Conference on Optimal Control and Nonsmooth Analysis

该奖项支持美国参加将于2006年6月在意大利罗马举行的题为“几何控制和非平滑分析”的会议。这是一个跨学科的会议，由来自七个国家的控制理论和非线性分析方面的知名研究人员进行了30多次演讲。课程包括哈密尔顿-雅可比方程、非线性偏微分方程的可控性、集值微分、稳定性和变分分析。这次会议的特色是由H.Hermes和R.T.Rockafella开创并产生重大影响的尖端研究主题，他们将成为演讲嘉宾。会议为期四天，包括著名数学家和控制工程师的全体演讲，年轻和新兴研究人员的较短讲座，以及主持关于开放问题的讨论。会议的研究主题是控制理论和优化，它们为许多现代技术提供了理论基础，包括航空学、生物数学、通信、制造、气候变化模型等。它们位于现实世界应用程序和开发有效模型所需的抽象数学理论之间的接口。本次会议积极促进对应用控制和优化感兴趣的年轻研究人员和研究生与已建立的控制和非流畅分析社区互动的跨学科机会。该奖项中相当大的一部分为研究生、博士后研究人员和人数不足的团体成员提供支持，这些团体没有其他允许他们参加会议的旅行支持手段。智力的价值是在工程学和数学控制理论社区之间的知识、理解和互动的进步中放置了一个智力里程碑。将通过一个主要出版商出版会议记录来确保会议文件的广泛传播。

This award supports U.S. participants in the conference entitled, "Geometric Control and Nonsmooth Analysis," to be held June 2006 in Rome, Italy. This is an interdisciplinary conference that is comprised of over thirty talks by prominent researchers in control theory and nonlinear analysis from seven countries. Topics include Hamilton-Jacobi equations, controllability of nonlinear partial differential equations, set-valued differentials, stabilization, and variational analysis. The conference features cutting edge research topics that were pioneered and greatly impacted by H. Hermes and R. T. Rockafellar, who will be featured speakers. The meeting is held over four days and includes plenary talks by prominent mathematicians and control engineers, shorter lectures by young and emerging researchers, and moderated discussions on open problems.The research themes of the conference are control theory and optimization, which provide the theoretical foundations that underlie many modern technologies including aeronautics, biomathematics, communications, manufacturing, models of climate change, and many others. They lie at the interface between real-world applications and abstract mathematical theory required for the development of effective models. This conference actively promotes interdisciplinary opportunities for young researchers and graduate students interested in applied controls and optimization to interact with the established control and nonsmooth analysis communities. A sizable portion of this award provides support to graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and members of under-represented groups without other means of travel support that allows them to participate in the conference. The intellectual merit is the placement of an intellectual landmark in the advancement of knowledge, comprehension, and interaction between the engineering and mathematical control theory communities. Broad dissemination of the conference papers will be assured through the publication of proceedings by a major publisher.