Plenary Lecture at Intnl Conference on Systems Analysis and Control
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Prof. Weber was invited to give a plenary lecture on control theory at an international conference held in honor of the Academician Arkady Kryazhimskiy (1949-2014) in Ekaterinburg, Russia. The conference took place in early October at the Krasovskiy Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It was co-organized by the Steklov Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria, and the Committee for Systems Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow.
The interdisciplinary conference was attended by leading researchers in the fields of differential equations, control theory, and systems analysis. In his talk on “Optimal Multiattribute Screening,” Prof. Weber discussed techniques for constructing optimal nonlinear pricing schedules for products with multiple attributes using the example of designing a menu of optimal insurance contracts presented to an agent with unknown constant absolute risk aversion.
Academician Arkady Kryazhimskiy, a member of the Steklov Mathematical Institute since 1996, was an influential researcher who produced important work in differential games, delayed systems, non-Lipschitz dynamics, dynamic inversion, nonconvex optimization, infinite-horizon optimal control, as well as numerous contributions on interdisciplinary problems in applied mathematics particularly related to his activities at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis since the 1990s. Kryazhimskiy, who was also a program director at IIASA, wrote the preface of Prof. Weber’s book on Optimal Control Theory with Applications in Economics (MIT Press, 2011).
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- Academician Arkady Kryazhimskiy (1) (2), IIASA, November 2014 / October 2016
- International Conference on Systems Analysis and Control
- News Release on Optimal Control Book, EPFL, December 2011
- Chair of Operations, Economics and Strategy, EPFL
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