The schedule for the symposium is given below. A
map of the NUI Maynooth campus can be found
here
The symposium will open at 9.00 am on
Monday the 3rd of September. The venue for the talks of the symposium is Lecture Theatre 4 of the John Hume Building
Sunday 2nd September 2012 |
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Time | Title |
17:00-18:30 | Welcome Reception |
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Monday 3rd September 2012 (Morning) |
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Time | Title |
09:00-09:15 | Welcome Address |
09.15-10:10 | Plenary Lecture: ''Evolutionary Game Dynamics'', J. Hofbauer |
10:10-10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30-10:55 | ''On continuous positive switched systems with rank one difference'', E. Fornasini and M. E. Valcher |
10:55-11:20 | ''Stabilization of positive linear discrete-time systems by using Brauer's theorem'', Begoña Cantó, Rafael Cantó and Snezhana Kostova |
11:20-11:45 | ''An algebraic method for the Definitive Consensus conjecture'', G. Vankeerberghen, J. M. Hendrickx, R. M. Jungers |
11:45-12:10 | ''Predictive Tools for Diabetes Management based on Cooperativity'', Diego de Pereda, Sergio Romero-Vivo, Beatriz Ricarte and Jorge Bondia |
12:10-12:35 | ''The contraction rate in Thompson metric of order-preserving flows on a cone, Stéphane Gaubert and Zheng Qu |
12:35-14:00 | Lunch |
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Monday 3rd September 2012 (Afternoon) |
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Time | Title |
14:00-14:25 | ''Generalized Positive Systems - a Survey Part I'', D. Alpay and I. Lewkowicz |
14:25-14:50 | ''Nonlinear diffusion processes on a finite state space'', B. Lemmens |
14:50-15:15 | ''A simple model for gossiping on graphs'', V.A. Traag, P. De Leenheer, P. Van Dooren |
15:15-15:40 | ''Cones and Chemical Reaction Networks'', P. Donnell |
15:40-16:05 | ''Positivity preserving simulation of Differential-Algebraic Equations'', A.K. Baum and V. Mehrmann |
16:05-16:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30-16:55 | ''Two cores of a nonnegative matrix'', P. Butkovič, H. Schneider and S. Sergeev |
16:55-17:20 | ''Stochastic Stability of Positive Markov Jump Linear Systems'',
P. Bolzern, P. Colaneri and G. De Nicolao |
17:20-17:45 | ''Monotone extremal norms for positive switched systems
'', M. Ait Rami, V. S. Bokharaie, O. Mason and F. Wirth |
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Monday 3rd September 2012 (Evening) |
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Time | Title |
18:30-20:30 | Public Lecture to Celebrate 10th Anniversary of Founding of Hamilton Institute |
20:30-23:00 | Conference Dinner at Barberstown Castle |
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Tuesday 4th September 2012 (Morning) |
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Time | Title |
09.15-10:10 | Plenary Lecture: ''Some applications of max-algebra and Perron-Frobenius'', L. Elsner |
10:10-10:30 | Coffee Break |
10:30-10:55 | ''Generalised Positive Systems - A Survey Part II'', D. Alpay and I. Lewkowicz |
10:55-11:20 | ''Nonnegativity of singular systems of index k≥1 via state-feedbacks'', N. Thome and A. Herrero |
11:20-11:45 | ''On two Problems for Matrix Polytopes'', Ş. Yılmaz, T. Büyükköroğlu, V. Dzhafarov |
11:45-12:10 | ''Monotone dynamical systems and the geometry of attractivity'', Björn S. Rüffer |
12:10-12:35 | ''Infinite horizon LQR problem of linear discrete time positive systems'', Snezhana Kostova, Ivan Ivanov, Lars Imsland and Nonka Georgieva |
12:35-14:00 | Lunch |
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Tuesday 4th September 2012 (Afternoon) |
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Time | Title |
14:00-14:25 | ''Studying an upper bound on the local
reachability index for positive 2-D systems'', E. Bailo, J. Gelonch and S. Romero-Vivo |
14:25-14:50 | ''Power series with positive coefficients in the context of the nonnegative inverse eigenvalue problem'', H. Šmigoc |
14:50-15:15 | ''Collatz-Wieland Sets and Linear Lyapunov Functions for Positive Switched Systems'', A. Kalauch |
15:15-15:40 | ''Equilibria of monotone semiflows with increasing integrals'', M. Banaji |
15:40-16:05 | ''Kuttler's criterion for monotone matrices'', F. Goldberg |
16:05-16:30 | Coffee Break |
16:30-17:25 | Plenary Lecture: ''Who Needs Positivity'', P. Diaconis |
17:25 | Closing Remarks |