30th (Pearl Anniversary) Southern California Control Workshop

Technical program

In addition to the regular talks, the program features a special invited faculty presentation and a brief look into the history of the workshop

You can download the program with abstracts in PDF format and EPUB format (optimized for iPad)

8:30-9:00 Breakfast
Session I Chair: Solmaz Kia
9:00-9:25 Strategic Air Traffic Planning with an Aggregate Route Model
Presenter: Alessandro Bombelli (UC Irvine)
9:25-9:50 Differentially Private Distributed Convex Optimization via Functional Perturbation
Presenter: Erfan Nozari (UC San Diego)
9:50-10:15 Error Model Identification of Opportunistic Navigation with Cellular CDMA Signals
Presenter: Joe Khalife (UC Riverside)
10:15-10:40 Self-Adaptive Control of Compact Reverse Osmosis Systems
Presenter: Larry Gao (UCLA)
10:40-11:00 Speed Talks
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Special Session Chair: Bob Bitmead
11:30-11:45 A Look Back into the History of the Southern California (Nonlinear) Control Workshop
Presenter: Miroslav Krstic (UC San Diego)
11:45-12:30 Fundamental Trade-offs in Robust Control with Heterogeneous Uncertainty
Presenter: Tamer Başar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-13:45 Cake
Session II Chair: Andy Teel
13:45-14:10 Can Price-Discrimination Help Influence Social Behavior?
Presenter: Philip Brown (UC Santa Barbara)
14:10-14:35 Automata Theory Meets Approximate Dynamic Programming:
Optimal Control with Temporal Logic Constraints

Presenter: Ivan Papusha (Caltech)
14:35-15:00 Output Feedback Control of the One-Phase Stefan Problem
Presenter: Shumon Koga (UC San Diego)
15:00-15:25 Team Learning and Performance via Assign/Appraise Dynamics
Presenter: Wenjun Mei (UC Santa Barbara)
15:25-15:50 Coffee Break
Session III Chair: Sam Coogan
15:50-16:15 Asking for Help with the Right Question by Predicting Human Visual Performance
Presenter: Hong Cai (UC Santa Barbara)
16:15-16:40 Multiscale Modeling and Operation of PECVD of Thin-Film Solar Cells
Presenter: Grant Crose (UCLA)
16:40-17:05 Robust Control over Delayed and Quantized Feedback
with Applications to Human Sensorimotor Control

Presenter: Yorie Nakahira (Caltech)
17:05-17:30 Higher-Order Averaging Analysis of Nonlinear Time-Periodic Dynamics
of Hovering Insects/Flapping-Wing Micro Air Vehicles

Presenter: Ahmed Hassan (UC Irvine)
Bear 

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