Contributed by: Jan C. Willems 

                          INVITATION TO ATTEND
                             CALL for PAPERS


                        PERSPECTIVES IN CONTROL

                     A Scientific Conference in Honor of

                              ROGER W. BROCKETT

                             Harvard University
                    on the Occasion of his 60-th Birthday



                          October 23 and 24, 1998
                          Cambridge, Massachusetts


                              Keynote address

                        R.E. KALMAN (ETH, Z/"urich)

                         RANDOMNESS AND PROBABILITY:
                    The hype, the truth, and the future


The following former Ph.D. students and post-docs of R.W. Brockett have
accepted to give a presentation:

                J.S. Baras (University of Maryland)
                C.I. Byrnes (Washington University)
                J.J. Clark (McGill University)
                P.E. Crouch (Arizona State University)
                D. Dobkin (Princeton University)
                L. Faybusovich (University of Notre Dame)
                P.A. Fuhrmann (Ben Gurion University)
                R. Hirschorn (Queen's University)
                J. Ja Ja (University of Maryland)
                V. Jurdjevic (University of Toronto)
                A.J. Krener (University of California, Davis)
                P.S. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland)
                J. Loncaric (NASA)
                D. Montana (BBN)
                F.C. Park (Seoul National University)
                D. Seto (Carnegie Mellon University)
                S. Smith (Lincoln Laboratory)
                H.J. Sussmann (Rutgers University)
                T. Taylor (Arizona State University)
                D. Williamson (Australian National University)
                A.S. Willsky (MIT)
                W.S. Wong (Chinese University of Hong Kong)


The conference will close with a formal dinner on October 24, 1998.
Professor S.K. Mitter from MIT will give a Laudatio at the dinner in
honor of R.W. Brockett

Organizers:

J. Baillieul                  and          J.C. Willems
College of Engineering                     Department of Mathematics and
Boston University                          Computing Science
Boston, MA 02215,  USA                      University of Groningen, NL
Fax:    617-353-5866                       Fax: +31 50 3633976
Email: Brockettfest@enga.bu.edu            Email: Brockettfest@math.rug.nl


If you wish to attend the conference please inform one of the organizers by
electronic mail. There is room for contributed talks. Prospective
contributors are invited to submit a 200 word abstract by electronic mail
to one of the organizers as soon as possible. Deadline: May 1, 1998.

           Details on the program can be found on internet:
             http://eng.bu.edu/Brockettfest