Workshop Program
Information and Control in Networks: Workshop Program
Some photos from the event
Tuesday, 16 October
| 15:15-17:00 | Focus period seminars (seminar room of Automatic Control Department, Ole Römers väg 1, Lund) |
| 17:00-19:00 | Welcomining reception and registration at the Automatic Control Department, Ole Römers väg 1, Lund |
Wednesday, 17 October
| 08:30 | Registration at the Old Bishop's Palace at Biskopsgatan 1 in Lund |
| 08:45 | Opening Remarks Giacomo Como,, Bo Bernhardsson, Lund University |
| 09:00 | The complex braid of communication and control Massimo Franceschetti, UC San Diego, USA Elements of a nonstochastic information theory Girish Nair, University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 10:20 | Coffee |
| 10:40 | Implicit communication in decentralized control systems Anant Sahai, UC Berkeley, USA Asymptotic anytime reliability of LDPC convolutional codes Lars Rasmussen, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Relations between information and estimation in the presence of feedback Tsachy Weissman, Stanford University, USA On the conditional mutual information in Gauss-Markov structured grids Edmond Jonckheere, USC, USA |
| 15:20 | Coffee |
| 15:40 | An Algorithm for cameras networks calibration Sandro Zampieri, Universita di Padova, Italy Optimal radio mode control for intelligent sensors nodes in NCS Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, CNRS Grenoble, France |
Thursday 18 October
| 09:00 | Feedback for channels with in-block memory Gerhard Kramer, Technische Universität Munchen, Germany Some problems are easier with feedback Amos Lapidoth, ETH Zurich |
| 10:20 | Coffee |
| 10:40 | A survey of the common-information approach to decentralized stochastic control Demosthenis Teneketzis, University of Michigan, USA Necessary and sufficient conditions for stabilizablity in decentralized control and estimation Nuno Martins, University of Maryland, USA |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 | Stabilization and control over Gaussian networks Mikael Skoglund, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden Optimal design of information channels in networked control Serdar Yüksel, Queen’s University, Canada |
| 15:20 | Coffee |
| 15:40 | On Networks, Capacities, and Controls Michelle Effros, CalTech, USA Sparse regression codes Sekhar Tatikonda, Yale University, USA |
| 18:30 | Buses leave from Bangatan (green arrow on map) |
| 19:00 | Symposium Dinner at Flädie Mat & Vingård |
Friday 19 October
| 09:00 | Computing over Unreliable Communication Networks Nicola Elia, IOWA State Univesity, USA Precise clock synchronization for industrial automation and other networked applications Dragan Obradovic, Siemens AG, Munich, Germany |
| 10:20 | Coffee |
| 10:40 | Pattern formation by lateral inhibition: a case study in networked dynamical systems Murat Arcak, UC Berkeley, USA Democracy and the role of minorities in Markov chain models Fabio Fagnani, Politecnico di Torino, Italy |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 13:45 | A mean-field games formulation of network-based auction dynamics Peter Caines, Mc Gill University, Canada Optimal Collaborative Control in the Absence of Communication Laurent Lessard, Lund University, Sweden Resilient distributed routing in dynamical flow networks Giacomo Como, Lund University, Sweden |
| 15:40 | Coffee |
| 16:00 | Panel Discussion: Open problems and future challenges in Information and Control in Networks Sanjoy Mitter (chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| 17:00 | Final remarks - end of the workshop |