BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260617T054145EDT-6367B1dSB5@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260617T094145Z DESCRIPTION:Virtual Informal Systems Seminar (VISS)\n\nCentre for Intellige nt Machines (CIM) and Groupe d'Etudes et de Recherche en Analyse des Decis ions (GERAD)\n \n Zoom Link\n Meeting ID: 910 7928 6959        \n Passcode: VI SS\n \n Speaker: Mehran Mesbahi\, Professor\, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics\, University of Washington\n \n Abstract:\n In this talk\, we re examine feedback synthesis through the lens of first order methods and dat a-guided control. Control synthesis has historically been approached via p arameterization of certificates for robustness and performance. In the sem inar\, I will first discuss how first order methods facilitate a streamlin ed formalism to control synthesis. I will then examine how such methods al so open up a new way of looking at some old and new problems in control. T hese problems include data-guided control\, structured synthesis\, and ind efinite least squares optimal control. Lastly\, I will discuss various top ological and geometric properties of the feasible sets of the correspondin g optimization problems\, as well as some of their algorithmic implication s.\n \n Biography:\n Mehran Mesbahi is the J. Ray Bowen Endowed Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics\, Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Compute r Engineering and Mathematics\, and Executive Director of Joint Center for Aerospace Technology Innovation at the University of Washington.  He is a Fellow of IEEE and recipient of NASA Space Act Award\, University of Wash ington Distinguished Teaching Award\, and University of Washington College of Engineering Innovator Award. He is the co-author of the book 'Graph Th eoretic Methods in Multiagent Networks' published by Princeton University Press. His research interests are distributed and networked aerospace syst ems\, systems and control theory\, and learning.\n DTSTART:20211203T190000Z DTEND:20211203T200000Z LOCATION:CA\, ZOOM SUMMARY:First Order Methods for Control Synthesis URL:/cim/channels/event/first-order-methods-control-sy nthesis-335058 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR