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:
Geo-engineering (intentional climate intervention), and modeling and dynamic analysis of feedback processes in climate systems using tools from control engineering; More details...
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...
Recent news:
Recent paper on treating geoengineering as a design problem
First paper on using feedback to manage uncertainty in solar geoengineering
Paper 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
CDS140 (wi16)
CDS110a/101 (fa14) (Previous years:fa13, fa12, fa11, fa10, fa09)Ae240 (fa09)
Research Professor, Computing + Mathematical Sciences,
California Inst. of Technology
1200 E. California Blvd.,
M/C 305-16
Pasadena, CA 91125(previously
Douglas G. MacMynowski)
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