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* [https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/k/ciaran-kelly/ Designing bio-feedback control circuits using small RNA - Northumbria]
 
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== [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/News News] ==
* [https://sites.google.com/view/emerging-topics-system-control/home Stockholm Workshop on Emerging Topics in Systems and Control], KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, June 15-16, 2022.
 
* [https://sites.google.com/view/ieee-css-societal-challenges22/home?authuser=0 2022 IEEE CSS Workshop on Control for Societal-Scale Challenges] - June 17-18, 2022 Stockholm, Sweden.
 
* Huge congratulations to [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Licio Dr Licio Romao] for winning the 2021 IET Control and Automation Doctoral Prize  for his thesis [https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17c1e4dc-42fe-4771-a1a6-bda802dea968 "Scalable and data-driven approaches to convex programming"]! Licio will be giving a [https://events.theiet.org/events/scalable-and-data-driven-approaches-to-convex-programming/ Webinar] on his results - register now!
 
* Many congratulations to [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Yang Dr Yang Zheng] (see also [https://zhengy09.github.io/ updated website]) who won the 2019 European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems for his thesis [https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:dbf77067-15a0-446a-a909-f9d262e39821 "Chordal Sparsity in Control and Optimization of Large-scale Systems"]!
 
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*[http://cmsa.fas.harvard.edu/dynamics-and-randomness Workshop on Dynamics, Randomness, and Control in Molecular and Cellular Networks] Center for Mathematical Sciences and Applications, Harvard University, 12-14 November 2019.
 
*[http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/SynBioControl2019 International Workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology], Worcester College, Oxford, 9-11 September 2019.
 
* [https://chi.bio Chi.bio] is released!
 
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* Workshop on `New Vistas in computational systems and synthetic biology', May 2019, Vigo, Spain.
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Antonis Antonis Papachristodoulou] is elevated to IEEE Fellow for his fundamental contributions to theory and applications of Sum of Squares Programming and networked control systems. 
 
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* [https://control.ee.ethz.ch/news-and-events/vic.html Workshop on Vistas in Control at ETHZ], September 10-11, 2018.
 
*[https://mbi.osu.edu/event/?id=1063 MBI Workshop on Control of Cellular and Molecular Systems], Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 2-6 October 2017.
 
*[http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/SynBioControl2017 International Workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology. What next?], Prince Philip House, London, 17-18 July 2017.
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/User:Prescott Thomas Prescott] is awarded the [http://www.eeci-institute.eu/index.php?p=PhD-Award 2015 European PhD Award] for the Control of Complex and Heterogeneous networks for his thesis [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/wiki/images/a/aa/TPP_Thesis.pdf Large-Scale Layered Systems and Synthetic Biology: Model Reduction and Decomposition].
 
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* Richard Mason and Antonis Papachristodoulou are awarded the [http://a2c2.org/awards/o-hugo-schuck-best-paper-award O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award] for their 2014 ACC paper on [[Media:ACCPaperFinalRM3.pdf|Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation]].
 
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* Antonis Papachirstodoulou is awarded the 2015 [http://www.euca-control.org/eca.html European Control Award] and will be giving a plenary at the [http://www.ecc15.at/ 2015 European Control Conference].
 
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* [http://necsys2015.seas.upenn.edu/ 5th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems], Philadelphia, 10-11 September 2015.
 
* Antonis Papachristodoulou awarded an [http://www.epsrc.ac.uk/newsevents/news/engineeringfellowship/ 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 [[Media:ACCPaperFinalRM3.pdf|here]].
 
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*[http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/sysos/index.php/Workshop_on_Control_Engineering_and_Synthetic_Biology A workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology], Worcester College, Oxford, 10-12 September 2014.
 
* [http://wisb.warwick.ac.uk Towards Next Generation Synthetic Biology]: 21-22 November 2013, Warwick, UK.
 
*[http://www.ru.is/kennarar/sigurdurh/workshop.html Workshop on Algorithms for Dynamical Systems and Lyapunov Functions]: 17 July -19 July 2013, Reykjavík, Iceland.
 
*[http://www.mathematik.tu-dortmund.de/lsviii/new/de/veranstaltungen/oberwolfach2013.html Oberwolfach Workshop on Structured function systems and applications]: 24 February - 3 March 2013, TU Dortmund, Germany.
 
*[http://cnls.lanl.gov/smartgrids Optimization and Control for Smart Grids]: 21-25 May 2012, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
 
*[http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/sbdtc/ Warwick Systems Biology DTC Annual Conference]: 27-29 July 2011, Stratford Apon Avon, UK.
 
*[http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/Third_RoSBNet_Workshop Third RoSBNet Workshop]: 20-22 July 2011, St Annes' College, University of Oxford.
 
*[http://www.exeter.ac.uk/btg/newsandevents/title_128417_en.html Exeter Synthetic Biology Sandpit]: 3 June 2011, University of Exeter, UK.
 
*[http://www.lccc.lth.se/index.php?page=focus-period-2011 Dynamics, Control and Pricing in Power Systems]: 18-20 May 2011, Lund University, Sweden.
 
* [http://www.ieeecss.org/CAB/conferences/cdc2010/index.php CDC2010]: The 49th Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, 15-17 December 2010. Special session on Decentralised Network Analysis, Control and Optimisation.
 
* [http://www.bristol.ac.uk/scn/events/scnevents.html Synthetic Components Network]: SCN annual conference, 23-24 September, Oulton Hall, Leeds, U.K.
 
* [http://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/excellence/keythemes/systemsbiology/frontiers/ Frontiers of Multidisciplinary Research]: Mathematics, engineering, and biology, 21-24  September 2010, University of Exeter, U.K.
 
* [http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/ddays10/index.html Dynamics Days Europe 2010]: Minisymposium on Cell Dynamics and Systems Biology, 6-10 September, 2010, University of Bristol, U.K.
 
* [http://www.ccmb.res.in/ICM2010/icm2010.htm Application of Control Theory and Optimization in Biochemical Pathways]: A Satellite Meeting of the 2010 ICM, 16-18 August, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
 
*[http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/Second_RoSBNet_Workshop Second RoSBNet Workshop]: 12-14 July, 2010, St Annes' College, University of Oxford.
 
*[http://www.conferences.hu/mtns2010/ MTNS 2010]: Invited Session: Real Algebraic Geometry and Applications, 5-9 July, 2010, Budapest, Hungary.
 
* [http://www.birs.ca/birspages.php?task=displayevent&event_id=10w5119 Banff Workshop]: Randomization, Relaxation, and Complexity, 28 February - 5 March 2010, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada.
 
* [http://www.lccc.lth.se/index.php?page=multi-agent-coordination-and-estimation Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems]: Multi-agent coordination and estimation, Jan 18 - Feb 19: Workshop Feb 3-5, 2010.
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/CDCPreconferenceWorkshop CDC 2009 Preconference Workshop]: Full-day CDC 2009 Pre-conference Workshop on Biomolecular Circuit Analysis and Design, 15th December 2009.
 
* [http://www.ist.uni-stuttgart.de/nestcoc/ 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
 
* [http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/convexalggeom.html ARCC Workshop on Convex Algebraic Geometry, Optimization and Applications]: 21-25 September, 2009, Palo Alto, California, USA.
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/Current_events RoSBNet First Year Workshop]: 14-16 September 2009, St. Annes' College, University of Oxford, U.K.
 
* [http://sysos.eng.ox.ac.uk/control/RoSBNet/index.php/RoSBNet_Launch_Meeting  RoSBNet Launch Meeting]: A Network in Synthetic Biology, 6 July 2009, University of Oxford, U.K.
 
* [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2007-2008 IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology]
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2007-2008/W3.3-7.08/ Organization of Biological Networks, 3-7 March, 2008]
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2007-2008/W4.21-25.08/ Design Principles in Biological Systems, 21-25 April, 2008]
 
* [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2006-2007 IMA Thematic Year on Applications of Algebraic Geometry]
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2006-2007/W10.23-27.06/ Software for Algebraic Geometry, 23-27 October, 2006]
 
** [http://www.ima.umn.edu/2006-2007/W1.16-20.07/ Optimization and Control, 16-20 January, 2007]
 
* [http://www.math.tamu.edu/~sottile/conferences/Banff06/06w5060.html Banff Workshop]: Positive Polynomials and Optimization, 7-12 October, 2006, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
 
* [http://www.aimath.org/ARCC/workshops/matrixineq.html ARCC Workshop]: Theory and Algorithms of Linear Matrix Inequalities, 1-5 August 2005, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California.
 
  
 
== Joining SySOS ==
 
== Joining SySOS ==

Revision as of 15:13, 10 October 2022


Welcome to SySOS


A group researching complex networked control systems, biological and technological



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Research Areas

Current Members

Current and Previous Externally Funded Projects

  • European Space Agency project with GMV (Spain), NGC (Canada) and the University of Leicester, "Worst-Case and Safety Analysis Tools for Autonomous Rendezvous Systems".

Collaborations

News

Joining SySOS

  • If you are an Oxford undergraduate interested in doing a summer internship on any of the above research directions (or anything else) get in touch.
  • There are several other routes for joining SySOS, mainly through fellowships. Please contact us to discuss.

Previous Members

  • Ms Carolin Schulte - DPhil student, July 2018- November 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
  • Mr Boon Lim - DPhil student, October 2018- November 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Wei Huang.
  • Mr Licio Romao - DPhil student, October 2017 - September 2021. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
  • Dr Harrison Steel - DPhil student, October 2016-June 2019. PDRA, June 2019- September 2020.
  • Dr Aivar Sootla - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, September 2016-June 2019.
  • Dr Axel Nyström - DPhil Student, October 2013-2018. Co-supervised with Dr Andrew Angel.
  • Dr Thomas Folliard - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage.
  • Dr Dhruva Raman - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Dr James Anderson
  • Dr James Anderson DPhil student, 2008 - 2011, Post-Doctoral Research Associate 2011-2012, Junior Research Fellow, 2012-2016.
  • Dr Bing Chu - Postdoctoral Research Assistant, June 2010-March 2012
  • Dr Yo-Cheng (Mark) Chang DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage, Department of Biochemistry, January 2007-January 2011.
  • Dr Bence Mélykúti, DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Alison Etheridge, Department of Statistics, January 2008-February 2011.
  • Miss Nassia Inglessis, September 2009 - October 2009
  • Mr Christoph Maier, April 2009 - July 2009

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