Special Symposium on Controls and Optimization

Recent advances in linear matrix inequality and convex optimization have lent novel insights into problems in optimization, controls, communications and signal processing. This special symposium will celebrate the contributions of Laurent El Ghaoui, and highlight the recent trends and results, presented by leading researchers in diverse areas such as optimization, hybrid controls, information theory, and others.

In this special symposium we invite the leading experts in optimization and controls for a one-day seminar at UC Berkeley.

Invited speakers include:
• Prof. Stephen Boyd, Stanford University EE Department.
• Prof. Eric Feron, MIT EECS Department.
• Prof. Bernd Sturmfels, U.C. Berkeley Mathematics Department.
• Prof. Giuseppe Calafiore, Polytechnico di Turino.
• Ankur Varma, U.C. Berkeley.

The complete schedule is here

Talk titles:

• Stephen Boyd, Rank Minimization and Its Applications
• Eric Feron, Verifiable optimization for real-time processes
• Bernd Sturmfels, The Real Nullstellensatz and Semidefinite Programming
• Giuseppe Calafiore, Building Reliable Models for Unknown Systems: a Data-Consistency Approach based on Learning Theory
• Ankur Varma, TBA

For conference registration, please send a check for $70 ($30 for students) made to "The Regents of the University of California", addressed to:

U.C. Berkeley EECS Department
attn: Julius Kusuma
307-1 Cory Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

For Berkeley students, you can charge it directly to the correct research account by sending me (by regular mail, put it in my mailbox), a MEMO from your Grant Administrator with the account number to charge, and the Grant Administrator's signature.

For further information, please contact: Julius Kusuma kusuma@eecs.berkeley.edu.