Workshop on
"Irrigation Channels and Related Problems"
October 2-4, 2008
Maiori (Salerno, Italy)
at Panorama Hotel
Information

We inform you that the expected duration of each talk is 40 minutes including questions.



Workshop Schedule
02 October-Thursday
08.30
Registration
09.00
Opening Session
Chairman: Alexandre Bayen, Berkeley University, USA
09.30
Michael Herty, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Recent results on control and controllability of networks governed by 2x2 hyperbolic balance laws
10.10
Valerie Dos Santos, Lyon University, France
Passivity condition for the stabilization of an unidirectional flow in irrigation channel
10.50-11.20
Coffee Break
11.20
Christophe Prieur, LAAS, Toulouse
Robust boundary control of systems of conservation laws: theoretical study with numerical and experimental validations
12.00
Paola Goatin, Toulon University, France
Traffic flow models with phase transitions: theory and numerical approximations
12.40-14.00
Lunch Break
14.00
Chairman: Benedetto Piccoli, IAC-CNR, Rome, Italy

Alexander Bayen, Berkeley University, USA
Data assimilation for two-dimensional shallow water flows using Lagrangian sensing
14.40
Joao Lemos, Lisbon University, Portugal
Adaptive and Non-adaptive Model Predictive Control of an Irrigation Channel
15.20
Andrea Tosin, IAC-CNR, Rome, Italy
Time-evolving measures for pedestrian traffic
15.50-16.20
Coffee Break
16.20
Luigi Rarità, University of Salerno, Italy
Variation of permeability parameters in Barcelona networks
20-21.30
Dinner
Workshop Schedule
03 October-Friday
09.00

Chairman: Xavier Litrico, CEMAGREF, France

Pierre Rouchon, Mines-ParisTech, France
Modelling and control of water-tank systems
09.40

Peter Schwartz, LBNL, USA
Water resource management in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
10.20

Nadia Bedjaoui, Melbourne University, Australia
Methods for the localization of a leak in open water channels
11.00-11.30
Coffee Break
11.30

Jean-Michel Coron, Paris-Sud University, France
Some results on the stabilization and on the controllability of hyperbolic systems
12.10

Georges Bastin, UCL, Belgium
On Lyapunov stability of linearised Saint-Venant equations
13.00-14.30
Lunch Break
14.30
Chairman: Ciro D'Apice, Univeristy of Salerno, Italy

Linda Bushnell, University of Washington, USA
Salinity Sensors for Hydrology Analysis and Control
15.10
Fernando Lobe Pereira, Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Networked vehicles and sensors
15.50-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30
George Didier, Grenoble, France
Infinite-dimensional Nonlinear Predictive Controller Design for Open-Channel Hydraulic Systems
17.10
Round Table "Sensors and Data incorporation into flow models"
Moderator: Alexandre Bayen, Berkeley University, USA
20-21.30
Dinner
Workshop Schedule
04 October-Saturday
09.00
Chairman: George Bastin, UCL, Belgium

Rudy Negenborn, Delft Univeristy of Tech., The Netherlands
Distributed model predictive control for control of irrigation channels
09.40
Gildas Besançon, Grenoble, France
A nonlinear delay-based approach for water flow control in open channel systems
10.10-10.40
Coffee Break
10.40

Xavier Litrico, CEMAGREF, France
Spectral decomposition of linearized open channel flow model
11.20
Closing