Coffee and Control
Coffee and Control
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Podcast in which I interview fascinating people from within the world of control theory/ control engineering. Primarily aimed at PhD/masters students but can hopefully be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in control.
New episodes released monthly
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The podcast focuses on a range of advanced topics within control theory, including geometric control, fractional order systems, aircraft control, and rehabilitation applications. Episodes dive into specific areas such as Boolean control using state-space approaches, anti-windup techniques in aircraft systems, and the application of iterative learning control in stroke rehabilitation.

Podcast in which I interview fascinating people from within the world of control theory/ control engineering. Primarily aimed at PhD/masters students but can hopefully be enjoyed by anyone with an interest in control.
New episodes released monthly
In this month’s episode got to talk to Dr Carrie Weidner allabout controlling quantum systems! I find out what the control objective is forthese systems, how to characterise their robustness (or at least attempt to),how easy it is to apply this to practical systems, and a lot more besides.
You can find the transcript at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aixaD-P6R6jFDjS4Zp6nJ2n5ZHPfbWKYCue2v2_ZCVU/edit?usp=sharing
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References
PhD thesis: https://jila.colorado.edu/sites/default/files/2019-03/Weidner_PhD_final.pdf
Sabine Hauert episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/65iwMh2NstKqXvfATpzfm4
Sabine episode transcript: https://docs.google.com/document/d/12t_8k9LRckeGB–YVDS0XWnOeLX8sQcY3njA7jBCj1o/edit?usp=sharing
Carrie’s quantum control survey: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2401.00294
Sophie Shermer: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/s.schirmer/
Frank Langbein: https://langbein.org/
Edmond Jonckheere: https://ee.usc.edu/~jonckhee/
Sean O’Neil: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=250lKHEAAAAJ&hl=en
Phila Rembold: https://qusco-itn.eu/portfolio_page/phila-rembold-2/
Bases in quantum control: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20889
Nelder-Mead optmisation: http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Nelder-Mead_algorithm#Advantages_and_disadvantageshttps://brandewinder.com/2022/03/31/breaking-down-Nelder-Mead/
Ronnie Kosloff: https://www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/explore-the-humboldt-network/singleview/1211067/prof-dr-ronnie-kosloff
Belavkin-Carmichael quantum filter: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510028
Luenburg filter papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.06454
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6426181
Non-Markovian systems papers: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/7/073023
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09637
Christiane Koch: https://atominnen.at/empower/interviews/382-christiane-koch
Open quantum systems paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0953-8984/28/21/213001
Carrie’s mu analysis paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12385
Randa Herzallah: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/maths/people/staff/herzallah/
Paper on quantum optimal control: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00207179.2024.2342939
Quantum thermodynamics paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.98.012139
Irtaza Khalid: https://profiles.cardiff.ac.uk/staff/khalidmi
Robustness-infidelity metric paper: https://journals.aps.org/pra/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevA.107.032606
Time-domain log-sensitivity paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.15783
Unifying log-sensitivity and RIM: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.09518
Robust quantum control papers:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.05372
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2008.13691
Energy landscape shaping paper: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/addc0d
Jacob Sherson: https://jacobsherson.com/
David DiVincenzo: https://qutech.nl/person/david-divincenzo/
Enrico Fermi: https://www.dpma.de/english/our_office/publications/milestones/greatinventors/enricofermi/index.html
Physical review letters paper: https://link.aps.org/accepted/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.263201
Point spread modification paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.05341

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