Block Travel Funds: 1990 IFAC Congress, Tallinn, USSR, August 13-17, 1990

国际自动控制联合会（IFAC）由44个国家成员组织（NMO）组成，每个成员组织代表本国与自动控制有关的技术学会。美国NMO是美国自动控制委员会（AACC），由七个成员协会的代表组成，其中最大的是IEEE控制系统协会。IFAC赞助了许多会议，但最重要的是三年一次的世界大会。第11届联合会世界大会将于1990年8月13日至17日在苏联塔林举行。第12届将于1993年在澳大利亚悉尼举行，第13届将于1996年在美国旧金山举行。第十一届IFAC世界大会的官方主题是“为人类服务的自动控制”。大会的目标之一是通过纳入主题从基础研究到工业和社会应用的论文，加强理论与应用之间的联系。第二个目标是加强包括美国在内的世界各地研究人员之间的合作。在过去，这个会议非常成功地吸引了来自世界各地的研究人员和其他工程师和科学家。最近一次国际会计师联合会世界大会是1987年在德国慕尼黑举行的第十届大会，出席人数超过1500人。因此，预计这次会议将成为美国和非美国之间交流思想的一个特别好的论坛。自动控制方面的专家。会议将分为特邀会议和定期会议。它将讨论控制理论主题以及工业控制、制造系统、自动化和其他相关问题的应用。

The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) is composed of 44 National Member Organizations (NMO), each one representing the technical societies concerned with automatic control in its own country. The U.S. NMO is the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) consisting of representatives from seven member societies of which the largest is the IEEE Control Systems Society. IFAC sponsors many conferences, but the most important is the triennial World Congress. The 11th such IFAC World Congress will be held August 13-17, 1990 in Tallinn, USSR. The 12th will be held in Sydney, Australia, in 1993, and the 13th in San Francisco, U.S.A. in 1996. The official theme of the 11th IFAC World Congress is "Automatic control in the service of mankind." One objective of the Congress is to strengthen the connections between theory and applications by including papers whose topics range from basic research to industrial and social applications. A second objective is to strengthen the cooperation between researchers from various parts of the world, including the U.S. In the past, this conference has been very successful in attracting researchers and other engineers and scientists from all over the world. The most recent IFAC World Congress, the 10th held in Munich, FRG, in 1987, had an attendance of over 1,500. Thus, the conference is expected to be a particularly good forum for the exchange of ideas among U.S. and non-U.S. experts in automatic control. The conference will be comprised of invited sessions and regular sessions. It will address control theory topics as well as applications to industrial controls, manufacturing systems, automation, and other related issues.