Group meeting
From SYSOS
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:
- Week 2 group meeting: Dhruva
- Week 2 reading group: Lyapunov analysis (James)
- Week 3 group meeting: Nathan
- Week 3 reading group: Dissipative Dynamical Systems (Giorgio)
- Week 4 group meeting: Tom
- Week 4 reading group:
- Week 5 group meeting: James
- Week 5 reading group:
- Week 6 group meeting: Andreas
- Week 6 reading group:
- Week 7 group meeting: Richard
- Week 7 reading group: Convex Optimization (Richard)
- Week 8 group meeting: Reza
- Week 8 reading group: All stabilizing controllers, H2 (James)
- Week 9 group meeting: Xuan
- Week 9 reading group: None
- Week 10 group meeting: Richard
- Week 10 reading group: Sum of Squares (Giorgio)
Loopshaping (AP) KYP and Hinf (James) KYP and Integral Quadratic Constraints (AP)
- 7 April Tom
- 14 April
- 28 April
- 5 May Richard
- 12 May Andreas
- 19 May Giorgio
- 26 May Xuan
- 9 June Edward
- 16 June Nathan
- 23 June James
- 7 July Dhruva
- 14 July Reza
Michaelmas 2014
22nd Sept Dhruva/Andreas
29th Sept Reza
6 Oct No group meeting
13 Oct Giorgio, Paper Tom F
20 Oct James, paper Reza
27 Oct Richard, Ciaran
4 Nov Ed, Paper Giorgio
17 Nov Ciaran, Paper James
24 Nov Tom F, Paper Tom P
1 Dec Paper Ed
8 Dec Tom, Reza - CDC talks
Hilary 2015
19 Jan James
26 Jan Giorgio
2 Feb No group meeting
9 Feb Ed
16 Feb Andreas
23 Feb Reza
2 Mar Mariano
9 Mar Xuan
16 Mar Dhruva
30 Mar No group meeting
6 Apr No group meeting
13 Apr Tom Folliard
Trinity 2015
20 Apr Giorgio
27 Apr Mariano
4 May *Bank Holiday*
11 May Reza
18 May Ed
25 May *Bank Holiday*
1 Jun Tom
8 Jun * No group Meeting *
15 Jun * No group meeting *
22 Jun Andreas
29 Jun Alice
6 Jul Xuan
13 Jul Dhruva
20 Jul Tom F
Michaelmas 2015
21 Sep James SB
28 Sep
5 Oct - no group meeting
12 Oct - Dhruva - 4pm start
19 Oct Tom Folliard
26 Oct Axel
2 Nov Andreas
9 Nov James - IMA
16 Nov Ross - volunteered
23 Nov Tom
30 Nov Yang
7 Dec Reza - CDC talk