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IFAC TC Award for Control DPS

Dear TC DPS colleagues,

I have been asked to chair the selection of the Second recipient of the IFAC TC Award for Control DPS. The following distinguished colleagues have kindly agreed to be members of the committee: Luz de Teresa • Marius Tucsnak • Enrique Zuazua.

The deadline is February 1, 2025. Up to three reference letters may accompany the nominations. For other elements of the nomination package, as well as the eligibility, please see the attached call for nominations file.

The time until the nomination is relatively tight so that the winner can arrange for the travel to Beijing, and visa for China, to receive the award at the IFAC CPDE workshop on June 19.

I thank you in advance for putting in the effort to nominate deserving colleagues. Please think broadly in terms of the exceptional contributors to DPS. This is not an award restricted to the members of the TC but recognizing outstanding contributions in our broad field of DPS and PDE control.

As a reminder, the award is given in memory of Professor Ruth Curtain. This elevates the significance of the recognition for the recipient. Additionally, the efforts to nominate colleagues and support them with reference letters constitute contributions to maintaining the fond memory of Ruth.

Following concerns whether the nominee needs to be committed upfront to attending the 2025 CPDE in Beijing, with which the winner’s financial, health, visa, or other constraints might interfere, the TC and the selection committee would like to clarify that such an upfront commitment is not required. The award presentation at an IFAC CPDE workshop is the default option, to which many alternatives exist, both in terms of alternative presentation venues and in terms of a colleague possibly accepting the award on behalf of the winner at 2025 CPDE.

Best regards,

Miroslav Krstic

Chair, IFAC TC Award for Control of Distributed Parameter Systems

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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.

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.