Major Conferences Sponsored by the Lab.
Since 1979, the Lab. has organized the Annual Chinese Control Conference (23 times so far) as well as many other important international academic conferences, including the 14th IFAC World Congress (July 1999), the International Symposium on Intervention and Adaptation in Complex Systems, which was jointly organized with the Santa Fe Institute (October 2002), the First Swedish-Chinese Symposium on System and Control held in Stockholm (August 2003), the Fragrant-Hill Meeting on Systems, Control and Complexity (May 2004), the Second Chinese- Swedish Symposium on System and Control (October 2004), the Chinese-Japanese Symposium on Advanced Robust and Adaptive Control Theory and Its Applications (September 2004), etc.
Details for some conferences are provided in the following:
3.1. The 14th IFAC World Congress (July 5-9 1999, Beijing)
The 14th IFAC World Congress was held in the International Convention Center, Beijing, P. R. of China, July 5-9,1999, and it had 1466 registered participants, including 1080 from abroad, and 300 accompanying persons. Control scientists and engineers from 59 countries and regions demonstrated their achievements and shared their experiences in research and applications in the broad areas of automatic control. During Congress days, 1366 papers were presented in 215 lecture sessions and 46 poster sessions. Each Congress day started with a plenary talk given by control experts with international reputation. Seven panel discussion sessions were organized on topics such as Perspectives on Control, Control Challenges in the 21st Century and others. The IFAC'99, being the first IFAC World Congress taking place in a developing country, is recognized by the international control community as a great success.
3.2. The International Symposium on Intervention and Adaptation in Complex Systems (October 20-25 2002, Beijing)
Complex systems and complexity science are regarded by many scientists as the science of the new century. We believe that the theoretical investigations of complex systems should be combined with the theory of control systems. The Santa Fe Institute at New Mexico is one of the most famous centers for studying complex systems worldwide, while the Lab. is one of the leading centers on systems and control theory in China, which also takes the modeling and control of complex systems as a new research direction. Motivated by this idea, the International Symposium on Intervention and Adaptation in Complex Systems, jointly organized with the Santa Fe Institute, was held in Beijing in October, 2002. Many well-known scientists from both complex systems and control systems were gathering together to explore possible crossover, breakthrough and potential new directions.
Twenty one scientists presented invited lectures, including Dr. Jian Song who is a member of both the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering; Dr. Bolin Hao, Prof. Han-Fu Chen, Dr. Jinghai Li, and Dr. Lei Guo, who all are members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dr. John Holland who is the "father of the genetic algorithm"; Dr. Yu-Chi Ho who is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Foreign Member of both the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Dr. Marcus W. Feldman who is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Dr. Simon A. Levin who is a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Fellow of American Academy of Arts; and Dr. David. J. Hill who is a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. More than 200 people from all over the country, including Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao, Qufu, Tianjin, and Hongkong, attended the meeting. It was agreed by all that there should be more collaborations and exchanges between the Chinese scholars and the Santa Fe Institute. There will be more such academic activities to be held in Beijing, Shanghai, Qingdao and US and other places.
3.3. Chinese Control Conference
The Chinese Control Conference (CCC) is the most important control conference in China. It is organized by the Technical Committee on Control Theory, Chinese Association of Automation, which is attached to AMSS with office in the Lab.
Since 1979 the Conference has been held 23 times in various cities including Xiamen, Guilin, HongKong, Yichang, Wuxi etc. The participants are professors, graduate students, researches and engineers from universities, research institutions, factories and enterprises. In recent years, more and more experts from outside of the Chinese Mainland attended the conference, and the conference has become a forum for not only domestic but also international academic exchanges in the field of system and control.
The 22nd CCC was held in a pretty city Yichang in August 2002. About 210 people attended the conference, including about 20 from Hongkong, Japan, US, France, England and Libya. There were five invited plenary lectures given by Professor John Baillieul from Boston University, Professor Qiang Lu from Tsinghua University, Professor Romeo Ortega from CNRS of France, Professor J. Chen from University of California at Riverside, and Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang from Polytechnic University of USA.
The 23rd was held in Wuxi, Jiangsu Province. Among over 400 participants there were over 30 participants from countries and district out of the Chinese Mainland, including USA, Japan, UK, Canada, Singapore, Korea, Sultan, and Hongkong. Six plenary speakers were D. P. Bertsekas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Y. Hori (University of Tokyo), X. Wang (East China University of Science and Technology), M. Spong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), F.L. Lewis (University of Texas at Arlington), Y. Lu (Pavilion Company, USA).
