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有效处理的无数权衡。来自不同学科的思想融合，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的鲁棒性和弹性。这些系统的例子包括从电力网络到互联和自动驾驶汽车，再到智能制造，再到混合的人类自动机系统。需要这种融合的更广泛的问题包括气候变化、能源效率和人类与野生动物的冲突。为了开始旨在改善这些挑战的协同方法的对话，拟议的“融合与控制：连接艺术，生态学，神经科学和工程学”研讨会旨在将不同的科学界聚集在一起，促进富有成效的跨学科合作。它将具有不同的和杰出的国内和国际扬声器，包括早期的职业研究人员。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，研讨会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。 研讨会将由特邀演讲者进行演讲，并与跨学科活动交织在一起。研讨会的目的是促进和加强研究讨论以及生物学、艺术和工程等广泛学科专家之间的合作。受邀的演讲者是生态学、神经科学、音乐和舞蹈、动力系统和控制理论领域的顶尖专家。分主题，（i）集体行为和控制，（ii）机器人，学习和控制，（iii）神经科学和控制，将确保研讨会的广泛议程集中在理论和应用。受邀演讲者的选择是为了确保研究学科的广泛代表性，这种接触也将使年轻的研究人员受益匪浅。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.