PAST Seminars
All past seminars (2021-Present) info can be viewed here: https://mae.ucsd.edu/seminars/archives
Old Site Archives 2017-2021: https://mae.ucsd.edu/seminars/old-archives
Fall 2019
Joseph Beaman (University of Texas at Austin)
"3D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, and Solid Freeform Fabrication. The Technologies of the Past, Present and Future"
Friday, October 4, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479
Anuradha Annaswamy (MIT)
"Socio-Technical Modeling, Control, and Optimization for Urban Mobility"
Friday, October 4, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479
Richard Braatz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology )
"Systems and Control Theory for Advanced Manufacturing"
Friday, October 25, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479
Yong-Lae Park (Carnegie Mellon University)
"Highly Deformable Artificial Skin Sensors and Muscle Actuators "
Friday, October 25, 2019, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479
Mary Baker (President and Technical Director, ATA Engineering, Inc., San Diego)
"Advancing Test and Analysis Methods to Support Design by Removing Traditional Boundaries"
Thursday, December 5, 2019, 11:00 pm - 12:00 pm, Qualcomm Conference Center, 1st floor, Jacobs Hall
Winter 2020
James Rawlings (University of California, Santa Barbara)
"Nonlinear optimization-based state estimation; robustness analysis by Q functions"
Friday, January 17, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, von Karman-Penner Seminar Room, EBU2 479
Fall 2020
Mrdjan Jankovic (Ford Research & Advanced Engineering)
"Collision Free Navigation with Interacting, Non-Communicating Obstacles"
Friday, October 16, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available in the "Seminar Abstract & Bio Page"
John Simpson (University of Waterloo)
"Advances in Feedback Control for Power Grid Modernization"
Friday, October 30, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available in the "Seminar Abstract & Bio Page"
Javier Gonzalez-Rocha (University of California, Riverside)
"Toward Wind Velocity Profiling in the Lower Atmosphere with Multirotor UAS"
Friday, November 6, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available in the "Seminar Abstract & Bio Page"
Johannes Royset (Naval Postgraduate School)
"Consistent Approximations for the Solution of Challenging Optimization Problems"
Friday, November 13, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available in the "Seminar Abstract & Bio Page"
Mahnoosh Alizadeh (UC Santa Barbara)
"Learning to optimize demand in safety-critical systems"
Friday, December 4, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available in the "Seminar Abstract & Bio Page"
Neera Jain (Purdue University)
"Reimagining Thermal Management through Hierarchical Control Co-design"
Friday, December 11, 2020, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available in the "Seminar Abstract & Bio Page"
SPRING 2021
Alex Gorodetsky (University of Michigan)
"Bayesian system ID: optimal management of parameter, model, and measurement uncertainty"
Friday, May 7, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available on the MAE Seminar website
Benoît Tran (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
"Tropical Dynamic Programming for discrete time stochastic optimal control"
Friday, May 14, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available on the MAE Seminar website
Nikolai Matni (University of Pennsylvania)
"Robust Learning for Safe Control"
Friday, May 21, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available on the MAE Seminar website
Stephanie Gil (Harvard University)
"Trust in Multi-Robot Systems and its role in Achieving Resilient Coordination"
Friday, May 28, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available on the MAE Seminar website
Majid Zamani (University of Colorado Boulder)
"Compositional verification and synthesis of interconnected control systems"
Friday, June 4, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available on the MAE Seminar website
Chuchu Fan (MIT)
"Building Dependable and Verifiable Autonomous Systems"
Friday, June 11, 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm, ZOOM
Abstract and bio are available on the MAE Seminar website