Program

Schedule

Monday
17th
July
09.00 – 09.15 Welcome address – Paolo Bolzern
Lecture Session 1 – Chair: Patrizio Colaneri
09.15 – 09.45 Vladimir Kučera (Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic)
Decoupling, an open problem 80 years old
09.45 – 10.15 Tamer Basar (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Robust control and the Riccati equation
10.15 – 10.45 Pedro Albertos (Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)
Disturbance rejection: the relevance of modeling
COFFEE BREAK
Lecture Session 2 – Chair: Sergio M. Savaresi
11.15 – 11.45 Jason Speyer (University of California at Los Angeles, USA)
A characteristic function approach to estimation of linear systems with additive symmetric alpha-stable processes
11.45 – 12.15 Ian K. Craig (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
On the role of modelling and system identification for control in the 21st century: A mineral process industry perspective
12.15 – 12.45 Tibor Vámos (Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
The spirit of systems
13.00 BUFFET LUNCH IN THE GARDEN
Lecture Session 3 – Chair: Marco Lovera
14.15 – 14.45 Marco C. Campi (Università di Brescia, Italy)
From adaptive control to decision theory
14.45 – 15.15 Roberto Guidorzi (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Some geometrical aspects in EIV identification
15.15 – 15.45 Tohru Katayama (Kyoto University, Japan)
Identification of LNL systems and nonsymmetric algebraic Riccati equation
COFFEE BREAK
Lecture Session 4 – Chair: Riccardo Scattolini
16.15 – 16.45 Karl Johan Åström (Lund University, Sweden)
Harry Nyquist – A great Swedish control engineer
16.45 – 17.15 Frank Allgöwer (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Bittanti, IFAC and the economization of predictive control
19.30 BANQUET AT THE RESTAURANT “ANTICA DARSENA” IN COMO
Tuesday
18th
July
Lecture Session 5 – Chair: Maria Prandini
09.15 – 09.45 Michel Gevers (Louvain University, Belgium)
Identifiability of dynamical networks: a palette of recent results
09.45 – 10.15 Graham Goodwin (University of Newcastle, Australia)
New ideas in relay autotuning with application to Type 1 diabetes treatment
10.15 – 10.45 Giuseppe De Nicolao (Università di Pavia, Italy)
Big Brother is manipulating you: a stochastic model of opinion control in social networks
COFFEE BREAK
Lecture Session 6 – Chair: Paolo Bolzern
11.15 – 11.45 Silvia Canevese (RSE, Milano)
Luca Moiraghi (MEMC, Electronic Materials, Novara)
Diego Pareschi (ABB, Amsterdam)
Former students at Politecnico di Milano
11.45 – 12.15 Open contributions
Closing address
12.15 – 12.45 Sergio Bittanti (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Valedictory