Large-Scale Engineering Networks: Robustness, Verifiability, and Convergence

Part of the Long Program Large Scale Communication Networks
April 15 - 19, 2002

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, April 15, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:05 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:05 - 10:15
William Hall (Draper Laboratory)

Robustness and the Air Transportation Network

10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00
David Alderson (California Institute of Technology)

Cascading Failures in Infrastructure Networks
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:15
3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 5:00
Claire Tomlin (Stanford University)

Hybrid Control Problems in Air Traffic Networks

5:00 - 5:30 Panel Discussion
5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, April 16, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15
Jaime Peraire (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

A General Lagrangian Formulation for the computation of a-posteriori Finite Element Bounds

10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:15
Deborah Estrin (UCLA)

The Century Challenges: Embedding the Internet
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 5:00
John Doyle (California Institute of Technology)

Robustness & Verification

5:00 - 5:15 Summary

Wednesday, April 17, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15
Richard Murray (California Institute of Technology)

Information Flow and Cooperative Control of Vehicle Formations

10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00
Eric Feron (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Stability and Performance of Networks of Cooperating Vehicles

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:15
Rahul Sarpeshkar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Biologically Inspired Electronics

3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 5:00
Lieven Vandenberghe (UCLA)

Algorithms for convex optimization

5:00 - 5:15 Summary
5:15 - 7:15 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, April 18, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15
Lin Xiao (Stanford University)

Simultaneous Routing and Resource Allocation via Dual Decomposition
PDF Presentation
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Discussion on Research Topics
12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:15
Jeff Shamma (UCLA)

Decomposition for Distributed Control

3:15 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 5:00
5:00 - 5:15 Summary

Friday, April 19, 2002

Morning Session
8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:15
Sergio Servetto (Cornell University)

Queues under feedback control
PDF Presentation
10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Round Table Discussion