TWCCC Spring 2025 Meeting - In Person

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

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Tentative Program (All Times PST)

Monday February 24th, 2025

1:00 - 1:10  Welcome and Introduction

1:10 - 3:00  Supply Chain and Planning

1:10 - 1:30 - Shashank Venkatesan (Baldea group) - "State space representations and system-theoretical properties of supply chains of perishable products"

1:30 - 2:00 - Prof. Jay H. Lee - "Multiperiod supply chain planning under uncertainty"

2:00 - 2:30 - TBD

2:30 - 2:50  Break

2:50 - 4:30  Process Control

2:50 - 3:20 - Prof. Styliana Avraamidou - "Distributed MPC: Reducing computation and communication Load by exploiting facet properties"

3:20 - 3:50 - Dr. Steven Kuntz (Rawlings group) - "Offset-free model predictive control: stability under plant-model mismatch"

3:50 - 4:10 - Prithvi Dake (Rawlings group) - "Economic optimization using neural-network based structured modeling"

4:10 - 4:30 - Davide Mannini (Rawlings group) - "Robust control: Optimal solutions and stability properties"

4:30 - 4:45  Break

4:45 - 5:45  Poster Session 

Jon Li (Lee Group) - "Electrolyzer degradation modeling"

Abdulrahman AlMashaan (Lee Group) - "Direct Air Capture (DAC) under varying air conditions"

Sairaj Patel (Lee group) - "Electrothermal carbon capture and conversion"

Titus Quah (Rawlings Group) - "Control of active matter systems"

Prithvi Dake (Rawlings group) - "Economic optimization using neural-network based structured modeling"

Davide Mannini (Rawlings group) - "Robust control: Optimal solutions and stability properties"

6:30  Dinner 

Tuesday February 25th, 2025

8:15 - 9:00  PI Meeting / Breakfast

9:00 - 10:20  Machine Learning

9:00 - 9:30 - Prof. Victor Zavala - "Advances in Bayesian Optimization and closed-loop experimental design"

9:30 - 9:50 - Jaron Thompson (Zavala group) - "Physics-constrained machine learning and uncertainty quantification for dynamical systems"

9:50 - 10:20 - Ilias Mitrai - "Algorithm selection and configuration for MPC via machine learning"

10:20 - 10:40  Break

10:40 - 11:50  Modeling and Sustainability

10:40 - 11:10 - Prof. Michael Baldea - "Staying alive: Novel approaches for maintaining and updating neural network models of physical systems"

11:10 - 11:30 - Sophia B Shi (Baldea group) - "Equation-oriented modeling and optimization for hydrogen infrastructure"

11:30- 11:50 - Sairaj Patel (Lee group) -  "Electrothermal carbon capture and conversion"

12:10  Adjourn