As a result of COVID-19 virus outbreak and subsequent travel limitations
imposed by many institutions we are postponing until further notice.

Tutorial Workshop: Introduction to Quantum Systems and Coherent Quantum Feedback Control

Thursday March 19, 2020, 9:00am-3:00pm

Professor Ian Petersen
Australian National University

Biography : Ian R. Petersen was born in VIC, Australia. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Rochester, NY, USA, in 1984.
From 1983 to 1985, he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. In 1985, he joined the University of New South Wales, Canberra. In 2002 and 2003, he was the Executive Director for Mathematics, Information, and Communications with the Australian Research Council, Canberra, Australia. In 2004 and 2005, he was the Acting Deputy Vice-Chancelor Research with the University of New South Wales. He held an Australian Research Council Professorial Fellowship from 2005 to 2007, an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship from 2007 to 2012, and an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship from 2012 to 2017. In 2017, he moved to The Australian National University, where he is currently a Professor in the Research School of Engineering. His current research interests include robust control theory, quantum control theory, and stochastic control theory.

Dr. Petersen is the Fellow of IFAC and the Australian Academy of Science. He was Elected IFAC Council Member for the 2014–2017 Triennium. He was also elected to be a member of the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors for the periods 2011–2013 and 2015–2017. He is the Vice president for Technical Activity for the Asian Control Association. He was the General Chair of the 2012 Australian Control Conference and the 2015 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTOMATIC CONTROL, IEEE SYSTEMS AND CONTROL LETTERS, Automatica, and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He is currently an Editor for Automatica in the area of optimization in systems and control.

Registration: Registration is free, but seats are limited. In order to reserve a seat, please indicate your interest by following this link.

Target Audience: Grad Students and Professors with a background in control theory wishing to learn something about quantum control.

Main topics covered:
Open Quantum Systems, Linear quantum system models in the Heisenberg picture of quantum mechanics, Schrodinger picture Master equation models, Quantum Stochastic Differential equation models of finite level open quantum systems, Measurement feedback H infinity control of linear quantum systems, Physical Realizability for linear quantum systems and finite level quantum systems, Coherent Quantum H infinity control of linear quantum systems, Coherent Quantum LQG control, suboptimal and optimization based approaches to coherent quantum LQG control, Robust Stability of Nonlinear Quantum Systems, The structure of linear quantum systems and the quantum Kalman decomposition, The structure of two level open quantum systems, Quantum risk sensitive cost functions, measurement based quantum risk sensitive control. Phase insensitive quantum amplifiers, non-reciprocal phase insensitive quantum amplifiers.