[Seminar 2] "Adaptive nonlinear control and learning dynamics with spiking networks" by Dr. Slotine

Dear all,

Neural Computation Unit (Doya Unit) would like to invite you to a seminar as follows.

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Date: Wedensday, January 16
Time: 15:00-16:00
Venue: Meeting Room C016 - Lab1 Bldg.

Speaker: Prof. Jean Jacques Slotine
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: Adaptive nonlinear control and learning dynamics with spiking networks

Abstract: This talk will review vintage results on stable adaptive nonlinear control and adaptive robotics and will also describe their recent applications to learning unknown dynamics with spiking networks.

Biolgraphy: Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Information Sciences, Professor of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, and Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory. He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, at age 23. After working at Bell Labs in the computer research department, he joined the faculty at MIT in 1984. Professor Slotine teaches and conducts research in the areas of dynamic systems, robotics, control theory, computational neuroscience, and systems biology.
Research in Professor Slotine’s laboratory focuses on developing rigorous but practical tools for nonlinear systems analysis and control. These have included key advances and experimental demonstrations in the contexts of sliding control, adaptive nonlinear control, adaptive robotics, machine learning, and contraction analysis of nonlinear dynamical systems.
Professor Slotine is the co-author of two popular graduate textbooks, “Robot Analysis and Control” (Asada and Slotine, Wiley, 1986), and “Applied Nonlinear Control” (Slotine and Li, Prentice-Hall, 1991) and is one of the most cited researcher in both systems science and robotics. He was a member of the French National Science Council from 1997 to 2002, and a member of Singapore’s A*STAR SigN Advisory Board from 2007 t0 2010. He is currently a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Italian Institute of Technology. He has held Invited Professor positions at College de France, Ecole Polytechnique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Universita di Roma La Sapienza, and ETH Zurich.
Professor Slotine is the recipient of the 2016 Rufus Oldenburger Medal.
 

We hope to see many of you at the seminar.

Sincerely,
Kikuko Matsuo
Neural Computation Unit