CUED Control Group Seminars


2008-01-25 14:00: Towards applied nonlinear adaptive control (Professor Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College, London))

2008-02-29 14:00: A behavioural approach to play in mechanical networks (Dr Frank Scheibe)

2008-03-04 14:00: Information Flows in Cooperative Networked Control Systems (Dr Girish Nair (University of Melbourne, Australia))

2008-03-14 14:00: Systems and control challenges in model-based reservoir engineering (Professor Paul Van den Hof (Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands))

2008-04-07 14:00: Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Control (Professor Sanjay Lall (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University))

2008-04-09 11:30: Some Applications of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate in Hidden Markov Models (Dr. M. Vidyasagar (Executive Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services))

2008-05-02 14:00: Price Mechanisms for Distributed Control Synthesis (Professor Anders Rantzer (Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden))

2008-05-09 14:00: Eulerian and Lagrangian Observability of Point Vortex Flows (Professor Arthur J. Krener (Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis))

2008-05-12 11:00: Stability analysis for hybrid dynamical systems (Professor Andrew R. Teel (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara))

2008-05-30 11:00: Feedback Control and the Arrow of Time (Professor Malcolm Smith (Cambridge University Engineering Department))

2008-06-06 14:00: Dynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks (Dr David Angeli (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London))

2008-06-16 11:30: Convex Matrix Inequalities vs Linear Matrix Inequalities (Professor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, University of California San Diego))

2008-06-17 14:00: Subdiagonal pivot structures and associated canonical forms under state isometries (Professor Bernard Hanzon (School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork))

2008-06-27 14:00: Towards control and design of pulse-based systems (Dr Ali Belabbas (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University))

2008-07-11 14:00: A systems-scale dynamic analysis of complex biology systems (Feng He (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany))

2008-10-10 14:00: Stabilisability via time-delayed feedback: an eigenvalue optimisation approach (Dr Henri Huijberts (School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London))

2008-10-17 14:00: Learning to Control (Dr Carl Edward Rasmussen (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge))

2008-10-31 14:00: Input-Output Controllability Analysis and Control Structure Selection (Professor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology))

2008-11-07 14:00: Optimal Control behind the Passive Dynamic Walking? (Dr Kentaro Hirata (Nara Institude of Science and Technology, visiting scholar at CUED))

2008-11-12 11:00: Machine learning based approaches for decision & control under uncertainties (in electric power systems) (Professor Louis Wehenkel (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liege))

2008-11-14 14:00: Stochasticity and bistability in the lac operon (Dr Nicholas Ross (CUED))

2009-01-16 14:00: Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics and control may yet learn from the brain (Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine (Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT))

2009-02-06 14:00: Control systems for Maglev and active railway suspensions (Professor Roger Goodall (Head of Systems Research Division, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University))

2009-02-13 14:00: R&D in Control & Optimization in ABB Corporate Research (Dr Alf Isaksson (ABB Corporate Research))

2009-02-20 14:00: Analytical solutions, duality and symmetry in constrained control and estimation (Dr Jose De Dona (The University of Newcastle, Australia--on study leave during 2008/2009 at Ecole des Mines de Paris, France))

2009-03-27 14:00: Overview of Control Systems Research at the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre. (Professor Haydn Thompson (Programme Manager, Rolls-Royce UTC in Control Systems; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield))

2009-04-03 14:00: Feedback and Robustness in Population Dynamics (Professor Stuart Townley (School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter))

2009-04-20 14:00: ROBUST PRACTICAL OUTPUT TRACKING FOR HIGHLY NONLINEAR SYSTEMS (Professor Hiroshi Inaba (School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Guest Professor, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England))

2009-05-01 14:00: Gradient systems: overview and recent results (Dr Pierre-Antoine Absil (Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium))

2009-06-12 14:00: Synchronverters: Inverters that mimic synchronous generators (Dr. Qing-Chang Zhong (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, The University of Liverpool))

2009-06-26 14:00: Load balancing by network curvature control (Professor Edmond Jonckheere (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California))

2009-09-17 14:00: Mobile Wireless Networked Controlled Systems:  Control Issues (Professor Anthony Tzes  (University of Patras, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering))

2009-10-02 14:00: - (Dr Najl Valeyev (St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine))

2009-11-06 14:00: Recent Theoretical Developments in Optimal Control (Professor Richard Vinter (Imperial College London))

2009-11-13 14:00: Fault-tolerant control - is it possible? (Professor Jan Maciejowski (CUED Control Group))

2009-11-20 14:00: Teaching control using lego (Dr Glenn Vinnicombe, Control Group, University of Cambridge)

2009-11-27 14:00: Verifying stability of approximate explicit MPC (Professor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology))

2009-12-01 16:00: Stochastic Model Predictive Control: Tractability and constraint satisfaction (Professor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich))

2010-01-13 14:00: Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle (Professor Sean Meyn (Director, Decision & Control Lab, CSL ECE UIUC))

2010-01-29 14:00: Performance Improvement in Paper Making using Model Predictive Control (Dr Paul Austin)

2010-02-05 14:00: Energy Flow in Interconnected Systems (Professor Jan Willems (K.U. Leuven))

2010-02-09 14:00: SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TOOLS USING SUM OF SQUARES (Dr Antonis Papachristodoulou (University of Oxford))

2010-02-19 14:00: Event-triggered sampling for state estimation (Maben Rabi)

2010-03-25 14:00: Collaborating Swarms, Multi-network Topologies and  Constrained Coalitional Games (Professor John Baras (University of Maryland))

2010-04-16 14:00: Matrix Inequalities with Matrix Unknowns (Professor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, UC San Diego))

2010-05-04 14:00: Optimal experiment design for open and closed loop identification (Professor Michel Gevers (Université catholique de Louvain))

2010-05-07 14:00: Embedded Optimization for Optimal Control of Mechatronic Systems (Professor Moritz Diehl (K.U. Leuven))

2010-05-28 11:00: SIMPLY COOPERATIVE (Professor Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland))

2010-06-28 12:00: Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations (Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge))

2010-07-02 14:00: Performance limitations of networked systems with information constraints (Professor Yoshito Ohta (Kyoto University))

2010-08-13 14:00: The Weiss conjecture for infinite dimensional control systems (Dr Andrew Wynn (Imperial College))

2010-10-22 14:00: On the structural controllability of networks of linear systems (Lachlan Blackhall)

2011-02-18 14:00: Simulation, Modelling and Embedded Deployment of Complex Algorithms (Dave Maclay (Mathworks))

2011-02-25 14:00: Model Predictive Control Design and Implementation for Spacecraft Rendezvous (Ed Hartley (University of Cambridge))

2011-03-16 15:00: Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Embedded  Systems (Professor Richard Murray (Caltech))

2011-04-01 14:00: A Step Beyond The State Of The Art Robust Model  Predictive Control Synthesis Methods (Dr Sasa V. Rakovic (University of Oxford))

2011-05-06 14:00: What's under the bonnet? A review of Diesel Engines and their control (Peter Fussey (Ricardo))

2011-06-17 14:00: Control Challenges in Powertrain, Combustion and Drilling Control (Prof Keith Glover (University of Cambridge))

2011-09-05 14:00: L1 Adaptive Control and Its Transition to Practice (Prof Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC))

2011-09-12 14:00: Universal laws, architectures, and behaviors of robust, evolvable networks (John Doyle (Caltech))

2011-09-16 14:00: Robust stability analysis of linear time-varying feedback systems (Sei Zhen Khong (University of Melbourne))

2011-10-06 14:00: An internal model principle for consensus in heterogeneous multi-agent systems (Prof Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart))

2011-11-18 14:00: Hankel structured low rank matrix completion (Dr Ivan Markovsky (University of Southampton))

2011-12-02 14:00: Design and flight testing of nonlinear flight control laws (Dr Thomas Lombaerts (German Aerospace Centre DLR))

2012-03-02 14:00: Decentralized Optimal Control and Connections to the Human Motor System (Dr Andrew Lamperski, California Institute of Technology)

2012-04-13 14:00: Stroke Rehabilitation using Electrical Stimulation & Robotics: Open problems in control, identification, sensing and motor learning (Dr Chris Freeman, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton)

2012-05-07 14:00: Estimation, Identification and control of cell populations (Professor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich))

2012-05-18 14:00: Economic MPC and the role of exponential turnpike properties (Professor. Dr. Lars Gruene, Chair of Applied Mathematics, Bayreuth University)

2012-05-25 14:00: Engineering and Control of Biological circuits: from yeast to mammalian cells (Dr. Diego di Bernardo, Research Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), University of Naples “Federico II”)

2012-06-19 14:00: Financial Modelling with 2-EPT Levy Processes (Professor Bernard Hanzon, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University College Cork)

2012-07-10 14:00: Probabilistic Methods in Cancer Biology (Prof. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas)

2012-10-12 14:00: Innovation in Cambridge Engineering – how to foster it? (Pieter Knook, Sam Beale and Rick MItchell)

2012-11-23 14:00: Compressed Sensing in Cancer Biology?  (A Work in Progress) (Prof. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas)

2012-12-07 14:00: Pre CDC talk (Richard Pates, David Hayden and Panos Brezas from Control Group, Engineering Department)

2013-01-07 14:00: Predictive control of mechatronic systems (Mr Abhishek Dutta, PhD student at University of Gent, Belgium)

2013-01-18 14:00: Predictive control of mechatronic systems (Abhishek Dutta, PhD student, Ghent University)

2013-01-25 14:00: Programming Cells: Computing with DNA (Dr. Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research )

2013-03-21 10:30: "Biased excitable networks: how cells direct motion in response to gradients (a control perspective)" (Professor Pablo Iglesias, John Hopkins/Max Planck Dresden)

2013-04-18 11:00: Sensor fusion and parameter inference in nonlinear dynamical systems (Thomas B. Schön,   Associate Professor, Linköping University)

2013-04-26 14:00: Plug-and-Play Synthesis and Computation of Predictive Controllers (Dr. Colin Jones, Assistant Professor, Automatic Control Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL))

2013-05-10 14:00: Research Challenges in Applying Control to Wheel-Rail Contact Problems (Professor T X Mei, Chair in Control and Mechatronics, University of Salford)

2013-05-17 14:00: Engineering and medicine:  Opportunities in type 1 diabetes (Dr. Roman Hovorka, Director of Research, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories)

2013-05-31 14:00: Next-Generation Smart Grid: Completely Autonomous Power Systems (CAPS) (Qing-Chang Zhong, IET Fellow, SMIEEE Chair in Control and Systems Engineering Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield)

2013-06-21 14:00: Economic Model Predictive Control: basic theory and future directions (Dr. David Angeli, Senior, Senior Lecture, Control and Power Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department., Imperial College)

2013-07-05 14:00: Ultra high accuracy (UAIM) superresolution microscopy of biological samples: How ugly images give better results than pretty ones (Professor Raimund J. Ober, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas)

2013-07-15 16:00: Inference in non-linear dynamical systems -- a machine learning perspective (Carl Edward Rasmussen and Andrew McHutchon, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge)

2013-08-14 14:00: Control of PDE and Delay Systems Inspired by Applications in Fluids and Structures (Professor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego)

2013-10-25 14:00: Incorporating Domain-Specific Knowledge in Learning Control using Multiple Dynamics Models (Joe Hall, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-14 14:00: Optimal Control with Noisy Time (Andrew Lamperski, University of Cambridge)

2013-11-25 11:00: Minimum Seeking for Unstable Unmodeled Systems (Professor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego)

2013-12-18 14:00: Discrete-Time Extremum-Seeking for Wiener-Hammerstein Plants with Applications to Online Engine Optimisation (Dr. Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne)

2014-02-10 14:00: Multi Physics Modelling for Automotive Control Development (Akira Ohata, Toyota Motor Corporation)

2014-02-14 14:00: An introduction to bi-level programming in control (Professor Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

2014-02-20 14:00: The Ribosome Flow Model: Theory and Applications (Michael Margaliot, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University)

2014-02-27 14:00: Moment relaxations for the global resolution of optimal control problems (Mathieu Claeys, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-06 15:00: Whither discrete-time model predictive control? (Gabriele Pannocchia, University of Pisa)

2014-03-13 14:00: Differentially positive systems (Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge)

2014-03-24 14:00: Switched differential systems (Paolo Rapisarda (joint work with Jonathan C. Mayo-Maldonado), University of Southampton)

2014-03-25 14:00: Forecasts and Control: Theory and Practice. (Francesco Borrelli, University of California at Berkeley)

2014-05-01 14:15: Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation (Richard Mason, University of Oxford)

2014-05-08 14:00: A Riemannian approach to large scale constrained least squares with symmetries (Bamdev Mishra, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge)

2014-05-13 14:00: Invariant Kalman Filtering (Silvere Bonnabel, Mines Paris-Tech)

2014-05-15 14:00: AR Identification of Latent Graphical Models (Mattia Zorzi, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge)

2014-05-22 14:00: A scalable approach to the design of large networks (Richard Pates, University of Cambridge)

2014-05-27 17:30: Gradient methods for huge-scale optimization problems (Prof Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium)

2014-06-13 14:00: Signal Processing via Sampled-Data Control - A Challenge to Go Beyond Shannon (Professor Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University)

2014-06-23 16:00: Symbiotic Relations: Control Theory and Practice (Professor Keith Glover, University of Cambridge)

2014-06-24 16:30: A multi-function approach to passivity-based control: The linear case. (Dr Fernando Castanos, Cinvestav Mexico)

2014-07-08 14:00: Robust Model Predictive Control with Waysets (Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne)

2014-08-26 14:00: Controller Design of a Grid-tie Inverter to Enhance Fault-Ride-Through Capability (Yoshito Ohta, Kyoto University)

2014-10-01 14:00: On the geometry of maximum entropy problems (Professor Michele Pavon, University of Padova)

2014-10-08 15:00: Dynamic pricing in social networks: The Word of Mouth effect (Ali Jadbabaie Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science, University of Pennsylvania)

2014-10-16 14:00: Nonlinear Consensus and Formation Control for Switching Topologies (Johan Thunberg, University of Luxembourg)

2014-10-21 14:30: Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective. (Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London)

2014-10-30 14:00: Fault-Tolerant Predictive Control: A Gaussian Process Model Based Approach (Xiaoke Yang, University of Cambridge)

2014-11-04 14:00: Statistical Change Detection for Prognosis and Diagnosis (Professor Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark)

2014-11-20 14:00: Organizing circuits and biological behaviors (Dr Alessio Franci, University of Cambridge and University of Liege)

2014-11-27 14:00: Plug-and-Play Operation of Microgrids (Florian Dorfler, ETH Zurich)

2015-01-15 16:00: Model-Based Prediction Augmented with Sensing Techniques for Battery Management Systems (Professor Anna G. Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan)

2015-02-12 14:00: Data-driven Nonlinear Control Design Using Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming (Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang, New York University)

2015-04-02 14:00: Generalized Gauss and Expectation Inequalities via Semidefinite Programming (Paul Goulart, University of Oxford)

2015-04-08 14:00: Who’s Afraid of Fractional Order Laplace? (Clara Ionescu, Ghent University)

2015-04-09 14:00: Fractional calculus in control applications (Cristina Muresan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)

2015-04-30 14:00: Stability, Synchronisation and Model Reduction in Nonlinear Systems (Edward Hancock, University of Oxford)

2015-05-20 14:00: Nonlinear Observers with a Contracting Riemannian Distance (Ricardo G. Sanfelice, University of California, Santa Cruz)

2015-05-29 14:00: Scalable design of heterogeneous networks (Richard Pates (University of Cambridge))

2015-06-02 14:00: Koopman Operator Theory for Dynamical Systems and Control Practice (Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara)

2015-08-28 14:00: Hard limits on robust control over delayed and quantized communications (Yorie Nakahira, California Institute of Technology)

2015-09-01 11:00: On the Relation between Optimal Transport and Schroedinger Bridges: A Control Perspective (Michele Pavon, University of Padova)

2015-10-08 14:00: Input allocation using dynamics: theory and applications (Luca Zaccarian, LAAS-CNRS and University of Trento)

2015-10-22 14:00: Stability of Reaction Networks: A System-Theoretic Approach (Muhammad Ali Al-Radhawi, Imperial College London)

2015-10-29 14:00: Sum of squares programming for discrete-time non-linear systems - with application to power converters (Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

2015-11-05 12:00: Optimal control of wave energy converters (Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College London)

2015-11-12 12:00: Path-complete Lyapunov techniques: when Algebra and Combinatorics meet in Control (Raphaël Jungers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)

2015-11-13 14:00: Transferring the Principles of Human Impedance Control to Soft Robotic Systems (Matthew J Howard, King's College London)

2015-11-20 14:00: On the Nonlinear Dynamics of Collective Decision-Making in Nature and Design (Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University)

2015-11-26 14:00: Electron beam stabilisation for a synchrotron:  An example of the control of spatio-temporal systems (Stephen Duncan, Oxford University)

2016-01-14 14:00: Integral Quadratic Constraint Theorem: A topological separation approach (Joaquin Carrasco Gomez, University of Manchester)

2016-01-21 14:00: Decomposition and Structured Model Reduction for Large Scale Systems Analysis (James Anderson, University of Oxford)

2016-02-04 14:00: Variational Inference in Gaussian Processes for non-linear time series (Carl Edward Rasmussen, University of Cambridge)

2016-02-11 14:00: Computable analysis and control synthesis of complex dynamical systems via formal verification (Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford)

2016-02-18 14:00: Stability and power sharing in microgrids (Johannes Schiffer, University of Leeds)

2016-03-03 14:00: Model Predictive Control for changing operation conditions (Daniel Limon, University of Seville)

2016-03-04 14:00: Isolating Invisible Dynamics in the Design of Robust Hybrid Internal Models (Lorenzo Marconi, University of Bologna)

2016-03-11 14:30: Communities and privacy in mobile phone social networks (Vincent Blondel, Université catholique de Louvain)

2016-04-13 14:00: A Bayesian Approach to Molecular Communication (Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia)

2016-04-21 14:00: Architectural Issues in the Design of Model Predictive Control: From Centralized to Distributed (He Kong, Cranfield University)

2016-04-28 14:00: Design Considerations for Economic MPC (Muyiwa Olanrewaju, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-10 15:00: Bounded Control that Preserves System Stability and its Applications (Qing-Chang Zhong, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and University of Sheffield)

2016-05-12 14:00: Quantum control and quantum synchronization (Andreas Nunnenkamp, University of Cambridge)

2016-05-26 14:00: Algebraic methods for parameter-free analysis of biochemical networks (Heather Harrington, University of Oxford)

2016-06-09 15:00: It’s not MPC! An Explicit Reference Governor for the supervision of constrained nonlinear systems (Emanuele Garone, Université Libre de Bruxelles)

2016-07-20 11:30: Mean Field Games and the Control of Large Scale Systems: An Overview (Peter E. Caines, McGill University, Montreal)

2016-10-07 14:00: Information and Entropy Flow in Stochastic Control (Professor Sanjoy Mitter, MIT)

2016-11-03 14:00: Semidefinite approximations of matrix logarithm (Hamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-10 14:00: Controllability and stabilizability of piecewise affine dynamical systems (Kanat Camlibel, University of Groningen)

2016-11-17 15:00: Bayesian Optimization for Accelerated Exploration of Chemical Space (José Miguel Hernández Lobato, University of Cambridge)

2016-11-23 14:00: On structure preserving H-infinity optimal control (Professor Anders Rantzer, Lund University, Sweden)

2016-11-24 14:00: Substrate Enzyme-Sequestration in Multisite Protein Phosphorylation - Introducing WCDD M-matrices in designing stationary probability distributions (Andreas Petrides, University of Cambridge)

2017-02-09 14:00: A Control Systems Perspective on Supercapacitor Modelling and Design (Ross Drummond, University of Oxford)

2017-02-16 14:00: Positivity, Monotonicity, and Consensus on Lie Groups (Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge)

2017-02-24 14:00: Transfer functions of infinite-dimensional systems: positive realness, stabilization and absolute stability (Chris Guiver, University of Bath)

2017-02-27 12:00: A missing data approach to data-driven filtering and control (Ivan Markovsky, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

2017-03-02 14:15: Designing Bregman storage functions for microgrid control (Nima Monshizadeh, University of Cambridge)

2017-05-04 14:00: Nuclear norm methods for frequency domain system identification (Roy Smith, ETH Zurich)

2017-05-11 14:00: Verification of Control Laws Using Formal Methods (Kestutis Siaulys, University of Cambridge)

2017-05-15 14:00: Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimization-Based Controllers (Colin Jones, EPFL, Switzerland)

2017-05-25 14:00: Distributed schemes for stability and optimality in power networks (Andreas Kasis, University of Cambridge)

2017-06-01 14:00: Low-Rank Inducing Norms with Optimality Interpretations (Christian Grussler, University of Lund)

2017-06-13 14:00: Excitable behaviors (Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge))

2017-06-29 14:00: OSQP: An Operator Splitting Solver for Quadratic Programs (Bartolomeo Stellato, University of Oxford)

2017-09-29 14:00: Attasi ND systems, polynomial system solving and algebraic optimization (Bernard Hanzon (University College Cork))

2017-10-05 14:00: Smooth Operators Enhance Robustness (Keith Glover, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-12 14:00: Frequency domain tools for the analysis of Lur'e feedback dominant systems (Felix Miranda-Villatoro, University of Cambridge)

2017-10-19 14:00: Are right-half plane zeros necessary for inverse response? It depends… (Jan Maciejowski (University of Cambridge))

2017-11-02 14:00: Model Reduction by Moment Matching at Poles for Linear and Nonlinear Systems (Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge)

2017-11-16 14:00: Invariant Kalman filtering (Silvère Bonnabel, Mines ParisTech)

2017-11-23 14:00: Towards Scale-Free Control of large-scale traffic networks (Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, CNRS, Grenoble)

2018-01-25 14:00: Object Oriented Convex Optimization with CVXPY (Stephen Boyd and Steven Diamond, Stanford University)

2018-02-01 14:00: Neuromechanical models of locomotion: from biology to robotics (Auke Ijspeert, Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)

2018-02-22 14:00: ADMM for Exploiting Structure in MPC Problems (Felix Rey, ETH Zurich)

2018-03-01 14:00: Designing emergent behaviours of (soft) robots (Fumiya Iida, Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab, University of Cambridge)

2018-03-08 14:00: Autonomous learning of multimodal internal models for robots using multiple sources of information  (Martina Zambelli, Deepmind)

2018-04-26 14:00: On a Model for the Growth of Tree Stems and Vines (Michele Palladino, Penn State University)

2018-05-03 14:00:  Finding Complex Structure in Biological Data (Ioannis Kontoyiannis, University of Cambridge and Athens University of Economics & Business)

2018-05-10 14:00: Input-to-State Stability for complex dynamics: From global to almost global… and back (David Angeli, Imperial College London)

2018-05-17 14:00: Gaussian distributions in symmetric spaces: novel  tools for statistical learning with covariance matrices (Salem Said, CNRS, IMS Laboratory, Bordeaux)

2018-05-31 14:00: Control theory of switches and clocks (Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge)

2018-06-21 14:00: Monitoring and Fault-tolerant Control for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems (Francesca Boem, University College London)

2018-10-18 14:00: Optimal control of ballistic movements in a thalamo-cortical circuit model (Guillaume Hennequin, University of Cambridge)

2018-11-15 14:00: Control Design Using Differential Games – From Centralised to Decentralised Control (Thulasi Mylvaganam, Imperial College London)

2018-11-29 14:00: Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loads (Antonio De Paola, University of Bath)

2018-12-06 14:00: Robustness and model reduction of dominant systems (Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge)

2018-12-13 14:00: Control across scales by positive and negative feedback (Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge)

2019-01-09 14:00: Tracking performance of time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF (Steven Low, Caltech)

2019-01-17 14:00: Stochastic modeling and control of power grids under uncertainty (Alessandro Zocca, California Institute of Technology)

2019-01-25 14:00: The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops (Roy Smith, ETH Zürich )

2019-02-14 14:00: Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems (Yu Kawano, University of Groningen)

2019-02-15 14:00: Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE (Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE)

2019-02-21 14:00: Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and Optimisation (Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford)

2019-04-25 14:00: Probabilistic Reliability Management for Electric Power Systems Operation (Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège)

2019-05-02 14:00: Human and Robot Decision Making in Multi-Armed Bandits (naomi@princeton.edu)

2019-05-09 14:00: Regulation of Ant Foraging as a Closed-Loop Excitable System (Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University)

2019-05-16 14:00: Cascade Dynamics, Multiplex Networks and Heterogeneity (Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University)

2019-05-23 14:00: Limits of precision in stochastic cell biology (Glenn Vinnicombe, University of Cambridge)

2019-06-04 14:00: On indefinite damping and gyroscopic stabilization (Tobias Damm, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern)

2019-06-06 14:00: Stochastic Sylvester equations for output regulation of linear stochastic systems (Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London)

2019-06-13 14:00: Morphological Computation - A Potential Solution for the Control Problem in Soft Robotics (Helmut Hauser, University of Bristol)

2019-06-20 14:00: Automotive Control Using Non-Linear System Models With Uncertainty (Thomas Steffen, Loughborough University)

2019-07-18 14:00: Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theory (Melvin Leok, University of California, San Diego)

2019-09-12 14:00: Minkowski, Lyapunov, and Bellman: Inequalities and Equations for Stability and Optimal Control (Sasa Rakovic, Beijing Institute of Technology)

2019-09-13 14:00: TBD (Jin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge)

2019-09-24 14:00: Long-term dynamics of synapses and representations in the mouse auditory cortex (Prof. Simon Rumpel, University of Mainz)

2019-10-10 14:00: Soft robotics: Fusing actuation with perception (Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London)

2019-10-15 14:00: Synchronization of heterogeneous agents via funnel coupling (Stephan Trenn, University of Groningen)

2019-10-17 14:00: Interaction between humans and with robot (Etienne Burdet, Imperial College London)

2019-10-24 14:00:  A tool for analysis and synthesis of heterogeneous multi-agent systems (Jin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-14 14:00: Neuromorphic control (Luka Ribar, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-21 14:00: Learning and retaining tasks in redundant brain circuits (Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge)

2019-11-28 14:00: On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers (Nuno Paulino, University of Warwick)

2019-11-28 16:00: Biologically realistic mean-field models of neuronal populations (Alain Destexhe, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France.)

2019-12-02 14:00: Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big Data (Lennart Ljung, Linköping University)

2019-12-05 14:00: Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practice (Sarah Spurgeon, University College London)

2020-01-23 14:00: Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in Neuroscience  (Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham)

2020-01-30 14:00: Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression (Thomas Schön, Uppsala University)

2020-02-06 14:00: Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports (Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge)

2020-02-13 14:00: Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links (Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne)

2020-02-20 14:00: Exploiting Sparsity in Semidefinite and Sum of Squares Programming (Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford)

2020-02-27 14:00: An overview of Research and Robotics at Google Deepmind (Francesco Nori, Deepmind)

2020-05-07 14:00: Hierarchical Robust Performance Analysis of Uncertain Large Scale Systems (Khaled Laib, University of Cambridge)

2020-05-14 14:00: Tradeoffs in biological optimisation (Dhruva Raman, University of Cambridge)

2020-05-21 14:00: Geometric Thinking in Engineering and Applied Sciences (Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge)

2020-05-28 14:00: On feedback control of switches and oscillators based on dominance theory (Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge)

2020-06-04 14:00: System Identification of Neuronal Behaviors (Thiago Burghi, University of Cambridge)

2020-06-11 14:00: Nonlinear resonance and excitability in interconnected systems (Ilario Cirillo, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-22 14:00: An Optimal Control Approach to Covid-19 (Prof. Jan Maciejowski, University of Cambridge)

2020-10-29 14:00: Understanding and engineering biological networks using timelapse microfluidic microscopy (Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-05 14:00: Self-Healing Codes (Dr. Michael Rule, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-12 14:00: Electronics on the Brain (Prof. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-19 14:00: A Digital Twin for Controlling Industrial Processes (Dr. Amritam Das, University of Cambridge)

2020-11-26 14:00: A canonical brain computation: from mechanism to purpose (Dr. Yashar Ahmadian, University of Cambridge)

2020-12-03 14:00: Identification and model reduction of complex network systems (Dr. Xiaodong Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2021-01-21 14:00: Data-driven control à la Finsler and Yakubovich (Henk van Waarde, University of Cambridge)

2021-02-04 14:00: Stability of Optimisation-based Control: Brief Review and New Results  (Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University)

2021-02-18 14:00: Stabilization of Discrete-Time Switched Affine Systems and their Applications in Power Electronics (Dr. Lucas Egidio, Université Catholique de Louvain)

2021-02-25 14:00: Information transfer from biological to analog microcircuits (Prof. Alain Nogaret, University of Bath)

2021-03-11 14:00: The role of space in evolution: insights from microbial and viral expansions (Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge)

2021-03-25 14:00: Generalized Nash equilibrium seeking under partial information (Sergio Grammatico, TU Delft)

2021-04-08 14:00: Distribution and regulation of ion channels in neurons:  Quantitative studies of global protein transport and homeostatic synaptic scaling (Adriano Bellotti, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-17 14:00: Graphical Nonlinear System Analysis (Tom Chaffey, University of Cambridge)

2021-06-24 14:00: Spiking Control Systems (Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge)

2021-07-01 14:00: Combining two mechanisms to produce neural firing rate homeostasis (Paul Miller, Brandeis University)

2021-08-05 14:00: Closing The Gap Between Theory and Experiments in The Design of Biomolecular Feedback Circuits (Noah Olsman, Harvard University)

2021-11-04 14:00: A deterministic least squares approach for simultaneous input and state estimation  (Greg Gakis, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-11 14:00: Distributed Optimal Secondary Frequency Control for Power Systems With Delay Independent Stability (Dr. Mengmou Li, University of Cambridge)

2021-11-18 14:00: Modeling human sensorimotor control for better control of surgical robots (Prof. Ilana Nisky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Cambridge)

2021-11-25 14:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr. Henk van Waarde, ETH Zurich)

2021-12-02 14:00: Towards a Theory of Energy Conversion (Prof. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen)

2021-12-09 09:00: Contraction and Convexity, Robustness and Regularisation (Prof. Ian Manchester, University of Sydney)

2022-01-27 14:00: Epidemic mitigation through testing and optimal urban mobility (Muhammad Umar B Niazi, KTH)

2022-02-17 14:00: Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence (Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge))

2022-02-24 15:00: Data-driven stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems with noisy data (Meichen Guo, University of Groningen)

2022-03-03 11:00: Learning-based control of soft robots (Thomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge)

2022-03-10 14:00: Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts (Bart Besselink, University of Groningen)

2022-03-24 14:00: Advanced Sliding Mode Control (Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia)

2022-03-31 14:00: Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cells (Corentin Briat, ETH-Zürich)

2022-04-14 14:00: Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination (Praneeth Namburi, MIT)

2022-04-21 14:00: Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization:  New Perspectives for Network Systems Analysis (Daniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

2022-04-28 14:00: On Minimax Adaptive Control (Anders Rantzer, Lund University)

2022-05-05 14:00: Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop Systems (Masaki Inoue, Keio University)

2022-05-19 14:00: Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makers (Alessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

2022-05-26 14:00: Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systems  (Monika Jozsa, University of Cambridge)

2022-06-09 14:00: Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible Structure  (Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London)

2022-06-16 16:00: Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits (Yuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside)

2022-06-30 14:00: Controlling imperfect robot swarms  (Hector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada)

2022-10-20 14:00: Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologies (Tamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge)

2022-10-27 14:00: Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes (Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University)

2022-10-30 14:00: Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery (Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge)

2022-11-10 14:00: Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control (Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France)

2022-11-17 14:00: On motor intelligence for soft robots (Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland)

2022-12-01 14:00: Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks (Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge)

2023-01-19 14:00: Smarter materials for simpler robotics (Andrew Conn)

2023-01-26 14:00: A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability (Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester)

2023-02-09 14:00: Feedback system analysis: back to the future (Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge)

2023-02-14 14:00: Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization (Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain)

2023-02-16 14:00: Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady state (Jonas Cremer, Stanford University)

2023-02-23 14:00: Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy (Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford)

2023-03-02 14:00: Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasis (Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore)

2023-03-09 14:00: Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology (Harrison Steel, University of Oxford)

2023-03-16 14:00: CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control (Melanie Zeilinger)

2023-04-27 14:00: Vector-based steering control in the insect brain (Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh)

2023-05-04 14:00: Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation (Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen)

2023-05-11 14:00: Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems (Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College)

2023-10-12 14:15: An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control (Melanie Zeilinger, ETH Zürich)

2023-10-19 14:15: Quantitative Microbiology With Smart Microscopy ( Georgeos Hardo, University of Cambridge)

2023-11-03 14:00: Theory of Stability Regions and its Practical Application in Online Stability Assessment of Large-Scale Power Grids  (Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Cornell University)

2023-11-09 14:00: Modelling and analysis of electrical circuits with memristors for neuromorphic computing applications (Anne-Men Huijzer, University of Groningen)

2023-11-10 14:30: Distributed Control, Estimation and Optimization in Multi-agent Systems (Professor Wei Ren, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of California, Riverside)

2023-11-16 14:15: Passivity-based control of underactuated surgical robots (Enrico Franco, Imperial College)

2023-11-21 16:00: Exploiting Structure for Scalable Design and Verification of Complex Systems (Professor Murat Arcak, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, UC Berkeley)

2023-11-23 14:00: Buckling instabilities in chaining bacterial colonies (Aidan Brown, Edinburgh University)

2023-11-30 14:15: New Innovative Idea on Bio Medical Research (Makoto Kaneko, Meijo University and Osaka University.)

2023-12-01 14:00: Sound Control Synthesis with Logics and Data  (Professor Alessandro Abate,  Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford)

2024-01-09 14:00: Sense, Think, Act: Decision and Control, from Biology to Technology  (Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford)

2024-01-12 14:00: Data informativity: a new perspective on data-driven analysis and control (Professor Kanat Camlibel, Bernoulli Institute, University of Groningen)

2024-01-18 14:00: AI Engineering as Design Engineering: Creating User-Centric AI Systems ( Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge)

2024-02-15 14:00: Accommodating magnitude and rate-limits in model reference adaptive control systems (Matthew Turner, University of Southampton)

2024-02-22 14:15: Neuromorphic sensing and computing in today’s AI landscape (Yulia Sandamirskaya, ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences)

2024-03-05 14:15: Control of Uncertainty or Control with Uncertainty? A New Control Design Paradigm for Autonomous Stochastic Systems (Panagiotis Tsiotras, Georgia Tech )

2024-03-07 14:00: Learning to Predict and to Act - Exploring Structure in World Models and Latent Spaces (Ingmar Posner, Oxford University )

2024-03-14 14:00: Examples of "control" in research and teaching at Physics (Pietro Cicuta, University of Cambridge)

2024-05-23 14:00: Nonlinear motion control (Sebastiaan J.A.M. van den Eijnden, Eindhoven University of Technology)

2024-05-30 14:00: Fit for purpose: the right model for the right robotic task (Marcello Calisti, University of Lincoln)

2024-06-13 14:00: Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection steps (Charlie Wedd, University of Cambridge)

2024-06-13 14:00: Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection steps (Charlie Wedd, University of Cambridge)

2024-06-13 14:00: Measuring the timing and noise of bacteriophage infection steps (Charlie Wedd, University of Cambridge)

2024-10-17 14:00: Complex Robotic Systems: Modeling, Control, and Planning using Dual Quaternion Algebra (Bruno Vilhena Adorno, University of Manchester)

2024-10-31 14:00: Iterative Learning Control --- Past, Present, and Future (Eric Rogers, University of Southampton)

2024-11-07 14:00: Adaptive closed loop control: from reflexes to planning (Bernd Porr, University of Glasgow)

2024-11-14 14:00: From Holonic Systems to Human-Integrated Systems (Karel Kruger, University of Cambridge)

2024-11-21 14:00: Predicting antibiotic resistance evolution (Fernanda Pinheiro, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy.)

2024-11-27 14:00: Negative imaginary systems theory: An introduction (Alexander Lanzon, University of Manchester)

2024-11-28 14:00: Building Life-like Robots: From Musculoskeletal Designs to Biohybrid Innovations (Robert Katzschmann, ETH Zurich)

2024-12-05 14:00: Computation-aware set-based analysis and control (Nikos Athanasopoulos, Queen’s University Belfast)

2025-02-06 14:00: Low-power embedded event-based vision processing for low-latency robotics (Jörg Conradt, KTH Stockholm, Sweden)

2025-02-20 14:00: The thresholds of an excitable system (Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge)

2025-03-06 14:00: Delivering Fusion Power: the challenges of control in a First of a Kind Power Plant (Adam Stephen (UKAEA), Kim Cave-Ayland (UKAEA), Morten Lennholm (UKIFS), Terry Thompson (UKIFS))

2025-03-13 14:00: Biological design with machine learning and limited data. (Diego Oyarzun, University of Edinburgh)

2025-03-20 14:00: Stochastic Algorithms for Nonconvex Optimization (Mathukumalli Vidyasagar, IIT Hyderabad)

2025-03-21 14:00: Participation of Energy Storage in Electricity Markets: Strategic Withholding Behaviors and Equilibrium (Bolun Xu, Columbia University)

2025-05-01 14:00: Some topics at the intersection of control, dynamics, and learning. (Eduardo Sontag, Northeastern University)

2025-05-02 10:30: Biologically Inspired Soft Robotics (Michael T. Tolley UC San Diego)

2025-05-08 14:00: Krasovskii Passivity Based Approaches to Control Design of Power Systems (Yu Kawano, Hiroshima University)

2025-05-15 14:00: Instrumentation and Iteration in Massively Online Live Service Gaming (Mark Kerr, Jagex)

2025-05-22 14:00: Engineering Genetic Controllers to Accelerate Adaptation and Attenuate Cellular Noise (Maurice Filo, ETH Zurich)

2025-05-29 14:00: Understanding the drivers of antimicrobial resistance evolution (Claudia Igler, University of Manchester)

2025-06-12 14:00: Probabilistically Robust Decision Making for Uncertain Dynamical Systems (Venkatraman Renganathan, Cranfield University)

2025-06-19 14:00: Structure, Kinetics, and the Identification of Integrated Control in Neuronal Excitability (Shimon Marom, Technion)

2025-10-16 14:00: Data as models? A closer look at data-driven control systems (Roy Smith, ETH Zurich)

2025-11-27 14:00: Control and Adaptation Under Latent Risk and Nonstationary Interactions (Yorie Nakahira, Carnegie Mellon University)

2026-02-19 14:00: Control of Lumped-Distributed Control Systems (Richard Vinter, Imperial College)

2026-02-26 14:00: The brain as a changing operating environment (Charles Micou, University of Cambridge)

2026-03-12 14:00: Toward Scalable Neuromorphic Control: From Conductance Modelling to Hierarchical Event-Based Architectures (Yongkang Huo, University of Cambridge)