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17th IFAC WORLD CONGRESS, JULY 6-11, 2008, SEOUL, KOREA
 
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IFAC & Congress Awards
 
 

IFAC Awards will be presented at the following ceremonies.

 

IFAC AWARDS at OPENING CEREMONY [July 6, 17:30 - 18:30]
Location: Auditorium, 3rd Floor
 
Giorgio Quazza Medal to Professor Graham Goodwin
Nathaniel B. Nichols Medal to Professor Gerd Hirzinger
In addition, IFAC advisors will be appointmented during this ceremony.

 
IFAC JOURNAL AWARD CEREMONY [July 8, 18:30 - 19:30]
Location: Room 402, Conference Room, 4th Floor
 
Automatica Prize Paper Award'
Control Engineering Practice Prize Paper Award
Journal of Process Control Prize Paper Award
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence Prize Paper Award
Mechatronics Prize Paper Award

 
IFAC FELLOW AWARD CEREMONY [July 10, 18:30 - 19:30]
Location: Rpp, 401, Conference Room, 4th Floor
The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role as an Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator.
Fellows elected in 2008
 

Bittanti, Sergio I Braatz, Richard I Camacho, Eduardo I Cao, Xi-Ren I Cassandras, Christos I Chai, Tian-You I Cheng, Dai-Zhan I Edgar, Thomas I Gottzein, Eveline I Haddad, Abraham I Krstic, Miroslav I Kurzhanski, Alexander I Lewis, Frank I Morari, Manfred I Safonov, Michael I Vicino, Antonio


CONGRESS AWARDS at CLOSING CEREMONY [July 11, 16:30 -18:00]
Location: Auditorium, 3rd Floor
 

IFAC Congress Young Author Prize

This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. The criteria include high technical quality and good presentation of results. All authors must be under 35 years of age. A nomination form from a colleague, mentor, supervisor, or eligible author himself/herself should be submitted to IFAC CMMS.

Finalists:

- Mamoun Abdel-Hafez, The Autocovariance Least Squares Technique for GPS Interference/Jamming Detection

- Takenori Atsumi, Disturbance Suppression beyond Nyquist Frequency in Hard Disk Drives

- Lachlan Blackhall & Michael Rotkowitz, Recursive Sparse Estimation using a Gaussian Sum Filter
- Marcello Colledani, Integrated Analysis of Quality and Production Logistics Performance in Asynchronous Manufacturing Lines
- Tao Li, Asymptotically Unbiased Average Consensus Under Measurement Noises and Fixed Topologies


 
IFAC Congress Application Paper Prize

This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. The criteria include high technical quality and good presentation of the results in the area of control applications. A nomination form from a colleague or the author himself/herself should be submitted to IFAC CMMS. It is also possible for the reviewer to recommend during the reviewing process.

 
 

Finalists:

- Takenori Atsumi, Disturbance Suppression beyond Nyquist Frequency in Hard Disk Drives
- Christian Benatzky, Martin Kozek, Alexander Schirrer, & Anton Stribersky, Vibration Damping of a Flexible Car Body Structure Using Piezo-Stack Actuators

- Emery N. Brown, Ming Cheng, Emad Eskandar, Sridevi V. Sarma, & Ziv Williams, Modeling Neural Spiking Activity in the Sub-Thalamic Nucleus of Parkinson's Patients and Healthy Primates.
- Tianyou Chai, Jinliang Ding, & Fenghua Wu, Hybrid Intelligent Control for Optimal Operation of Shaft Furnace Process

- Tomohiko Jimbo & Yoshikazu Hayakawa, Physical-Model-Based Control of Engine Cold Start via Role State Variables

IFAC Congress Poster Paper Prize
This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. A selection committee will nominate candidates. The criteria include high technical quality and good presentation.
 
  Finalists:
IFAC Congress Best Video Prize
 
This prize consists of a certificate and a monetary award of USD1,000. A selection committee will nominate candidates. The criteria include technical relevance, quality, contributions, and video and audio quality.

 
OTHER EVENT
 
Outstanding Service Awards in 2008
This award is presented to IFAC officials who have served and contributed substantially to IFAC in various capacities, according to a criterion set by the Council. The award consists of a certificate and a lapel pin and is presented to the candidates on the occasion of IFAC World Congresses.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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