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The international symposium A Celebration of the Field of Systems
and Control will take place at the Royal
Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden, on
September 9-11, 2009.
There will be a single stream of invited presentations during the three
days when the symposium is held. The symposium is being organized on
the occasion of two milestones in the careers of Chris Byrnes and
Anders Lindquist.
Symposium location
The symposium will be held in Hall E1, the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).
A map of the KTH campus can be found
here.
KTH is located in the northeastern part of the Stockholm city area. It
can conveniently be reached by the red subway line, at subway stop
"Tekniska Högskolan". Detailed information on different ways to
travel to Stockholm and to KTH can be found here.
The following distinguished researchers have accepted our invitation
to give a speech.
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John Baillieul, Boston
University, USA
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Tom Banks,
North Carolina State University, USA
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Anthony Bloch,
University of Michigan, USA
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Roger Brockett
, Harvard University, USA
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John Burns,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
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Xiren Cao, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology, China
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Daizhan Cheng, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China
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Tryphon
Georgiou,
University of Minnesota, USA
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Michel Gevers,
Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
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Graham
Goodwin, University of Newcastle, Australia
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Lei Guo, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, China
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Uwe
Helmke, Universität Wuerzburg, Germany
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Hidenori
Kimura,
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research, Japan
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Alberto
Isidori, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Italy
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Arthur Krener,
University of California Davis, USA
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Alexander Kurzhansky,
Moscow State University, Russia
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Lennart Ljung,
Linköping University, Sweden
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Clyde Martin, Texas Tech University, USA
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György Michaletzky,
Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary
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Sanjoy Mitter,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
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Manfred Morari, ETH
Zurich, Switzerland
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Stephen Morse,
Yale University, USA
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Michele Pavon,
University of Padova, Italy
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Giorgio Picci,
University of Padova, Italy
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Boris Polyak, Russian Academy
of Sciences, Russia
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Anders
Rantzer, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
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Joachim Rosenthal,
University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Rodolphe Sepulchre
,
Université de Ličge, Belgium
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Allen
Tannenbaum,
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Jan van Schuppen,
CWI, The Netherlands
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Jan
Willems,
K. U. Leuven, Belgium
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Yutaka Yamamoto,
Kyoto University, Japan
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Karl Johan Ĺström,
Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden
People in both academia and industry are welcome to attend the
symposium. All participants (except the invited speakers) are requested
to register for the conference first. A registration fee of SEK 2000
will be charged to cover partially the costs. The registration fee
covers lunches during the conference dates and banquet dinner.
For registration please send an e-mail to malund at kth dot se with
your registration information:
your full name, university/organization with full address, telephone
number by August 15.
Please make a deposit of SEK 2 000 to the bank account
of Royal Institute of Technology by September 1, 2009.
- Account number (plusgiro): 1 56 53 - 9
- Bank name: Nordea Bank
- Bank address: S-105 71 Stockholm, Sweden
- SWIFT/BIC: NDEASESS
- IBAN no: SE05 9500 0099 6034 0015 6539
- Message: "SFD + Your Name"
Travel and accommodation
All attendees should make their own travel and hotel arrangements. The
only exception is that the organizers will take care of the hotel
booking for the invited speakers. A listing of hotels near KTH can be found here. A more
detailed information can be found here.
Program
The program can be found here.
Book
A Festschrift will be published by Springer as a hardcover independent
book tentatively titled "Three Decades of Progress in Systems and
Control". Our plan is to have it available by CDC 2009 in Shanghai.