia National Laboratories. 
“Control and system design of wave energy converters”
Abstract and event details here. 
April 11, 2025 (Hybrid)

Nima Fazeli, University of Michigan.
“Sensing the Unseen: Dexterous Tool Manipulation Through Touch and Vision”
Abstract and event details here. Video