WELCOME TO MTNS 1996

M ATHEMATICAL

THEORY OF

N ETWORKS AND

S YSTEMS

JUNE 24-28, 1996
THE RITZ-CARLTON
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI

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MiniCourses, Plenary and Invited Speakers

Subspace Methods for Identification,A. Lindquist, G. Picci, Monday June 24
Differential Algebraic Methods for Nonlinear Systems , M. Fliess, Tuesday June 25
Inverse Eigenvalue Problems for Linear Multivariable Systems, J. Rosenthal, A. Wang, Wednesday June 26
Control Problems in Vision, B.K. Ghosh, C.F. Martin, Thursday June 27
Numerical Methods for Control Systems Design and Analysis, B. Datta, Friday June 28

B.D.O. Anderson, Australian National University,
New developments in the theory of positive systems, 8:00-9:00 a.m., Monday, June 24th
Hector Sussmann, Rutgers University,
Recent developments on finite-dimensional optimal control, 8:00-9:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 25th
John Burns, Virginia Polytechnic University,
Computational Methods for the Design of Distributed Parameter Control Systems, 8:00-9:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 26th
Israel Gohberg, Tel Aviv University,
State Space Methods in Inverse Spectral Problems, 2:00-3:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 26
Michael Miller, Washington University in St. Louis,
Image Understanding Via Deformable Templates: From Representation to Inference, 8:00-9:00 a.m., Thursday, June 27th
Anders Lindquist, Royal Institute of Technology,
On the geometry of positive real functions with applications to filtering and the rational covariance extension problem, 8:00-9:00 a.m., Friday, June 28th

9:00-10:00 a.m., Monday, June 24th
- H.T. Banks, "Nonlinear vibrations in distributed parameter systems,"
- Helen Frankowska, "How set-valued maps pop up in control theory,"
- U. Helmke, "Control theory and the design of numerical algorithms,"
9:00-10:00 a.m., Tuesday, June 25th
- G. Weiss, "Regular linear systems: A survey,"
- S.I. Marcus, "Risk-sensitive control of Markov decision processes,"
- J.C. Willems, "Fitting recursions to data sequences,"
- A. Teel, "Nonlinear input-output stability and stabilization,"
9:00 -10:00 a.m., Wednesday, June 26th
- R.W. Brockett, "Probability distributions on certain homogeneous spaces arising in computer vision,"
- I. Lasiecka, "Stabilization and control of distributed parameter systems described by interactive structures,"
- K. Wise, "Fighter aircraft control challenges and technology transition,"
9:00-10:00 a.m., Thursday, June 27th
- R.W. Freund, "Circuit simulation techniques based on Lanczos-type algorithms,"
- J.W. Helton, "Extending H-infinity control to nonlinear systems,"
- P. Kokotovic, "From asymptotic to Lyapunov recursive nonlinear feedback designs,"
9:00-10:00 a.m., Friday, June 28th
- P.Kumar, "New results in performance analysis of qeueing networks,"
- A. Kurzhansky, "Ellipsoidal techniques for state estimation and feedback control,"
- A. Ram, "On inverse spectral problems and pole-zero assignment."

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