Conference: Convergence with Control: Bridging the Arts, Ecology, Neuroscience, and Engineering

社会、经济和技术系统的系统建模、分析和设计需要解决自然系统和人类群体如此有效地处理的无数权衡问题。来自不同学科的思想的融合，包括艺术、生态学、神经科学和控制理论，将进一步增强我们对这些非凡系统的基础的理解，并使我们能够促进工程系统中的这种健壮性和弹性。这类系统的例子从电力网络到互联和自动驾驶汽车，再到智能制造，再到混合的人-自动机系统。需要这种融合的更广泛的问题包括气候变化、能源效率和人与野生动物之间的冲突。为了开始一场旨在改进协同应对这些挑战的方法的对话，拟议的关于与控制的融合：连接艺术、生态学、神经科学和工程学的研讨会旨在将不同的科学界聚集在一起，并促进富有成效的跨学科合作。它将以不同的和著名的国内外演讲者为特色，包括早期职业研究人员。参与者将来自交叉学科，包括艺术、生态学、神经科学和工程学。除了讲座外，工作坊还将举办几项跨学科主题的活动，以促进团队组建和深入的科学讨论。研讨会将由特邀讲者主讲，并结合跨学科活动。研讨会的目的是促进和加强不同学科的专家之间的研究讨论和合作，包括生物学、艺术和工程学。被邀请的演讲者是生态学、神经科学、音乐舞蹈、动力系统和控制理论领域的顶尖专家。分主题：(一)集体行为和控制，(二)机器人、学习和控制，以及(三)神经科学和控制，将确保讲习班的广泛议程既注重理论又注重应用。被邀请的演讲者是为了确保研究学科的广泛代表性而选择的，这样的曝光率也将使年轻的研究人员受益匪浅。这一奖项反映了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。

Systematic modeling, analysis and design of social, economic and technological systems requires addressing myriad tradeoffs that natural systems and human groups handle so effectively. A confluence of ideas from diverse disciplines, including arts, ecology, neuroscience, and control theory will further enhance our understanding of the underpinnings of such remarkable systems and enable us to facilitate such robustness and resilience in engineered systems. Examples of such systems range from electric networks to connected and autonomous vehicles to smart manufacturing to mixed human-automata systems. Broader issues that require such confluence include climate change, energy efficiency, and human-wildlife conflicts. To begin a dialogue aimed at improving synergistic approaches to these challenges, the proposed workshop on Convergence with Control: Bridging the Arts, Ecology, Neuroscience, and Engineering aims to bring a diverse scientific community together and foster fruitful cross-disciplinary collaborations. It will feature diverse and distinguished domestic and international speakers, including early career researchers. The participants will be from cross-cutting disciplines, including the arts, ecology, neuroscience, and engineering. In addition to the talks, the workshop will feature several activities with cross-disciplinary themes that will facilitate team-forming and facilitate deep scientific discussions. The workshop will consist of presentations by invited speakers interleaved with cross-disciplinary activities.The purpose of the workshop is to facilitate and enhance research discussions and collaborations among experts in a broad range of disciplines, including biology, arts, and engineering. The invited speakers are leading experts in the areas of ecology, neuroscience, music and dance, dynamical systems, and control theory. The sub-themes, (i) collective behavior and control, (ii) robotics, learning and control, and (iii) neuroscience and control, will ensure that the broad agenda of the workshop is focused both on theory and application. The invited speakers have been selected to ensure a broad representation of research disciplines and such exposure will also benefit young researchers immensely.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.