Control Theory and Optimization

Minimization problems. Controllability, observability, stability. Robotics. Stochastic systems and control. Optimal control. Optimal design, shape design. Linear, non-linear, integer, and stochastic programming. Applications.

Tuesday, August 7

Subsession: Numerical Optimization
Coordinator: José Mario Martínez (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)

MAIN SPEAKER 40 minutes

15:30 - 16:10: Ernesto Birgin Universidade de São Paulo(
Title to be announced.

SHORT TALKS 20 minutes

16.30 - 16.50: Cristina Maciel (Universidad del Sur)
Title to be announced.

16.50 - 17.10: Elvio Pilotta (Universidad de Córdoba)
Title to be announced.

17.10 - 17.30: Nélida Echebest (Universidad de La Plata)
Title to be announced.

17.50 - 18.10: Laura Schuverdt (Universidad de La Plata)
Title to be announced.

18.10 - 18.30: Roberto Andreani (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Title to be announced.

Wednesday, August 8

Subsession: Theoretical Optimization
Coordinator: Alfredo Iusem (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)

MAIN SPEAKER 40 minutes

15:30 - 16:10: Stephen Robinson (University of Wisconsin)
Title to be announced.

SHORT TALKS 20 minutes

16:20 - 16:40: Ana Friedlander (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
Title to be announced.

16:40 - 17:00: Susana Scheimberg (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro)
Title to be announced.

17:00 - 17:20: Luis Mauricio Graña Drummond (Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro)
Title to be announced.

17:30 - 17:50: José Yunier Bello Cruz (Universidade Federal de Goiás)
Title to be announced.

17:50 - 18:10: Damián Fernández (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba)
Title to be announced.

18:10 - 18:30: Alfredo Iusem (Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada)
Title to be announced.

Thursday, August 9

Subsession: Partial Differential Equations and Control
Coordinator: Enrique Zuazua (Basque Center for Applied Mathematics)

MAIN SPEAKER 40 minutes

15:30 - 16:10 Axel Osses (Universidad de Chile)
" Desigualdades de Carleman y aplicaciones a la teoría de control y
problemas inversos".

SHORT TALKS 20 minutes

16:30 - 16:50: Gustavo Perla Menzala (Laboratorio Nacional de Computação Científica)
"Recent results on coupled evolution models in Piezo and Thermopiezo electricity".

16:50 - 17:10: Claudio Padra(Centro Atómico Bariloche)
" Shape optimization for tumor location".
(joint work with Juan Pablo Agnelli and Cristina Turner, Universidad
Nacional de Córdoba.)

17:10 - 17:30: Fágner D. Araruna (Universidade Federal de Paraíba)
"Some results concerning the controllability of systems of fluid mechanics".

17:50 - 18:10: Silvano Dias Bezerra de Menezes (Universidade Federal de Paraíba)
"On the approximate controllability of Stackelberg-Nash strategies for
linearized micropolar fluids".
(joint work with Jõao Lucas Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Ceará).

18:10 - 18:30: Carlos Frederico Vasconcellos (Universidade Estadual de Rio de Janeiro)
"On the stabilization and controllability for a model arising in pulse
propagation optical fiber".