From SOSwiki

SOSLab Retreat 2009 Date: Saturday October 3, 2009 Time: 830a - 530p Location: Note the Talris center (pictured left) but probably the Bill and Melinda Gates Commons (still negotiating)

Schedule

I am not sure on the order or timing yet, but expect approximately the following talks. Feel free to edit your title. Eventually, I'll want an abstract for each talk.

• 830a: Introduction and Overview of Lab Activities, Klavins
• 900a: Feedback Regulated Transcriptional Switch, Bishop
• 930a: Tuning Gene Expression using Simple Sequence Repeats, Egbert

• 1000a: Break

• 1030a: Agreement on Stochastic Multi-Robot Systems with Communication Failures, Shaw
• 1100a: Linear Matrix Inequality Approach to Disturbance Rejection in Systems with Saturating Actuators, Takahashi
• 1130a: Control of Stochastic Robotic Systems, Napp

• 1200p: Lunch

• 100p: Parameter Estimation of Stochastic Nonlinear Dynamic Processes using Multiple Experimental Data Sets, Jang
• 130p: Directed Evolution with a Turbidostat, Leone, Fisher and Lo
• 200p: Programming with Nucleic Acids, Olsen and Strovas
• 230p: Auxin Synthetic Biology, House

• 300: Break and group photo

• 330p: Chemical I/O Systems, Oishi
• 400p: Convex Optimization and Rank Minimzation, Fazel
• 430p: Observers for the CME, Thorsley

• 500p: Discussion and future directions

Best Presentation Award: Kevin Oishi!!!!

There will be an award for best student presentation. All attendees with PhDs will be judges. Criteria for the award are:

• Novelty and creativity of the ideas presented
• Quality of experimental and theoretical results
• Clarity of presentation
• That je ne sais quoi that makes a talk over-the-top amazing