Course Schedule


30 August
Time Speaker Name Topic/Abstract
02:30 PM - 03:20 PM Dr. Debasattam Pal Talk 1: Contraction mapping theorem
03:30 PM - 04:20 PM Dr. Twinkle Tripathy Talk 1: Introduction to graphs & related matrices
04:30 PM - 05:20 PM Dr. Rajat Mittal Talk 1: Spectral graph theory I
05:30 PM - 06:20 PM Dr. Debasattam Pal Talk 2: Proof of Perron-Frobenius theorem - a special case
06:30 PM - 07:20 PM Dr. Twinkle Tripathy Talk 2: Properties of positive matrices and Perron Frobenius theorem
31 August
02:30 PM - 03:20 PM Dr. Debasattam Pal Talk 3: Power method
03:30 PM - 04:20 PM Dr. Debasattam Pal Talk 4: Francis iteration
04:30 PM - 05:20 PM Dr. Rajat Mittal Talk 2: Spectral graph theory II
06:00 PM - 06:50 PM Dr. Twinkle Tripathy Talk 3: The French DeGroot Model
07:00 PM - 07:50 PM Dr. Soumya Ranjan Sahoo Talk 1: Cooperative Control of DC Microgrids
01 September
02:30 PM - 03:20 PM Dr. Twinkle Tripathy Talk 4: Structural balance theory I
03:30 PM - 04:20 PM Dr. Debasattam Pal Talk 5: Francis iteration demystified
04:30 PM - 05:20 PM Dr. Rajat Mittal Talk 3: Spectral graph theory III
06:00 PM - 06:50 PM Dr. Soumya Ranjan Sahoo Talk 2: Control Design for Global Reachability of Multi-agent Systems
07:00 PM - 07:50 PM Dr. Soumya Ranjan Sahoo Talk 3: Distributed Tracking in Multi-agent Systems

Course Coordinator

Dr. Twinkle Tripathy

Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kanpur

Course Speakers



Dr. Debasattan Pal
IIT Bombay

Dr. Debasattam Pal is currently working as an associate professor in the EE Department of IIT Bombay. he worked as an assistant professor at IIT Guwahati from July 2012 to May 2014. After that, he joined IIT Bombay in June 2014 as an assistant professor in the EE Department. He received his M.Tech. and PhD degrees from the Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay. His areas of research include multidimensional systems theory, algebraic analysis of systems, dissipative systems, optimal control, and computational algebra.

Dr. Twinkle Tripathy is working as an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. She received her M.Tech. and PhD degrees from the Department of System and Control Engineering at IIT Bombay. Her main areas of research include cyclic pursuit strategies, formation control problems, and the study of non-holonomic systems

Dr. Rajat Mittal
IIT Kanpur

Dr. Rajat Mittal is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Kanpur. He received his PhD from Rutgers University in January 2011. His areas of research include Quantum Computing, Complexity of Boolean functions, Computational Complexity and Semidefinite Programming.

Dr. Soumya Ranjan Sahoo is currently working as an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Kanpur. He worked as a Scientist Fellow at CSIR-National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore, India, till June 2014. He received his MTech and PhD in Systems and Control Engineering from IIT Bombay (2013). His areas of research include nonlinear systems, control of unmanned autonomous vehicles, formation control, cooperative localization and consensus, application of coordinated control to unmanned vehicles, and power systems.

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Course Code: 37
Course Title: Graph Theoretic Approaches
Course Duration: 30.08.2023 - 01.09.2023

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