Meetings

A core activity of the UK Mathematical Systems and Control Theory Network is to host meetings, to allow people working in the area to meet, get to one another and network, and share ideas through presentations.

The network has funding to support two meetings, the first in 2024 and the second in 2025. Information about the meetings is available here.

First meeting

This event is being held on the 2nd-3rd of September 2024 at the University of Warwick. Confirmed speakers:

Key information:

Information on how to get to University of Warwick may be found here. Specific information on car parking is linked here.

All talks take place in MS.03 in the Zeeman building (not the Mathematical Sciences building).  If you enter the Zeeman building through the main door, by the lake, the room is immediately upstairs and there will be signs.

• Breakfast is included if you are staying on Warwick accommodation. If you need alternative breakfast places, there is a Pret a Manger and a Café Nero on campus, and some of the university catered places (e.g. Library Café, NAIC Café) serve breakfast too.
• Dinner on Sunday and Monday: There are some options on campus for dinner, including Benugo in the Arts Center, Varsity pub, the Dirty Duck pub. The conference centres Scarman and Radcliffe also serve food on their bars (see menu here). They also have a different restaurant serving three-course meals but these are more expensive.
• Alternatives for dinner: There are lots of nice places to eat either in Coventry city Center or Kenilworth, both of which are easily reached with bus number 11.

Lunch, reception and coffee breaks will be in the Zeeman Common Room which is easily accessible from the talks

The abstracts and programme as MS Word files are below:

The programme is as follows (titles received so far):

Day 1

Time	Activity	Title/notes
8:45am – 9:15am	Arrival
9:15am – 9:30am	Welcome and about the network
9:30am – 10:35am	Plenary presentation Eric Rogers	Control and Systems Theory — Mathematics into Engineering or Engineering into Mathematics?
10:35am – 11:05am	Coffee
11:05am – 12:50pm	Presentations 1   Luke Davis Alice Thomspon Susana Gomes	All talks are 35 mins = 30 talk + 5 questions   Controlling discrete and continuous state non-equilibrium systems       Control-based continuation for deformable bubbles Active control of falling liquid films using a hierarchical model approach
12:50pm – 2pm	Lunch
2pm – 3:45pm	Presentations 2   Boumediene Hamzi Mike Chappell Randa Herzallah	Structural Identifiability Analysis: An Important Tool for Systems Modelling and Control Innovations in Fully Probabilistic Control and Decentralization
3:45pm – 4:15pm	Coffee
4:15pm – 5:30pm	Introductions and Roundtable discussions 1	Assessing the current state of the discipline

Day 2

Time	Activity	Title/notes
09:00am – 10:45am	Presentations 3   Max Jensen Mark Opmeer Dante Kalise	Finite Element Approximation of Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with nonlinear mixed boundary conditions Linear Quadratic Optimal Control   Optimal actuator design: from topology optimization to neural surrogate
10:45am – 11:15am	Coffee	30 mins
11:15am – 1pm	Presentations 4   Michael Craig Ross Drummond   Chris Guiver	Controlling combustion in cement plants   Robustifying neural networks: A control theory approach   Passivity theorems for forced Lur’e inclusions and equations
1pm -2pm	Lunch
2pm-3pm	Roundtable discussions 2	Purpose and future directions of the network
3pm	Depart

Second meeting

The second meeting will take place in the summer of 2025 in Edinburgh. It is currently being organised. Please feel free to get in contact with the organisers to express your interest in attending or presenting at this event.