Friday September 2 – 14.30-16.00 – Aula Magna

PLUGGING INTO THE ORIGINS OF IFAC:
THE IFAC WORLD CONGRESS OF 1960

This plenary session evokes the origins of IFAC by the accounts of a team of scholars who played a main role in the developments of automatic control in those days.

Invited speakers:

S. Kahne
R.E. Kalman
M. Thoma
T. Vámos
J. Westcott

Chairperson:

A.B. Kurzhanski


In the proceedings of the 1st IFAC World Congress:

R.E. Kalman: On the General Theory of Control Systems

M. Uzsoki and T. Vámos: Some Questions Regarding Control of Power Systems

J. Westcott: The Parameters Estimation Problem