Antonis Papachristodoulou

Dr. Antonis Papachristodoulou is the Principal Investigator, University of Oxford team.

Dr. A. Papachristodoulou joined the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in January 2006, where he is now a University Lecturer in Control Engineering. He holds a PhD degree in Control and Dynamical Systems with a PhD minor in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and an MA/MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences Engineering from the University of Cambridge. During his PhD he developed a methodology based on the sum of squares decomposition of multivariate polynomials for understanding fundamental properties of complex nonlinear systems which is implemented in software, SOSTOOLS. This has found application in several examples from aerospace, Internet congestion control and process control. Honeywell PLC has used SOSTOOLS for safety verification of a life support system, which was modelled as a Hybrid automaton; NASA Langley used it for robust stability analysis of an integrated controller for highly flexible advanced aircraft; and as part of a contract with the European Space Agency and industrial partners (ESA/ESTEC Contract No.21629/08/NL/EK), SOSTOOLS was used for robustness and safety verification of the Mars Sample Return mission. His current research interests include the stability analysis of infinite dimensional systems and modelling of turbulence in plane Couette flow.

Latest:

  • The project has ended.
  • Paolo Luchini visited us on February 2016.
  • Mihailo Jovanovic and Armin Zade visited us during the two weeks 2-15 November 2015.
  • All our postdocs secured positions which will allow them to contninue working in cooperation with us: Deqing Huang will be a full professor at the Southwest Jiaotong University, China, Davide Lasagna will be a Frontier Fellow at the Universiy of Southampton, UK, and Giorgio Valmorbida will move to a faculty position at the Supelec and Paris-Sud University, France. Well done!
  • Next progress meeting on February 23.2015.
  • Remote conference was held on 5.02.2015.
  • Sergei was at UCLA attending the Mathematics of Turbulence programme. He gave two presentations about the project.
  • Remote conference was held on 30.10.2014.
  • Remote conference was held on 09.06.2014.
  • A progress meeting was held at Imperial College on 27.03.2014.
  • Charles Doering is at Imperial 25-27.03.2014 and in Oxford 27-28.03.2014 He is giving a talk on 26.03, see "Miscellaneous".
  • Remote conference was held on 14.03.2014.
  • Sergei gave a talk at the NeZaTeGiUs conference NeZaTeGiUs conference on 02.03.2014.
  • Deqing went to China 26-30 December and gave a talk at a workshop organized by the State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou.
  • Remote conference was held on 20.12.2014 The record is available from Sergei.
  • Paul visited London and Oxford for two weeks in October, and took part in the project meeting on 21.10.
  • Sergei gave a talk at ICNAAM 2013.
  • Remote conference was held on 19.09.2013 The record is available from Sergei.
  • Remore conferences were video recorded on 14.05, 06.06, 25.06, 11.07, 16.08, and 21.08.2013 The records are available for the members of the team from Sergei, but the records are not in the repository, to save space.
  • July 2013. Deqing gave a talk at the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
  • June 5 and 6, 2013. Our remote conference was spread over 2 days this time.
  • May 19-31, 2013. Sergei was in Stockholm, taking part in NORDITA Stability and Transition programme, and the follow-on SIG-33 workshop, where he gave a talk on using SoS in fluid dynamics.
  • May 14, 2013. We had our first remote conference. It was interesting, and useful. Giorgio, Davide, and Deqing presented, and we all had a good chat.
  • April 22, 2013. SVN repository for the project was created by Paul, hosted at ETH.
  • Kick-off meeting on April 18 went fine.
  • Paul is here!
  • Paul Goulart will be visiting Imperial from April 15 to May 3.
  • 30.03.2013 This website opens.
  • 28.03.2013 Project mailing list created.
  • 11-15.03.2013 Wynn visited Doering in Michigan.
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  • 19.02.2013 Chernyshenko visited Southampton team.