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SEMINAR SERIES ON

COMPLEX SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, CONTROL AND CHAOS

Fridays, January 13 to May 14, 2010, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room B6605 (Blue Zone) or G6302 (Green Zone), City University of Hong Kong
Room CD634 (Enter from D or E core), Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Tea and coffee served at 4:15pm outside the venue

All seminars will be in English

The Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at the City University of Hong Kong and the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University continue their joint seminar series in this semester, to present tutorial overviews and original research work in the general areas of chaos and bifurcation, systems control, complex networks and their engineering applications. A list of tentative topics and schedule is as follows.

13 Jan (Wed 11:00am) Prof. Frank Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Online learning design of optimal control systems (Venue: B6619, CityU, Chair: R. Chen)
15 Jan Prof. Xinghuo Yu, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Symbolic dynamics approach for discrete-time nonlinear systems and control (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: R. Chen)
21 Jan (Thurs 4:30pm) Prof. Janet Wang, University of Arizona, USA
A self-calibrating design methodology for power efficient multi-core system (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: W. Tang)
22 Jan Dr Philip Yam, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Behavioral optimal insurance: its resolution of a socioeconomic enigma (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
29 Jan Mr Wenwu Yu, City University of Hong Kong
Consensus in networked multi-agent systems (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: W. Tang)
5 Feb Dr Adela Lau, School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ontology-enabled database management systems (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
12 Feb Chinese New Year Eve
19 Feb Prof. Xinchu Fu, Shanghai University, Shanghai
Propagation Dynamics on Complex Networks (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Small)
22 Feb (Monday) Prof. Jonathan Manton, University of Melbourne, Australia
Reverse-engineering the Brain - an international grand challenge (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: S. Chan)
26 Feb Prof. Clement Lam, Concordia University, Canada
Solving problems in discrete mathematics with computers (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: T. Chow)
5 Mar Dr Xiaojuan Sun, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Synchronization and coherent resonance in neuronal networks (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
12 Mar Mr Yao Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Estimate the convergence speed of discrete-time multi-agent systems (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: K.W. Chung)
19 Mar Prof. Keith Chan, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
TBD (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
26 Mar Prof. Xinchu Fu, Shanghai University, Shanghai
Periodicity and complexity of some dynamical systems with discontinuities (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: K.W. Wong)
2 Apr Good Friday
9 Apr Dr Lam F. Yeung, City University of Hong Kong
On system identification (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: S.C. Tan)
16 Apr Dr Joshua Lee, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
TBD (Venue: G5317, CityU, Chair: T. Ko)
23 Apr Dr Guofeng Zhang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
On quantum feedback control (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
30 Apr Mr Xiaofan Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
TBD (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: A. Leung)
7 May Mr Wilson Thong, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
TBD (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: S.C. Tan)
14 May Miss Ruoxi Xiang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
TBD (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: W. Tang)
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