Workshop on Dynamics and Control, August 19-21, 2002, Los Angles, California

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The rapid development of technology and its by-products require increasedprecision in mathematical modeling of the relevant phenomena to make themodels more realistic and more readily applicable. This has required somebasic changes in the direction of research in many fundamental areas. Thescientists concerned have been involved for some years now in promoting theuse of advanced methods in Analytical Dynamics and Control, and in theControl of Complex Nonlinear Systems. The workshop will involve experts bothin the purely dynamical aspects of such systems so that improved models withmore realistic predictions can be generated and experts in Lyapunovformalisms for handling bounded uncertainties in system parameters so thatcontrol actions can be made in the face of uncertainties. A range ofapplication areas is also intended to be broached, so that a crossover ofinformation between various disciplines that have the same types offundamental problems can be effected. Past experience has shown that suchcrossover of information has led to new ideas and new collaborative researchprojects among attendees of the workshop. Eleven workshops have been held to date between 1986 and 2000. The firstfive were held in the US at the University of Southern California, and theyhelped to get together scientists and engineers mainly from the US and thePacific Rim, with occasional participation from scientists from othercountries. In an effort to initiate a technical exchange between US and WestEuropean scientists and engineers who are working in this area, the next twoworkshops were held in Vienna (Austria) and Ulm (Germany). The East Europeanscientific community was drawn into the following workshop in Sopron(Hungary), which was co-sponsored by NSF and the Hungarian Academy ofSciences. The 1997 workshop was held in Rio de Janeiro and was sponsored bythe Brazilian Ministry of Science. This workshop indicated that there werenumerous scientists working in the area of Dynamical systems and Control inSouth America. The tenth workshop was held in Lambrecht (Germany) and wasco-sponsored by the Volkswagen Corporation and the National ScienceFoundation. The large community of scientists and engineers working in SouthAmerica caused the International Organizing Committee to select Brazil yetanother time, and the 11th workshop was held in Brazil in 2000. It has been decided by the International Organizing Committee to have thenext workshop in the US, in Los Angeles, bringing the venue after an entiredecade back to the location from which the workshops initiated. The workshopwill be held at the University of Southern California. One of the mainthrusts of this particular workshop is to focus more on bringing juniorfaculty (especially women-faculty) and graduate students, so that they canhave a greater chance of increased exposure to the more establishedcommunity in the area of dynamics and control, and so that they can have anopportunity to interact with their counterparts who are working outside theUS.These workshops, each of whose proceedings have been published either asspecial journal issues or as books, have led to the realization that thereare today a large number of scientists who are working in South America, theformer USSR, as well as both West and East European countries like Germany,France, Russia and the Ukraine, in similar areas of dynamics and control. Inparticular the last three meetings have clearly pointed out the need forincreased interaction between scientists from Europe, South America, and theformer USSR. There appears to be a substantial body of information gatheredin these countries that is yet unknown to US scientists and engineers. Anexchange of information in this important area with our colleagues in thesecountries will be beneficial to the engineering and scientific communityhere in the US. These workshops have led, in the past, to collaborativeresearch projects, not only among the US attendees but also betweeninvestigators from the US and those from different countries; some of thesejoint research projects have been funded by NSF. We therefore expect, asbefore, that the forthcoming workshop will open up new avenues forcollaborative research and sustained long-term cooperation among scientistsand engineers through joint research projects. This, we hope, will be moreso true for this particular workshop, since its focus will be more on juniorfaculty who may be more active and enterprising.