The purpose of this seminar is to bring in members of the Caltech science faculties to give ~1-hr lectures that motivate and describe a problem in their field that seems to be crying out for CDS (Control/Dynamical Systems) type analysis and/or modelling. In the second half of the term we will form small teams consisting of CDS students together with "science" students who will prepare and deliver short presentations that pick up where the faculty lectures left off -- pointing out where there are known methods/theorems for dealing with the research problems of interest, and perhaps taking the first few steps of applying them. Our main goals are to become more familiar with each other's work and expertise, and to get our graduate students to interact with one another.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
| 4 April | Hideo Mabuchi and Richard Murray | Course Overview and CDS Panel introduction |
| 11 April | Hideo Mabuchi | Quantum Measurement |
| 18 April | Gilles Laurent | Neural Coding |
| 25 April | Jason Hickey | Reliability in Heavily Connected Systems |
| 2 May | Erik Winfree | Molecular Computation |
| 9 May | ||
| 16 May | ||
| 23 May | Students | Student presentations |
| 30 May | Students | Student presentations |