In this May, Dr. Elena Panteley and Prof. Shaoshuai Mou visited CDSL. Both of them made a seminar on their own researches on consensus theory, had following discussions with our members to share the key intuitions of their respective fields, and became one of the examination committee for Ph. D. candidates in CDSL.
Dr. Elena Panteley, senior researcher in French National Centre of Scientific Research, visited CDSL from May 22 to 28. As her research interests include control techniques of nonlinear dynamical systems and network systems with application to neuronal systems, she made a seminar on dynamic consensus in heterogeneous networks (more information about the seminar in this link).
As she has been a pioneer of the researches on consensus theory for a long time, there were a lot of lessons to learn from her. Especially, her own intuition of micro/macro level analysis by closed-loop of mean field system and synchronization error dynamics had something to do with our viewpoint of blended dynamics approach, so it leads to very specific and productive discussion about synchronization of nonlinear oscillators. Moreover, she attended Jin Gyu’s initial examination and gave him many helpful comments about the presentation as well as the graduation thesis.
Prof. Shaoshuai Mou, associate professor in School of Aeronautics at Purdue University (refer to his homepage), visited CDSL from May 29 to June 1. One of the purposes for his visiting CDSL was to attend Taekyoo’s Ph. D. examination, which was very grateful to get a lot of fruitful comments.
As Prof. Mou has been interested in various research topics and is steadily working on many of them, he made a seminar on distributed equation solving and resilient consensus-based distributed algorithms (more information about the seminar in this link). The seminar was only for around one hour length, but it was enough to feel his passion and activeness for the research. Since both topics of distributed equation solving and resilient consensus-based algorithms are very close to topics of CDSL members, which are distributed and resilient state estimation, again we could make a deep discussion about them. As we exchanged our recent papers and presentation material as “presents,” it will be very nice for us to make the next discussion someday to continue the collaborative work!
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