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COMPLEX SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, CONTROL AND CHAOS

Fridays, January 13 to May 14, 2010, 4:30pm - 5:30pm
Room B6605 (Blue Zone) or G6302 (Green Zone), City University of Hong Kong
Room CD634 (Enter from D or E core), Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Tea and coffee served at 4:15pm outside the venue

All seminars will be in English

The Centre for Chaos and Complex Networks at the City University of Hong Kong and the Department of Electronic and Information Engineering at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University continue their joint seminar series in this semester, to present tutorial overviews and original research work in the general areas of chaos and bifurcation, systems control, complex networks and their engineering applications. A list of tentative topics and schedule is as follows.

13 Jan (Wed 11:00am) Prof. Frank Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
Online learning design of optimal control systems (Venue: B6619, CityU, Chair: R. Chen)
15 Jan Prof. Xinghuo Yu, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
Symbolic dynamics approach for discrete-time nonlinear systems and control (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: R. Chen)
21 Jan (Thursday 4:30pm) Prof. Janet Wang, University of Arizona, USA
A self-calibrating design methodology for power efficient multi-core system (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: W. Tang)
22 Jan Dr Philip Yam, Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Behavioral optimal insurance: its resolution of a socioeconomic enigma (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
29 Jan Mr Wenwu Yu, City University of Hong Kong
Consensus in networked multi-agent systems (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: W. Tang)
5 Feb Dr Adela Lau, School of Nursing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ontology-enabled database management systems (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
12 Feb Chinese New Year Eve
19 Feb Prof. Xinchu Fu, Shanghai University, Shanghai
Propagation dynamics on complex networks (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Small)
22 Feb (Monday 4:30pm) Prof. Jonathan Manton, University of Melbourne, Australia
Reverse-engineering the Brain - an international grand challenge (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: S. Chan)
26 Feb Prof. Clement Lam, Concordia University, Canada
Solving problems in discrete mathematics with computers (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: T. Chow)
5 Mar Mr Yao Chen, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Estimate the convergence speed of discrete-time multi-agent systems (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
12 Mar Dr Xiaojuan Sun, Tsinghua University, Beijing
Synchronization and coherent resonance in neuronal networks (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: K.W. Chung)
15 Mar (Monday 4:30pm) Prof. Cetin Kaya Koc, Istanbul Sehir University, Turkey
A brief history of cryptographic hardware design (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: R. Chen)
17 Mar (Wednesday 11:00am) Prof. Tetsuro Endo, Meiji University, Japan
Transition from the standing pulse wave to the propagating pulse wave in a ring of coupled bistable oscillators (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
19 Mar Mr Xiaofan Liu, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
TBD (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
22 Mar Prof. Guoxiang Gu, University of Louisiana State University, USA
Networked feedback stabilization (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: )
26 Mar Prof. Xinchu Fu, Shanghai University, Shanghai
Periodicity and complexity of some dynamical systems with discontinuities (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: K.W. Wong)
29 Mar (Monday 4:30pm) Prof. Izhak Rubin, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Networking Across Mobile Wireless Networks (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: M. Zukerman)
2 Apr Good Friday
9 Apr Prof. Keith Chan, Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Discovering interesting structural patterns in complex biological networks (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
13 Apr (Tuesday 4:30pm) Prof. Kung Yao, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Super efficient Monte Carlo simulation methodology based on novel use of correlated chaotic sequences (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
16 Apr Dr Joshua Lee, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
MEMS resonators: Tiny devices with big opportunities (Venue: G5317, CityU, Chair: T. Ko)
23 Apr Prof. Jie Chen, City University of Hong Kong
When will zeros of time-delay systems cross imaginary axis? (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Small)
30 Apr Dr Lam Yeung, City University of Hong Kong
Gradient appromixation based system identification algorithms (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: A. Leung)
7 May Mr Wilson Thong, Department of Electronic Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
Complex congestion behavior in deflection routing (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
13 May (Thursday 2:30pm) Prof. Milivoj R. Belic, Texas A&M University at Qatar
Dancing light: Counterpropagating beams in photore-fractive and photonic crystals (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: N. Chan)
14 May Ms Ruoxi Xiang, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Complex network properties from time series (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: W. Tang)
19 May (Wednesday 4:30pm) Prof. Gennady A. Leonov, St Petersburg State University, Russia
Strange attractors and classical stability theory (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: Ron Chen)
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