Click here for the ConFlex invited session (virtual) to be held at the 21st IFAC World Congress 2020, July 11-17, 2020.

ESR1: Shantanu Singh

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Online dissemination – presentation: “Abstract nonlinear control systems”, click here for the video, 2021.

Presentation: “Non-linear damping for scattering-passive systems in the Maxwell class” at the 21st IFAC World Congress (virtual), Berlin, Germany, July 2020.

Exhibition: “New-Tech Exhibition 2019 on Motion Control, Automation & Power Solutions”, Tel Aviv, Israel, 28-29 May 2019.

Summer school: “Summer School on Control of Evolution Equations”, Wuppertal, Germany, 30 September – 4 October 2018.

Workshop: “IAAC Guest Workshop on Modern Gain-Scheduling Control by Convex Optimization”, Herzelia, Israel, 21 May 2018.

 

ESR2: Jincheng Zhang

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Online dissemination – presentation:” Machine learning based modelling and control of wind turbine structures and wind farm waves”, click here for video,2021

Online dissemination – simulation result: “a wind farm model based on deep learning”, click here for the video.

Online dissemination – presentation: “Wind farm wake modeling and control in the age of big data”, click here for the video.

Presentation:  “Data-driven structural control of monopile wind turbine towers based on machine learning” at the 21st IFAC World Congress (virtual), Berlin, Germany, July 2020.

Presentation: “Quantification of Parameter Uncertainty in Wind Farm Wake Modeling” at the FrontUQ workshops series: Workshop on Frontiers of Uncertainty Quantification in Fluid Dynamics, Pisa, Italy, 11-13 September 2019.

Conference: “The 7th Engineering Postgraduate Symposium”, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, 23 April 2019.

Summer school: “Summer School on Numerical Methods in Offshore Renewable Energy”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 9-13 July 2018.

 

ESR3: Seyedeh Fatemeh Sharifi

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Online dissemination – presentation: “Lower order approximation of flexible structure”, click here for the video, 2021.

Presentation: “Time domain approach toward the calculation of the compliance function of flexible motion systems” at the 21st IFAC World Congress (virtual), Berlin, Germany, July 2020.

Presentation: “Linear-time-varying feedforward control for position-dependent flexible structures” at European Control Conference (ECC) (virtual), Saint Petersburg, Russia, May 2020.

Presentation: “Compliance feedforward of flexible structures” at the 38th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Lommel, Belgium, 19 – 21 March, 2019.

Summer school: “Summer School on Control of Evolution Equations”, Wuppertal, Germany, 30 September – 4 October 2018.

 

ESR4: Pietro Lorenzetti

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Online dissemination – presentation: “PI Control of MIMO Stable Nonlinear Plants Using Projected Dynamical Systems Theory”, click here for the video, 2021.

Presentation: “Integral control of stable MIMO nonlinear systems with input constraints”, at the MICNON Conference, Tokyo, September, 2021.

Talk: “The saturating integrator”, at the GSC’21 — Graduate Students in Systems and Control 2021, Haifa, May, 2021.

Presentation: “Integral control of stable nonlinear systems based on singular perturbations”, at the 21st IFAC World Congress (virtual), Berlin, Germany, July 2020.

Exhibition: “New-Tech Exhibition 2019 on Motion Control, Automation & Power Solutions”, Tel Aviv, Israel, 28-29 May 2019.

Workshop: “IAAC Guest Workshop on Modern Gain-Scheduling Control by Convex Optimization”, Herzelia, Israel, 21 May 2018.

 

ESR5: Charlotte Rodriguez

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Invited talk: “Control and stabilization of geometrically exact beams”at the Mini-Workshop on Recent Advances in Analysis and Control (virtual), Chair Dynamics, Control and Numerics, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 1 October 2021.

Online dissemination – presentation: “Geometrically exact beams ( in networks)”, click here for the video, 2021.

Invited talk: “Geometrically exact beam model: well-posedness, stabilization, networks” at the Mini-Workshop on Hyperbolic Problems, Chair in Applied Analysis, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, 12 October 2020.

Presentation: “Feedback stabilization for networks of geometrically exact beams”, Seminar at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, 13 February 2020.

Presentation: “H1 and H2-exponential stabilization for the intrinsic geometrically exact beam”, Seminar at the Load Control and Aeroelastics Lab, Imperial College London, 3 October 2019.

Invited talk: “H1-exponential stabilization for the intrinsic geometrically exact beam” at the 8th Workshop on PDE, Optimal Design and Numerics, Benasque, Spain, 18-31 August 2019.

Invited talk: “A semi-linear hyperbolic problem for geometrically exact beams” at the Workshop on PDE on Networks, Optimal Control, IIT Delhi, India, 4-8 February 2019.

Presentation: “Model Order Reduction via Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Balanced Truncation”, Seminar at DeustoTech, Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, 22 October 2018.

 

ESR6: Borjan Geshkovski

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Online dissemination – presentation: “Control in moving interfaces and deep learning”, click here for the video, 2021.

Invited talk: “The interplay of control theory and deep learning” at Machine learning in Madrid (virtual), Spain, 22 February 2021.

Invited talk: “The interplay of deep learning and control theory” at AG Mathematics of Deep Learning, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg (virtual), Germany, 09 December 2020

Invited talk: “Large-time asymptotics in deep learning” at Seminario de Estadísticas (virtual), UAM, 23 October 2020

Invited talk: “Turnpike control and deep learning” at Second Symposium on Machine Learning and Dynamical Systems (virtual), The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, 24 August 2020.

Invited talk:“Mathematical control and deep learning” at FAU – Friedrich Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 21 January 2020.

Invited talk: “Control of perturbed porous medium flow” at the 8th Workshop on PDE, Optimal design and Numerics, Benasque, Spain,18-31 August 2019.

Invited talk: “Control of linearized porous medium flow” at the Workshop on Homogenization, Spectral Theory and Other Topics in PDEs, ICMAT Madrid, Spain, 6-7 May 2019.

Presentation: “Control and free boundaries”, at the Applied Mathematics 2 Seminar, Friedrich-Alexander Universität, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 20 January 2019.

Conference: “14th Franco Romanian Conference on Applied Mathematics”, Bordeaux, France, 27-31 August 2018.

 

ESR7: Mir Mamunuzzaman

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Online dissemination – presentation: “Approximation for control of Port-Hamiltonian systems”, click here for video,2021

Online dissemination – presentation: “Approximation for control of Port-Hamiltonian systems”, click here for the video.

Presentation: “Rational approximation of Positive-real Function” at the 39th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Elspeet, the Netherlands, March 2020.

Summer school: “Summer School on Control of Evolution Equations”, Wuppertal, Germany, 30 September – 4 October 2018.

 

ESR8: Nathanael Skrepek

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Online dissemination – presentation: “Port-Hamiltonian systems on multidimensional spatial domains”, click here for the video, 2021.

Workshop: “13th Elgersburg Workshop on System Theory”, Elgerburg, Germany, 24 February – 1 March 2019.

Summer school: “Summer school on Control of Evolution Equations”, Wuppertal, Germany, 30 September – 4 October 2018.

 

ESR9: Andrea Mattioni

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Online dissemination – presentation: ” Strong dissipation feedback: stabilisation of mixed ODE-PDE port-Hamiltonian systems”, click here for video, 2021.

Online dissemination – presentation: “Energy based robust control of nonlinear port-Hamiltonian systems”, click here for the video.

Presentation: “Observer based nonlinear control of a rotating flexible beam” at the 21st IFAC World Congress (virtual), Berlin, Germany, July 2020.

Spring school: “Spring School on Theory and Applications of Port-Hamiltonian Systems”, Fraueninsel, Bavaria, Germany, 31 March – 5 April 2019.

 

ESR10: Marc Artola

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Online dissemination – presentation: “Minimal Nonlinear Modal Aeroelastic Descriptions for Highly Flexible Aircraft Control”, click here for video, 2021.

Online dissemination – presentation: “Nonlinear control of very flexible aeroelastic systems”, click here for the video, 2020.

Presentation: “Modal-based model predictive control of multibody very flexible structures” at the 21st IFAC World Congress (virtual), Berlin, Germany, July 2020.

Presentation: “Modal-Based Nonlinear Estimation and Control for Highly Flexible Aeroelastic Systems” at the AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, Orlando, USA, 8 January 2020.

Presentation: “A Nonlinear Modal-Based Framework for Low Computational-Cost Optimal Control of 3D Very Flexible Structures” at the European Control Conference 2019, Naples, Italy, 28 June 2019.

Summer school: “Summer school on Control of Evolution Equations”, Wuppertal, Germany, 30 September – 4 October 2018.

 

ESR11: Arturo Muñoz-Simón

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Online dissemination – presentation: “Vortex-lattice-based nonlinear aeroservoelastic modelling and analysis of large floating wind turbines”, click here for video, 2021.

Presentation: “From atmospheric turbulence to wind turbine blade loads” at UK turbulence consortium online talks, 8 January, 2021.
Presentation: “Aeromechanical modelling and control of large horizontal-axis wind turbines” at EAWE PhD Seminar 2020, 15 December, 2020.
Presentation: “Benchmarking different fidelities in wind turbine aerodynamics under yaw” at TORQUE 2020 conference (virtual), 28 September, 2020.
Presentation: “Unsteady and three-dimensional aerodynamic effects on wind turbine rotor loads” at AIAA Scitech 2020 Forum, 6 January, 2020.

Presentation: “Efficient aeroelastic modelling of highly-flexible wind turbines” at the Wind Energy Science Conference, Cork, Ireland, 17-20 June 2019.

Summer school: “EECI (European Embedded Control Institute) International Graduate School on Control (IGSC) on Model Reduction for Linear and Nonlinear Systems”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 29 April – 03 May 2019.

Summer school: “Summer School on Numerical Methods in Offshore Renewable Energy”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 9-13 July 2018.

 

ESR12: Juan Li

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Presentation: “Vortex force map for a smart rotor” at 73nd Annual Meeting (virtual) of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), Chicago, USA, 24th November 2020.

Presentation: “Vortex force map method for unsteady incompressible viscous flows” at 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), Washington, USA, 26th November 2019.

Online dissemination – simulation result: “Flow field simulation of a wind turbine blade”, click here for the video.

Festival: “British Science Festival”, Coventry, UK, 10-13 September 2019.

Invited talk: short talk on the vortex force map method with application to the Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) data, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 7 August 2019.

Presentation: delivered an HRC seminar “Vortex Force Map Method for Unsteady Incompressible Viscous Flows”, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 22 May 2019.

Summer school: “Summer School on Numerical Methods in Offshore Renewable Energy”, Imperial College London, London, UK, 9-13 July 2018.

 

ESR13: Pei Su

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Invited talk: ”Modelling, analysis and control for water waves and floating objects” (given by ConFlex academic Prof. Marius Tucsnak for joint work with Pei Su) at the 8th Workshop on PDE, Optimal Design and Numerics, Benasque, Spain, 18-31 August 2019.

Summer school: “Summer school on Geophysical Fluids and Gravity Flows”, CEMRACS, Centre International De Rencontres Mathématiques, Luminy Université, Marseille, France, 15-19 July 2019.

Summer school: “Summer school on the hydrodynamics of wave energy convertors”, Institute de Mathemaqtiques de Bordeaux, Talence, France, 18-20 June 2019.

 

ESR14: Gaston Vergara

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Invited talk: “Some ideas about water waves-rigid body interactions”, Seminar of Centre for Ocean Energy Research, Maynooth, Ireland, 22 July 2021.

Scientific events: One world meeting of young mathematicians in fluid dynamics, June 17-18, 2021, U. de Sevilla – U. d ‘Evry&Paris-Saclay – U. de Bordeaux (on line).

Presentation: “Boundary controllability of a system modelling a partially immersed obstacle”, Congrès SMAI 2021, Montpellier, France, 21-25 June 2021

Invited talk: “Understanding a basic example of Garside theory”, PhD seminar, Department of Engineering Mathematics, University of Chile (On line), 25 May 2021.

Scientific events: Journée Ecole Doctorale de Mathématiques et Informatique EDMI 2021, May 20, 2021, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

Invited talk: “Mathematics, beyond publications”, Lambda Seminar, Université de Bordeaux, France (On line), 15 April 2021.

Scientific events: Latin American Athenaeum of Young Mathematicians, February 19, 2021, DIM U. Chile – U. of Vienne – U. de Bordeaux (on line).

Presentation: “Oscillating water columns in a shallow water regime: modelling, control and simulations”,  LSTME Mini-Symposium “Mathematical Modelling, simulation and control of water surface waves in technical marine applications”, Erlangen, Germany and Busan, South Korea (On line), 5 February 2021.

Scientific events: Workshop of the working group: FSI on Viscous Shallow Water Regimes, January 15, 2021, France-Chile, (on line).

Presentation: “Modelling and control of an oscillating water column”,  Congrès d’Analyse Numérique pour les Jeunes – 2020(On line), 3-4 December 2020.

Invited talk: “Long time behaviour of a system modelling rigid structures floating in a viscous fluid”, Mini-Workshop on Hyperbolic Problems, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 12 October 2020.

Presentation: “Some conclusion on fluid-structure interactions”,  VI Conferencia de Matemáticos Ecuatorianos ConMatE-P, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, 7-10 October 2020

Invited talk: “On the dynamics of the Coronavirus epidemic and the unreported cases: the Chilean case”, I workshop del Master in Applied Mathematics, UC Temuco, Chile (On line), 6 October 2020.

Invited talk: “Asymptotic models with floating objects and applications”, Work Group Applied Mathematics Seminar, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (On line), 27 August 2020.

Invited talk: “On the dynamic of water waves with floating objects”, Work Group Applied Mathematics Seminar, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany (On line), 20 August 2020.

Presentation: “Well-Posedness and Input-Output Stability for a System Modelling Rigid Structures Floating in a Viscous Fluid”, 21st International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) World Congress, Berlin, Germany (On line), 12-17 July 2020

Presentation: “Some Conclusions About a System Modelling Rigid Structures Floating in a Viscous Fluid”, Lambda Seminar, Université de Bordeaux, France, 7 February 2020.

Presentation: “Modelling and Simulation of a Wave Energy Converter”, Séminaire des doctorants du LAGA, Université Sorbonne cite, Paris, France, 29 January 2020.

Poster: “Modelling and simulation of an oscillating water column”, Workshop on PDEs: Modelling, Analysis and Numerical Simulation, January 13-16, 2020, Granada, Spain.

Poster: “Well-posednes and input-output stability for a system modelling rigid structures floating in a viscous fluid”, Inaugural France-Korea Conference on Algebraic Geometry, Number Theory, and Partial Differential Equations, November 26, 2019, Bordeaux, France.

Scientific events: Ph.D. Away Days 2019 Luxemburg-Bordeaux, November 2019, Institut de Mathématiques de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France.

Presentation: “Input to State Stability for a System Modelling Rigid Structures Floating in a Viscous Fluid”, PhD Aways Days Luxemburg-Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, 19 October 2019.

Invited talk: “Long-time Behaviour of a Model of Rigid Structure Floating in a Viscous Fluid”, VII Partial differential equations, optimal design and numerics, Benasque, Spain, 29 August, 2019.

Presentation: “Modelling and Simulation of a Wave Energy Converter”, CEMRACS19, CIRM-Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France, 21 August 2019.

Presentation: “Long-time Behaviour of a Model of Rigid Structure Floating in a Viscous Fluid”, CEMRACS19, CIRM-Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France, 19 August 2019.

Presentation: “Approach to the Equilibrium of a Model of Rigid Structure Floating in a Viscous Fluid”, Lambda Seminar, Bordeaux, France, 20 June 2019.

Conference: “Meeting of young researchers in PDEs”, Rennes, France, 2019

Workshop: “PDEs for Fluid Mechanics (In honour of Jean-Yves Chemin)”, Paris, France, 2019.

 

ESR15: Vikram Rout

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Presentation: “Modelling of Recovery of Small Craft from Large Motherships” at the Annual PGR Conference at University of Exeter, Exeter, March 2021.