Global Meet on Power in Kerala From Jan. 2–6

The Thalakkottukara-based Vidya Institute of Science and Technology is organizing EPSCICON, the second international conference on power, signals, controls and computations, from Jan. 2–6, 2012 in Thrissur, Kerala.

The conference will be inaugurated by N Murugesan, director general, Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), in the presence of CGS Mani, president of Bajaj Electricals.

Delegates from Germany, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Portugal, etc., would be participating in the five-day event that would see about 100 papers being presented on power, signals, controls and computations.

The papers being presented include The separation principle in stochastic control, Redux by Anders Lindquist, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Optimal control-practical motivation and problem formulations by Kok Lay Teo, Curtin University, Australia; The structure-preserving doubling algorithm by King Wah Eric Chu, Monash University, Australia and Optimal discrete-valued control problems by Ryan Loxton, Curtin University, Australia.