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Outline
00:00 - Intro
03:18 - Early days: why control, M. Athans, and IDSS
12:21 - What is gain scheduling?
33:37 - Paradigm shifts & the ‘90s: Minnesota → Texas → LA
42:19 - Robustness & fundamental limitations of nonlinear systems
57:35 - Set-valued control & estimation
01:04:52 - Game theory & multi-agent control
01:28:18 - Learning & dissipativity in games & multi agent AI
01:45:03 - KAUST: building something new
01:53:33 - On human-algorithmic interaction
01:59:07 - Advice to future students: control, jiu-jitsu, and chatbots in education
2:10:02 - Outro

Links
Jeff’s website: https://tinyurl.com/52btmmz7
CSM interview: https://tinyurl.com/49wh98x7
Domain: feedbackcontrol.com
M. Athans: https://tinyurl.com/nhbw66wa
PhD thesis: https://tinyurl.com/5eyxkfm6
IDSS: https://tinyurl.com/bdenwy6d
Research on gain scheduling: https://tinyurl.com/55se8zcr
Overview of LPV systems: https://tinyurl.com/3ksff58b
Åström’s lecture: https://tinyurl.com/33mxkkfe
Necessity of the small gain theorem: https://tinyurl.com/mjn9eeb4
Sensitivity reduction for nonlinear plants: https://tinyurl.com/23tej5yp
Respect the unstable: https://tinyurl.com/3yww5eds
Differential inclusion: https://tinyurl.com/4yvc8vcc
Lectures on game theory: https://tinyurl.com/4z8hh3rn
Dynamic fictitious play: https://tinyurl.com/yc6wsxjj
Cooperative control and potential games: https://tinyurl.com/4hbmrt72
Dissipativity theory in game theory: https://tinyurl.com/3theyc7x
Population games, stable games, and passivity: https://tinyurl.com/zxwtzv6w
Game theory and control: https://tinyurl.com/yencrwm3
Higher-order uncoupled learning: https://tinyurl.com/37
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Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/bdbvhsj6
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3z24yr43
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP
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Acknowledgments and sponsors
This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

Outline
00:00 - Intro
05:01 - Female Influencers in Control — The Backstory
08:08 - Sofya Kovalevskaya
15:21 - Irmgard Lotz
26:16 - A new wave of control influencers
34:26 - Some data
43:38 - What can one do? 
1:00:10 - Exhibition + survey
1:05:21 - Outro

Links
Female influencers in control project: https://tinyurl.com/mv879ahf
Charlotta Johnsson: https://tinyurl.com/343esbeu
Eva Westin: https://tinyurl.com/3p6fd5n8
Margret Bauer: https://tinyurl.com/47d35xzb
Sofya Kovalevskaya: https://tinyurl.com/4mmzruwc
Remembering Sofya Kovalevskaya: https://tinyurl.com/4cpw7vff
Irmgard Lotz: https://tinyurl.com/y2exmndm
Flow Computation Pioneer Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974): https://tinyurl.com/4cy3xsp3
Discontinuous Automatic Control: https://tinyurl.com/yeys5dxx
Historical Female Influencers in Automatic Control: https://tinyurl.com/yxw4bjxe
Activity report: https://tinyurl.com/jwzn4z3c

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Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3z24yr43
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP
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Acknowledgments and sponsors
This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

Outline
00:00 – Intro
07:22 – Anatomy of a feedback loop
15:12 – A brief historical recap on the history of feedback
23:40 – Inventing the negative feedback amplifier
34:28 – Feedback in biology, economics, society, and ... board games!
52:44 – Negative vs positive feedback
59:15 – Feedback, causality, and the arrow of time
1:06:22 – Classics: fundamental limitations, uncertainty, robustness
1:21:30 – Adaptive control: learning in the loop
1:29:50 – Modern AI feedback loops (RL, social media, alignment)
1:40:40 – Outro
Links
Watt’s flyball governor: https://tinyurl.com/ne5nene3
Maxwell - "On Governors": https://tinyurl.com/2a7cxj7m
Black - "Inventing the negative-feedback amplifier": https://tinyurl.com/yevsemdp
Nyquist Criterion: https://tinyurl.com/33hfbw8m
Bode's integral: https://tinyurl.com/53sxkdzu
Wiener - "Cybernetics": https://tinyurl.com/yta899ay
Apoptosis: https://tinyurl.com/mcxjycka
Predator–prey dynamics (Lotka–Volterra): https://tinyurl.com/5cvx33tn
Bird migration cues (photoperiodism): https://tinyurl.com/y2e7t22v
Neuron action potentials: https://tinyurl.com/2wemwdn4
Economic equilibrium & feedback: https://tinyurl.com/nhdx7r3s
Echo chambers: https://tinyurl.com/4v8yk7e8
Game design: https://tinyurl.com/bdhdhv38
Gap metric (Vinnicombe): https://tinyurl.com/y9nw3yve
Georgiou, Smith - "Feedback Control and the Arrow of Time": https://tinyurl.com/5xvj76jr
Annaswamy, Fradkov - "A Historical Perspective of Adaptive Control and Learning": https://tinyurl.com/4nfew8vm
Algorithmic trading flash crash (2010): https://tinyurl.com/2dsrs8j2
AI alignment: https://tinyurl.com/yvs3wnj8
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Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3z24yr43
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP
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Acknowledgments and sponsors
This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

Outline
00:00 - Intro
03:12 - Early life
09:07 - St. Petersburg: Stability of Ellipsoidal Bodies
20:13 - Kharkov: The General Problem of the Stability of Motion
34:37 - Back to St. Petersburg: Probability & Academy
46:22 - Tragic end
49:50 - Posthumous recognition 
57:49 - Legacy
1:20:39 - Outro
Links
A. M. Lyapunov: https://tinyurl.com/3kjuhfns
S. Lyapunov: https://tinyurl.com/mury7p3s
Smirnov's bio: https://tinyurl.com/6wpffh3z
Bissell's essay: https://tinyurl.com/3ds3hubj
Sechenov: https://tinyurl.com/ypsr37vc
Krylov: https://tinyurl.com/44wez8w5
Krylov subspace: https://tinyurl.com/bw527uh2
Chebyshev: https://tinyurl.com/2n35usfr
The General Problem of Stability of Motion: https://tinyurl.com/mv2jchv2
Lyapunov stability: https://tinyurl.com/bb59vcuf
Central limit theorem: https://tinyurl.com/3r36p458
Van der Pol oscillator: https://tinyurl.com/3s68yyhr
Massera’s theorem: https://tinyurl.com/2zjmtvjw
LaSalle’s invariance principle: https://tinyurl.com/pjnrp3fh
Krasovskii: https://tinyurl.com/junbujsw
Popov criterion: https://tinyurl.com/uyt3kx5b
Control Lyapunov function: https://tinyurl.com/3v7bnusj
Artstein–Sontag formula: https://tinyurl.com/3fdebmm3
Input-to-state stability: https://tinyurl.com/3nca9nj6
Lyapunov equation: https://tinyurl.com/mvakw3yw
Hybrid systems: https://tinyurl.com/v39up6wk
Control barrier function: https://tinyurl.com/sy4p5jj
Dominance theory: https://tinyurl.com/msvnd4dv
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Podcast website: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/
Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/5n84j85j
Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/4rwztj3c
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Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/bdbvhsj6
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3z24yr43
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP
Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/35cu4kr4

Acknowledgments and sponsors
This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

Outline
00:00 – Intro
00:51 – Early steps in research
09:55 – Historical overview of traffic control
25:20 – What is traffic?
34:06 – Road traffic control
45:37 – PI control of road junctions
58:19 – From macroscopic to microscopic simulations and back
1:10:08 – Dynamic traffic assignment
1:21:28 – Return to Greece
1:28:33 – The optimal control problem
1:41:48 – Traffic estimation
1:47:34 – The impact of automation and connectivity
1:59:20 – Traffic as an artificial fluid
2:07:51 – The future of traffic control
2:10:48 – Advice to future students
2:13:53 – Outro

Link
Homepage: https://tinyurl.com/yw7kee97
CSS day lecture: https://tinyurl.com/46vua4r7
Monograph - Applications of Automatic Control Concepts to Traffic Flow Modeling and Control: https://tinyurl.com/5czax788
Review of road traffic control strategies: https://tinyurl.com/48u235pw
ALINEA: https://tinyurl.com/bdtvny87
METANET: https://tinyurl.com/3h9xv48t
AIMSUM:https://tinyurl.com/mr2xkryj
AMOC: https://tinyurl.com/3v2xysr2
HERO: https://tinyurl.com/yzn6vkwh
Real-time freeway traffic state estimation based on extended Kalman filter: a general approach: https://tinyurl.com/2ubsh7cy
TRAMAN: https://tinyurl.com/ypr65cfa
Coordinated and integrated control of motorway networks via non-linear optimal control: https://tinyurl.com/3v2xysr2
Motorway traffic flow modelling, estimation and control with vehicle automation and communication systems: https://tinyurl.com/49679hy8
From road congestion to vehicle-control enabled artificial traffic fluids: https://tinyurl.com/pk4j8htp
Support the show
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Podcast website: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/
Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/5n84j85j
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Youtube: https://tinyurl.com/bdbvhsj6
Facebook: https://tinyurl.com/3z24yr43
Twitter: https://twitter.com/IncontrolP
Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/35cu4kr4

Acknowledgments and sponsors
This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.