The Schedule
Workshop Schedule
8:45 - 9:00
Introduction by the Organizers
9:00 - 10:00
Session 1: Stochastic Control
Session Chair: Rahul Jain
Speakers:
1. P. R. Kumar
Talk title: The legacy of Pravin Varaiya. [Slides]
2. Tyrone Duncan
Talk title: Stochastic Control and Related Problems for Systems with Rosenblatt Noise Processes. [Slides]
3. Vivek Borkar
Talk title: From self-tuning to reinforcement learning: new wine in an old bottle
10:15 - 11:15
Session 2: Nonlinear, Hybrid and Embedded Systems
Session Chair: Eyad Abed
Speakers:
1. Shankar Sastry
Talk title: Digital Transformation of Societal Scale Systems: A New Hope? In honor of Pravin Varaiya (with apologies to Star Wars)
2. Stéphane Lafortune
Talk title: Partially-Observed Discrete-Event Systems: From Observability to Opacity and Beyond. [Slides]
3. Edward Lee
Talk title: From Hybrid Systems to Modal Models. [Slides]
11:30 - 12:30
Session 3: Power Systems
Session Chair: Pramod Khargonekar
Speakers:
1. Steven Low
Talk title: Stability, markets, risk management: Varaiya’s research and implications for the future. [Slides]
2. Ram Rajagopal
3. Junjie Qin
talk Title: Towards Closing the Electricity-Transportation- Human Loop via Control and Market. [Slides]
Break 12:30 - 2:15
3:15 - 4:15
Session 5: Communication Systems
Session Chair: Vijay Subramanian
Speakers:
1. Jean Walrand
Talk title: Modeling and control of queuing systems
2. Venkat Anantharam
Talk title: Distributed intelligence in the work of Pravin Varaiya [Slides]
3. John Baras
Talk title: Network Science for Control, Communication and Cyber-Physical Systems
4:15 - 5:00
Session 6: Personal Remembrances
Session Chair: Kameshwar Poolla
Speakers: