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Center for Systems and Control (CSC@USC) and Ming Hsieh Institute for Electrical Engineering

Speaker: Francesco Bullo, University of California, Santa Barbara

Talk Title: Network Systems and Kuramoto Oscillators

Series: Fall 2017 Joint CSC@USC/CommNetS-MHI Seminar Series

Abstract: Network systems are mathematical models for the study of cooperation,
propagation, synchronization and other dynamical phenomena that arise
among interconnected agents. Network systems are widespread in science
as fundamental modeling tools. They also play a key growing role in
technology, e.g., in the design of power grids, cooperative robotic
behaviors and distributed computing algorithms. Their study pervades
applied mathematics.

This talk will review established and emerging frameworks for
modeling, analysis and design of network systems. I will survey the
available comprehensive theory for linear network systems and then
highlight selected nonlinear concepts. Next, I will focus on recent
developments on the analysis of security and transmission capacity in
power grids. I will review the Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators
and present recent results on its synchronization behavior.

Biography: Francesco Bullo is a Professor with the Mechanical
Engineering Department and the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems
and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was
previously associated with the University of Padova, the California
Institute of Technology, and the University of Illinois. His research
interests focus on network systems and distributed control with
application to robotic coordination, power grids and social
networks. He is the coauthor of "Geometric Control of Mechanical
Systems" (Springer, 2004) and "Distributed Control of Robotic
Networks" (Princeton, 2009); his forthcoming "Lectures on Network
Systems" is available on his website. He received best paper awards
for his work in IEEE Control Systems, Automatica, SIAM Journal on
Control and Optimization, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
and IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. He is a Fellow of
IEEE and IFAC. He has served on the editorial boards of IEEE, SIAM,
and ESAIM journals, and will serve as IEEE CSS President in 2018.

Host: Ketan Savla, ksavla@usc.edu

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 132

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Gerrielyn Ramos