Keynote Speakers

For decades, the field of control systems has focused on the modeling, analysis, and design of physical dynamical systems arising in diverse engineering domains, including aerospace, automotive, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, robotics, and transportation.

This talk is by a control engineer who ended up working in agriculture, where the “factory” has no roof and the process runs on seasons, rain, and sunlight. The main problem Geco studies and solves is the control of weeds, which is usually considered more biological than control- theoretic, but it turns out there are plenty of dynamics involved.

The scanning tunneling microscope (STM), a Nobel Prize–winning instrument, has transformed nanotechnology by enabling atomic-scale imaging, spectroscopy, and—most critically for emerging quantum technologies—atomically precise lithography on silicon for the fabrication of solid-state quantum devices.