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ep48 - Romeo Ortega: From sliding modes to adaptive, passivity-based and energy-shaping control
September 13, 2026 · 1 hr 46 minOutline 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…
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ep47 - Tore Hägglund and José Luis Guzman: the art of PID control
August 17, 2026 · 1 hr 43 minOutline 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…
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ep46 - The fall of LTCM: Bachelier, Merton, and Black–Scholes ... when stochastic control met Wall Street
July 15, 2026 · 1 hr 1 minOutline 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…
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ep45 - Peter Caines: from stochastic and adaptive control to mean field games, graphons, and beyond!
June 15, 2026 · 1 hr 32 minOutline 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…
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ep44 - Mario di Bernardo: From Circuits to Cells and Swarms — Control meets Complexity
May 15, 2026 · 1 hr 30 minOutline 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…
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ep43 - Steve Brunton: DMD, Koopman, SINDy, Eigensteve Channel, HydroGym, Optimization, and much more
April 15, 2026 · 1 hr 14 minOutline 00:00 - Intro 01:15 - Origin story: early path and the road to science 04:20 - On graphical visualization and aphantasia 08:08 - The interest in fluid dynamics 12:00 - Caltech, Jerry Marsden, and the move to the Pacific time…
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ep42 - inControl guide to ... the Nyquist criterion
March 16, 2026 · 1 hr 10 minOutline 00:00 – Intro 04:43 – Life and background 08:45 – Bell Labs 13:42 – Inventing the negative feedback amplifier 18:15 – Nyquist's landmark contributions 20:43 – Regeneration theory 27:10 – Frequency response 32:03 – Cauchy’s argument…
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ep41 - A minimal history of optimal control
February 16, 2026 · 1 hr 32 minOutline 00:00 - Intro 02:55 - Brachistochrone problem 20:52 - Beginning of the calculus of variations 32:00 - Principle of least action 42:37 - Maximum principle 1:02:35 - Dynamic programming 1:11:12 - Linear quadratic control 1:16:37…
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ep40 - Jeff Shamma: gain scheduling, nonlinear control, learning & dissipativity in games, jiu-jitsu
January 15, 2026 · 2 hr 11 minOutline 00:00 - Intro 03:18 - Early days: why control, M. Athans, and IDSS 12:21 - What is gain scheduling? 33:37 - Paradigm shifts & the ‘90s: Minnesota → Texas → LA 42:19 - Robustness & fundamental limitations of nonlinear systems 57:35…
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ep39 - Female influencers in control
December 16, 2025 · 1 hr 6 minOutline 00:00 - Intro 05:01 - Female Influencers in Control — The Backstory 08:08 - Sofya Kovalevskaya 15:21 - Irmgard Lotz 26:16 - A new wave of control influencers 34:26 - Some data 43:38 - What can one do? 1:00:10 - Exhibition +…
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ep38 - inControl guide to ... Feedback
November 17, 2025 · 1 hr 25 minOutline 00:00 – Intro 07:22 – Anatomy of a feedback loop 15:12 – A brief historical recap on the history of feedback 23:40 – Inventing the negative feedback amplifier 34:28 – Feedback in biology, economics, society, and ... board…
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ep37 - A. M. Lyapunov: The General Problem of Stability of Motion
October 16, 2025 · 1 hr 25 minOutline 00:00 - Intro 03:12 - Early life 09:07 - St. Petersburg: Stability of Ellipsoidal Bodies 20:13 - Kharkov: The General Problem of the Stability of Motion 34:37 - Back to St. Petersburg: Probability & Academy 46:22 - Tragic…

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