Fractional Calculus for Better Understanding Extremes
（用分数微积分更能洞悉极端现象）
Prof. YangQuan Chen
MESA Lab of University of California, Merced
(E:ychen53@ucmerced.edu; W:http://mechatronics.ucmerced.edu)
Date/Time:2014年12月16日(周二)上午09:00-10:00
Venue:南校区教学楼F座201
ABSTRACT:
Our personal experience tells an unpleasant fact that "extreme events" are happening more and more often. What's the governing law behind it? How we better understand the fact that extreme events are happening more and more often? Why this linked to fractional order dynamics? This seminar will give a tutorial introduction to answering the above questions at a level accessible to general public(hopefully).
（现实经历中我们遭遇一个不愉快但普遍存在的事实，即极端事件好像在更经常发生。其背后隐藏的主导规律是什么呢？我们又如何更好地理解此类越来越经常发生的极端事件呢？其与分数阶动力学之间的关系如何呢？那么本次讲座将提供一个一般的介绍来回答上述问题，以期达到一般公众可接受的程度。）
BIOGRAPHY:
YangQuan Chen joined University of California, Merced in summer 2012 with a vision to promote the wide-spread use of low cost data-drones in precision agriculture and environmental monitoring. His unmanned aerial system(USA) team at UC Merced has been pursuing research excellence in innovative use of data-drones for crop, water, soil, dust, air, and fire etc. Dr. Chen received Ph. D. from Nanyang Technological University Singapore in 1998. His current areas of research interest include: applied fractional calculus in controls, signal processing and energy informatics; distributed measurement and distributed control of distributed parameter systems using mobile actuator and sensor networks; mechatronics; multi-UAV based cooperative multi-spectral "personal remote sensing" for precision agriculture and environmental monitoring. He is an Associate Editor for Acta Montanistica Slovaca, IFAC journals of Mechatronics and Control Engineering Practice, Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis, ASME journal of Dynamical Systems, Measurement and Control, IEEE Transactions of Control Systems Technology, ISA Transactions. He serves as the Topic-Editor-in-Chief in "Field Robotics" for International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems(IJARS), a Founding Associate Editor for Unmamed Systems and a Senior Editor for International journal of Intelligent and Robotic System. Dr. Chen is a member of ASPRS, AUVSI, AMA, IEEE, ASME, AIAA, and ASEE.
