Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6


2010-11-07 09:30: EcoSan: A New Philosophy of 'Waste'? (Speaker to be confirmed)

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

2011-05-13 14:00: Some applications and mechanics for the cracking of stiff films supported on compliant substrates (Professor Michael Thouless, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)

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

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

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)

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

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)

2013-04-26 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)

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

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)