Southeastern Europe, USA, Japan, and European Community Workshop on Research and Education

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Project SummaryThe proposal seeks NSF support for twelve controls and signal processing researchersand teachers from the U.S.A. to attend a joint Balkan/USA/EC/Japan workshop onresearch and education in control and signal processing. Similar proposals have beensubmitted to the EC and Japan to support attendance by members of those communities.Approximately three-dozen attendees from the Balkans are expected.The intellectual merit of having a delegation of twelve Americans participate in such aworkshop is in the opportunities to learn from the other participants and in theopportunities to teach them. There will be many attendees who are outstanding in theirspecialties. Because of the recent troubles in the Balkans, many of their excellentresearchers have been isolated from the rest of the research community. This will be anopportunity for us to learn of their work and for them to catch up with what we have beendoing.The broader impacts of such a joint workshop are large. First, the Balkan countries havebeen a source of many outstanding researchers in the past. The workshop will help bringyounger researchers and students from the Balkans into the broader international researchcommunity. Second, the meeting itself will help foster further collaboration between theparticipants, their institutions, and their countries. Lastly, such meetings generallycontribute to broader understanding among people and nations.