TWCCC Spring Meeting - Virtual

University of California at Santa Barbara

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Detailed Program (all times Pacific)

Monday, 2/21/2022

8:00-8:25 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)

Speaker: Koty McAlister, UCSB

Title: The robustness of nominal and stochastic MPC: A comparison

8:30-8:55 a.m.

Speaker: Pratyush Kumar, UCSB

Title: Hybrid process modeling using neural networks and controller design with Q-learning

Discussant: James B. Rawlings, UCSB

9:00-9:25 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)

Speaker: Fernando Lejarza, UT Austin

Title: Closed-loop, feedback-based deterministic optimization vs. Optimization under uncertainty

9:30-9:55 a.m.

Speaker: Omar Santander, UT Austin

Title: Deep Learning -based MPC

Discussant: Michael Baldea, UT Austin

Tuesday, 2/22/2022

8:00-8:25 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)

Speaker: Professor Styliani Avraamidou, Chemical Engineering, UW Madison

Title: Mixed-Integer Adjustable Robust Optimization – A multi-parametric programming approach

8:30-8:55 a.m.

Speaker: Alex Smith, UW Madison

Title: Topology and geometry applied to data analysis

Discussant: Victor Zavala, UW Madison

9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)

Flash talks:

Rawlings group:

Steven Kuntz: Recent results on the turnkey MPC design problem

Davide Mannini: Comparison of traditional and robust minmax MPC through process monitoring

Baldea group:

Xin Tang: Empirical Analysis of the Dynamics of Closed-Loop Scheduling

Kyeongjun Seo: Multiscale modeling and optimization of carbon capture systems

Zavala group:

Amy Qin: Computer Vision for Sensor Design

Leo Gonzalez: Bayesian Optimization for MPC Controller Tuning

10:00 a.m. Pacific Time (PT)

Wrap up: James B. Rawlings