Program


Monday, July 18, 2011
9:00-9:15 Opening (Hörsaal 8)

Session 1 (Hörsaal 8, Chair:  Roland Schnaubelt)
9:15-9:40 G. Weiss: Maxwell’s equations with moving objects
9:45-10:10 M.A. Demetriou: Use of mobile actuator and sensor network with augmented vehicle dynamics for control and estimation of distributed parameter systems

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
10:55-11:20 M. Tucsnak: Time optimal and switching controls for some distributed parameter systems
11:25-11:50 J.J. Winkin: Positive Stabilization of Infinite-dimensional Linear Systems
11:55-12:20 B.-Z. Guo: Some compact classes of open sets under Hausdorff distance and application to shape optimization
12:30
 Lunch (Bergisches Zimmer)

Session 2 (Hörsaal 8, Chair: Jonathan Partington)
14:30-14:55 W. Arendt: Non-standard Functional Analytic Methods for Evolutionary Boundary Problems
15:00-15:25 T. ter Elst: Heat kernel estimates for Laplacians on Lie groups

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
16:10-16:35 A. Rhandi: Kernel estimates of second order elliptic operators
16:40-17:05 Y. Tomilov: Quasi-hyperbolic semigroups
17:10-17:35 C. Wyss: Hamiltonian and Riccati equations for unbounded control and obseervation operators



Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Session 3 (Hörsaal 8, Chair: Hans Zwart)
9:15-9:40 O.V. Iftime: LQR control for long-but-finite strings and LQR control for a class of infinite dimensional systems:
similarities and differences
9:45-10:10 I. Aksikas: Optimal control of a class of linear time-varying parabolic PDE using evolution systems

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
10:55-11:20 K. Morris: H∞ optimal actuator location
11:25-11:50 D. Matignon: Optimal control of fractional systems: numerics under diffusive formulation
11:55-12:20 P. Grabowski: The LQ-controller synthesis problem for infinite-dimensional systems in factor form
12:20
 Conference photo
12:30 Lunch (Bergisches Zimmer)

Session 4 (Hörsaal 8, Chair: Birgit Jacob)
14:30-14:55 P. Cannarsa: Indirect damping for coupled systems
15:00-15:25 H. Zwart: Invertible solutions of the Lyapunov equation

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
16:10-16:35 H. Logemann: The circle criterion, balls of stabilizing gains and input-to-state stability
16:40-17:05 A. Sasane: A new ν-metric in control theory
17:10-17:35 C. Trunk: Byrnes-Isodori form for infinite dimensional systems
17:45
 Meeting of the Steering committee (Hörsaal 8)


Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Session 5 (Hörsaal 8, Chair: John Burns)
9:15-9:40 J. Deutscher: Output regulation for linear distributed-parameter systems using finite-dimensional dual observers
9:45-10:10 C. Harkort: Infinite- dimensional linear port Hamiltonian systems - A state space approach

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
10:55-11:20 B.M.J. Maschke: On Alternative Poisson brackets for fluid dynamical systems and their extension to Stokes-Dirac structures
11:25-11:50 Y. Le Gorrec: Boundary control of infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems with dissipation using invariant function approach
11:55-12:20 R.C. Smith: Model Development, Uncertainty Quantification, and Control Design for Nonlinear Smart Material Systems
12:30 Lunch (Bergisches Zimmer)
14:00 Excursion to Schloss Burg (Meeting point: Main entrance)



Thursday, July 21, 2011

Session 6 (Hörsaal 8, Chair: Kirsten Morris)
9:15-9:40 J.A. Burns: Feedback Control of Boussinesq Equations with Applications to Energy Efficient Buildings
9:45-10:10 H.T. Banks: Relaxed controls, differential games, Preisach Hysteresis, and mixing distributions in distributed parameter inverse problems

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
10:55-11:20 T. Meurer: PDE motion planning for finite-time multi-agent deployment
11:25-11:50 R. Vazquez: Local Exponential Stabilization of a 2×2 Quasilinear Hyperbolic System using Backstepping
11:55-12:20 C. Prieur: ISS Lyapunov functions for infinite dimensional systems
12:30 Lunch (Bergisches Zimmer)

Session 7 (Hörsaal 8, Chair: Ruth Curtain)
14:30-14:55 F. Ammar Khodja: Controllability of a string submitted to unilateral constraint
15:00-15:25 L. Maniar: Null controllabilty of coupled degenerate parabolic systems

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
16:10-16:35 J.R. Partington: Interpolation, Carleson measures and controllability
16:40-17:05 B. Haak: Criteria for exact observability
17:10-17:35 A. Wynn: Weighted admissibility of linear systems on Bergman spaces
17:45
 Meeting of the IEEE-TC of DPS (Hörsaal 8)


Friday, July 22, 2011

Session 8 (Hörsaal 8, Chair: Tom Banks)
9:15-9:40 S. Pohjolainen: A Review on Old and New Results on Robust Regulation of Distributed Parameter Systems with
Infinite-Dimensional Exosystems
9:45-10:10 C. Guiver: Bounded real balanced approximations for stable strictly bounded real well-posed linear systems

Coffee/Tea (Room D.13.06)
10:55-11:20 M.R. Opmeer: Decay of Hankel singular values with applications to model reduction
11:25-11:50 O.J. Staffans: On the Past Time Final State and Initial State Future Time Optimal Control Problems
11:55-12:20 R.F. Curtain: Algebraic properties of Riccati equations
12:30 Lunch (Bergisches Zimmer)