报告人：   Kok Lay Teo (John Curtin Distinguished Professor， Department of Mathematics and Statistics ，Curtin University ，Perth, Western Australia)
报告时间： 2013年6月3日（星期一） 16:00-17:00
报告地点： 数学楼二楼学术报告厅  
 
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Abstract:
In this seminar, we will discuss some fascinating and diverse theory and applications in optimal control. We will begin by describing the standard optimal control problem with two practical applications. We will then proceed to discuss the following interesting optimal control problems:
(i)  Optimal control problems with cost on changing control;
(ii) Optimal control problems with multiple characteristic time constraints;
(iii) Optimal impulsive control problems;
(iv)  Minimax optimal control problems;
(v)   Optimal control problems with free terminal time;
(vi)  Optimal synchronization motion control problems;
(vii)  Optimal discrete valued control problems; and
(viii)   State-delay identification problems.
The focus will be on the practical motivation underlying these problems and their formulations. It is hoped that this seminar will stimulate research interests in optimal control  and its multidisciplinary applications.
 
About the Speaker 
    Kok Lay Teo (John Curtin Distinguished Professor) received his PhD degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He was with the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of New South Wales, Australia, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, the Department of Mathematics, the University of Western Australia, Australia. In 1996, he joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Curtin University of Technology, Australia, as Professor. He then took up the position of Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics and Head of Department of Applied Mathematics at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China, from 1999 to 2004. He returned to Curtin University of Technology as Professor and Head of Department of Mathematics and Statistics from 2005-2010. He is currently John Curtin Distinguished Professor at Curtin University. He has published 5 books and over 400 journal papers. He has a software package, MISER3.3, for solving general constrained optimal control problems. His editorial positions are:
 
· Editor-in-Chief: (i) “Journal of Industrial and Management Optimization”; and (ii) “Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization”. 
· Regional Editor: “Nonlinear Dynamics and Systems Theory”
· Member of Editorial Board: (i) Automatica; (ii) Journal of Global Optimization; (iii) Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, (iv) Optimization and Engineering, (v) Discrete and Continuous Dynamic Systems, (vi) Optimization Letters, (vii) Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems, (viii) Journal of ANZIAM; (ix) Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series A; (x) Pacific Journal of Optimization; and (xi) International Journal of Innovational Computing & Information Control.
The International Conference on Optimization and Control (ICOCO 2010) was held in Guiyang, China during July 18-23, 2010, dedicated to Professors Kok Lay Teo and Jie Sun. For further details, see the conference homepage at //sci.gzu.edu.cn/a/icoco..html.  Two special issues, one for Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B, and one for International Journal of Innovational Computing and Information Control are being dedicated to Professor Kok Lay Teo and Professor Jie Sun. They are published in 2011 and 2012, respectively.
Professor Teo’s research interests include both the theoretical and practical aspects of optimal control and optimization, and their practical applications such as in signal processing in telecommunications, and financial portfolio optimization.