Partners: Princeton University (New Jersey); University of California, Santa Barbara (California); Universidade Estadual de Campinas (São Paulo); Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Rio de Janeiro); Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (Rio de Janeiro).
Partners: Princeton University (New Jersey); University of California, Santa Barbara (California); Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil); Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (Brazil); Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (Brazil).
The Control and Dynamical Systems Alliance (CDSA) is developing a shared control and dynamical systems curriculum at leading research and educational institutions in the United States and Brazil. These areas are well positioned to play a pivotal role over the next several years in shaping a common scientific language across a variety of disciplines from mechanical, aerospace, and environmental engineering to bioengineering, communications, and economics. This wide range of applications makes these disciplines ideally suited for cross-disciplinary fertilization and fosters applications attractive to a wide scientific audience. One of the activity’s key foci is developing new approaches to education and outreach for the dissemination of basic ideas to nontraditional audiences.
In addition to joint curriculum development, the consortium serves as an effective mechanism for providing students with a unique educational experience. As national research institutes connected to the Ministry of Science and Technology (MCT), the Instituto de Matematica Pura e Aplicada (IMPA) and the Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC) function as nationwide graduate student recruitment hubs. The three U.S. institutions will host Brazilian students as well as identify graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing a portion of their education in Brazil. A faculty member at the U.S. host institutions will sponsor each student according to the universities’ individual regulations. Caltech, through its Control and Dynamical Systems (CDS) department, will be the primary host for activities in the United States. Caltech, Princeton, and the University of California, Santa Barbara have a well developed infrastructure for supporting visiting students and scholars.
The goals of this project are to develop course materials and modules for teaching control and dynamical systems and to organize teacher/student workshops and schools in areas related to control and dynamical systems.
ONLINE REFERENCES:
Brazilian partner site
http://vigo.ime.unicamp.br/capes.html
Control and Dynamical Systems Alliance (CDS) Homepage
http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~murray/projects/ed02-fipse
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Richard Murray
Project Director
U.S. Lead
California Institute of
Technology
Control and Dynamical
Systems 107-81
1200 E. California Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91125
Tel: 626-395-6460
Fax: 626-796-8914
Marco Antonio Teixeira
Brazilian Lead
Universidade Estadual de
Campinas
UNICAMP
CP-6065
Campinas 13081-970
Brazil
Tel: 55-19-37886045
João Hespanha
U.S. Partner
University of California,
Santa Barbara
Dept. of Electrical &
Computer Eng.
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: 18058937042
Fax: 18058933262
View Personal Web Site
Clarence Rowley
U.S. Partner
Princeton University
MAE Department
D-wing, Engineering
Quadrangle
Princeton, NJ 08544
Tel: 609-258-7321
Fax: 609-258-6109
View Personal Web Site
Jacob Palis
Brazilian Partner
D. Castorina 110
Horto
Rio de Janeiro 22460-320
Brazil
Tel: 55 21 25295000 .
Marco Antonio Raupp
Brazilian Partner
Av. Getulio Vargas, 333
Petropolis 25651-070
Brazil
Tel: 55 24 22336002
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