Symposium on Systems, Control and Networks in Honor of Professor Pravin Varaiya on His 65Th Birthday June 5–7, 2005 Berkeley, Calif

Symposium on Systems, Control and Networks In honor of Professor Pravin Varaiya on his 65th birthday June 5–7, 2005 Berkeley, Calif.

All are welcome to attend Program and participate! Topics include stochastic systems, hybrid systems, transportation systems, This meeting will be held Sunday-Tuesday, June economics and networks 5-7, 2005 in Berkeley, Calif., just before the American Control Conference in Portland, Ore. Sunday June 5 9:00–10:00 am Registration desk/coffee (Claremont) Locations 10:00 am–5:00 pm Talks/Lunch/Panels (Claremont) 5:30–7:30 pm Reception (Claremont) Claremont Resort and Spa 41 Tunnel Road Monday June 6 Berkeley, Calif. 8:30–9:00 am Registration desk/coffee (Sibley Auditorium) Sibley Auditorium 9:00 am–5:00 pm Talks, lunch, panels (Sibley Auditorium) College of Engineering 6:30–10:00 pm Reception and Banquet (Claremont) University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, Calif. Tuesday June 7 8:30–9:00 am Registration desk/coffee (Sibley Auditorium) Sponsors 9:00 am–1:30 pm Talks, lunch, panels (Sibley Auditorium)

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Hani Mahmassani, Uni- (DARPA) Speakers versity of Maryland National Science Foundation Karl J. Astrom, Lund Institute of Technology (Keynote) The Institute for Systems Research Ahmad Bahai, CTO and Fellow, Sanjoy K. Mitter, Massa- University of Maryland National Semiconductor chusetts Institute of John S. Baras, University of Maryland The Department of Electrical Engineering and Technology (Keynote) Computer Sciences, Univ. of California, Berkeley Vivek Borkar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Markos Papageorgiou, Technical University of Research Crete Registration and fee Mark H.A. Davis, Imperial College (Keynote) Shankar Sastry, University of California, Akash Deshpande, CTO, Teja Technologies Berkeley (Keynote) All are welcome to attend and participate! Reg- Tyrone Duncan, University of Kansas Steve Shladover, University of California, ister online at www.isr.umd.edu/varaiya_symposium. Bozenna Pasik-Duncan, University of Kansas Berkeley There is no registration fee for the symposium. Len Forys, The Forys Consulting Group, Joseph Sifakis, VERIMAG Laboratory, The cost of the banquet at the Claremont Resort Holmdel, N.J. Grenoble, France on Monday is $115 per person, $65 for students. Michael Gastpar, University of California, Demosthenis Teneketzis, University of Please send your check payable to the “Univer- Berkeley Michigan (Keynote) sity of Maryland Foundation” by May 20 to: Ms. Karen Deal, Institute for Systems Research, A.V. Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University Claire Tomlin, Stanford University Williams Bldg., University of Maryland, College Roberto Horowitz, University of California, John Tsitsiklis, Massachusetts Institute of Park, MD 20742. Advance payment is appreciated. Berkeley Technology Sri Kumar, DARPA Hal Varian, University of California, Berkeley Alexander Kurzhanski, UC Berkeley and Jean Walrand, University of California, Berkeley Accommodations Moscow State University Felix Wu, Hong Kong University and Edward Lee, University of California, Berkeley University of California, Berkeley A block of rooms has been reserved at the Cla- (Keynote) remont Resort and Spa at a special rate of $159/ night. This rate is available until May 10, 2005 for Luiz Fernando L. Legey, PPE/COPPE, Federal Outreach committee a limited number of rooms. After this date, reser- University of Rio de Janeiro vations will be accepted on a space available basis Organizing Committee René Boel, University of Gent, Belgium at prevailing hotel rates. Making room reservations Mustafa Ergen, University of California, Eyad H. Abed, University of Maryland early will help us in our planning. Berkeley Andrea Goldsmith, Stanford University Sonia R. Sachs, IBM Almaden Research Center To reserve a room, phone the hotel at 800–551– Roberto Horowitz, University of California, 7266 and mention the “UCB Varaiya Symposium” Berkeley Questions? and Group Code VARSYM. Or make your P.R. Kumar, University of Illinois reservation online at www.claremontresort.com. Use For program questions, e-mail Dr. Eyad Abed, the code VARSYM. S. Shankar Sastry, University of California, Berkeley Director, Institute for Systems Research, Uni- versity of Maryland, at [email protected]. The workshop is being administered through the Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland. For logistics questions, e-mail Karen Deal, Institute for Systems Research, University of