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SEMINAR SERIES ON

COMPLEX SYSTEMS, NETWORKS, CONTROL AND CHAOS

Fridays, January 14 to May 14, 2011, 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.

14 Jan Prof. Ron Addie, University of Southern Queensland, Australia
Geometry and Gaussian measures in performance evaluation (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: M. Zukerman)
20 Jan (Thurs 11am) Prof. Okyay Kaynak, Bogazici University, Turkey
(Former President, IEEE Industrial Electronics Society)
The entanglement of control and IT: intelligent control in mechatronics (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
21 Jan Prof. Zvi Rosberg, Visiting Professor, CityU
A generic time driven fractional wavelength optical circuit switches (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: M. Zukerman)
28 Jan Dr Jane Wang, University of Bristish Columbia, Canada (Visiting Associate Professor, PolyU)
Signal processing methods for brain connectivity modeling (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
4 Feb CHINESE NEW YEAR

11 Feb Dr Patrick Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
A secure overlay cloud storage system with access control and assured deletion (Venue: G6302, CityU, Chair: R. Cheung)
18 Feb Mr Meng Huang, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU
Catastrophic bifurcation in three-phase boost rectifiers: experimental observation (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
25 Feb Prof. Guanrong Chen, Department of Electronic Engineering, CityU
How to write a good English technical paper for publication? [in Putonghua] (Venue: Lecture Theatre 9, CityU)
4 Mar Dr K. H. Loo, Faculty of Engineering, PolyU
Introduction to Some Recent Issues on Driving Light-Emitting Diodes (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Tse)
11 Mar Dr Zhongzhi Zhang, Fudan University
Random walks on complex networks (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: T. Chow)
15 Mar (Tues 3:30pm) Dr Kai-Yuen Cheong, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
On the recent topics of cryptography (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
18 Mar Original talk re-scheduled to April 1, 2011, in order to allow participation in the Public Seminar on "The Fukushima Nuclear Mishap" by Prof. C.H. Woo at AG710, PolyU, same time.
25 Mar Dr Pitikhate Sooraksa, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand
A mimimum complex network of robots (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: A. Leung)
1 Apr Dr Kai-Yuen Cheong, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Quantum information technology (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: F. Lau)
8 Apr Miss Yuan Lin, Fudan University
Counting spanning trees in self-similar complex networks (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: K.W. Wong)
15 Apr Dr Lachlan L. H. Andrew, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia
Controlling the Internat to improve energy efficiency (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: M. Zukerman) NOTE THE VENUE BEING CITYU FOR THIS WEEK
22 Apr EASTER FRIDAY

29 Apr Prof. Jiu Ding, University of Southern Mississippi, USA
A least squares method for computing a fixed density of the Frobenius-Perron operator (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: G. Chen)
6 May Mr Graciano Dieck Kattas, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, PolyU
Modelling of pigeon flocks for simulation and determination of collective behavior (Venue: CD634, PolyU, Chair: M. Small)
13 May Dr K.W. Wong, City University of Hong Kong
Source coding, encryption and channel coding based on chaos (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: W. Tang)
25 May (Wed 11:00am) Prof. David Hill, The University of Sydney, Australia
Smart grids (Venue: B6605, CityU, Chair: G. Chen)
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