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SAMSI course on 

"Multiscale Model Development and Control Design"

Instructors:

Professor Alan Gelfand, ISDS - Duke University & SAMSI

Professor Ralph Smith, CRSC - NC State University & SAMSI

Class Time:  Tuesdays, 4:30 - 7:00pm

Class Location:  NISS Building, Room 104

Class begins January 13, 2004

University Listings

Duke University    STA 293.01

NC State              MA 810M

UNC                    STAT 331

COURSE INFORMATION

Introduction to deterministic and stochastic model development, numerical approximation, and control design for advanced materials. Energy-based, stochastic homogenization and statistical techniques for nonlinear model development, and full and reduced-order numerical approximation techniques for design and real-time control implementation. Statistical emphasis on stochastic modeling to accommodate scaling issues in both process mean specification and process error structure. Deterministic and stochastic techniques for robust control design for systems employing piezoceramic, magnetostrictive, shape memory alloy, and magnetorheological transducers.

Prerequisites

Multivariable analysis, advanced calculus, one semester of linear algebra, one semester of numerical methods, and some previous exposure to statistics and probability.

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