E-LETTER on Systems, Control, and Signal Processing ISSUE No. 32, 23 May 1990 Editors: Bradley W. Dickinson bradley@princeton.edu or bradley@pucc.bitnet Eduardo D. Sontag sontag@hilbert.rutgers.edu or sontag@pisces.bitnet Welcome. We remind you that items for posting can be emailed to either of the editors. PLEASE SEND CONTRIBUTIONS, since the eletter can only be useful if everyone participates. NOTE: if you are using an editor to read this mailing and if at any point you wish to skip to the next article, you can accomplish this by searching for the string: *.** Contents Changes to mailing list Personals: News from M. Vidyasagar Peter Caines visits Clemson University Peter Ramadge promoted to Associate Professor Thomas Kailath to receive honorary degree from Linkoping Univ. AACC News: Important notice concerning an opportunity for students at US universities to attend IFAC Congress in Tallinn, August 1990 Journals: MCSS News: More pages for future volumes. MST Special Issue on Mathematics of Control Table of Contents for Sept. 1990 Issue of the IT TRANSACTIONS Table of Contents for CSSP Vol.9, No.2 Call for Papers, special issue of LAA: ALGEBRAIC LINEAR ALGEBRA Conferences, workshops, etc.: Algorithms & Parll.VLSI Arch.,June 10-16,1990,Pont-a-Mousson,FR A Tutorial Wkshp on Neural Nets, June 4-5,1990, E.Lansing, MI Conf. on New Trends in System Theory, July 9-11, 1990, Genoa ISCIE Symp. on Stochastic Systems, Oct. 1990, Hiroshima, Japan Faculty Positions Available: Chaired Professorship at Oregon Graduate Institute Reports available: SYCON REPORTS available Mech. Engrg. Systems and Control Group, Delft University Misc: Computer code for delay-differential equations New telephone area code for Rutgers University *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the Editors: Changes/Additions to mailing list. 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Patterson, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA) agris@rice.edu (Jacob Agris, Rice Univ., Houston, TX) jotoole@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Jim O'Toole, Naval Surface Weapons Ctr.) krishnan@ecse.rpi.edu (Sivaraj S. Krishnan, Rennselaer Polytechnic Inst.) womack@ee.tamu.edu (Brian David Womack, Texas A&M Univ., College Station) yishao@math.kth.se (Yishao Zhou, Royal Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) molinari@sys.ife.ethz.ch (Luciano Molinari, Univ. of Zurich, Switzerland) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Compiled by the Editors Personal Notes Received from M. Vidyasagar: Only when you printed my e-mail address in the latest ELETTER did I realize that our system manager gave a rather fanciful spelling of my name: M. Vidhya Sagar, instead of the M. Vidyasagar that everyone knows and loves (or hates). This is purely a problem of transliteration from Sanskrit to English, and the map is non-injective. Do you think any clarification is called for? I met our Vice-President last Wednesday and had supper with the Indian Ambassador to the U.S. the next Monday. Does this merit mention in the "people" column? (Editors' note -- we thought so!) Peter Caines was a guest of Prof. Robert Fennell at Clemson University S.C. 23 April - 3 May this year. As Visiting Distinguished Lecturer in the Mathematics Department he gave a short course of lectures on stochastic system theory and logic control systems. Princeton University recently announced the promotion of Peter Ramadge to the position of Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering. Prof. Thomas Kailath of Stanford University will be receiving an honorary doctorate from Linkoping University in Sweden on June 5, 1990. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Steve Kahne, skahne@mitre.org A special arrangement has been made for full-time students from North America who wish to attend the IFAC Congress in Tallinn, Estonia in August 1990 and who register before June 15, 1990. A fee of $225 has been set for Congress registration plus accommodations for up to 10 days in Tallinn. Students will stay with families in Tallinn and will be hosted by students of the Tallinn Polytechnic University. Congress dates are August 13-17, 1990. All technical sessions plus the Opening Welcome Party August 13 are included in the registration fee. A set of preprints is not guaranteed for each student, but an attempt will be made to provide one to the university >from which students have come. Some food will be included in the student registration fee, but extra funds should be brought for food, transportation, etc. Local city transportation will be free. All students should arrive in Tallinn by ferry boat from Helsinki as described in the IFAC Congress announcement. The boat costs about $50 each way. This package is available for up to 40 students studying control engineering in any U.S. university--both American and foreign students. The procedure to follow is: 1. Mail the AACC Secretary (Professor Abe Haddad, EECS Department, Northwestern University, 2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208, phone 708/491-3641, fax 708/491-4133, and e-mail address K.CERVENY@EECS.NWU.EDU) the completed IFAC Registration Form, a check for $225 made out to AACC, plus a letter stating that you are a full-time student in control engineering at an American University and counter signed by your faculty advisor or department head. 2. Immediately after June 15, 1990 you will receive a document which must be attached to your Soviet visa application to be sent to the USSR Embassy in Washington or through a travel agent. This document will serve as proof of prepayment of fees--necessary to get the Soviet visa. 3. Since there is a limit of 40 places, reservations will be made in the order received at the AACC Secretariat. This is a very unusual opportunity to attend the largest international control conference in the world in a country undergoing remarkable changes. The chance to meet Estonian students as well as leading control engineers >from all of the IFAC's 46 national member organizations promises to make this a very special event. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the editors MCSS ANNOUNCES INCREASED PAGES FOR VOLUME 4 In order to cut the backlog created by a large number of high-quality papers submitted to Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (MCSS) and accepted for publication, Springer-Verlag has announced an increase in tha page budget for Volume 4, which starts in the Fall of 1990. Among papers appearing in forthcoming issues are: Tracking Randomly Varying Parameters: Analysis of a Standard Algorithm L. Guo, L. Xia, and J.B. Moore Rational Approximation of a Class of Infinite Dimensional Systems I: Singular Values of Hankel Operators K. Glover, J. Lam, J.R. Partington Guardian Maps and the Generalized Stability of Parametrized Families of Matrices and Polynomials L. Saydy, A.L. Tits, and E.H. Abed Worst-Case Design in the Time Domain: The Maximum Principle and the Standard $H_{\infty}$ Problem G. Tadmor On Periodic Solutions of Adaptive Systems in the Presence of Periodic Forcing Terms J.-B. Pomet, J.-M. Coron, and L. Praly *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the editors SPECIAL ISSUE OF MATHEMATICAL SYSTEMS THEORY ON MATHEMATICS OF CONTROL The journal Mathematical Systems Theory has recently published a Special Issue devoted to Mathematics of Control (vol. 22, no. 4, 1989). Guest editors were Bradley Dickinson and Eduardo Sontag. The issue consisted of papers submitted originally to MCSS (Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems), and it represented the last issue of MST devoted to control topics. In the future, MST will be devoted exclusively to Computer Science, with Control and System Theory papers being redirected to MCSS. The papers in this Special Issue are: Stephen J. Hegner, Algebraic characterization of classes of (Co) semigroups with applications to system theory D. Williamson and R.E. Skelton, Optimal q-Markov Cover for Finite Precision Implementation Liyi Dai, Strong Decoupling in Singular Systems F. Celle, J.P. Gauthier, D. Kazakos, and G. Sallet, Synthesis of nonlinear observers: A harmonic analysis approach E.M. Hemerly and M.H.A. Davis, Recursive Order Estimation of Stochastic Control Systems *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: GEORGHIAD@EE.TAMU.EDU (COSTAS N. GEORGHIADES) Table of Contents for IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (September 1990 issue) AUTHOR(S) TITLE REGULAR PAPERS I. Daubechies The Wavelet Transform, Time-Frequency Localization and Signal Analysis T. Berger Entropic Aspects of Random Fields on Trees and Z. Ye S. Verdu On Channel Capacity per Unit Cost J.T. Coffey The Complexity of Information Set Decoding and R.M. Goodman J.H. Conway Orbit and Coset Analysis of the Golay and Related and N.J.A. Sloane Codes A.N. Skorobogatov On the Decoding of Algebraic-Geometric and S.G. Vladut Codes B. Picinbono Geometrical Properties of Optimal Volterra and P. Duvaut Filters for Signal Detection W. Kliemann On the Unnormalized Solution of the Filtering G. Koch Problem with Counting Process Observations and F. Marchetti D. Harrison Analysis and Further Results on Adaptive and J. Modestino Entropy-Coded Quantization D.J. Hajela Bounds on e-Rate for Linear, Time-Invariant and M.L. Honig Multi-Input/Multi-Output Channels I. Ingemarsson Optimized Permutation Modulation Y. Liu Error Probability for Digital Transmission Over I. Oka Nonlinear Channels with Application to TCM and E. Biglieri A. Orlitsky Worst-Case Interactive Communication I:Two Messages are Almost Optimal M.L. Molle On the Cutoff Point for Pairwise Enabling in Multiple Access Systems CORRESPONDENCE ITEMS W. Chang Path Map Symbol Release Rules and the and J.D. Gibson Exponential Metric Tree M. Lin Bounds on the Undetected Error Probabilities of Linear Codes for Both Error Correction and Detection Z. Chen New Results on Self-Orthogonal Unequal Error P. Fan Protection Codes and F. Jin P. Stevens Error-Erasure Decoding of Binary Cyclic Codes, up to a Particular Instance of the Hartmann- Tzeng Bound K. Cheung Identities and Approximations for the Weight Distribution of Q-ary Codes C.W.H. Lam There is No (24,12,10) Self-Dual Quaternary and V. Pless Code R.M. Roth Application of Circulant Matrices to the A. Lempel Construction and Decoding of Linear Codes M.J.E. Golay A New Search for Skewsymmetric Binary and D.B. Harris Sequences with Optimal Merit Factors G.L. Mayhew Linear Spans of Modified de Bruijn Sequences and S.W. Golomb N. Zhang Uniqueness of the Generalized Barker Sequence and S.W. Golomb of Length 6 C.M. Adams Generating and Counting Binary Bent Sequences and S.E. Tavares K.W. Ross Monotonicity Properties for the Stochastic and D.D. Yao Knapsack A.J. Rainal Passage Times of Gaussian Noise Crossing a Time- Varying Boundary Y.C. Yao On the Cutoff Point for Pairwise Enabling for and F.K. Hwang Infinite Users in a Multiaccess System K. Seip A Note on Sampling of Bandlimited Stochastic Processes *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Armen H. Zemanian CIRCUITS, SYSTEMS, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING SPECIAL ISSUE: Advances in Mathematical Circuit Theory Table of Contents for Vol. 9, No. 2, 1990: Editorial, S.R. Parker and A.H. Zemanian Preface, William N.Anderson, Jr., Thomas D.Morley, and George E.Trapp The conductivity of checkerboards treated by conjugate functions, R.J.Duffin Solid holed torus knot oscillators, Rassa Rassai, George Syrmos, and Robert W. Newcomb Theory and application of Pascal-Sierpinski gasket fractals, Samuel D.Bedrosian and Xiaoguang Sun Shorts of block operators and infinite networks---A note on the shorted operator: II, T.D.Morley Symmetric matrices associated with a nonnegative matrix, Charles R.Johnson and J.A.Dias da Silva Applications of lattice theory to graph decomposition, Wen-Hai Liang, Wai-Kai Chen, and Shun-Quan Gao Shorted matrices in star and related orderings, Sujit Kumar Mitra Parallel sums and norm convergence, William L.Green and T.D.Morley An alternate variational characterization of matrix Riccati equation solutions, T.Ando, J.Bunce, and G.Trapp Infinite networks and quadratic optimal control, W.N.Anderson, Jr., T.D.Morley, and G.E.Trapp *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: Lawrence Levy Special issue of "Linear Algebra and Applications" Special issue on ALGEBRAIC LINEAR ALGEBRA This is to announce a special issue of Linear Algebra and its Applications entitled ALGEBRAIC LINEAR ALGEBRA. It will be devoted to the interaction between algebraic matrix theory and the rest of algebra. Examples of the types of papers we seek are: 1. Generalizations of classical matrix theory (such as module theory or linear algebra over rings) or the use of such generalizations to solve problems in classical linear algebra. 2. Use of algebraic linear algebra in coding theory, control theory, cryptography, group matrices, and other areas. 3. Extensions of algebraic linear algebra itself that have been suggested by such applications (e.g. new matrix problems). This issue is open to all and papers will be refereed in the usual way. The deadline for submission is August 1990, with expected publication approximately one year later. Authors should submit three copies of the manuscript (prepared according to the guidelines described in "Information for Authors" published in every issue of LAA) to one of the following special editors for this issue: Robert M. Guralnick William H. Gustafson Department of Mathematics Department of Mathematics University of Southern California Texas Tech University Los Angeles, CA 90089-1113 Lubbock, TX 79409 email: guralnic@mtha.usc.edu Lawrence S. Levy Department of Mathematics University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706 email: levy@math.wisc.edu *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Ed F. Deprettere International Workshop on ALGORITHMS AND PARALLEL VLSI ARCHITECTURES 10-16 June 1990 Abbaye des Premontres * Pont-a-Mousson * France SCOPE This international workshop will bring together senior and junior researchers, who are interested in the fascinating interplay between algorithm development and parallel architecture design. The topic of interest is the design of algorithms and architectures in signal processing, modeling, graphics, communications and control. In order to guarantee a fruitful discussion between participants, the workshop will provide a series of tutorial courses, plenary introductions and poster sessions. Course lecturers and plenary speakers are widely known experts on the design of hardware algorithms. Late summary submissions may be considered, subject to capacity constraints and chair's approval. PROGRAM All regular sessions will be poster sessions. Each poster session will be introduced by a 1-hour plenary talk. The morning sessions are devoted to the courses, a brief outline of which is included in this brochure. All courses -- except one -- consist of two 90-minutes lectures. The course and workshop schedule is printed below. The program starts on Sunday 10 June 1 pm--3pm with the registration, and continues at 3pm with an Introduction by the Workshop Chairman. The Workshop finishes with lunch on Saturday 16 June. SCHEDULE ============================================================================== Courses Workshops A 10 June Introduction Sunday Cellular Neural Networks 11 June Cellular Neural Networks Artificial Neural Nets Monday Digital Neural Nets Systolic Algorithms and Arch 12 June Digital Neural Nets Modeling with Finite Elements Tuesday Large Scale Modeling Computer Graphics Microcoded Processor Arch ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- B 13 June Schur's Algorithm and its Appl Video Arch/Image Processing Wednesday Solving Large Systems of Lin Eq System Design Methodologies 14 June Solving Large Systems of Lin Eq Parameter Estimation Thursday Schur's Algorithm and its Appl SVD/Eigenvalues and Schur Arch for Communication 15 June Multiscale Signal Processing Arch for Control Friday Lossless Arrays and Fast SP Alg Adaptive Filtering Orthogonal Filtering 16 June Lossless Arrays and Fast SP Alg Saturday Multiscale Signal Processing ============================================================================= Registration Sunday 10 June during 1pm--3 pm. Introduction starts at 3pm. Monday-Saturday lectures start at 8.30am; last lecture ends Saturday 16 June at noon. COURSES --- LECTURERS Cellular Neural Networks L.O. Chua, University of California at Berkeley, CA Digital VLSI Neural Nets: Algorithm and Architecture S.-Y. Kung, Princeton University, NJ Large Scale Modeling in Computational Fluid Dynamics P. Wesseling, Delft University of Technology Schur's Algorithm and its Applications P. Dewilde, Delft University of Technology Solving Large Systems of Linear Equations Y. Robert, ENS de Lyon Multiscale Signal Processing A. Benveniste, IRISA, Rennes Lossless Arrays and Fast Signal Processing Algorithms H. Lev-Ari, Stanford University, CA WORKSHOPS --- PLENARY SPEAKERS Artificial Neural Nets S.H. Tan, Kath. University Leuven Systolic Architectures --- Multiprocessor Architectures P. Quinton, IRISA, Rennes Modeling with Finite Elements --- Large Scale Modeling J.C.M. van der Vorst, Shell KSEP, Rijswijk Computer Graphics F. Kitson, HP Labs, Palo Alto, CA Microcoded Processor Architectures F. Catthoor, IMEC Leuven Video Architectures and Image Processing A. van Roermund, Philips, Eindhoven System Design Methodologies E.F. Deprettere, Delft Univ. of Technology Algorithms and Architectures for Signal Parameter Estimation R. Roy, Stanford University, CA SVD, Constrained LS, Eigenvalues Schur's Algorithm G. Golub, Stanford University, CA Algorithms and Architectures for Communications --- Graph Theory F. Jutand, Telecom-Paris Algorithms and Architectures for Control G. Irwin, The Queen's University, Belfast Adaptive Filtering D. Slock, Philips, Brussels Orthogonal Filtering C.V.Prabhakara Rao, Drexel University, PA VENUE The workshop is to be held at the historical "Abbaye des Premontres" in Pont-a-Mousson, France, at the bank of the Moselle River. The Abbey is located at the foot of the hills of the Lorraine forests, and is at a close distance to the major cities Metz and Nancy, 250 km east of Paris, 80 km below Luxembourg. The nearest airport is either Metz or Nancy. The airport of Metz has a railway station. There is a regular train connection between Metz and Nancy, with a stop in Pont-a-Mousson. Pont-a-Mousson is located 5 km west off the freeway A31-E21 between Metz-Nancy. REGISTRATION For information on late and on-site registration, contact Alle-Jan van der Veen, Workshop Secretariat Dept. of Electrical Engineering Delft University of Technology Mekelweg 4 2628 CD Delft The Netherlands Email: allejan@dutentb.tudelft.nl Tel.: +31 15 781442 Fax: +31 15 623271 *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Fathi Salam A Tutorial Workshop on Neural Nets Theory, Design, and (Electronic) Implementation June 4-5, 1990 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 48824 Registration: Don't delay. Register today. In order to maintain reasonable class sizes, registrations are accepted on a first come, first served basis until an optimum number is achieved. The final deadline is May 31, 1990. Mail the registration form with payment today. Allow one week for your return confirmation. For immediate confirmation of registration, use your VISA/MasterCard by telephone (800) 447-3549 [in Michigan (800) 462-0846] or FAX (517) 353-3900. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by G.Conte Universita di Genova - The Ohio State University Joint Conference on New Trends in Systems Theory Genoa, Italy - July 9-11, 1990 Second announcement. The Conference on New Trends in Systems Theory (NTST) will be held in Genoa, from Monday, July 9, to Wednesday, July 11, 1990, at the Badia di S. Andrea. People interested in receiving the program of the Conference and the registration form may send their address to Prof. G. Conte NTST Secretariat Dip. Mat. Univ. Genova via L.B. Alberti 4 16134 Genova - ITALY Fax : +39-10-3538769 Email: GCONTE@IGECUNIV.BITNET *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by the Editors. Announcement and Call for Papers, 22nd ISCIE Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and Its Applications. Hiroshima Information Museum, Senda-machi, Naka-ku, Hiroshima 730, Japan. October 24-26, 1990. The aim of this symposium is to provide a forum in which recent advances in stochastic processes, stochastic systems, and their practical applications are discussed. Two types of contributed papers are invited: Regular papers, describing completed work in some detail, and Short papers, presenting recent, perhaps preliminary results. Papers will be accepted on the basis of abstracts (at least page and and at most two pages) which should be sent by June 9, 1990 to The 22nd SSS Secretariat, Division of Control Sciences, Dept. of Mechanical and System Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606, Japan. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by Joyce O'Halloran Douglas Strain Professorship The Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology (OGI) is seeking to appoint the Douglas Strain Professor of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering. The Strain Professor will play a major leadersip role in strengthening the electrical engineering program of the department, including recruiting and mentoring junior faculty. The successful candidate will have built a distinguished career as evidenced by the quality and quantity of publications and success in generating research funding, and will continue to maintain a strong research program at OGI. The level of achievement will be such as to qualify the individual for appointment at the full professor level. We are particularly interested in electrical engineers with research specialties in aspects of signal processing and communications. OGI is a small but rapidly growing private graduate-only institution, with a strong commitment to research and quality education. Reply to: Prof. Paul R. Davis, Head Department of Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology 19600 N.W. Von Neumann Drive Beaverton, OR 97006-1999 Tel: (503) 690-1138 FAX: (503) 690-1029 Applications received by June 15, 1990, will be assured of full consideration. EEO/AA. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: E.Sontag RECENT TECHNICAL REPORTS SYCON -- Rutgers Center for Systems and Control [90-02]* "A proof of the realization theorem for convergent generating series of finite Lie rank", Hector Sussmann, April 90. (21 pages) [90-03]* "On the recognition capabilities of feedforward nets", Eduardo D. Sontag, April 90. (12 pages) Electronic abstracts and/or hardcopy of reports can be requested from sycon@fermat.rutgers.edu **NOTE**: for reports marked (*), an electronic version (TeX or LaTeX) is available by e-mail. For these, there will be a small charge if hardcopies are requested, to cover reproduction and mailing costs. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: VDHOF@tudw03.tudelft.nl Subject: message for eletter The Mechanical Engineering Systems and Control Group at Delft University of Technology has published the first volume of a bi-annual journal/progress_ report in which recent research results will be presented that originate >from research projects performed in the Systems and Control group: Selected Topics in Identification, Modelling and Control Edited by O.H. Bosgra and P.M.J. Van den Hof In general terms the research aims at theory and applications of dynamic modelling, system identification and control system design. The applications involved include electromechanical servo systems (robots, electrical drives, wind power systems), and multivariable process control (power systems, chemical separation processes). CONTENTS Volume 1, April 1990 A family of reduced order models, based on open-loop balancing P. Heuberger Pole-zero calcellations in the multivariable mixed sensitivity problem S.G. Smit Modal reduction guided by Hankel singular value intervals P. Wortelboer and H. van Oostveen Complete orthonormal sets based on linear systems and their application in system identification P. Heuberger and O. Bosgra Application of the fractional representation approach in system identification R. Schrama H_infinity norm computation using a Hamiltonian matrix N.A. Bruinsma and M. Steinbuch Robust stability analysis of a flexible mechanism assuming real or complex parametric uncertainty J.C. Terlouw and S.G. Smit Discrete normalized coprime factorization and fractional balanced reduction P.M.M. Bongers and P.S.C. Heuberger An analysis of the full information L2- and H2-optimal control problem P.F. Lambrechts The magazine/progress_report is published by Delft University Press. Copies can be ordered from Delft University Press Stevinweg 1 2628 CN Delft, Netherlands Tel. +31-15-783254 Fax: +31-15-781661 Reprints of papers are available from Paul Van den Hof (vdhof@tudw03.tudelft.nl) *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** From: MBBGPDW@CMS.Manchester-Computing-Centre.AC.UK Myname: David Wille (061-275 5824) Subject: news letter for systems and control I am at the University of Manchester where we have just developed a code for solving systems of delay-differential equations in conjunction with the Numerical Algorithms Group in Oxford. Might there be amy interest on your systems and control news letter? David Wille University of Manchester *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** Contributed by: E. Sontag NEW TELEPHONE AREA CODE FOR RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Effective 1 Jan 90, all numbers at Rutgers/New Brunswick have area code "908". The older code, "201", is still operational, but will only be so till July 91. The same area code change affects phones in the general Central Jersey region. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.** End of ELETTER Issue 32.