Other activities

Claudio Altafini

Participated in the International workshop on Lie theory and its applications, Wurzburg University, August 2-4 1999.
Participated in the CAS-organized visit to the following Californian Scientific Institutions: Stanford University, SRI, University of Berkeley, Xerox Park, JPL Laboratory, University of Southern California, November 14-19, 1999.
Co-supervision of Master thesis at the Department of Signal, Sensors and Systems, KTH: A. Speranzon, Feedback control of backward manoeuvres for a truck and trailer: experimental results.
Referee for IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control, IEEE Trans. on Robotics and Automation, IROS'00, ACC'00 and CDC'00.

Ulf Brännlund

Developed a new course 5B1574 Portfolio theory and risk evaluation (Portföljteori och riskvärdering) for the Division of Mathematical Statistics, Department of Mathematics, KTH. Main lecturer and examiner of this course.
Participated in ICM Workshop on Optimization in Solid and Fluid Mechanics, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, Febuary 9, 2000.
Cofounded the company Optimization Partner Stockholm AB in April 2000.
Developed a portfolio optimization model with a GUI for Fondmarknaden.se, a web-based broker of the mutual funds.
Developed a transportation model in Excel for a Swedish chemistry company.

Alessandro Chiuso

Anders Dahlén

Predoctoral fellow at Technische Universität Wien, Institut für Ökonometrie, Operations Research und Systemtheorie in Austria for three months during March 1-May 1, 2000, and May 16-June 16, 2000.
Participated in the 8th ERNSI Workshop on System Identification in Theoule, France, September 27-29, 1999.
Referee for Automatica.

Magnus Egerstedt

Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University since January 2000.
Spent September 1999 at the University of California at Berkeley.
Went on the CAS lab tour in California, Nov. 1999.
Vice president of IEEE student branch at KTH, 1999.
Referee for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Autonomous Robots, and CDC'00.

Per Enqvist

Participated in the 9th ERNSI Workshop on System Identification in Theoule, France, September 27-29, 1999.
Participated in Reglermöte 2000, in Uppsala, Sweden, June 7-8, 2000.
Participated in Stockholm Optimization Days, Stockholm, June 26-27, 2000.

Torvald Ersson

Participated in MTNS 2000, Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, in Perpignan, France, June 2000.

Stefan Feltenmark

Anders Forsgren

Associate editor for Mathematical Programming, Series A.
Member of editorial board for Computational Optimization and Applications.
Visited the University of California, San Diego, California, USA, July 31-August 9, 1999.
Referee for Mathematical Programming and SIAM Journal on Optimization.

Ulf Jönsson

Participated in the Åström Symposium of Control, Lund, August 28, 1999.
Participated in 8th ERNSI workshop on System Identification in September 27-29, 1999 in Theoule, France.
Visited Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, July 3-July 7, 2000.
Referee for International Journal of Control (1), Automatica (3), International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (1), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2), UKACC International Conference on Control 2000, ACC00, CDC00.

Camilla Landén

Participated in the first world congress of the Bachelier Finance Society, Paris, France, June 28-July 1, 2000.

to 0mmAnders Lindquist

Chairman, Department of Mathematics, Royal Institute of Technology.
Member Central Faculty Board (``Centrala fakultetsnämnden"), KTH.
Board Member, Strategic Center for Autonomous Systems, KTH.
Member, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).
Affiliate Professor, Washington University, St Louis, USA.
Advisory Board of the Institute for Mathematics of the Life Sciences, Texas Tech University, Texas, USA.
Team Leader, European Research Network for System Identification (ERNSI), TMR network.
Member Editorial Board, Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, journal published by John Wiley & Sons.
Editorial Board, Applied and Computational Control, Signals, and Circuits, book series published by Birkhäuser, Boston.
Referee for several other journals, for NATO, STINT, KVA and Italian National Research Foundation.
Opponent at PhD thesis defense in Helsinki, Finland, March 17, 2000.
Member, Steering Committee of the ERCIM Working Group on Control and System Theory.
International Program Committee, International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS2000), Perpignan, France, June 19-23, 2000.
International Advisory Committee of the 31th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Yokohama, Japan, November 11-12, 1999.
International Advisory Committee of the 32th ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its Applications, Tottori, Japan, November 1-2, 2000.

Ryozo Nagamune

Participated in ERNSI Workshop, Theoule, France, September 27-29, 2000.
Participated in Stockholm Optimization Days, KTH, June 26-27, 2000.
Referee for Conference on Decision and Control (CDC2000), International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2000), IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Henrik Rehbinder

Participated in the IFAC World Congress 1999, Beijing, China, July, 1999.
Visited the department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, Saint Louis, USA, February-May, 2000.

Mathias Stolpe

Visited the Department of Solid Mechanics, Technical University of Denmark, August 1999.

Krister Svanberg

In the evaluation committee at the PhD dissertation of P. Carlsson, Dept of Building Sciences, KTH.
On the editorial board of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization.
Referee for International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.
Referee for AIAA Journal.

Claes Trygger

Instructor for the graduate course 2D5217 Mathematical Modelling, Analysis and Simulation, part 1, Department of Numerical Analysis and Computer Science, KTH, autumn 1999.

Last update: February 21, 2001 by Anders Forsgren, anders.forsgren@math.kth.se.