Student Travel Support for the 2009 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. To be held in Shanghai, China, on December 16-18, 2009.

该提案要求支持学生前往2009年12月16日至18日在中国上海举行的第48届IEEE决策与控制会议（CDC）。在接下来的几页中，我们认为NSF基金的建议使用具有实质性的知识价值，并将对我们的技术社区和整个领域产生积极的更广泛的影响。智力优势：越来越明显的是，当前许多技术前沿的研究深受控制和系统理论基础思想的影响。这项研究在通信和制造网络、金融和风险管理、多自主代理系统的协同控制和系统生物学等不同应用领域取得了进展。IEEE CDC是系统和自动控制研究领域首屈一指的年度国际会议。第48届疾病预防控制中心目前预计参与人数超过1700人。建议使用基金的首要智力价值是，研究生将亲眼看到控制和系统的基础如何发展并塑造许多应用领域的研究前沿。更广泛的影响：通过约1500项研究报告，包括几次全体讲座、众多教程报告、研讨会和展览，疾病预防控制中心为与会者提供了接触新兴控制研究和技术领域最新技术的机会。这种旅行支持的更广泛影响是，它将有助于培训下一代控制研究人员和从业人员。美国未来的安全和福祉依赖于在控制技术等关键领域保持大批训练有素的科学家和工程师。该计划支持的学生代表了IEEE控制系统协会的未来技术领导者，这是世界？是美国本学科领先的专业组织。

This proposal requests support for student travel to the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Shanghai, China, December 16-18, 2009. In the pages that follow, it is argued that the proposed use of NSF funds has substantial INTELLECTUAL MERIT and will have a positive BROADER IMPACT on our technical community and the field at large.INTELLECTUAL MERIT: It is increasingly evident that current research on many technological frontiers is heavily influenced by foundational ideas from control and system theory. This research is creating advances in such diverse applications domains as communications and manufacturing networks, finance and risk management, cooperative control of systems of multiple autonomous agents, and systems biology. The IEEE CDC is the premier annual international conference on systems and automatic control research. The 48th CDC now has an expected level of participation over 1700. The overarching intellectual merit of the proposed use of funds is that graduate students will see firsthand how the foundations of control and systems are evolving and shaping the frontiers of research in many applications domains.BROADER IMPACT: With around 1500 reseach presentations, including several plenary lectures, numerous tutorial presentations, workshops and exhibits the CDC provides attendees with exposure to the state-of-the-art in emerging areas of control research and technology. The broader impact of this travel support is that it will help train the next generation of control researchersand practitioners. The future security and well-being of the United States relies on maintaining pools of trained scientists and engineers in critical areas such as control technology. The students to be supported under the proposed project represent the future technological leaders of the IEEE Control Systems Society, which is the world?s leading professional organizationin the discipline.