Relative Entropy Relaxations for Signomial Optimization
- Series
- Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
- Time
- Tuesday, October 27, 2015 - 12:30 for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 005
- Speaker
- Venkat Chandrasekaran – Cal Tech
Please Note: Speaker’s Biography:Michael Malisoff received his PhD in 2000 from the Department of Mathematics at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. In 2001, he joined the faculty of the Department of Mathematics at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge (LSU), where he is now the Roy Paul Daniels Professor #3 in theLSU College of Science. His main research has been on controller design and analysis for nonlinear control systems with time delays and uncertainty and their applications in engineering. One of his projects is joint with the Georgia Tech Savannah Robotics team, and helped develop marine robotic methods to help understand the environmental impacts of oil spills. His more than 100 publications include a Springer monograph on constructive Lyapunov methods. His awards include the First Place Student Best Paper Award at the 1999 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, two three-year NationalScience Foundation Mathematical Sciences Priority Area grants, and 9 Best Presentation awards in American Control Conference sessions. He is an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and for SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.