Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley

Present

Sanjoy K. Mitter
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

All Seminars are in 3110 Etcheverry Hall

10/29/03, Wednesday , 2:00 3:00 p.m., "Introduction to Information Theory and Control: The Interconnection"

10/31/03, Friday, 4:00 5:00 p.m., "Bayesian Inference, Information Flow and Entropy Production in the Kalman Filter and Optimal Decoder"

11/12/03, Wednesday, 2:00 3:00 p.m., "Bayesian Inference, Information Flow and Entropy Production in the Kalman Filter and Optimal Decoder" (continuation)

11/14/03, Friday, 4:00 5:00 p.m., "Inference and Control with Information Constraints"

 

ABSTRACT

These lectures attempt to give a dynamical view of Information and Control which I believe will be relevant in the understanding of networks of systems consisting of plants, sensors, actuators and controllers linked through communication channels.

Sanjoy K. Mitter received his Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, in 1965. He taught at Case Western Reserve University from 1965-1969 and joined MIT in 1969 first as a Visiting Professor and then in 1970 as Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He served as Director, then co-Director of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems between 1991 and 1999. Professor Mitter has served on several advisory committees and editorial boards for IEEE, SIAM, AMS, NSF, and ARO. He is currently Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Mathematics and Optimization; SIAM Review; the Ulam Quarterly; and Random and Computational Dynamics. Professor Mitter is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

 

Hosted by Professor Roberto Horowitz, 5138 Etcheverry Hall, 642-4675, horowitz@me.berkeley.edu