Friday, January 30: Room 54-134, 5th Floor, Eng. IV building

 

 

 

Session Chair: R. Mohler

8:30

 

Welcome remarks
A. Sayed, Chair, Dept. EE, UCLA;
V. Dhir, Dean of Engineering, UCLA; and
R. Peccei, Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA

9:00

 

Kishan Baheti (National Science Foundation)
Research and Education Programs at the National Science Foundation (Abstract)

9:30

 

Sanjoy Mitter (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Nonlinear Estimation as Free Energy Minimization

 

9:50

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

Session Chair: I. Lasiecka

10:20

 

David L. Russell (Virginia Polytechnique University)
Optimal Control in the Context of Stationary Systems (Abstract)

10:40

 

Kazik Malanowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
Stability and Sensitivity Analysis for Optimal Control Problems (Abstract)

11:00

 

Firdaus Udwadia (University of Southern California)
Connections Between Constrained Motion of Mechanical Systems and Tracking Control of Nonlinear Systems

11:20

 

Jason L. Speyer (University of California, Los Angeles)
Cauchy Estimation for Linear Scalar Systems (Abstract)

11:40

 

Ravi Mazumdar (University of Waterloo, Canada)
A comparison theorem for multidimensional diffusions with oblique reflections and applications

 

12:00

 

Lunch

 

 

 

Session Chair: S. Gibson

2:00

 

Nhan Levan (University of California, Los Angeles)
Translation Representation in Wavelet Theory

2:20

 

Roberto Triggiani (University of Virginia)
Backward uniqueness of parabolic-hyperbolic coupled systems of PDEs: thermo-elastic equations, structural acoustic chamber, fluid-structure interaction (Abstract)

2:40

 

Miroslav Krstic (University of California, San Diego)
Compensation of Long Input Delays for Unstable Nonlinear and PDE Systems (Abstract)

3:00

 

Wolfgang Luber (European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company Military Air Systems MEG)
Aeroservoelastic Design, Verification and Qualification for a Combat Aircraft (Abstract)

3:20

 

Louis Tebou (Florida International University)
The elasticity equations with degenerate Robin boundary condition: energy dissipation through a locally distributed unbounded feedback

 

3:40

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

Session Chair: M. Krstic

4:10

 

Andrew Viterbi (The Viterbi Group)
Memories of the System Science Division in the Sixties

4:20

 

Thomas Kailath (Stanford University)
Remarks in tribute of AVB

4:30

 

Petar Kokotovic (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Remarks in tribute of AVB

4:40

 

Ron Mohler (Oregon State University)
Remarks in tribute of AVB

4:50

 

Alexander Tartakovsky (University of Southern California)
Quickest Changepoint Detection: Recent Advances and Open Problems (Abstract)

5:10

 

Don Washburn (US Air Force Academy)
40 years as Bal's student

5:20

 

Claude Benchimol (Invitrogen)
Genetic breakthroughs fuel significant challenges for mathematical, information and system sciences

 

5:30

 

Adjourn

 

6:00

 

Reception

  (Edgar K. Rice room, 6th floor, Boelter Hall)

 

 

Saturday, January 31: Room 54-134, 5th Floor, Eng. IV building

 

 

 

Session Chair: F. Udwadia

8:30

 

Jean Paul Zolesio (CNRS, France)
Variational formulation for incompressible Euler flow in any dimension (Abstract)

8:50

 

Bozenna Pasik-Duncan (University of Kansas)
Semilinear stochastic equations in a Hilbert space with a fractional Brownian motion

9:10

 

George Avalos (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Beyond Lack of Compactness and Lack of Stability of a Coupled Parabolic-Hyperbolic Fluid-Structure Systems (Abstract)

9:30

 

Q.-P. Vu (Ohio University)
A spectral theory of abstract evolution equations and its applications (Abstract)

9:50

 

Marianna Shubov (Texas Tech University)
Mathematical Analysis of Double-Walled Carbon Nanotube Model

 

10:10

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

Session Chair: G. Avalos

10:30

 

Tyrone Duncan (University of Kansas)
Stochastic Equations in a Hilbert Space with a Fractional Brownian Motion

10:50

 

Paul K. C. Wang (University of California, Los Angeles)
Modeling of Distributed Micro and Nano-electromechanical Systems

11:10

 

Ciprian Preda (WSI)
Theorems of Perron type for the exponential dichotomy of evolution equations

11:30

 

Eduardo Cerpa (University of California, San Diego)
Controllability of a Korteweg-de Vries equation on a critical domain (Abstract)

 

11:50

 

Lunch

 

 

 

Session Chair: E. Schuster

1:15

 

Daniel Toundykov (University of Nebraska)
Energy dissipation in dynamical systems governed by nonlinear PDEs (Abstract)

1:30

 

Shujun Liu (University of California, San Diego)
Stochastic averaging principle on infinite time interval for a class of stochastic systems

1:45

 

Lorena Bociu (University of Nebraska)
Supercritical Sources in Nonlinear Wave Equations (Abstract)

2:00

 

Amjad Tuffaha (University of Southern California)
Riccati Theory and Optimal Control of a Fluid-Structure Interaction System (Abstract)

2:15

 

Jing Zhang (University of Virginia)
Min-max Game Theory Problems For Coupled Systems OF PDEs And Associated Non-Standard Riccati Equations

 

2:30

 

Coffee break

 

 

 

Session Chair: E. Cerpa

2:45

 

Catherine Lebiedzik (Wayne State University)
Point control of a structural acoustic system with thermoelastic plate regularity theory

3:00

 

Eugenio Schuster (Lehigh University)
Sequential Suboptimal Control of Current Profile Dynamics in Tokamak Plasmas (Abstract)

 

3:15

 

Short transition break

 

3:20

 

Panel Discussion: Technical and Conceptual Challenges for the Future

Panelists: George Avalos, Wolfgang Luber, Sanjoy Mitter, David Russell

 

4:30

 

Adjourn