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(in reverse chronological order)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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MED plenary talks back to 2020 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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MED ’24:
<\/strong> Chania, Crete, Greece: June 11-14, 2024<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Addressing complexity in contemporary applications via data-driven and distributed optimization”
Maria Prandini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy<\/td><\/tr>
“Human-Level Performance with Autonomous Vision-based Drones”
Davide Scaramuzza, University of Zurich, Switzerland<\/td><\/tr>
“Video Games: The Ultimate Launchpad for Automation and Control”
Georgios N. Yannakakis, University of Malta and modl.ai, Malta<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’23:
<\/strong> Limassol, Cyprus: June 26-29, 2023<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Resilient Robotic Autonomy: Methods and Systems”
Kostas Alexis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway<\/td><\/tr>
“Traffic Control Using Automated Vehicles: Distributed Sensing, Actuation, and Learning”
Karl H. Johansson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
“Bridging the Gap in Prediction, Optimization, and Control of Integrated Dynamic Systems”
Jing Sun, University of Michigan, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’22:
<\/strong> Athens, Greece: June 22-25, 2022<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Data-driven MPC: from linear to nonlinear systems with guarantees”
Frank Allg\u00f6wer, University of Stuttgart, Germany<\/td><\/tr>
“High performance control for robots in extreme environments”
Sandra Hirche, Technical University of Munich, Germany<\/td><\/tr>
“Data enabled predictive control”
John Lygeros, ETH Z\u00fcrich, Switzerland<\/td><\/tr>
“Control Intelligence in Agriculture 4.0”
Nick Sigrimis, Agricultural University of Athens and Geosmart.gr, Greece<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’21:
<\/strong> Bari, Puglia, Italy: June 22-25, 2021<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Towards Deep Decarbonization and Autonomous Power Grids”
Anuradha Annaswamy, MIT, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“FAST with Electric Vehicles”
Anna Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan<\/td><\/tr>
“Distributed optimal control in complex multi-robot and energy networks”
Giuseppe Notarstefano, University of Bologna, Italy<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’20:
<\/strong> Saint-Rapha\u00ebl, France: September 16-18, 2020<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Modeling, estimation, and control in deep brain stimulation”
Alexander Medvedev, Uppsala University, Sweden <\/td><\/tr>
“Passivity theory in cooperative control: A network optimization perspective”
Daniel Zelazo, Technion and Philadelphia Flight Control Laboratory <\/td><\/tr>
“Civil aircraft reduced order modelling, control and validation: numerical and experimental challenges”
Charles Poussot-Vassal, ONERA, Department of Systems and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France<\/td><\/tr>
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MED plenary talks from 2019 back to 2010<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(in reverse chronological order)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MED’19:
Akko, Israel: July 1-4, 2019<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Electrical Excitation in Biological Cells: A Case for Control-Oriented Modelling”
Shimon Marom, Technion, Israel<\/td><\/tr>
“Feedback Control for Predictable Cloud Computing”
Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
“Control of Power Converters in Low-Inertia Power Systems”
Florian D\u00f6rfler, ETH, Switzerland<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’18:
Zadar, Croatia: June 19-22, 2018<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Back to the Roots: Multivariate Polynomial Optimization by Numerical Linear Algebra”
Bart De Moor, KU Leuven, Belgium<\/td><\/tr>
“Multiagent Decision Making: Learning from Observations”
Maryam Kamgarpour, ETH, Switzerland<\/td><\/tr>
“Robotics and Wireless Communications: Opportunities and Challenges”
Yasamin Mostofi, University of California-Santa Barbara, USA <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’17:
Valletta, Malta: July 3-6, 2017<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Research in the Flying Machine Arena”
Raffaello D\u2019Andrea, ETH, Switzerland <\/td><\/tr>
“Modelling, Estimation and Identification of Spatio-Temporal and Multiscale Systems”
Visakan Kadirkamanathan, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom<\/td><\/tr>
“Distributed Fault Diagnosis of Interconnected Cyber-Physical Systems”
Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’16:
Athens, Greece: June 21-24, 2016<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Nonlinear control without PDEs”
Alessandro Astolfi, Imperial College, United Kingdom<\/td><\/tr>
“Unmanned Vehicles Systems \u2013 From Necessity to Maturity”
David Harari, Aerospace Industries, Israel<\/td><\/tr>
“How we can Halt a Runaway Climate”
Yannis A. Phillis, Technical University of Crete, Greece<\/td><\/tr>
“Walking and Flying Robots for Challenging Environments”
Roland Siegwart, ETH, Switzerland<\/td><\/tr>
“Uncertainty Randomization in Control Systems”
Roberto Tempo, Polytechnic of Torino, Italy<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’15:
Torremolinos, Spain: June 16-19, 2015<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“The Art of Tuning a PID Controller”
Tore H\u00e4gglund, Lund University, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
“Discrete and Fluid Petri Nets: Dealing with Individuals, Dealing with Populations”
Manuel Silva, University of Zaragoza, Spain<\/td><\/tr>
“Heterogeneous Multi-Robot Systems: Smaller, Smarter, Specialized Teams”
Magnus Egerstedt, Georgia Tech, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’14:
Palermo, Italy: June 16-19, 2014<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Performance Bounds and Suboptimal Policies for Multi-Period Investment”
Stephen P. Boyd, Stanford University, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Resilience and Risk in Networked Systems”
Munther A. Dahleh, MIT, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Feedback Control of Living Cells”
Mustafa Khammash, ETH, Switzerland<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’13:
Crete, Greece: June 25-28, 2013<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Cooperating UAS: From Information Acquisition to Physical Interactions”
Anibal Ollero, University of Seville, Spain<\/td><\/tr>
“Cooperative Control: Optimality, Differential Games, and Reinforcement Learning on Graphs”
Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas-Arlington, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“A Distributed Networked Approach to Fault Diagnosis of Large Scale Systems”
Thomas Parisini, Imperial College, United Kingdom<\/td><\/tr>
“Robust Adaptive Control: Interpretations, Expectations and Reality”
Petros A. Ioannou, University of Southern California<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’12:
Barcelona, Spain: July 3-6, 2012<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Controlling the Data Deluge”
Mario Sznaier, Northeastern University, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Identification and control: the two inseparable friends cooperating for the solution of automation problems over more than five decades”
Sergio Bittanti, Polytechnic of Milan, Italy<\/td><\/tr>
“Adaptive Control in Neurorobotics”
Alicia Casais, Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya, Spain<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’11:
Corfu, Greece: June 20-23, 2011<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Control for railways \u2013 active suspensions and other opportunities”
Roger Goodall, University of Loughborough, United Kingdom<\/td><\/tr>
“Cooperative Networked Systems: Multiple Graphs, Coalitional Games, New Probabilistic Models”
John S. Baras, University of Maryland, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Verification and Control of Hybrid Systems using Reachability Analysis”
Claire Tomlin, University of California-Berkeley, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Averaging algorithms and distributed anonymous discrete function computation”
John N. Tsitsiklis, MIT, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’10:
Marrakech, Morocco: June 23-25, 2010<\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Fault Tolerant Control Design: the general frame and some recent results”
Marcel Staroswiecki, University of Lille, France<\/td><\/tr>
“Cooperative Control and Optimization in an uncertain asynchronous wireless networked world”
Christos G. Cassandras, Boston University, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Novel Extensions of Smith Predictors for MIMO Systems with Multiple I\/O Delays”
Zalman J. Palmor, Technion, Israel<\/td><\/tr>
“The polytonic\/fuzzy approach for non-linear control: advantages and drawbacks”
Antonio Sala, Technical University of Valencia, Spain<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Select time period: [ 2029 >> 2020<\/a> ] [ 2019 >> 2010<\/a> ] [ 2009 >> 2000<\/a> ] [ 1999 >> 1993<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MED plenary talks from 2009 back to 2000<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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MED ’09:
Thessaloniki, Greece: June 24-26, 2009 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Intelligent Vehicles and Transportation Systems”
Petros Ioannou, University of Southern California, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Nonlinear Regulation Control – Evolution of the Internal Model Principle: From Linear to Nonlinear”
Jie Huang, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong<\/td><\/tr>
“Linear Multivariable Control. Methods & Philosophy of the Algebraic Approach”
Tony Vardulakis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece<\/td><\/tr>
“European Research Initiatives in Control and Funding opportunities”
Libor Kral, Alkis Konstantellos, European Commission<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’08:
Ajaccio-Corsica, France: June 25-27, 2008<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Infinite-Dimensional Backstepping and Applications to Flows in Electromagnetic Fields”
Miroslav Krstic, University of California-San Diego, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Delay effects on stability of interconnected systems. A control perspective”
Silviu-Iulan Niculescu, CNRS, France<\/td><\/tr>
“Stochastic modeling techniques for the dependability analysis of DES”
Andrea Bobbio, University of Piemonte, Italy<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’07:
Athens, Greece: June 27-29, 2007 <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Why Industry Needs Improved and Practical Nonlinear Control: A Challenge for Today”
Mike J. Grimble, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom<\/td><\/tr>
“Hierarchical Control – Reconciling Hybrid Systems Theory and Control Applications”
Joerg Raisch, Techical University-Berlin, Germany<\/td><\/tr>
“Wireless Control Systems: Scientific Challenges and Emerging Applications”
Karl Henrik Johansson, KTH, Sweden<\/td><\/tr>
“Control Systems Architectures for the Process Industries”
Tariq Samad, Honeywell, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED’06:
Ancona, Italy: June 28-30, 2006<\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Aerospace Controls: The Way Forward”
Siva S. Banda, Air-Force, Wright-Patterson Air-Force, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Systems Biology of Group Decision Making”
Kevin M. Passino, The Ohio State University, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Control Oriented Models and Feedback Design in Fluid Flow Systems: A Review”
Gilead Tadmor, Northeastern University, USA; Bernd R. Noack, Berlin University of Technology, Germany; Marek Morzynski, Pozna\u0144 University of Technology, Poznan, Poland<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’05:
Limassol, Cyprus: 27-29 June 2005 <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“On Cooperative Control”
Christos Cassandras, Boston University, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“On Systems Biology”
Eduardo Sontag, Rutgers University, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“On Nanomanufacturing”
Julie Chen, NSF, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’04:
Kusadasi, Turkey: 6-9 June 2004 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Human-Centered Robotics”
Oussama Khatib, Stanford University, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“A Map of the World of Learning and Optimization”
Xi-Ren Cao, University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong <\/td><\/tr>
“Intelligent Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Improved Autonomy and Reliability”
George J. Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“TerraMax: The Autonomous, Off-Road Vehicle”
Umit Ozg\u00fcner, The Ohio State University, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’03:
Rodos Palace Hotel, Rhodes, Greece: 18-20 June 2003 <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Control of Networked Embedded Systems”
Panos Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Advances in Robotics and Mechatronics: From Space to Surgery”
Gerd Hirzinger, Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft und Raumfahrt, Germany <\/td><\/tr>
“Hybrid Systems – A Control Engineering Perspective”
Manfred Morari, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland<\/td><\/tr>
“Control of Networks of Unmanned Vehicles”
Shankar Sastry, University of California-Berkeley, USA <\/td><\/tr>
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MED’02:
Lisbon, Portugal: 9-13 July 2002 <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Domestic Robots”
H. I. Christensen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden <\/td><\/tr>
“Robustness and Complexity”
J. C. Doyle, California Institute of Technology, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“Automating Control Design and Implementation”
P. Varaiya, Univ. California at Berkeley, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“Variational Methods in Computer Vision”
O. Faugeras, INRIA, France <\/td><\/tr>
“Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks: Analysis, Protocols, Architecture, and Convergence”
R. Kumar, University of Illinois, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“From ‘Simple’ to ‘Complex’ Systems: Lessons and Examples”
M. A. Dahleh, MIT, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“High-Performance Structures: Dynamics and Control”
E. Crawley , MIT, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“Systems Theory for Long-Term Investment”
D. G. Luenberger, Stanford University, USA <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’01:
Hotel Excelsior, Dubrovnik, Croatia: 27-29 June 2001 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Future Research Directions in Systems and Control”
Michael Athans, MIT, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Non-Linear and Adaptive Control: An Abbreviated Status Report”
Petar Kokotovic, Murat Arcak, University of California \u2013 Santa Barbara, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“The Role of Mediterranean Countries in the History of Science and Technology”
Vladimir Muljevic, University of Zagreb, Croatia <\/td><\/tr>
“From Computing with Numbers to Computing with Words – From Manipulation of Measurements to Manipulation of Perceptions”
Lotfi Zadeh, University of California \u2013 Berkeley, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’00:
University of Patras, Rio, Greece: 17-19 July 2000 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Challenges for Systems and Control in the Knowledge Based Society”
G. Metakides, European Commission; Shankar Sastry, University of California \u2013 Berkeley, USA<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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MED plenary talks from 1999 back to 1993<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(in reverse chronological order)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

MED ’99:
Dan Panorama Hotel, Haifa, Israel: 28-30 June 1999 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Identification and Robust Control: Bridging the Gap”
Graham Goodwin, The University of Newcastle, Australia <\/td><\/tr>
“Control of Hybrid Systems and Some Applications”
Michael Heymann, Technion, Israel <\/td><\/tr>
“Optimization over Linear Matrix Inequalities”
Stephen Boyd, Stanford University, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“Target Tracking and Data Fusion: How to Get the Most Out of Your Sensors”
Yaakov Bar-Shalom, University of Connecticut, USA<\/td><\/tr>
“Deep Space Control Challenges of the New Millenium”
David Bayard, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’98:
Sardinia, Italy: 9-11 June 1998 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
– Plenaries Not Available – <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’97:
Paphos, Cyprus: 21-23 July 1997 <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Logic, Mathematical Programming and Hybrid Systems”
Sanjoy Mitter, MIT, USA<\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’96:
Chania, Crete, Greece: 10-13 June 1996 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
“Criteria for Uniform Approximation Using Dynamical Neural Networks”
Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas-Arlington, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“Future Directions for Information Technologies and Process Control”
Dave Boland, ICI, United Kingdom <\/td><\/tr>
“Algebraic Design Methods”
Vladimir Kucera, Institute of Information Sciences & Automation, Czech Republic <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’95:
Limassol, Cyprus: 11-13 July 1995 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
\n – Plenaries Not Available –\n <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’94:
Chania, Crete, Greece: 19-21 June 1994 <\/strong><\/td><\/tr>
\n – Plenaries Not Available –\n <\/td><\/tr>
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MED ’93:
Chania, Crete, Greece: 21-23 June 1993 <\/strong> <\/td><\/tr>
“Lecture on Intelligent Control”
George N. Saridis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA <\/td><\/tr>
“Lecture on Neural Networks for Control, Identification, and Diagnosis”
Herbert E. Rauch, Lockheed, USA <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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