Summer school and workshop, "New Trends in Optimal Control", 3-7 September 2012, Biblioteca Francescana, Ravello, Italy

The 2012 SADCO Summer school and workshop "New Trends in Optimal Control" will be held on 3-7 September 2012 in Ravello, Italy at the Biblioteca Francescana.

Organizers

F. Ancona (Università di Padova)
M. Falcone (SAPIENZA - Università di Roma)

The goal of the school is to offer a general overview of some recent topics in the area of optimal control for ordinary differential equations. A special emphasis will be given to pde's techniques, Hamilton-Jacobi equations, differential games and singular problems.

The school is mainly directed to PhD students, post-docs and young researchers in the areas of pdes, control, mathematical and numerical analysis who would like to enter the field of optimal control. We also want to present some emerging topics related to optimal control.
This event is part of the training activity of the SADCO ITN and is also open to other participants.

Group

Courses

There will be five mini-courses:

CONTROL OF COUPLED FAST AND SLOW DYNAMICS

Zvi Artstein (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot)

OPTIMAL CONTROL, HAMILTON-JACOBI EQUATIONS AND SINGULARITIES IN EUCLIDEAN AND RIEMANIANN SPACES

Piermarco Cannarsa and Carlo Sinestrari (Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma "Tor Vergata")

OPTIMAL CONTROL AND MEAN FIELD GAMES

Pierre Cardaliaguet (CEREMADE Université Paris IX Dauphine, Paris)

QUANTUM FEEDBACK CONTROL

Matt James (Australian National University, Cenberra, Australia)

INTELLIGENT GROUPS AND SPARSE CONTROLS

Benedetto Piccoli (Department of Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University, Camden, New Jersey, USA)

Timetable and organization

The courses will be concentrated in the first 4 days, Monday to Thursday. The school will start on Monday at 9am and will end on Thursday, late in the afternoon.
Following the school there will be a 1 day workshopwith several talks given by leading experts in the field.

Please consult the programme and presentations for more details.

The lectures of five mini-courses will occupy the mornings and part of the afternoon. All the courses will have 3 slots of 1.5 hours but the course of Cannarsa and Sinestrari which will have 4 slots of 1.5 hours in order to give an introduction to optimal control problems.

There will be time for discussions every day after the end of the lectures.

A poster session will also be organised on Tuesday afternoon.

Documents:

Programme and presentations

Abstracts of the courses

Workshop abstracts

Poster session abstracts

Posters in pdf

Attendance list

All the activities will be held at the Biblioteca S. Francesco (at walking distance from the hotels). More informations about the place can be found at the site: http://www.ravellofrancescana.it/Biblioteca/Biblioteca.htm

Participants will have access to WiFi in the conference room.

More photos of the Padova vs the Rest of the World football game

Registration

There is no admission fee for this event but you must be registered. Registrations can be done ONLY via WEB.

The summer school has reached capacity. Registration is now closed.

Financial support

The school can (partially) support young participants who will not have access to other research funds.
A limited number of young researchers (PhD students, postdocs) not having a formal connection with the SADCO network will be given the opportunity to attend the Summer School and the Workshop. SADCO will offer a grant to cover travel and/or accommodation.

Applications for financial support are closed.

Travel

Ravello is on the hills overlooking the Amalfi coast, one of the most famous sea locations in Italy. You can get information on Ravello on the Wikipedia site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravello

The closest international airport is Naples (about 80 km from Ravello). At Naples airport you can rent a car or go to Salerno by train. The closest railway station is Salerno, which is a common stop for the fast trains running from Roma to the South of Italy. From Salerno you can reach Ravello by bus or taxi (about 30 km).

A bus transfer will be organised from Salerno. The bus will leave Salerno Railway Station at 5pm (it will have a clear indication of the SADCO school on the front). If there is a sufficient number of requests, we can also organize a bus transfer from the Napoli airport on Sunday afteroon (tentative hour: 4 pm) If you intend to use one of these bus transfer services, please write to ravello2012@mat.uniroma1.it by August 20 simply indicating you name and the pick-up location (Salerno or Napoli). Similar bus transfer services
will be organized at the and of the school, more information will be available in Ravello.

To know more about the train connections click here
To know more about the bus connections on the Amalfi Coast (including the trip Salerno-Ravello) click here

The garden of Villa Rufolo

Accommodation and meals

The organization has pre-booking of several rooms in several hotels in Ravello, including Bonadies, Rufolo and Toro. Some rooms in small apartments are also available.

More detailed information, will be sent to you by email by May 25, along with a booking form that you will be invited to fill out.

After June 10, we can not guarantee the hotel accommodation and you can book directly your room (for example via www.booking.com).

For a map of Ravello click here.

For a map of hotels in Ravello, click here.

Please note that lunches will not be provided for during the summer school.

Important dates

April 30 deadline for the financial request
May 15 deadline for the application and the poster session
June 10 deadline for the hotel reservation

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