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Call for Papers: CPDE 2025
The conference has been officially launched on ifac.papercept:
https://ifac.papercept.net/conferences/scripts/start.pl
More detailed information can be found on the website of CPDE 2025:
https://cpde2025.bjut.edu.cn/
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Call for Papers: Estimation and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems
To celebrate the 60th birthday of our esteemed colleague Miroslav Krstic and to acknowledge his remarkable contributions to the field, we are delighted to announce a call for papers for a Special Issue "Estimation and Control of Distributed Parameter Systems" in the IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information.
The submission deadline is Friday, January 31st, 2025, and the issue is expected to be released on July 1st, 2025.
Guest Editors:
- Mamadou Diagne, University of California San Diego (mdiagne@ucsd.edu)
- Iasson Karafyllis, National Technical University of Athens (iasonkar@central.ntua.gr)
- Jerome Loheac, CRAN, University of Lorraine (jerome.loheac@univ-lorraine.fr)
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TC Newsletters (cf. Reports folder)
- 28-04-2021 - 2nd Newsletter - April 2021
- 30-12-2020 - 1st Newsletter - December 2020
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Next IFAC Workshop CPDE - June 2025
The next IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Governed by Partial Differential Equations will take place from June 15 to June 17 in Beijing China.
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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.
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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.