Center for Dynamics and Control of Smart Structures

PROJECT REVIEW MEETING
Watjen Executive Lounge
Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory
33 Oxford Street
Harvard University
October 24,25, 2000
 


Tentative TECHNICAL PROGRAM 

Tuesday, October 24, 2000

Watjen Suite
Morning Session

8:00 - 8:15 Registration and coffee
8:15 - 8:25 Venky Narayanamurti Dean’s Welcome
8:25 - 8:30 Roger Brockett Orientation/Schedule
8:30 - 8:40 Hua Wang The MURI Center
8:40 - 9:10 Roger Brockett Center overview 
9:10 - 9:25 John Baillieul  Overview of smart control of fluid dynamics
9:25 - 10:05 Howard Stone  Microfluidic diffusers
10:05-10:25 Coffee - Break
10:25-11:00 J. Baillieul/A.C. Smith  Modelling and  analysis for the control of flow separation
11:00-11:30 Richard Day Industrial problems in smart structures and micorfluidics
11:30-12:00 Don Wroblewski MEMS Microvalve Arrays for Fluidic Control

 Afternoon Session

1:00 - 2:00 Demos & Videos   Room 338
2:00 - 2:30 P.S. Krishnaprasad Systems overview
2:30 - 3:00 P.S. Krishnaprasad Modeling hysteresis
3:00 - 3:30 Thomas Weyrauch Adaptive optics using arrays of MEMS mirrors
3:30 - 3:45 Coffee - Break
3:45 - 4:15 John Baras Hysteresis: Numerics
4:15 - 4:45 J. Baillieul/K. Nonaka Information and signal processing for small-scale devices
4:45 - 5:00 P.S. Krishnaprasad Rings and Gyros
5:00 - 5:30 Stuart Antman Dynamics of Rings
5:30 - 5:45 Roger Brockett Day 1 Wrap-up


Wednesday, October 25, 2000
Room TBA

8:00 - 8:30 Coffee - Pastry
8:30 - 9:00 Thomas G. Bifano MEMS for optics
9:00 - 9:30 Stan Jurga Fluidic optical switches
9:30 - 10:00 E. Justh Wavefront sensing and control
10:00 -10:15 Coffee - Break
10:15-10:45 Brockett/Khneja Quantum control
10:45-11:00 Center Pricipals Q &  A  Wrap-up
11:00-12:00 EAB, TAC Closed panel meetings
12:00- 1:00 Panel/PI Meetings
1:00 ADJOURN ADJOURN


Dinner on Tuesday evening will be informal, with attendees invited dine together in small groups.
 

There will be a $30 registration fee for all attendees to cover lunch (on Monday) and coffee breaks.

To register and for information, contact 

Kathleen Lafrance
Harvard University
Division of Applied Sciences
343 Maxwell Dworkin Laboratory
Cambridge, MA 02138

Tel: (617) 495-4202 
Fax: (617) 496-6404 
Email: kath@hrl.harvard.edu