Panel on Future Directions in Control and Dynamical Systems

Panel Meeting Agenda

16-17 June 2000
University of Maryland

Meeting Objectives

Agenda

Friday morning
8:00  Continental Breakfast
8:30  Welcome, Richard Murray
8:45  Overview of Fleming report, John Burns
9:00  Perspectives: Doyle, Stein, Sastry, Brockett
  • Provide a vision for some of the future challenges and opportunities in control and dynamical systems research
  • Describe some of the key issues to be addressed by the subpanels
10:20  Charge to subpanels
10:30  Discussion break
11:00  Breakout session: introductions & opportunities
  • Introduction of subpanel members
  • Overview presentation of the area by invited speakers
12:00  Lunch and discussion

Friday afternoon

1:30  Breakout sessions
4:00  Preliminary reports from subpanels: opportunities & challenges
  • List of current and future technology areas central to economic and national defense interests
  • Ideas for new types of training and organizational structures in academia, government, and industry
5:00  Adjourn

Saturday morning

8:00  Continental breakfast
8:15  General session: discussion of new groups and possible re-assignments
8:45   Breakout sessions
10:00  Break
10:30  Breakout sessions
12:00  Lunch
Saturday afernoon
1:30  Report from subpanels (15 minutes each + 5 minutes discussion)
  • Updated list of technology areas and organizational structures
  • List of possible vignettes describing past successes and future opportunities, with identified individuals to provide details
  • List of required next steps for generating draft panel report
3:30  Break
4:00  General session: discussion of main themes and next steps
5:30  Adjourn