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Dynamics and Control in Networks: Workshop Program

Tuesday, October 14

15:15-17:00	Focus period seminars (seminar room of Automatic Control Department, Ole Römers väg 1, Lund)
17:00-19:00	Welcomining reception and registration at the Pufendorf Institute in Biskopsgatan 3 (map).

Wednesday, October 15

08:30	Registration at the Old Bishop's Palace at Biskopsgatan 1 in Lund
08:45	Opening remarks Giacomo Como and Anders Rantzer, Lund University, Sweden
09:00	Controllability for Complex Networks: Metrics and Limitations Sandro Zampieri, Università di Padova, Italy Differentially positive systems Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge, UK
10:20	Coffee
10:40	A survey of classical and recent results in RLC circuit synthesis Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge, UK Synchronization and evolvability in nonlinear networks Jean-Jacques Slotine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
12:00	Lunch
14:00	Community Detection: Fundamental Limits and Optimal Sampling Algorithms Alexandre Proutiere, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Sweden Community detection in stochastic block models via spectral methods Laurent Massoulié, Microsoft Research-INRIA Joint Centre
15:20	Coffee
15:40	Complex Energy Systems Michael Chertkov, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Semidefinite relaxation of optimal power flow Steven H. Low, CalTech, USA

Thursday, October 16

09:00	Distributed Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers for Multi-agent Optimization Asuman Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Learning graphical models: hardness and tractability Devavrat Shah, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
10:20	Coffee
10:40	Load Balancing Using Limited State Information R. Srikant, University of Illinois at Urbana Champain, USA On the eigenvalues of large structured matrices and the scalable stability of networks Glenn Vinnicombe, University of Cambridge, UK
12:00	Lunch
14:00	Toward standards for dynamics in future electric energy systems: The basis for plug-and-play industry paradigm Marija Ilic, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Plug-and-Play Control and Optimization in Microgrids Florian Dörfler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
15:20	Coffee
15:40	Lyapunov Approach to Consensus Problems Angelia Nedic, University of Illinois at Urbana Champain, USA Majority Consensus by local polling Moez Draief, Imperial College, UK

18:15	Buses leave from Bangatan (green arrow on map)
19:00	Symposium Dinner at Bjärreds saltsjöbad (map)

Friday, October 17

09:00	Robust Networked Stabilization: When Gap Meets Two-Port Li Qiu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Schroedinger bridges: steering of stochastic systems classical and quantum Tryphon Georgiou, University of Minnesota, USA
10:20	Coffee
10:40	Randomized averaging algorithms, when can errors and unreliabilities just be ignored? Julien Hendrickx, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Systemic Risk in Finance Munther A. Dahleh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
12:00	Lunch
14:00	On Distributed Control of Dynamical Flow Networks Giacomo Como, Lund University, Sweden Control of convex-monotone systems Anders Rantzer, Lund University, Sweden
15:20	Coffee
15:40	Panel Discussion Anders Rantzer (moderator)
17:00	Final remarks - end of the workshop