HIstory of the Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)

CDC HISTORY 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Pradeep Misra, PC: Rick Middleton Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel San Diego, 13-15 December 2006 Joint 44th Conference on Decision and Control, and 2005 European Control Conference GC: Eduardo Camacho, PC: Roberto Tempo Melia Seville Seville, Spain, 12-15 December 2005 43rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Christos Cassandras, PC: Wei-bo Gong The Atlantis, Paradise Islands The Bahamas, 14-17 December 2004 42nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Frank Lewis, PC: Chaouki Abdallah Hyatt Regency Maui Maui, HI, 9-12 December 2003 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Umit Ozguner, PC: Kenneth Loparo The Venetian Hotel Las Vegas, NV, 10-13 December 2002 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Theodore E. Djaferis, PC: Kevin M. Passino Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress Orlando, FL, 4-7 December 2001 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Robert R. Bitmead, PC: Cheryl B. Schrader Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre Sydney, NSW Australia; 12-15 December 2000 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Edward W. Kamen, PC: Christos Cassandras Crowne Plaza Hotel and Resort Phoenix, AZ, 7-10 December 1999 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: J. Douglas Birdwell, PC: David Castanon Hyatt Regency Westshore Tampa FL, 16-18 December 1998 36th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Anthony Michel, PC: Theodore E. Djaferis Hyatt Regency San Diego San Diego, CA, 10-12 December 1997 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Hidenori Kimura Co-PCs: Katsuhisa Furuta, J. Douglas Birdwell Portopia Hotel and International Conference Center Kobe, Japan, 11-13 December 1996 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Panos J. Antsaklis, PC: Edward W. Kamen New Orleans Hilton Riverside New Orleans, LA, 13-15 December 1995 33rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Michael K. Masten, PC: N. Harris McClamroch Buena Vista Palace Lake Buena Vista, FL, 14-16 December 1994 32nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Raymond A. DeCarlo, PC: Peter Ramadge Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio, TX, 15-17 December 1993 31st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Tamer Basar, PC: Sergio Verdu Westin La Paloma Tucson, AZ, 16-18 December 1992 30th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Derek Atherton, PC: Panos J. Antsaklis Metropole Hotel Brighton, ENGLAND, 11-13 December 1991 29th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Charles J. Herget, PC: Raymond A. DeCarlo Hilton Hawaiian Village Honolulu, HI, 5-7 December 1990 28th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control GC: Leonard Shaw, PC: Tamer Basar Hyatt Regency Tampa Hotel Tampa, FL, 13-15 December 1989 In blue the ones i attended. I started from the 28th, the first one where i had a paper!

systems biology

Systems biology is a control theorethic approach to biology. It is mainly based on the use of mathematical dynamical description used for gene regulatroy networks.
Gene regulatory networks are the newteorks describing the main genes and gene products relationships. Mostly of this relationship are depicted via pathways.
A pathway is a is a series of chemical reactions occurring within a cell, catalyzed by enzymes, resulting in either the formation of a metabolic product to be used or stored by the cell, or the initiation of another metabolic pathway (then called a flux generating step). Many pathways are elaborate, and involve a step by step modification of the initial substance to shape it into the product with the exact chemical structure desired.
The pathways are mostly qualitative description. Systems biology add a quantitative and systematic information and descritpion.
The first problem is where to find the quantitative information. Once the huge model has been found, many problems are still open. Biological complexity and limited quantitative measurements limit the modelling and simulation of gene networks, relevant and mostly unsolved topics in Systems Biology are:

• Parameter estimation,
• Optimal experimental design
• Identifiability
• Model validation

systems and control

I open this blog to interact with my students and colleagues about issues related to systems and control.
My other blog www.researcher.blogspot.com is dedicated to research methods and multidiciplinarity, this one is more dedicated to Education and it is focused on my area, the area of systems and control.
It will be partially in italian, because i will use it to interact with my students.