Program

The spring school consists of 4 days and half of classes, with each day devoted to a specific topic. The idea is to have a balance between the time devoted to standard frontal teaching and exercises under the supervision of the teachers. Besides, open Q&A time slots are planned to encourage the discussion beyond the fundamental themes covered during the classes. Moreover, two seminal talks by Bernard Maschke and Arjan van der Schaft are scheduled to cover more advanced topics.

More in detail, for each day we have the following schedule and topics, while the updated teaching material can be obtained here.

Monday, May 22 – Tools / Modelling
  • 09:00 – 10:30. Refresh on linear algebra
  • 10:30 – 11:00. Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:30. Port-based modelling primer and bond-graphs
  • 12:30 – 14:30. Lunch
  • 14:30 – 16:00. Exercises on port definitions in physical systems
  • 16:00 – 16:30. Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:00. Keynote talk by Arjan van der Schaft
Tuesday, May 23 – Modelling / Control design
  • 09:00 – 10:30. Multi-physics modelling
  • 10:30 – 11:00. Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:30. Control design for physical systems (I)
  • 12:30 – 14:30. Lunch
  • 14:30 – 16:00. Control design for physical systems (II)
  • 16:00 – 16:30. Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:00. Exercises on control design
Wednesday, May 24 – Control designs / Distributed-parameter systems
  • 09:00 – 10:30. Exterior calculus primer
  • 10:30 – 11:00. Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:30. The geometry of ports in infinite-dimensional physical systems
  • 12:30 – 14:30. Lunch
  • 14:30 – 16:00. Exercises on modelling and control design
  • 16:00 – 16:30. Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:00. Q&A on port-based thinking
Thursday, May 25 – Distributed-parameter systems
  • 09:00 – 10:30. Control design for infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems (I)
  • 10:30 – 11:00. Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:30. Control design for infinite-dimensional port-Hamiltonian systems (II)
  • 12:30 – 14:30. Lunch
  • 14:30 – 16:00. Exercises on infinite-dimensional systems
  • 16:00 – 16:30. Coffee break
  • 16:30 – 18:00. Keynote talk by Bernhard Maschke
Friday, May 26 – Irreversible Thermodynamics
  • 09:00 – 10:30. Irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems
  • 10:30 – 11:00. Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 12:30. Exercise on irreversible port-Hamiltonian systems
  • 12:30 – 14:30. Lunch
  • 14:30 – 16:00. Closing session with Q&A