Workshop on the occasion of the Bernoulli year 1995


                 CONTROL OF UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS

              From the Calculus of Variations to
                  Optimal and Robust Control

        Groningen, The Netherlands, August 29 - September 1, 1995



Keynote Speakers:

F.H. CLARKE (Universite' de Montre'al)
    The historically persistent issue of nonsmoothness in dynamic
    optimization

J.C. DOYLE (Caltech)
    A behavioral approach to the control of uncertain systems

K. GLOVER (Cambridge University)
    Robust applied control

M.L.J. HAUTUS (Eindhoven University)
    The development from the calculus of variations to optimal control

H.H. ROSENBROCK (Manchester)
    Human purpose and machines

H.J. SUSSMANN (Rutgers University)
    300 years of optimal control: From the brachistochrone through the
      calculus of variations to the maximum principle and beyond


Other Speakers:

A. Antoulas (Houston, USA)
P. Bendotti (Paris, France)
S. Bhattacharyya (College Station, U.S.A)
S. Boyd (Berkeley, USA)
F. Colonius (Augsburg, Germany)
M. A. Dahleh (Cambridge, USA)
R. D'Andrea (Pasadena, USA)
F. Fagnani (Pisa, Italy)
P. Gahinet (Rocquencourt, France)
T. T. Georgiou (Minneapolis, USA)
M. Green (Canberra, Australia)
C. Heij (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
U. Helmke (Regensburg, Germany)
V. Kharitonov (St. Petersburgh, Russia)
H. Kimura (Osaka, Japan)
D. J. N. Limebeer (London, England)
H. Logemann (Bath, England)
D.H. Owens (Exeter, England)
F. Paganini (Pasadena, USA)
I. R. Petersen (Campbell, Australia)
J. W. Polderman (Enschede, The Netherlands)
D. Pratzel Wolters (Kaiserslautern, Germany)
A. Pritchard (Warwick, England)
L. Qui (Hong Kong)
A. Rantzer (Lund, Sweden)
E. Ryan (Bath, England)
C. Scherer (Delft, The Netherlands)
A. A. Stoorvogel (Eindhoven, The Netherlands)   <---
R. Tempo (Torino, Italy)
S. Townley (Exeter, England)
A. Tits (Maryland, USA)
A.J. Van der Schaft (Enschede, The Netherlands)
G. Weiss (Beer Sheva, Israel)
P. Whittle (Cambridge, England)
V. Yacubovitch (St. Petersburg, Russia)
J. Zabczyk (Warsaw, Poland)


Program Committee:

R.F. Curtain
D. Hinrichsen
A. Pritchard
J.C. Willems

Organizing Committee:

J.W. Nieuwenhuis
C. Praagman
H.L. Trentelman


1995 is the Johann Bernoulli year in Groningen. It is exactly 300 years
since he was appointed a Professor of Mathematics at the University of
Groningen. The workshop is being held to mark this occasion.
It is also part of an EEC Collaborative Grant between the  Universities of
Warwick, Bremen, and Groningen. Those who wish to attend the workshop should
apply before June 1, 1995 to

H.L. Trentelman
Mathematics Institute
P.O. Box 800
9700 AV Groningen
The Netherlands
Email: h.l.trentelman@math.rug.nl