IFAC_Newsletter_2003_4 - The International Federation of Automatic Control

IFAC_Newsletter_2003_4

This issue of the IFAC Newsletter highlights major administrative updates, including the upcoming 2003 Council and Technical Board meetings in Rotterdam alongside SYSID-2003. It contains reports from international conferences and workshops covering intelligent control, optimization applications, and nonlinear systems. Readers will also find journal contents from Control Engineering Practice and Automatica, key leadership profiles, and a schedule of upcoming global events.

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The issue contains:

IFAC Council- and Related Meetings 2003

Date: 26–30 August 2003
What it covers: Outlines the upcoming IFAC Council and related meetings in Rotterdam held alongside SYSID-2003, detailing technical board updates, financial stability, website redesigns, and future organizational plans.

Visits to the IFAC Secretariat

What it covers: Reports on recent visits by international council members and NMO representatives to the IFAC Secretariat in Laxenburg to discuss operations and administrative cooperation.

Intelligent Control and Signal Processing – ICONS 2003

Author: António E. Ruano and Peter J Fleming
Date: 8–11 April 2003
What it covers: Summarizes the conference proceedings, technical tracks, plenary lectures, and panel discussions hosted at the University of Algarve in Faro, Portugal.

Control Applications of Optimisation

Author: R. Bars and E. Gyurkovics
Date: 30 June–2 July 2003
What it covers: Details the 12th IFAC workshop in Visegrád, Hungary, highlighting survey lectures, regular sessions, and key focus areas in optimization.

Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Methods for Nonlinear Control – LHMNLC’03

Date: 3–5 April 2003
What it covers: Overview of the workshop held in Seville, Spain, covering structural approaches to mechanical and electromechanical nonlinear control systems.

Control Engineering Practice

What it covers: Lists the table of contents and technical papers published in Issues 7 and 8 (July and August 2003), including a special issue on Process Dynamics and Control.

Automatica

What it covers: Lists paper titles, authors, survey papers, technical communiques, and book reviews appearing in Issues 7, 8, and 9 (July, August, and September 2003).

Who is Who in IFAC

What it covers: Presents biographical profiles of prominent IFAC officers and contributors, including Prof. Sirkka-Liisa Jämsä-Jounela, Prof. Ian Craig, and Dr. Gusztáv Hencsey.

Forthcoming Events

What it covers: Provides a chronological schedule of upcoming IFAC-sponsored symposia, conferences, and workshops planned worldwide for 2003 and 2004.