Southeast Control Conference 2021: A Networking and Brainstorming Opportunity for the Regional DCSD Community; Blacksburg, Virginia; November 29-30, 2021

东南控制会议(SECC)的目标是提供一个智力激发的环境，在这里，动力学、控制、传感和诊断学领域的学生和研究人员可以相互展示他们的研究，交流一些最新的尖端研究想法，并建立他们的专业网络。SECC将向在美国大陆东南部工作的参与者开放，以加强区域网络并鼓励快速交流研究新颖性。将特别重视从传统上代表人数较少的少数群体中积极招募工程和历史上的黑人学院和大学的参与者。东南部是许多在动力学、控制和系统理论方面富有成效的研究小组的所在地，尽管这些小组中的大多数在地理上彼此接近，但他们很少在一些国际会议之外进行互动，而且由于与会者众多和相互竞争的义务，这些国际会议上的互动深度有限。在SECC上讨论的大多数主题属于NSF的动力学、控制和系统诊断计划的范围，通过首次支持这次会议，NSF将帮助这个创新的新会议在其存在的头几年变得更好地建立起来，减轻一些筹款负担，使组织者能够专注于建立对活动的持续认识和兴趣，展示活动的价值，并为组织未来的SECC建立易于复制的程序。SECC 2021将在一天半的时间内组织，将交替举行口头陈述会议和多次休息的海报演示，提供弗吉尼亚理工大学校园之旅。还有一场社交宴会。该组织将最大限度地增加与会者交流研究想法和网络的机会。一位特邀演讲者，可能是相关联邦资助机构的项目经理，可能具有不同的背景，将介绍他们的研究组合，并将成为年轻与会者的潜在榜样。演讲者将根据项目主席评估的一页摘要的相关性、深度和广度来选择。作为摘要提交过程的一部分，候选人发言者的人口统计数据将被记录下来，以最大限度地增加来自不同研究小组和机构的发言者参与发言的机会。发送给所有与会者的会后调查将使会议组织者能够评估SECC在实现其目标方面的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The goal of the Southeast Control Conference (SECC), which is at its second edition, is to provide an intellectually stimulating environment where student and researchers in the areas of dynamics, control, sensing, and diagnostics can present their research to one another, exchange some of the latest cutting edge research ideas, and build their professional networks. The SECC will be open to participants working in the southeast of the continental US to strengthen a regional network and incentivize rapid exchange of research novelties. Special emphasis will be given to the active recruiting of participants from traditionally underrepresented minorities in engineering and historically black colleges and Universities (HBCUs). The Southeast is home to a number of productive research groups in dynamics, control, and systems theory and, although most of these groups are geographically close to one another, they rarely interact outside a few international conferences, and the depth of interactions at these international conferences is limited due to a large number of attendees and to competing obligations. Most of the topics addressed at SECC fall within the purview of NSF's Dynamics, Control and Systems Diagnostics program, and, by supporting this conference for the first time, NSF will help this innovative new conference to become better established in its first few years of existence by relieving some of the fundraising burdens and enabling the organizers to focus on building sustained awareness and interest in the event, demonstrating the value of the event, and establishing easily replicated procedures for organizing future edition of the SECC.The SECC 2021 will be structured over one and a half days and will alternate oral presentation sessions and poster presentations with multiple breaks, offering tours of the Virginia Tech campus, and a social banquet. This organization will maximize the attendees’ opportunities to exchange research ideas and network. A guest speaker, possibly a program manager in a relevant federal funding agency, and possibly with a diverse background, will present about their research portfolio and will serve as a potential role model for younger attendees. Speakers will be selected based on the relevance, depth, and breadth of a one-page abstract evaluated by the Program Chairs. As part of the abstract submission process, the candidate speakers’ demographics will be recorded to maximize the opportunities of speakers from diverse research groups and institutions to intervene. A post-conference survey sent to all attendees will allow the Conference organizers to assess the effectiveness of SECC in reaching its goals.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.