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Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:31 - Mexico City to Leningrad: a communist girlfriend, and a year of Russian 05:40 - Sliding modes at the source 10:38 - France: Ioan Landau, Laurent Praly, and dynamic normalization 16:25 - Continuity, robustness, and the Rohrs counterexamples 24:18 - On Gerhard Kreisselmeier 28:04 - Illinois and Mexico 35:31 - Mark Spong, Twente, and passivity-based control 46:32 - Energy shaping, damping injection, and total energy shaping 49:50 - IDA-PBC, written on a napkin in a...

Outline 00:00 - Intro 08:35 - What is PID control? 12:15 - The history: Minorsky, 1922, and steering ships 21:00 - The lambda method, IMC, and analytical tuning 28:45 - Set-point weighting and two degrees of freedom 32:50 - Automatic tuning and the relay feedback problem 40:35 - The Lund school and Karl Johan Åström 50:20 - PID is nearly optimal 57:30 - PID tuning: the elephant in the room 1:01:35 - Open problems and the one-third rule 1:05:45 - Feedforward: the unsung hero 1:15:00 - PID as a...

Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:25 - Bachelier and the Théorie de la Spéculation 03:05 - Stochastic processes, Brownian motion, and the heat equation 09:45 - Poincaré's verdict, obscurity, and rediscovery 13:50 - Robert C. Merton: from hot rods to MIT 19:25 - Dynamic programming and Itô calculus 24:35 - Merton's portfolio problem as stochastic optimal control 31:10 - Options, dynamic hedging, and the Black–Scholes–Merton equation 39:50 - LTCM: the dream team 46:30 - August 1998: the crash 49:00 - Fa...

Outline 00:00 - Intro 02:10 - London in the 1960s 12:40 - From Oxford to Imperial College: David Mayne and the discrete-time Riccati equation 18:05 - The "global tour": Montenegro roads, hitch-hiking to Istanbul, and the San Francisco waterfront 22:30 - Feedback and causality between stochastic processes 31:15 - The system identification years 40:50 - Model complexity, the bias–variance trade-off, and concentration inequalities 52:05 - Adaptive control: living through a golden era 1:0...

Outline 00:00 - Intro 01:30 - Origin story: Naples, electrical engineering, and the fascination with chaos 08:00 - What is chaos? 15:00 - DC-DC converters and discontinuity-induced bifurcations 22:00 - Piecewise-smooth dynamical systems 26:55 - Complex networks, synchronization, and pinning control 40:30- Synthetic biology: from gene regulatory networks to multicellular control 58:00 - COVID-19: a network epidemic model for Italy 1:02:00 - Multiscale control, statistical mechanics, and p...