CT98 Program-at-a-Glance

CP = Contributed Presentations
IP = Invited Presentations
MS = Minisymposia
SS = Student Session
For a paper with multiple authors, the speaker is shown in italics if known at press time.

Refer to the conference program for links to individual sessions.

Wednesday Evening | Thursday Morning | Thursday Afternoon | Thursday Evening |
Friday Morning | Friday Afternoon | Friday Evening | Saturday Morning | Saturday Afternoon


Time Session Room
Wednesday Evening, May 6
5:30 PM-7:30 PMRegistration opensPrefunction Area
6:00 PM-8:00 PM Welcoming Reception Omni Ballroom A&B
Thursday Morning, May 7
7:30 AM-4:00 PM Registration Prefunction Area
7:50 AM-8:00 AM Welcoming Remarks and Announcements
Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Salon D
8:00 AM-9:00 AM IP1 Singularities of Solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi Equations with Applications to Optimal Control
Piermarco Cannarsa, Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Chair: Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Salon D
9:00 AM-10:00 AMIP2 Invariant Curvature Flows in Computer Vision and Image Processing
Allen Tannenbaum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Chair: John A. Burns, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Salon D
10:00 AM-10:30 AM Coffee Salon C
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
MS1 Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Applications
(Part I of III)

Organizers: Martin Day and Joseph A. Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Salon D
MS2 Computation and Control of Fluids
Organizer: Mary E. Bradley, University of Louisville
Salon A
MS3 Mesh Effects in the Numerical Solution of Optimal Control Problems
Organizers: William W. Hager,University of Florida; and Asen L. Dontchev, Mathematical Reviews
Omni Ballroom A
MS4 Distributed Parameter Methods for Flow and Acoustic Applications
Organizers: Kazi Ito, North Carolina State University; and Ralph C. Smith, Iowa State University
Omni Ballroom B
MS5 Structural Approach in the Control of Linear Systems
Organizers: Juan Carlos Martinez-Garcia and Sabine Mondie, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
Salon B
MS6 Stochastic Systems Part I: Filtering and Numerical Methods
Organizers: George Yin, Wayne State University; and Qing Zhang,University of Georgia
Tampa 1st Floor
MS7 Control of PDEs and Applications (Part I of III)
Organizers: Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Vladimir Protopopescu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Jacksonville A&B
SS1 Modeling and Computation in Control and Optimal Design (Part I of III)
Organizers: Belinda B. King, Oregon State University; and Richard H. Fabiano, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
St. Augustine
Thursday Afternoon, May 7
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will
be on their own)
2:00 PM-3:00 PM IP3 Linear Operator Inequalities and the Positive-Real Lemma for Infinite-Dimensional Linear Systems
Ruth F. Curtain, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Chair: Belinda King, Oregon State University
Salon D
3:00 PM-4:00 PM IP4 Estimation and Control in Smart Material Structures
H. T. Banks, North Carolina State University
Chair: Belinda King, Oregon State University
Salon D
4:00 PM-4:30 PM CoffeeSalon C
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP1 Distributed Parameter Systems I
Chair: Boris S. Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
Salon D
CP2 H-infinity and Robust Control
Chair: A. V. Pantas, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom
Omni Ballroom B
CP3 Optimization
Chair: Michael J. Grimble, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
Salon A
CP4 Nonlinear Systems I
Chair: Geir E. Dullerud, University of Waterloo, Canada
Omni Ballroom A
CP5 Applications: Industrial and Biological I
Chair: John C. Clements, Dalhousie University, Canada
Salon B
CP6 Computational Issues in Control I
Chair: Jiwen He, University of Houston
Tampa 1st Floor
CP7 Stabilization and Robust Control
Chair: Rodolfo Suarez, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa, Mexico
St. Augustine
CP8 Stochastic Control
Chair: John J. Westman, University of Illinois, Chicago
Jacksonville A&B
Thursday Evening, May 7
6:30 PM-7:30 PM Business Meeting
SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory
Salon C
Friday Morning, May 8
7:30 AM-4:00 PM Registration Prefunction Area
8:00 AM-9:00 AM IP5 Applications of Geometry and Nonlinear Dynamics in Systems and Control
Christopher I. Byrnes, Washington University
Chair: John A. Burns, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Room: Salon D
9:00 AM-10:00 AM IP6 Recent Advances in Nonlinear Control
Petar V. Kokotovic, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: John A. Burns, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Salon D
10:00 AM-10:30 AM CoffeePrefunction Corridor
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
CP9 Distributed Parameter Systems II
Chair: C. Maeve McCarthy, University of South Florida
Salon D
CP10 Computational Issues in Control II
Chair: Daniel P. Giesy, NASA Langley Research Center
Omni Ballroom B
CP11 Applications: Industrial and Biological II
Chair: Richard Stockbridge, University of Kentucky
Salon A
CP12 Adaptive Control
Chair: Yechiel Crispin, Embry-Riddle University
Salon B
CP13 Robust Control
Chair: Anders Hansson, Stanford University
Omni Ballroom A
CP14 Maximum and Optimality Principles
Chair: Fernando A. C. C. Fontes, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, United Kingdom
Tampa lst Floor
CP15 Feedback Control and Motion Control in Mechanical Systems
Chair: Carlos E. Padilla, Moldyn, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Jacksonville A&B
CP16 Nonlinear Systems II
Chair: Kai S. Yeung, University of Texas, Arlington
St. Augustine
Friday Afternoon, May 8
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will
be on their own.)
Note: At this time, all Poster presenters can start setting up their poster materials on the poster board that is assigned to each presenter in Salon C room. A cup of push pins will be available under each poster board.
2:00 PM-3:00 PM Award and Presentation of the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory Prize
Accounting for Saturation in Nonlinear Control Design
Andrew R. Teel, University of California, Santa Barbara
Chair: Clyde F. Martin, Texas Tech University
Salon D
3:00 PM-4:00 PM IP7 On the Control of Incompressible Viscous Flow Modeled by the Navier-Stokes Equations and Related Problems
Roland Glowinski, University of Houston
Chair: William W. Hager, University of Florida
Salon D
4:00 PM-4:30 PM Coffee Prefunction Corridor
4:30 PM-6:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
MS8 SQP-Based Direct Discretization Methods for Optimal Control Problems (Part I of II)
Organizers: Volker H. Schulz, University of Stuttgart, Germany and Hans Georg Bock, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Salon D
MS9 Sufficient Conditions, Sensitivity Theory and Optimal Control Computations
Organizers: Joseph C. Dunn, North Carolina State University; and Helmut Maurer, Universitat Muenster, Germany
Tampa 1st Floor
MS10 Singular Perturbations in Control (Part I of II)
Organizers: Vladimir Gaitsgory and Jerzy A. Filar, University of South Australia, Australia
Omni Ballroom A
MS11 Controllability, Formability and Stabilization of Distributed Systems
Organizers: Vilmos Komornik,Université Louis Pasteur, France; and John E. Lagnese, Georgetown University
Omni Ballroom B
MS12 Advances in Optimal and Feedback Control of Fluid Flows (Part I of III)
Organizers: S. S. Sritharan, NRaD at San Diego; and S. S. Ravindran, NASA Langley Research Center
Jacksonville A&B
MS13 Control of PDEs and Applications (Part II of III)
Organizers: Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Vladimir Protopopescu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Salon A
MS14 Stochastic Systems Part II: Stochastic Control
Organizers: George Yin, Wayne State University; Qing Zhang,University of Georgia
Salon B
SS2 Modeling and Computation in Control and Optimal Design (Part II of III)
Organizers: Belinda B. King, Oregon State University; and Richard H. Fabiano, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
St. Augustine
Friday Evening, May 8
8:30 PM-10:00 PM Poster Session and Dessert Reception
Setup time: 12:30 PM; Dismantle time: 10:00 PM
Salon C
Saturday Morning, May 9
7:30 AM-1:00 PM Registration Prefunction Area
8:00 AM-9:00 AM IP8 Active Control of Fluids with Applications to Propulsion and Power Systems
Richard M. Murray, California Institute of Technology
Chair: Clyde F. Martin, Texas Tech University
Salon D
9:00 AM-10:00 AM IP9 Algorithms for the Design of Distributed. Multi-Agent Control Systems
Shankar S. Sastry, University of California, Berkeley
Chair: Clyde F. Martin, Texas Tech University
Salon D
10:00 AM-10:30 AM Coffee Salon C
10:30 AM-12:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
MS15 Affordability Measurement and Prediction
Organizer: James A. Reneke, Clemson University
Salon A
MS16 Applications of Singular Perturbations
Organizers: Jerzy A. Filar and Vladimir Gaitsgory, University of South Australia, Australia
Room: Salon B
MS17 Implementation Issues Concerning Identification and Control in Distributed Parameter Systems
Organizer: Ralph C. Smith, Iowa State University
Salon D
MS18 Control and Variational Inequalities
Organizer: Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Tampa 1st Floor
MS19 Advances in Optimal and Feedback Control of Fluid Flows (Part II of III) Organizers: S. S. Sritharan, NRaD at San Diego; and S. S. Ravindran, NASA Langley Research Center Omni Ballroom A
MS20 Representations of Solutions to Hamilton-Jacobi Equations
Organizer: Peter R. Wolenski, Louisiana State University
Jacksonville A&B
MS21 Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Applications (Part II of III)
Organizers: Martin Day and Joseph A. Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Omni Ballroom B
MS21a SQP-Based Direct Discretization Methods for Optimal Control Problems (Part II of II)
Organizers: Volker H. Schulz, University of Stuttgart, Germany and Hans Georg Bock, University of Heidelberg , Germany
Miami Room
SS3 Modeling and Computation in Control and Optimal Design (Part III of III)
Organizers: Belinda B. King, Oregon State University; and Richard H. Fabiano,University of North Carolina, Greensboro
St. Augustine
Saturday Afternoon, May 9
12:30 PM-2:00 PM Lunch (Attendees will
be on their own)
2:00 PM-3:00 PM IP10 Intelligent Materials in Control of Systems
Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany
Chair: William Hager, University of Florida
Salon D
3:00 PM-3:30 PM Coffee Salon C
3:30 PM-5:30 PM
Concurrent Sessions
MS22 Dynamic Programming Methods for Optimal Control of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems
Organizers: Piermarco Cannarsa, Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy; and Fausto Gozzi, Universita di Pisa, Italy
Salon D
MS23 Singular Perturbations in Control (Part II of II)
Organizers: Vladimir Gaitsgory and Jerzy A. Filar, University of South Australia, Australia
Salon B
MS24 Applications in Optimal Control
Organizer: Ekkehard W. Sachs, Universitat Trier, Germany
Omni Ballroom B
MS25 Advances in Optimal and Feedback Control of Fluid Flows (Part III of III)
Organizers: S. S. Sritharan, NRaD at San Diego; and S. S. Ravindran, NASA Langley Research Center
Omni Ballroom A
MS26 Control of PDEs and Applications (Part III of III)
Organizers: Suzanne Lenhart, University of Tennessee, Knoxville; and Vladimir Protopopescu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Salon A
MS27 Analysis and Control of Fluid-Structure Interaction
Organizers: Marius Tucsnak, Universite de Nancy, France; and Scott Hansen, Iowa State University
Jacksonville A&B
MS28 Methods for Optimization in Distributed Parameter Systems
Organizer: Jianxin Zhou, Texas A&M University, College Station
St. Augustine
MS29 Optimization Techniques in Control Design
Organizers: John A. Burns and Terry Herdman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; and Belinda B. King, Oregon State University
Tampa 1st Floor
MS30 Hamilton-Jacobi Equations and Applications (Part III of III)
Organizers: Martin Day and Joseph A. Ball, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Miami
6:00 PM Conference adjourns

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