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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:https://www.mcgill.ca/cim/channels/event/first-order-methods-control-sy
 nthesis-335058
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