Group meeting

Robust and Nonlinear Control Reading Group

We will usually meet straight after the weekly group meeting on Mondays at 11a.m. in MR4. The topics/papers for discussion during group meetings will be posted here as soon as we sort this out.

Michaelmas Term 2011

• Week 1 group meeting: Controllability of complex networks (Antonis) paper
  • Week 2 reading group: none.

• Week 2 group meeting: Equilibrium independent passivity (Ed) paper
  • Week 2 reading group: Linear Algebra: (Bing)

• Week 3 group meeting: Power Paper (Bing)
  • Week 3 reading group: Signals and Systems Theory (James) Ch2 in DFT

• Week 4 group meeting: Richard Mason (Delayed Kuramoto)
  • Week 4 reading group: SISO Uncertainty & Robustness (Antonis) Ch3+Ch4 in DFT. Do Ch3:Q1, Ch4:4,5,6,9. Optional: Ch4:Q10.

• Week 5 group meeting: James (Diagonal LF)
  • Week 5 reading group: Design Constraints (Antonis) Ch6 in DFT

• Week 6 group meeting: Tom (Model Reduction)
  • Week 6 reading group: State Space Systems Theory (Bing)

• Week 7 group meeting: Xuan (TBA)
  • Week 7 reading group: none

• Week 8 group meeting: James CDC paper
  • Week 8 reading group: Convex Optimization (James)

• Week 9 group meeting: Ed/Bing CDC papers
  • Week 9 reading group: none

Hilary Term 2012

• Week 0 group meeting: James Syn Bio paper

• Week 1 group meeting: Tom - reduction paper
  • Week 1 reading group: Convex Optimization/LMIs (JDA)

• Week 2 group meeting: Richard
  • Week 2 reading group: KYP Lemma, Dissipative Dynamical Systems (AP)

• Week 3 group meeting: Bing
  • Week 3 reading group: Sum of Squares (JDA)

• Week 4 group meeting: Xuan - paper on power networks
  • Week 4 reading group: Stochastic systems analysis (BC)

• Week 5 group meeting: Ed - papers on evolution
  • Week 5 reading group: Integral Quadratic Constraints (AP)

• Week 6 group meeting: AP
  • Week 6 reading group: CDC mania

• Week 7 group meeting: Read each other's CDC paper
  • Week 7 reading group: CDC mania

• Week 8 group meeting: Read each other's CDC paper
  • Week 8 reading group: CDC mania

Trinity Term 2012

• Week 0 group meeting: AP paper

• Week 1 group meeting: JA

• Week 2 group meeting: TP
  • Week 2 reading group:Realization theory (AP)

• Week 3 group meeting: RM
  • Week 3 reading group: **Bank Holiday- Rescheduled for week 5**
• Week 4 group meeting: EH
  • Week 4 reading group: Model Reduction (TP)

• Week 5 group meeting:
  • Week 5 reading group: KYP & IQCs (SG)

• Week 6 group meeting: Lossless S-procedure (AP)
  • Week 6 reading group: Optimal Control & Differential Game Theory (EH)

• Week 7 group meeting: XZ
  • Week 7 reading group: Model Predictive Control (JB)

• Week 8 group meeting: JA
  • Week 8 reading group: Decentralized Control, Price-based decentralized control (XZ)

Summer 2012

• 2 July 2012 Antonis

• 9 July 2012 Xuan

• 23 July 2012 Tom

• 30 July 2012 Richard & James

• 3 Sep 2012 Edward

• 10 Sep 2012 (possibly cancelled)

• 19 Sep 2012 (3pm in MR4)

• 24 Sep 2012 Paresh

• 1 Oct 2012 Rich, Tom, Xuan practice

Michaelmas Term 2012

• 8 Oct 2012 Paresh

• 15 Oct 2012 Rich - deep learning

• 22 Oct 2012 Antonis

• 29 Oct 2012 James

• 5 Nov 2012 Matthew Peet

• 12 Nov 2012 Xuan

• 19 Nov 2012 Tom

• 26 Nov 2012 Ed's CDC talk

• 3 Dec 2012 Rich + James CDC talk

• 10 Dec 2012 CDC

Hilary 2013

• 21 Jan ADMM/Dual decomp/Message passing (RM)

• 28 Jan *No Group Meeting*

• 4 Feb Smart Grid (XZ)

• 11 Feb SOS session - latest results (AP/GV)

• 18 Feb Decentralized stability (JDA)

• 25 Feb CDC Mania

• 4 Mar CDC Mania

• 11 Mar ***CDC Deadline***

Trinity 2013

• 15 Apr: Richard

• 22 Apr: Antonis

• 29 Apr: James

• 6 May: Ed (project)

• 13 May: James

• 20 May: Paresh

• 27 May: Giorgio

• 3 June: DTC students

• 10 June: Xuan & Tom - ACC talks

• 17 June: (ACC) Giorgio

• 24 June: Ed Hancock

• 1 July: DTC students

• 8 July: Giorgio/Lyapunov

• 15 July: (No group meeting)

Michaelmas Term 2013

http://www.control.utoronto.ca/people/profs/francis/dft.pdf

• Week 1 group meeting: Antonis
  • Week 1 reading group: none.

• Week 2 group meeting: James (rescheduled to Week 9)
  • Week 2 reading group: Linear Algebra

• Week 3 group meeting: Reza/switched systems
  • Week 3 reading group: Signals and Systems Theory Ch2 in DFT, Ed

• Week 4 group meeting: Richard
  • Week 4 reading group: SISO Uncertainty & Robustness (James) Ch3+Ch4 in DFT. Do Ch3:Q1, Ch4:4,5,6,9. Optional: Ch4:Q10.

• Week 5 group meeting: James
  • Week 5 reading group: Design Constraints (Antonis) Ch6 in DFT - Do questions 2, 4 and 7.

• Week 6 group meeting: Dhruva & Andreas
  • Week 6 reading group: State Space Systems Theory - DP - Giorgio

• Week 7 group meeting: Prescott
  • Week 7 reading group: none

• Week 8 group meeting: Xuan
  • Week 8 reading group: Lyapunov equations, inequalities, Realizations & Balanced Truncation.

• Week 9 group meeting: Cancelled
  • Week 9 reading group: Cancelled

Hilary Term 2014

• Week 0 group meeting: Giorgio
  • Week 0 reading group: none.

• Week 1 group meeting: Ed Hancock ***30 mins***
  • Week 1 reading group: Lyapunov analysis (Ed)

• Week 2 group meeting: Nathan
  • Week 2 reading group: Dissipative Dynamical Systems (Giorgio)

• Week 3 group meeting: Tom
  • Week 3 reading group: KYP and Integral Quadratic Constraints (???)

• Week 4 group meeting: Dhruva
  • Week 4 reading group: Loopshaping (AP)

• Week 5 group meeting: Andreas
  • Week 5 reading group: All stabilizing controllers, H2 (James)

• Week 6 group meeting: Xuan
  • Week 6 reading group: KYP and Hinf (James)

• Week 7 group meeting: Richard
  • Week 7 reading group: Convex Optimization (Richard)

• Week 8 group meeting: Reza
  • Week 8 reading group: Sum of Squares (Giorgio)