CHAOS AND CONTROL         

                                   by

                            Elizabeth Bradley
            Department of Computer Science, University of Colorado

                INSCC 110, 3:30pm Monday, April 5, 1999

                                Abstract
Understanding and exploiting the special properties of chaos can
lead to designs that vastly improve the performance of many practical
and useful systems --- spacecraft trajectories that require less
fuel, for example, or electronic tracking circuitry with broader ranges and
fuel injectors that mix gasoline and air more effectively.  Control
strategies that leverage chaos's characteristic geometry,
ergodicity, and sensitivity to attain such improvements rely on powerful
computational tools that use a combination of quantitative and
qualitative reasoning to work with the special properties
involved.
This talk will begin with a brief review of the mathematical
theory and computational techniques that are used in the control of
chaos, and then cover a variety of interesting examples ranging from
science and engineering to dance.