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

April 15 - 19, 2002

IPAM Building
Room 1200


All talks will be 1 hour followed by 15 minutes for discussion
Printable Version

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

Banavar Sridhar (NASA Ames Research Center)

"Modeling, Optimization and Control problems in the National Airspace System"

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

Claire Tomlin (Stanford University)

"Hybrid Control Problems in Air Traffic Networks"

5:00 - 5:30 Discussion (all)
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

George Verghese (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

"Waves, Cascades and Flows: Examples of Dynamics, Control and Estimation in Linear Network Models"

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"
Presentation (PDF File)

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

Carla Gomes (Cornell University)

"The Integration of Constrained-Based Reasoning and Mathematical Programming Methods"

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"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:15 - 10:45 Break
10:45 - 12:00 Round Table Discussion

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