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TC 2.6 Workshop – TC Award ceremony

The first winner of this award was decided by a scientific committee presided by Hans Zwart from the University of Twente and the awarded was Miroslav Krstić for his outstanding contributions to the control of partial differential equations. Miroslav Krstić is a Serbian-born American control theorist and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is also the director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD and a Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research.

SIAG/CST Best SICON Paper Prize - CT21

Drew Steves was just awarded the SICON Best Paper Prize for his paper “Controllability of Coupled Parabolic Systems with Multiple Underactuations,” Part 1: “Algebraic Solvability” and Part 2: “Null Controllability,“ SICON (2019), Volume 57, Issue 5, pp. 3272-3321.

SIAM awards the SIAM Activity Group on Control and Systems Theory Best SICON Paper Prize every two years to the author or authors of the two best papers, as determined by the prize committee, published in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (SICON) in the three calendar years preceding the award year. The selection committee for the 2021 award consists of: Francois Dufour (Chair), University of Bordeaux; Pauline Barrieu, London School of Economics; Fariba Fahroo, AFOSR; Rafal Goebel, Loyola University Chicago; and Chao Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

The prize will be awarded at the 2021 SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications (CT21), scheduled for Spokane, Washington, to be held in a hybrid or virtual format, July 19 – 21, 2021.

TC Newsletters (cf. Reports folder)

28-04-2021 - 2nd Newsletter - April 2021
30-12-2020 - 1st Newsletter - December 2020