Schedule for: 23w5139 - Geometry, Topology and Control System Design

Beginning on Sunday, June 11 and ending Friday June 16, 2023

All times in Banff, Alberta time, MDT (UTC-6).

Sunday, June 11
16:00 - 17:30 Check-in begins at 16:00 on Sunday and is open 24 hours (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
20:00 - 22:00 Informal gathering (Other (See Description))
Monday, June 12
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
08:45 - 09:00 Introduction and Welcome by BIRS Staff (TCPL 201)
09:00 - 10:00 Tryphon Georgiou: Geometry and Applications of Optimal Mass Transport and Schrödinger Bridges (Part I) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Tryphon Georgiou: Geometry and Applications of Optimal Mass Transport and Schrödinger Bridges (Part II) (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:00 - 14:00 Guided Tour of The Banff Centre (PDC Front Desk)
14:00 - 14:20 Group Photo (TCPL Foyer)
14:30 - 15:00 Andrew Lewis: Composition, superposition, and regularity properties for ordinary differential equations (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Rafal Goebel: How regular-enough set-valued dynamics allow for the usual asymptotic stability theory, and more. (TCPL 201)
16:00 - 16:30 Jacob Carruth: Optimal agnostic control (TCPL 201)
16:30 - 17:30 Vakhtang Putkaradze: Integrability, Chaos and Control of a Figure Skater (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Tuesday, June 13
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Yuliy Baryshnikov: Obstacles, and ways to avoid them (Part I) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Yuliy Baryshnikov: Obstacles, and ways to avoid them (Part II) (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Saber Jafarpour: Reachability Analysis of Neural Network Controlled Systems: A Mixed Monotone Contracting Approach (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Maria Barbero: From retraction maps to geometric integrators for mechanical systems (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Matthew Kvalheim: Asymptotic stabilizability (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:30 Frederick Leve: Dynamical System and Control Theory Program at AFOSR (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Wednesday, June 14
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 09:30 John Baillieul: Systems and Control - Quo Vadis - What would Roger say (TCPL 201)
09:30 - 10:00 PS Krishnaprasad: Reduction, Enlargement, and Optimal Collective Behavior (Online)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Arthur Krener: Neumann Boundary Control of the Wave Equation via Linear Quadratic Regulation (TCPL 201)
11:00 - 11:30 In Memory of Roger Brockett (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 17:30 Free Afternoon (Banff National Park)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Thursday, June 15
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Gunther Dirr: Ensemble Control for Linear and Bilinear Systems (Part I) (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:30 Gunther Dirr: Ensemble Control for Linear and Bilinear Systems (Part II) (TCPL 201)
11:30 - 13:00 Lunch (Vistas Dining Room)
13:30 - 14:00 Michael Schönlein: Ensemble Control: Criteria, Design and Feedback methods (TCPL 201)
14:00 - 14:30 Bahman Gharesifard: A geometric-control view of the universal approximation power of deep neural networks (TCPL 201)
14:30 - 15:00 Taylor Klotz: Using Symmetry to Construct Dynamic Feedback Linearizations of Nonlinear Control Systems (TCPL 201)
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
15:30 - 16:00 Martin Hemler: Whitney Stratification of Algebraic Maps and Applications to Kinematic Singularities (Online)
16:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel (TCPL 201)
17:30 - 19:30 Dinner (Vistas Dining Room)
Friday, June 16
07:00 - 08:45 Breakfast (Vistas Dining Room)
09:00 - 10:00 Mohamed Ali Belabbas: Discussion Panel (TCPL 201)
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break (TCPL Foyer)
10:30 - 11:00 Checkout by 11AM (Front Desk - Professional Development Centre)
11:00 - 12:00 Discussion panel (Banff National Park)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch from 11:30 to 13:30 (Vistas Dining Room)