Research Interests

The interdisciplinary application of feedback analysis and control tools to research problems in diverse fields such as climate modeling, fluid dynamics, and telescope control. Specific topics include: 

• Control development for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), including modeling,  and active, and adaptive optics.  This application motivates research on implementable control design for large-scale distributed dynamic systems.  More details...

• Geo-engineering (intentional climate intervention), and modeling and dynamic analysis of feedback processes in climate systems using tools from control engineering; More details...

Recent news:

• New paper out on "Managing trade-offs in geoengineering", and video

• Other videos on Youtube: "Can we test geoengineering?" and "The frequency response of temperature and precipitation in a climate model"

Teaching

CDS110a/101 (fa12) (Previous years: fa11, fa10, fa09)

CDS110b (wi11) (wi10) (wi09)

CDS140b (sp12) 

Ae240 (fa09)

Department of Control & Dynamical Systems

California Inst. of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125

Email

(previously
Douglas G. MacMynowski)

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Erdos number: 4
(Lall, Boyd, Diaconis)