Meetings

Topics

• Modelling and intro to nonlinear systems
  • http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/~labap/teaching/C5Blecture2.pdf
  • http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/~labap/teaching/C5Blecture3.pdf
    • Further reading
      • S. Schnell and T.E. Turner, "Reaction kinetics in intracellular environments with macromolecular crowding: simulations and rate laws", 'Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology' 85 (2004) 235–260. http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/schnell/papers/pbmb85_235.pdf
      • S. Mangan and U. Alon, "Structure and function of the feed-forward loop network motif", 'PNAS' (2003), 11980-11985. Particularly, pages 11980-11981. http://www.pnas.org/content/100/21/11980.full.pdf+html
• Linearization, stability, \dotx = Ax +Bu, y = Cx+Du
  • http://www.eng.ox.ac.uk/~labap/teaching/C4Alecture2.pdf
• Controllability/Observability, gate to robustness
  • use book chapters (copies from Zhou/Doyle)
• Robustness and LMI methods
  • use copies from Zhou/Doyle
  • Chapters from http://www.control.utoronto.ca/people/profs/francis/dft.pdf
  • Chapters from http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/lmibook/lmibook.pdf
• Optimization and SOS methods
  • use my lecture notes on SOS.
  • Chapters from http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/lmibook/lmibook.pdf
  • Chapters from http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf