Research 1999/2000

Below is given a brief summary of research activities at the Division of Optimization and Systems Theory during the academic year 1999/2000.

• Research projects
  • Control theoretic smoothing splines
  • Financial economics
  • Geometric theory of linear stochastic systems
  • Hybrid control of autonomous system
  • Integral quadratic constraints
  • KTH optimization laboratory
  • Large-scale nonlinear programming
  • Models and methods for structural optimization
  • Optimal damping of forced oscillations in discrete-time systems
  • Optimization in telecommunications network design
  • Optimization of power systems under uncertainty
  • Periodic systems
  • Process modeling, operator training simulation and optimization applied to paper board manufacturing
  • Rational Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation with degree constraints
  • Robust control of electrical drives
  • Semidefinite programming and structural optimization
  • Some problems in navigation and motion control of nonlinear systems
  • Stochastic realization theory and identification
  • The rational covariance extension problem, Cepstral geometry and global analysis of shaping filters
• Seminars at the division
• Publications
  • Papers in journals and books (published and accepted)
  • Papers in conference proceedings (published and accepted)
  • Other publications
  • Technical reports and preprints
• Presentations
• 9th Stockholm Optimization Days
• Other activities
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The full activity report for 1999/2000 is available as a postscript file.

Graduate education

• Studieplan för forskarutbildningen (in Swedish)

The following graduate course will be given by the division in the fall of 2001.

5B5770 Nonlinear Systems Analysis, 5p

Optimization and Systems Theory's home page Last update: February 21, 2001 by Anders Forsgren, anders.forsgren@math.kth.se.