Thursday July 28/3:15

CP28/Seabreeze

Control of Distributed Systems

• 3:15: A General Risk-Sensitivity Minimum Principle for Partially Observed Controlled Diffusions. Charalambos D. Charalambous and D. Subbaram Naidu, Idaho State University; and Joseph L. Hibey, Old Dominion University
• 3:30: Boundary Control of the Heating of a Fluid Flow Through a Pipe. Antonio Campo and Charalambos D. Charalambous, Idaho State University
• 3:45: A Numerical Method for Solving the Hamilton-Jacobi PDE with Quadratic Cost. Luhan Chuang and I. Norman Katz, Washington University
• 4:00: Uniqueness for Viscosity Solutions of Nonstationary HJB Equations Under Some A Priori Conditions. William M. McEneaney, Carnegie Mellon University
• 4:15: An Efficient Descent Method for Calculus of Variations Problems. W. Zhou and Z.S. Chalabi, Silsoe Research Institute, United Kingdom
• 4:30: Control of Linear Parabolic Problems with Unknown Initial Condition. Maitine Bergounioux, Universite d'Oreans, France
• 4:45: The Bang-Bang Principle and Necessary Optimality Conditions for a Class of Non-Linear Distributed Parameter Systems. Evgenios P. Avgerinos, University of the Aegean, Greece
• 5:00 Optimal Control of the Blowup Time. E.N. Barron and Wenxiong Liu, Loyola University
• 5:15 Applications of Sensitivity Analysis for Parametric Control Problems with Control-State Constraints. Helmut Maurer, Institut fur Numerische Mathematik, Germany