Conference on Optimal Control and Nonsmooth Analysis

该奖项支持参加将于2006年6月在意大利罗马举行的题为“几何控制和非光滑分析”会议的美国参与者。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领域的杰出研究人员组成的三十多场演讲。主题包括汉密尔顿-雅可比方程，非线性偏微分方程的可控性，集值微分，稳定化和变分分析。本次会议的特色是由H. Hermes和R. T. Rockafellar开创并影响深远的前沿研究课题，他们将作为特约演讲嘉宾。会议为期四天，包括著名数学家和控制工程师的全体会议，年轻和新兴研究人员的简短讲座，以及对开放问题的主持讨论。会议的研究主题是控制理论和优化，这为许多现代技术提供了理论基础，包括航空、生物数学、通信、制造、气候变化模型等。它们位于实际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。本次会议积极为对应用控制和优化感兴趣的年轻研究人员和研究生提供跨学科的机会，与已建立的控制和非光滑分析社区进行互动。该奖项的相当一部分用于支持研究生、博士后研究人员和代表性不足的群体成员，这些群体没有其他方式的旅行支持，无法参加会议。智力上的功绩是在工程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上的里程碑。将通过一家主要出版商出版会议记录，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.