Coffee and Control1 Syys 2025

Alberto Padoan: Part 1 (Moments of Systems and Model Reduction)

In this episode I sit down with the wonderful Alberto Padoan and discuss his work on model order reduction and generalising concepts from linear systems to the non-linear setting.

You can find the transcript at: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/IRMql9

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References

inControl podcast: https://www.incontrolpodcast.com/

Andrea Marson: https://andreamarson.com/bio/

Master’s thesis: https://thesis.unipd.it/retrieve/82963fa4-bbb4-4577-9b83-b4e741a3ce20/main.pdf

Alessandro Astolfi: https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/a.astolfi

Sandro Zampieri: https://automatica.dei.unipd.it/old/people/zampieri.html

inControl guide to Controllability and Observability: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/haKThe

Stieltjes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Joannes_Stieltjes

PhD thesis: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/sImTiq

Keith Glover: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/kg103

Coffee and Control episode with Paolo Rapisarda: https://open.spotify.com/episode/076dEw28abILPAbT5qA6aw

Thesis on Krylov projectors for model reduction: https://perso.uclouvain.be/paul.vandooren/ThesisGrimme.pdf

Sylvester equations and model reduction: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0377042703007143

Book on Sylvester equations: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/e7nYSQ

Jacqueline Scherpen: https://www.rug.nl/staff/j.m.a.scherpen/cv?lang=en

Alberto Isidori: https://www.diag.uniroma1.it/isidori/

Murray Wonham book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4612-1082-5

Basile and Marro book: https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/gE3KxH

Eigenvalues/ poles of nonlinear systems: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264032

Books on creativity:

Ernest Hemmingway quotes: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1455.Ernest_Hemingway

Dynamics of Creation (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dynamics-Creation-Anthony-Storr/dp/0345376730)explores how creativity helps resolve inner conflict.

Moment matching at singularities:

(Complex analytic) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896317314957

(Geometric) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8264369

Moments of random variables: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8637762

Klein bottle videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAsICMPwGPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k3mVnRlQLU

Distributions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_(differential_geometry)

https://webspace.science.uu.nl/~ban00101/anman2009/lecture2.pdf

http://staff.ustc.edu.cn/~wangzuoq/Courses/18F-Manifolds/Notes/Lec15.pdf

András Sasfi: https://control.ee.ethz.ch/people/profile.andras-sasfi.html

Model reduction of dominant systems: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005109821002156

Rodolphe Sepulchre: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/rs771

(inControl episode) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/1cOrwp

(Paper on spiking systems) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9764708

Fulvio Forni: https://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/ff286

Goldbeter model: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9016794/

Goodwin model: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23936338/

Dominance margins: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896319318671

Early papers on dominance: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.06155

https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.01721

Intro to Nyquist diagrams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sof3meN96MA

John Doyle:

(inControl interviews) https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/BTj37k

https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/k0PXan

Gioele Zardini: https://gioele.science/Alberto San Giovanni Vincentelli: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Faculty/Homepages/sangiovanni-vicentelli.html

(inControl interviews)

https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/9fYOiB

https://CoffeeControlLinks.short.gy/ehkaV9

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