{"id":2631,"date":"2026-03-21T12:34:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T17:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/?page_id=2631"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:04:58","slug":"c3-9","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/","title":{"rendered":"9th Workshop on Cognition &amp; Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"> <strong>Free to Attend, Open to All<\/strong>  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>3\/26 &#8211; Reitz Union Chamber &amp; poster session in G310<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>3\/27 &#8211; Reitz Union room G325<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/UrbanCCC.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2739\" style=\"width:451px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/UrbanCCC.png 1024w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/UrbanCCC-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/UrbanCCC-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/UrbanCCC-800x600.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/campusmap.ufl.edu\/#\/index\/0686\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Campus Map: J Wayne Reitz Union<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>We are pleased to invite you to the ninth C^3 workshop on cognition &amp; control, to be held March 26 &amp; 27 at the University of Florida in the J. Wayne Reitz Union Chamber. Co-organized by  Jie Fu, and Sean Meyn from the ECE Department, the workshop is sponsored by NSF and the UF Pittman Endowment.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The purpose of this meeting is the same as the previous C<sup>3<\/sup> workshops: To educate each other and the public, and to engage in discussion related to topics in control and cognition (which includes information theory and statistical learning). The conference is organized in such a way as to leave lots of time for discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Application areas have included communication, power systems, and brain science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/ccc2026flyer-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2791\" style=\"width:103px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/ccc2026flyer-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/ccc2026flyer-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/ccc2026flyer-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/ccc2026flyer-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/ccc2026flyer-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/671\/2026\/03\/ccc2026flyer-scaled.jpeg\" data-type=\"attachment\" data-id=\"2791\"><strong>Info Flyer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Organized by Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/meyn.ece.ufl.edu\/\">Sean Meyn<\/a>, co-organized by Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/fujie.ece.ufl.edu\/\">Jie Fu<\/a> with help from enormous help from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eng.ufl.edu\/about\/contact\/college-directory\/name\/lana-marcy-lee\/\">Marcy Lee<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sannasaare\/\">Sanna Saare<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday, March 26<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reitz Union Chamber<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Time<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Affiliation<\/th><th>Title<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>9:30am<\/td><td>Sean Meyn<\/td><td>University of Florida<\/td><td>Opening Remarks (Chamber Room)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:00<\/td><td>Emiliano Dall&#8217;Anese<\/td><td>Boston University<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/representation-based-reinforcement-learning-and-control-for-dynamical-systems\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2417\">Online Optimization-based Control via Two-Time-Scale Dynamics<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:45<\/td><td>Prashant Mehta<\/td><td>University of Illinois<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/on-the-statistical-complexity-and-instance-adaptiveness-of-offline-reinforcement-learning\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2407\">What can we learn from signals and systems in a transformer? <\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11:30<\/td><td colspan=\"3\">Lunch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1:00pm<\/td><td><br>Jose Principe<\/td><td>University of Florida <\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/trustworthy-ai-for-resilient-and-adaptive-aerospace-autonomy\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2393\">Pulse Based Computation: Fundamentals and Opportunities<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1:45<\/td><td>Aditya Mahajan<\/td><td>McGill University<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/efficientlysearchingpomdps\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2397\">Efficiently searching for good agent state based policies in Dec-POMDPs<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>2:30<\/td><td><strong> <em>Poster Session Cancelled<\/em><\/strong><\/td><td><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><tr><td><\/td><td colspan=\"3\">Free Time!  Perhaps a return to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/YXSxMK22mFdj4rpW6\">La Chua Trail<\/a> <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Friday, March 27<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reitz Union room G325<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th>Time<\/th><th>Speaker<\/th><th>Affiliation<\/th><th>Title<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td>10:00am<\/td><td>Vijay Subramanian<\/td><td>University of Michigan<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/a-new-paradigm-for-web3\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2403\">Bayesian Learning of Optimal Policies in Markov Decision Processes with Countably Infinite State-Space<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>10:45<\/td><td>Vikram Krishnamurthy<\/td><td>Cornell University<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/deceptive-attack-synthesis-and-its-mitigation-for-nonlinear-cyber-physical-systems\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2411\">Revealed Preference and Adaptive Inverse Reinforcement Learning<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>11:30<\/td><td colspan=\"3\">Lunch<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1:00pm<\/td><td>Ken Duffy<\/td><td>Northeastern University<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/multi-agent-reinforcement-learning-for-wind-farm-control\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2541\">The linear reliability channel: a discrete framework for soft decision error correction decoding<\/a><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>1:45<\/td><td>Muriel Medard<\/td><td>Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/td><td><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.eng.ufl.edu\/meyn\/c3\/c3-9\/what-can-you-do-with-a-soft-input-soft-output-decoder\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"2389\">Building the Fastest Decentralized Internet Protocol for Web3<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free to Attend, Open to All Campus Map: J Wayne Reitz Union We are pleased to invite you to the ninth C^3 workshop on cognition &amp; control, to be held March 26 &amp; 27 at the University of Florida in the J. 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