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J. William Helton

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Tutorial Workshop:on Real Algebraic Geometry, Polynomial Optimization and Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIPO)
At UCSD     March 22-25   2009

M247A Real Topics, Web page >

M120A FALL 2009 Web page >

M20F Winter 2009 Web page >

SLIDES

AIM09.pdf one per page
AIM09.ps one per page
AIM09p9.pdf 9 per page

Engineering Motivation for NC inequalities
Engineering Motivation for NC inequalities 6 per page
Papers
This page contains many preprints by Helton et al. To see what is missing you can view Pubs 2008 pdf which is Helton's bibliography of last year (or the year before depending on levels of procrastination). The latest web page updates were made in Jan 2003. After all of this if you still wish to try to get some papers click on Papers.
Some papers can be found on arXiv by searching on arXiv for j w helton
Book 1998
Classical Control Using H-infty Methods
By J. William Helton and Orlando Merino. SIAM, 1998.

Book 1999
Extending H-infty Control to Nonlinear Systems.
By J. William Helton and Matt James. SIAM, Dec. 1999.
This is a research monograph which focuses on measurement feedback control or, for those with less of an engineering pursuasion, on factoring nonlinear operators acting on L^2. It gives an outline of the subject and then it gives details of resesarch (mostly of the authors) over the last 4 years. The first part of the book should be good for the beginner and the book's interior is definitely on the bleeding edge. The lighthearted part is:
Contents, Intro, History and the First 3 Yards
Some Special cases and Factoring
Index and Bibliography
Formulas for Nonlinear Time Varying Control
Directions beyond the book; recent papers

Software

The following software packages are currently available through anonymous ftp.

NCAlgebra

Our Non Commutative Algebra Package which runs under Mathematica is available from mathsource.wri.com or better yet from the NCAlgebra Homepage. Getting it from us is better since our version is much more recent. A Noncommutative Gröbner Basis Package NCGB which makes use of the NCAlgebra package is available too NCAlgebra Homepage. It uses a link to C++ which makes it delicate, so as of April fools 1999 we support it under Solaris operating systems only. For complaints or to report really wild NC Expereiences there is our email ncalg@ucsd.edu.

Optimization Over Analytic Functions
There are several software packages available for optimization over analytic functions which were used to run examples in the book Classical Control Using H-infty Methods.

Chemical Reaction Equation Software
The Mathematica files provided on this page contain software for dealing with equations that come from chemical reaction networks. These equations are ordinary differential equations of the form dx/dt=f(x)=S v(x); some properties of these equations relating to steady states are often discernable from the Jacobian, f ', of f. The software is good for analysing sign patterns of f', signs of the coefficients of the polynomial det f'(x).
Also there are commands which express S v(x) in another conventional form YA monomials(x), used in deficiency theory.

Collaborators
A list of the coauthors of the above papers.

These are here so Bill can always find them.

M120A Fall 2008 Web page >

M241A Fall 2008 Web page >

Topics M247B Fall and Winter 2008 Web page >
M247A
M247A Class web site

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Homework for M130B 2004
Bill's Course Web Page Template
Overhead Projector Slides for Teaching 3D Calculus

Amusing to the trade:
Famous Mathematcians

An address by Hilbert


Thanks for financial support to the NSF via grants DMS 0700758 and DMS 0757212 and to the Ford Motor Co..

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