Outline
00:00 - Intro
01:17 - Early Years
04:17 - The “Scenic Route” to Control Theory
12:44 - Sampled Data Systems
22:26 - Linear Parameter Varying (LPV) Identification
28:07 - From Distributed Systems and PDEs ...
38:59 - ... to Distributed Control of Spatially Invariant Systems
49:02 - Taming the Navier-Stokes Equations
50:55 - Advice to Future Students
1:13:12 - Coherence in Large Scale Systems
1:32:28 - On Resistive Losses in Power Systems
1:39:00 - Cochlear Instabilities
1:50:40 - Stochasticity in Feedback Loops
2:00:00 - About Linear and Nonlinear Control
2:08:14 - How to Select a Research Problem
2:14:21 - Future of Control
2:22:06 - Outro

Links
- Paper on moment-invariants and object recognition: https://tinyurl.com/26tnks3z
- Bassam’s PhD Thesis: https://tinyurl.com/3n2274dv
- Identification of linear parametrically varying systems: https://tinyurl.com/mryebhhy
- Distributed control of spatially invariant systems: https://tinyurl.com/rzszjch2
- Shift Operator: https://tinyurl.com/24fwehet
- Heat Equation: https://tinyurl.com/57rc6s7h
- Navier-Stokes Equations: https://tinyurl.com/45ktrd2e
- The impulse response of the Navier-Stokes equations: https://tinyurl.com/4vaausfn
- Non-Normal Matrix: https://tinyurl.com/58z4sph8
- Coherence in large-scale networks: https://tinyurl.com/ynm5cbay
- The Price of Synchrony: https://tinyurl.com/3svzancw
- Tinnitus: https://tinyurl.com/yc5hm549
- Cochlear Instabilities: https://tinyurl.com/fjespjbj
- Stochasticity in Feedback Loops: https://tinyurl.com/yc6aw9xt
- Koopman Operator: https://tinyurl.com/3jeu68p8
- Carleman Linearization: https://tinyurl.com/yckzrnfh
- Mamba Model: https://tinyurl.com/33h59jwj
- Spectral Factorization: https://

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This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

Outline
00:00 - Intro
01:28 - Platform-based design (PBD) in biology
16:42 - Cyberphysical systems, automotive industry, hybrid systems
27:32 - Contracts in system design
34:50 - Chiplets
41:48 - About time: the tag signal model
52:15 - Neuromorphics
59:21 - Innovative ecosystems
1:07:35 - Advice to future students
1:16:26 - The role of luck

Links
BiKi Technologies: https://t.ly/RuaW7
R. Murray: https://t.ly/Zy_Up
S. Sastry: https://t.ly/qsf44
C. Tomlin: https://t.ly/tQ0XZ
Platform-based design for energy systems: https://t.ly/RJdpi
State charts: https://tinyurl.com/yw69przw
Contracts for system design: https://tinyurl.com/496e953k
Formal methods: https://tinyurl.com/2yftcwsw
Chiplets: https://tinyurl.com/mrxyswua
A framework for comparing models of computation: https://tinyurl.com/2awyw3cr
Category theory: https://tinyurl.com/3bbfjdv9
E. Frazzoli: https://tinyurl.com/mspckmpd
A. Censi: https://tinyurl.com/5c87wuyx
A mathematical theory of co-design: https://tinyurl.com/ydp6jvp8
Prophesee: https://tinyurl.com/mtf9hpfm
Neuralink: https://tinyurl.com/bdcww89e
Openeye: https://tinyurl.com/3vh6ydmk
Epictetus: https://tinyurl.com/57ef2rud
Seneca: https://tinyurl.com/f7zuyz4d
F. Nietzsche: https://tinyurl.com/bd7znm4n
J. P. Sartre: https://tinyurl.com/3b2zt5cr

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This episode was supported by the National Centre of Competence in Research on «Dependable, ubiquitous automation» and the IFAC Activity fund. The podcast benefits from the help of an incredibly talented and passionate team. Special thanks to L. Seward, E. Cahard, F. Banis, F. Dörfler, J. Lygeros, ETH studio and mirrorlake . Music was composed by A New Element.

Outline
00:00 - Intro
02:40 - Classic Studies
06:51 - Early Steps in Berkeley between Optimization and Circuits Theory
16:04 - Back to Italy... and back to Berkeley
26:29 - The SPICE program and the interaction with IBM
33:30 - Logic Synthesis, Simulated Annealing, Timberwolf
40:57 - The Intel x386, YACR, and ESPRESSO
47:01 - The birth of Cadence and Synopsis
1:06:01 - Corsi e Ricorsi in EDA
1:30:45 - The Shift to Automotive and Platform-Based Design
1:39:06 - Outro

Links
Alberto’s website: https://tinyurl.com/2w8t8fza
State-space approach in problem-solving optimization: https://tinyurl.com/bdcnmbhp
EDA: https://tinyurl.com/3dur7yth
SPICE: https://tinyurl.com/yxm56txy
Logic Minimization Algorithms for VLSI Synthesis: https://tinyurl.com/49bnw3by
Simulated annealing: https://tinyurl.com/mryz45pz
Timberwolf: https://tinyurl.com/mvm28wnn
Intel 386: https://tinyurl.com/4z7ubb55
Cadence: https://tinyurl.com/hydjj92z
Synopsis: https://tinyurl.com/463vk8mk
Dracula: https://tinyurl.com/kcum5v8t
Corsi e ricorsi - the EDA story: https://tinyurl.com/mwar9p44
G. Vico: https://tinyurl.com/cb4mp7nz
Finite state machine: https://tinyurl.com/4ckszk2n
System-level design: orthogonalization of concerns and platform-based design: https://tinyurl.com/v2t4njt4
Quo Vadis, SLD? Reasoning About the Trends and Challenges of System Level Design: https://tinyurl.com/mpmmstun
Remembering Richard: https://tinyurl.com/yc6rf7u3
W. Shockley: https://tinyurl.com/w3chmutt

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Acknowledgments and sponsors
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