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Recent AMA Activities
Posted 4/16/14
John Betts gave an invited presentation at the SIAM Conference on Control and Its Applications, in San Diego, CA, July 8-10, 2013. The talk was entitled "Optimal Low Thrust Orbit Transfers with Eclipsing."
John Betts gave a plenary lecture on "Optimal Low Thrust Orbit Transfers with Eclipsing" at the 16th French-German-Polish
Conference on Optimization, held in Krakow, Poland, September 23-25, 2013.
AMA Activities
Posted 9/1/12
In early July David Ferguson attended the annual SIAM meeting in Minneapolis. There he was inducted into the SIAM fellowship and participated in meetings on Industrial Mathematics and on a book series for industrial mathematics.
On January 29, 2012, John Betts gave an invited presentation hosted by Hans Josef Pesch, Chair of Mathematics in Engineering Sciences, in the Department of Mathematics, at the University of Bayreuth, in Bayreuth, Germany. The talk, entitled "Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations with Delay," was given as a seminar for staff members and graduate students.
John Betts participated in the Second Industrial Workshop of the ITN SADCO program, organized by Astos Solutions GmbH and co-funded by the European Union. ITN SADCO (Initial Training Network Sensitivity Analysis for Deterministic Controller Design) held the workshop in Stuttgart, Germany, February 2-3, 2012, and the presentation "Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations with Delay," served as the opening talk at the meeting.
The "Simon Stevin Lecture" was given by John Betts at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (K.U. Leuven) in Leuven, Belgium on February 8, 2012. The invited lecture was hosted by the Optimization in Engineering Center (OPTEC) which is a center of interdisciplinary research on engineering applications of mathematical optimization, emerging from four different engineering fields: computer science, as well as chemical, mechanical and electrical engineering. In addition to the Simon Stevin lecture during the visit, a two day mini-course on nonlinear programming and optimal control was given. Two other technical presentations entitled "Optimal Control of Partial Differential Equations with Delay," and "Discretize the Optimize", were delivered to members of the OPTEC program. Details on OPTEC and the Simon Stevin lectures can be found at http://www.kuleuven.be/optec/event/stevin
AMA Activities
Posted 11/22/11
Industrial Mathematics: David Ferguson has agreed to serve on the SIAM Industry Committee for the years 2012 – 2013. SIAM is the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Optimal control and delay systems: "Experience with the Direct Transcription Method for Optimal Control of Delay Partial Differential Algebraic Systems" was an invited presentation by John Betts to the ICIAM conference in Vancouver, B.C., July 2011.
David Ferguson served as Chair of the Panel on Information Technology Laboratory Assessments Board charged with reviewing the NIST Information Technology Laboratory, March 2011. The panel report is available from Laboratory Assessments Board Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences National Research Council 500 Fifth Street, N.W. Washington, DC 20001.
Delay Systems: John Betts gave an invited presentation entitled "Dabbling with Delays," at the workshop on "Control and Optimization with Differential-Algebraic Constraints", Banff International Research Station (BIRS) October 24-29, 2010. Details of the workshop can be found at http://www.birs.ca/events/2010/5-day workshops/10w5029.
The spring 2010 Lehigh Spencer C. Schantz Distinguished Lecture Series featured two talks by John Betts. A technical talk entitled "Algorithmic Choices When Solving an Optimal Control Problem," and a second public lecture entitled "What Does a Rocket Scientist Really Do?" Details can be found at http://www.lehigh.edu/ise/schantz10.html.
Modeling and Simulation: David Ferguson gave an invited presentation to the 2009 SIAM Conference on Mathematics for Industry: Challenges and Frontiers. The title of his talk was “Mathematics in Modeling and Simulation: Evolution and Issues.”
