Talks
2019
Neuromorphic control of a neuromorphic circuit.
Telluride neuromorphic workshop 2019, Telluride, Co, July 2019.
2018
Control across scales, by positive and negative feedback.
December 2018, 57th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Miami, semi-plenary lecture.
Sync or Swing ?
October 2018, 5th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of chaotic systems, Eindhoven, plenary lecture.
October 2018, Lund, LCCC workshop on learning and adaptation for Sensorimotor control.
October 2018, Sidney Greats
Control theory of switches and clocks
ECC 2018, Limassol, plenary lecture
Workshop on Nonlinear Data : theory and algorithms, Oberwolfach, April 2018.
2017
Three lectures on "simplicity and complexity of neurophysiological behaviors",
2nd ICMS Winter School on Complex Systems, Eidhoven, January 2017.
1. Feedback, sensitivity, and complexity
2. The complexity of sensitivity analysis across scales
3. Excitability: an architecture for sensitivity across scales.
2016
Differential analysis of nonlinear systems
September 28, Congreso Nacional de Control Automatico 2016, Mexico.
September 21, 4th workshop on mathematical aspects of network synthesis, Cambridge
Neuronal behaviors as feedback circuits
July 5, ACC 2016 workshop, Boston.
Neuronal behaviors as feedback circuits
May 19, iCODE workshop, Paris.
September 26, UNAM, Mexico City.
Feb 16, Southampton University.
Sensitivity analysis of neuronal behaviors
Jan 26, National University Singapore.
Jan 29, CREATE Tower, Singapore.
The geometry of algorithms with rank and positivity constraints.
January 21, Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi, India.
2015
Neuronal behaviors: a control perspective
Dec 15, tutorial session, 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Osaka, Japan.
(with Tim O'Leary and Guillaume Drion).
The impact of Maxwell's paper ''On Governors"
Nov 9, Celebrating Maxwell’s genius and legacy , Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Article on "Maxwell and Control Theory" published in the Newsletter of Maxwell foundation.
Oct 1, IMA Workshop on Distributed Control and Decision Making over Networks, Minneapolis, USA.
Oct 28, ETH Zurich.
Sep 15, Workshop on Optimization and Control, St John College, Oxford.
June 18, Distinguished lecture 2015, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova.
April 28, IEEE UK & Ireland Control Systems Society Chapter guest lecture, St Hugh’s College, Oxford.
UCL Francqui chair, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
Opening lecture (Feb 4) - Lecture 2 (Feb 9) - Lecture 3 (Feb 16) - Lecture 4 (Feb 23) - Lecture 5 (March 2) - Lecture 6 (March 9).
Differential analysis of nonlinear systems
Feb 5, LAAS, Toulouse, France.
Jan 30, Engineering Mathematics, Bristol, UK.
April 23, LIDS, MIT.
Nov 17, Applied Mathematics, University College London.
Sensitivity analysis of neuronal behaviors
Jan 28, Centre for neurotechnology, Imperial College London, UK.
April 22, Center for Biodynamics, Boston University.
April 24, The Marder Lab, Brandeis University.
2014
Part I (EDS), Part II (RS), Part III (FF)
Dec 16, tutorial on contraction analysis, 53rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Los Angeles, USA.
(with Eduardo Sontag and Fulvio Forni)
Oct 15, LCCC workshop on dynamics and control in networks, Lund.
Sensitivity analysis of neuronal behaviors
Sept 11, workshop on synthetic biology, Oxford.
Dissipativity theory (In Memoriam of Jan Willems)
July 10, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen.
Multiresolution feedback systems (plenary lecture)
July 11, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen.
Minicourse on neuronal behaviors
Lecture 1 (RS), Lecture 2 (G. Drion), Lecture 3 (A. Franci), Lecture 4 (G. Drion), Lecture 5 (J. Dethier)
July 11, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Groningen.
May 12, TedX Liege, Belgium.
2013
The geometry of SVD revisited for large-scale computations
January 11, control group seminar, Cambridge, UK.
Orchestrons : neuronal rhythms as open systems (plenary lecture)
March 28, 32th Benelux meeting on Systems and Control, Houffalize, Belgium.
2012
Contraction analysis and port-hamiltonian modeling, (plenary lecture)
August 31, 4th IFAC Workshop on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Non Linear Control, Bertinoro, Italy.
Local methods for non-local predictions in systems and control (plenary lecture)
August 29, 1st International Conference on Systems and Computer Science, Lille, France.