CDC’10 Pre-conference Workshop

Half-Century’s Excellence in Systems and Control Engineering

- A workshop dedicated to Professors Brian D O Anderson’s 70th Birthday

14-Dec-2010

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[1] This page was last updated on 30/Nov/2010 [Final update].

[2] Workshop Dinner honouring Brian Anderson is at 6pm, on 13/December/2010, venue: Trade Vic’s (Hilton Atlanta – Conf. Hotel),

and you may purchase the tickets (USD 75 each) when register for CDC and this workshop. Partners, Families and Friends are all welcome.

Please note for catering purpose, the ticket purchase will conclude well before the dates.

The workshop goals and Synopsis

The primary goal of this workshop is to celebrate Professor Anderson’s 70th Birthday and pay tribute to his long-lasting contributions in the fields of systems and control engineering.

11 speakers (mainly FIEEEs) will cover a broad range of contemporary topics in the areas of systems, control and signal processing.

The workshop will thus be a forum to inspire future generation of research leaders.

Abstract

The exceptional career of Professor Brian D. O. ANDERSON (IEEE Life Fellow, IFAC Fellow) in the Systems and Control community deserves a special celebration at the CDC’10, which coincides with his 70th birthday. Professor Anderson was born in Sydney, Australia. He took his undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and Electrical Engineering at Sydney University, and his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1966.

He worked in industry in the United States and at Stanford University before serving as Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, Australia from 1967 through 1981. He then became the first Engineering Professor and Head of the Department of Systems Engineering, at the Australian National University, where he was Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering from 1994-2002, and is now Distinguished Professor. In 2002-3, he was interim CEO of National ICT Australia, and then served as Chief Scientist until mid 2006.

He is Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, Australia, Fellow of the Royal Society and Foreign Associate of the US National Academy of Engineering. He holds honorary doctorates from the Université Catholique de Louvain, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zürich) and the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle and New South Wales. In 1998 he was elected President of the Australian Academy of Science for a four-year term.

Professor Anderson held a number of offices in IFAC, including the Presidency from 1990 to 1993. His awards include the IFAC Quazza Award, and from the IEEE Control Systems Field Award, the Control Systems Society Bode Prize, the IEEE James H Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, the Circuits and Systems Society Guillemin-Cauer Award (twice) and the Senior Award of the Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Society.

Organizers (former PhD students of Brian)

Dr Arvin Dehghani, SMIEEE	Dr Brad (Changbin) Yu, SMIEEE
Research School of Information Sciences & Engineering The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia	Research School of Information Sciences & Engineering The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 Australia
Tel: +61-2-6125-8838	Tel: +61-2-6125-8670
Fax: +61-2-6125-8660	Fax: +61-2-6125-8660

List of speakers and their talks

11 Confirmed speakers (FIEEEs):

Professor Jan Willems, K.U. Leuven, Energy Transfer In Electrical Circuits

Professor Michel Gevers, Université Catholique de Louvain, Optimal Experiment Design for Open & Closed-Loop System Identification

Professor Bob Bitmead, UC San Diego, Stochastic reconstructibility and feedback control (Former PhD of Brian 1979)

Professor Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University, Sampled-data control approximation and signal processing

Professor Manfred Deistler, Vienna University of Technology, AR Systems and AR Processes: The Singular Case

Professor Graham Goodwin, University of Newcastle, Virtual Closed Loop System Identification

Professor Steve Morse, Yale University, Reaching a consensus with Brian

Professor Keith Glover, University of Cambridge, Control Challenges in a couple of large scale applications

Professor M. Vidyasagar, University of Texas at Dallas, Large Deviation Behaviour of Dependent Stochastic Process with Infinite variance: Some Surprising Facts

Professor Shinji Hara, University of Tokyo, A Unified Approach to Decentralized Cooperative Control for Large-scale Networked Systems toward Glocal Control

Professor Soura Dasgupta, University of Iowa, Consensus Based Carrier Synchronization in a Two Node Network (Former PhD student of Brian, 1985)

Schedule & Venue

13 December 2010 [Trader Vic’s, Hilton Atlanta]

18:00-20:00 Workshop Dinner Honoring Brian Anderson [with dinner ticket or by invitation only]

14 December 2010 [ Room 212, Hilton Atlanta]

08:30-08:45 Opening address

08:45-10:30 Professor Jan Williams, Professor Keith Glover, Professor Yutaka Yamamoto

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:40 Professor Steve Morse, Professor Shinji Hara, Professor Soura Dasgupta

12:40-13:30 Lunch Break

13:45-15:30 Professor Michel Gevers, Professor Bob Bitmead, Professor Graham Goodwin

15:30-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-16:55 Professor M. Vidyasagar, Professor Manfred Deistler

16:55-17:10 Closing address

18:00 CDC Opening Reception Hilton Atlanta Grand Ballroom