Panel on Future Directions in Control and Dynamical Systems
Obtain input from members of the control and dynamical systems community and the applications community that will be used as the basis for the panel's recommendations
Identify future application areas of significant importance to the industrial and defense base that are enabled by control and dynamical systems theory and practice
Identify a list of vignettes highlighting past successes and future opportunities
Identify the possible organizational structures (universities, university-industry collaboration, funding agencies) that might be required to take move the field forward
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