Global meet on power to begin from January 2

THRISSUR: The Thalakkottukara-based Vidya Institute of Science and Technology is organizing EPSCICON, the second international conference on power, signals, controls and computations, from January 2 to 6.
Addressing the media, Dr Sudha Balagopalan, Institutional Coordinator, EPSCICON said the event was being organized by the department of electrical and electronics engineering of the institute with technical co-sponsorship from IEEE PES.
The conference will inaugurated by N Murugesan, director general, Central Power Research Institute (CPRI), in the presence of CGS Mani, president of Bajaj Electricals.
"Delegates from Germany, Sweden, United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Portugal, etc., would be participating in the five-day event that would see about 100 papers being presented on power, signals, controls and computations," said Dr Sudha.
"The special attractions of the event will be the speech by Prof Victor P Savinykh, cosmonaut, and president of Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography; piano concert by international pianist Anna Margulis, and a music concert by Shankar Bhattacharya, Indrajit Banerjee and Gourishankar," Dr Sudha added.
The papers being presented include The separation principle in stochastic control, Redux by Anders Lindquist, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China; Optimal control-practical motivation and problem formulations by Kok Lay Teo, Curtin University, Australia; The structure-preserving doubling algorithm by King Wah Eric Chu, Monash University, Australia and Optimal discrete-valued control problems by Ryan Loxton, Curtin University, Australia.