News

• Stockholm Workshop on Emerging Topics in Systems and Control, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 15-16, 2022.
• 2022 IEEE CSS Workshop on Control for Societal-Scale Challenges - June 17-18, 2022 Stockholm, Sweden.
• Huge congratulations to Dr Licio Romao for winning the 2021 IET Control and Automation Doctoral Prize for his thesis "Scalable and data-driven approaches to convex programming"! Licio will be giving a Webinar on his results - register now!
• Many congratulations to Dr Yang Zheng (see also updated website) who won the 2019 European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems for his thesis "Chordal Sparsity in Control and Optimization of Large-scale Systems"!

• Workshop on Dynamics, Randomness, and Control in Molecular and Cellular Networks Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University, 12-14 November 2019.
• International Workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Worcester College, Oxford, 9-11 September 2019.
• Chi.bio is released!

• Workshop on `New Vistas in computational systems and synthetic biology', May 2019, Vigo, Spain.
• Antonis Papachristodoulou is elevated to IEEE Fellow for his fundamental contributions to theory and applications of Sum of Squares Programming and networked control systems.

• Workshop on Vistas in Control at ETHZ, September 10-11, 2018.
• MBI Workshop on Control of Cellular and Molecular Systems, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 2-6 October 2017.
• International Workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology. What next?, Prince Philip House, London, 17-18 July 2017.
• Thomas Prescott is awarded the 2015 European PhD Award for the Control of Complex and Heterogeneous networks for his thesis Large-Scale Layered Systems and Synthetic Biology: Model Reduction and Decomposition.

• Richard Mason and Antonis Papachristodoulou are awarded the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award for their 2014 ACC paper on Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation.

• Antonis Papachirstodoulou is awarded the 2015 European Control Award and will be giving a plenary at the 2015 European Control Conference.

• 5th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Philadelphia, 10-11 September 2015.
• Antonis Papachristodoulou awarded an EPSRC Fellowship for Growth in Synthetic Biology.
• Richard Mason's paper Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation has received the best student paper award at the 2014 American Control Conference. Download the PDF here.

• A workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Worcester College, Oxford, 10-12 September 2014.
• Towards Next Generation Synthetic Biology: 21-22 November 2013, Warwick, UK.
• Workshop on Algorithms for Dynamical Systems and Lyapunov Functions: 17 July -19 July 2013, Reykjavík, Iceland.
• Oberwolfach Workshop on Structured function systems and applications: 24 February - 3 March 2013, TU Dortmund, Germany.
• Optimization and Control for Smart Grids: 21-25 May 2012, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
• Warwick Systems Biology DTC Annual Conference: 27-29 July 2011, Stratford Apon Avon, UK.
• Third RoSBNet Workshop: 20-22 July 2011, St Annes' College, University of Oxford.
• Exeter Synthetic Biology Sandpit: 3 June 2011, University of Exeter, UK.
• Dynamics, Control and Pricing in Power Systems: 18-20 May 2011, Lund University, Sweden.
• CDC2010: The 49th Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, 15-17 December 2010. Special session on Decentralised Network Analysis, Control and Optimisation.
• Synthetic Components Network: SCN annual conference, 23-24 September, Oulton Hall, Leeds, U.K.
• Frontiers of Multidisciplinary Research: Mathematics, engineering, and biology, 21-24 September 2010, University of Exeter, U.K.
• Dynamics Days Europe 2010: Minisymposium on Cell Dynamics and Systems Biology, 6-10 September, 2010, University of Bristol, U.K.
• Application of Control Theory and Optimization in Biochemical Pathways: A Satellite Meeting of the 2010 ICM, 16-18 August, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
• Second RoSBNet Workshop: 12-14 July, 2010, St Annes' College, University of Oxford.
• MTNS 2010: Invited Session: Real Algebraic Geometry and Applications, 5-9 July, 2010, Budapest, Hungary.
• Banff Workshop: Randomization, Relaxation, and Complexity, 28 February - 5 March 2010, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada.
• Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems: Multi-agent coordination and estimation, Jan 18 - Feb 19: Workshop Feb 3-5, 2010.
• CDC 2009 Preconference Workshop: Full-day CDC 2009 Pre-conference Workshop on Biomolecular Circuit Analysis and Design, 15th December 2009.
• NE{S|T}COC: Symposium on Recent Trends in Networked Systems and Cooperative Control & Workshop on Network Induced Constraints in Control, 28-29 September, 2009, University of Stuttgart, Germany
• ARCC Workshop on Convex Algebraic Geometry, Optimization and Applications: 21-25 September, 2009, Palo Alto, California, USA.
• RoSBNet First Year Workshop: 14-16 September 2009, St. Annes' College, University of Oxford, U.K.
• RoSBNet Launch Meeting: A Network in Synthetic Biology, 6 July 2009, University of Oxford, U.K.
• IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology
  • Organization of Biological Networks, 3-7 March, 2008
  • Design Principles in Biological Systems, 21-25 April, 2008
• IMA Thematic Year on Applications of Algebraic Geometry
  • Software for Algebraic Geometry, 23-27 October, 2006
  • Optimization and Control, 16-20 January, 2007
• Banff Workshop: Positive Polynomials and Optimization, 7-12 October, 2006, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
• ARCC Workshop: Theory and Algorithms of Linear Matrix Inequalities, 1-5 August 2005, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California.