Research
of Urszula Ledzewicz

INVITED LECTURES, PAPERS PRESENTED, COLLOQUIUM
TALKS
- Optimal
and suboptimal protocols for a class of mathematical models of tumor
growth under angiogenic inhibitors, First Joint AMS-NZMS International
Meeting, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, December 2007
- Synthesis
of optimal controls for mathematical models of tumor anti-angiogenesis, First Joint AMS-PTM International
Meeting, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, August 2007
- A comparison
of optimal and sub-optimal strategies for models of tumor
anti-angiogenesis, Part I, 23rd IFIP TC7 Conference on Modeling
and Optimization, HGH University of Science and Tchnology,
Cracow,
Poland,
July 2007
- Dynamics
and control of cancer growth under anti-angiogenic
treatment, Fifth International
Conference on Dynamical Systems and Applications, Morehouse College,
Atlanta, June 2007
- Optimal
protocols for mathematical models of tumor anti-angiogenesis, Universidad Mayor de San
Marcos, Lima,
Peru,
Colloquium’s talk, March 2007
- Application
of optimal control to mathematical models of tumor anti-angiogenesis, Arizona State
University,
Dept. of Mathematics, Colloquium’s talk, February 2007
- Control
of dynamical systems in models for cancer treatments, (plenary talk) Fifth
WSEAS Conference on Systems Science and Simulation in Engineering,
Tenerife, Spain, December 2006
- Singular
controls in systems describing tumor anti-angiogenesis, Fifth WSEAS
Conference on Systems Science and Simulation in Engineering, Tenerife, Spain, December 2006
- Minimizing
the tumor size in mathematical models for novel cancer treatment:
anti-angiogenesis, Eighth Midwest Optimization Conference, Miami University,
Oxford, OH, October 2006
- Application
of optimal control to a system describing tumor anti-angiogenesis, 17th
International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems
(MTNS), Kyoto, Japan, July 2006,
- A
comparison of optimal controls for mathematical models of tumor
anti-angiogenesis, World Conference on Differential Equations and
Applications (EQUA-DIFF 06), Marrakech,
Morocco,
June 2006
- An
Optimal Control Approach to Mathematical Models of Tumor Anti-Angiogenesis
Dept. of Mathematics and Applied Mechanics, Warsaw University,
Warsaw, Poland, June 2006
- New
perspectives in control of biomedical systems, (plenary talk) ICGST International Conference on
Automatic Control and System Engineering ACSE-05, Cairo, Egypt,
December 19-21, 2005.
- Optimal
Control for a System Modelling Tumor
Anti-Angiogenesis, ICGST International Conference on Automatic
Control and System Engineering ACSE-05, Cairo, Egypt, December 19-21,
2005.
- A
synthesis of optimal controls for a model of tumor growth under angiogenic inhibitors, the 44rd
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Seville, Spain, December
12-15, 2005.
- Analysis
of new mathematical models in biomedicine, Lodz University,
Poland,
December 6, 2005.
- New
directions in analysis and optimal control of biomedical systems, The
Stefan Banach International Mathematical Center,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, December 8, 2005
- Optimal
control for mathematical models of cancer treatments under evolving drug
resistance, Imperial College, London,
England,
June 9, 2005.
- Analysis
of optimal controls for a mathematical model of tumor anti-angiogenesis,
Workshop on Angiogenesis and Other Aspects of Tumor Growth, Warsaw University, Poland, June 15, 2005.
- Application
of optimal control to modeling of a new method of cancer treatment:
anti-angiogenesis, Lodz University, Poland, June 19, 2005.
- Modeling
and dynamics for the optimal control of tumor anti-angiogenesis,
International Workshop on Differential Equations and Dynamic Systems,
Guelph,
Canada,
July 29 -- July 31, 2005.
- Challenges
in mathematical modeling of cancer treatments, Biotechnology and
Bioengineering Symposium, SIUE, April 15, 2005.
- Dynamics
of HIV infection: Complexity of models, treatments, Biotechnology and
Bioengineering Symposium, SIUE, April 15, 2005.
- New
hope for cancer treatments: Anti-tumor angiogenesis, analysis of a
mathematical model, Biotechnology and Bioengineering Symposium, SIUE,
April 15, 2005.
- Application
of optimal control to models for treatment of cancer and HIV, Department
of Mathematics and Statistics, SIUE, May 2005.
- The
role of PK/PD and drug resistance in models for cancer chemotherapy, International
Conference on Medical Information and Technologies, Miedzybrodzie Zywieckie,
Poland,
October 2004
- The
role of pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics
(PD) in models for cancer chemotherapy, Fourth World Congress of
Nonlinear Analysis, Orlando, Florida, July 2004.
- International
Collaboration Research Grants Opportunities in Science and Engineering,
Luncheon “Women in Analysis” at Fourth World Congress of
Nonlinear Analysis, Orlando,
Florida, July
2004.
- Application
of control theory in modeling of cancer chemotherapy, International
Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, Bangkok, Thailand,
August 2004
- Analysis
of the bone marrow model with pharmacokinetics (PK), Symposium on
Nonlinear Analysis, Lodz, Poland,
January 2004
- Optimal
control for a bilinear model with recruiting agent in cancer chemotherapy,
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Maui,
December 2003.
- Mathematical
Methods for the Analysis of Optimal Controls in Compartmental Models for
Cancer Chemotherapy, Workshop on Mathematical Modeling of Cell
Proliferation and Cancer Chemotherapy, Mathematical Biosciences Institute,
Columbus, Ohio, November 2003
- Analysis
of optimal controls for a class of biomedical systems, 24th Colóquio Brasileiro
de Matemática, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
July 2003.
- The
role of the objective in the control of biomedical models, Silesian
Technical University, Gliwice, Poland, June
2003
- Control
of diseases with strong cell proliferation rates: cancer and HIV, University of Lodz,
Poland,
June 2003
- Local
optimality of extremals in mathematical models
for chemotherapy, CIMPA School and Workshop on Geometric Non-linear
Control, Campinas, Brazil, July 2003
- The
Role of Dynamics and Objective in Modeling Cancer Chemotherapy
- Fourth
International Conference on Dynamic Systems and Applications
- Atlanta, Georgia, May 21-24, 2003
- Compartmental
models for cancer chemotherapy, Department of Math. and
Stat., SIUE, May 2003.
- Sufficient
conditions for optimality of controls in biomedical systems, 41st
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Las Vegas,
Nevada, December 2002,
- A
comparison of optimal controls for a model in cancer chemotherapy with L1-
and L2-type objectives, International Conference on
Optimization Methods and Software, Hangzhou,
China, December 2002
- Sufficient
conditions for optimal controls in biomedical systems, 1st
Junior European Meeting on Control Theory and Stability, University of Bourgogne,
Dijon, France, October 2002
- Optimality
conditions for a class of
biomedical models, University of Łódź,
Poland,
October 2002
- Optimal
controls for a two-compartment model for cancer chemotherapy with
quadratic objective”, 5th Portuguese Conference on
Automatic Control (Controlo 2002), Aveiro,
Portugal,
September 2002
- Analysis
of optimal controls for mathematical models of chemotherapy for cancer and
HIV, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal, September 2002
- Analysis
of optimal controls for mathematical models of chemotherapy for cancer and
HIV, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal, September 2002,
- “On
optimal controls for a general mathematical model for chemotherapy of
HIV”, at the 2002 American Control Conference, Anchorage, Alaska,
May 2002.
- “Optimal
control for a general class of
models in chemotherapy of cancer and HIV,” 4th
International Conference on Dynamical Systems and Differential
Equations, Wilmington,
North Carolina, May 2002
- “On
a synthesis of optimal controls for a mathematical model of cancer
chemotherapy”, at the SIAM Conference on Control, San Diego, CA,
July 11-14, 2001.
- “On
optimal controls for a 3-compartment model of cancer chemotherapy,”
at IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Banff, Canada,
June 27-29, 2001.
- “On
generalizations of the Euler-Lagrange equation”, at the Third
World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Catania, Italy, July 2000.
- “Optimal
control of mathematical models in cancer chemotherapy”, Colloquium talk at the University
of Lodz,
Lodz,
Poland,
June 2000.
- “On
the synthesis of controls for a mathematical model of cancer
chemotherapy,” 39th IEEE Conference on Decision and
Control, Sydney, Australia, December 2000.
- “Optimal
control for a mathematical model of cancer chemotherapy”, at IASTED
International Conference on Control and Applications, Cancun, Mexico, May 2000.
- “Perturbation
feedback control law and its generalizations”, Colloquium talk at the University
of Lodz,
Lodz,
Poland,
June 1999.
- “High-order
local Maximum Principle: theory, comparisons, examples”, Colloquium
talk at Center for Viability and Control, Dauphine University,
Paris, France, May 1999.
- “Perturbation
feedback control and neighboring extremals in
abnormal cases”, at IASTED International Conference on Control
and Applications, Honolulu,
Hawaii, August 1998.
- “High-order
approximations in optimal control theory: A comparison of normal, abnormal
and singular cases”, at the 13-th International Symposium on
Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, Padova, Italy, July 1998.
- “High-order
approximations in optimization and optimal control,” Colloquium talk at University
of Florence, Florence, Italy, June 1998.
- “High-order
approximations for abnormal bang-bang extremals”,
at the 18th IFIP Conference on Optimization and Mathematical
Modeling, Detroit,
MI, July 21-25, 1997.
- “Comparison
of first, second and third order approximations in optimal control:
conditions for accessory problem”, Colloquium talk at the University
of Lodz, Lodz, Poland, June 1997.
- “High-order
Maximum Principle”, at the Conference on Optimal Control: Theory,
Methods and Applications, at the University
of Florida, Gainesville, February 27-March 1, 1997.
- “High-order
approximations with applications to abnormal problems in optimization and
optimal control”, Colloquium talk at the Florida
Institute of Technology, February 24, 1997.
- "A
high-order generalization of the Lyusternik
theorem without surjectivity condition and its
application to optimization", Second World Congress of Nonlinear
Analysts, Athens,
July 1996.
- "Optimality
Conditions for Control Problems Governed by Abstract Semilinear
Differential Equations in Complex Banach
Space", at the International Conference on Dynamical Systems and
Differential Equations, Springfield,
Missouri, June 1996.
- "On
high-order tangent cones and their applications in optimal control",
12-th International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks
and Systems (MTNS-96), St. Louis (Missouri), June 24-28, 1996.
- "Extended
Maximum principle and second-order condition for abnormal problems in
optimal control", Colloquium Talk at the Institute
of Mathematics, Lodz University, Lodz (Poland), January 1996
- "On
a new type of approximating cones in optimization and extended Maximum
Principle", at the University
of Rhode Island, Kingston, August 16,
1995
- "Second
order Dubovitskii-Milyutin theory and second
order optimality conditions to abnormal optimal control problems", at
a Special Session on Nonlinear Dynamics, Annual Meeting of AMS, San
Francisco, January 1995.
- "Nontrivial
optimality conditions in abnormal optimal control problems”, at the Third
SIAM Conference on Control and Applications, St. Louis,
MO,
April 27-29, 1995.
- "Second
order approximating cones for abnormal problems in optimization and
optimal control", International Congress of Mathematicians,
ICM94, Zurich,
August 3-11, 1994.
- "Extension
of the Dubovitskii-Milyutin method to second
order approximating cones and its applications", at the Session of
Polish Mathematical Society, University
of Lodz, Poland,
July 1994.
- "First
and second order conditions for optimality II. abnormal
optimal control problems", at the Conference on Optimization,
Oxford (Ohio),
May 12-13, 1994.
- "On
abnormal problems in optimization and optimal control", at the
Department of Applied Mathematics, University
of Virginia,
Charlottesville,
May 16, 1994.
- "Pareto
optimality conditions for abnormal optimization and optimal control
problems", at the Conference on Optimal Control, Athens (Ohio),
March 25-27, 1993.
- "Generalizations
of the Lusternik theorem and their applications
to nonsmooth and abnormal problems in
optimization and optimal control", at the First World Congress of
Nonlinear Analysts, Tampa
(Florida),
August 19-26, 1992
- "On
some type of higher order conditions for optimality and their applications
to abnormal problems in control theory", at the Session of Polish
Mathematical Society, University
of Lodz, Poland,
July 1992.
- "An
extension of Maximum Principle for abnormal problems", at the Summer
School on Control Theory, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada,
July 26-August 7, 1992.
- "On
a certain type of Higher Order Maximum Principle (HMP)", at the AMS
Annual Meeting in Baltimore, January 1992.
- "Abnormalities
in optimal control problems of distributed parameter systems in Banach spaces", at the 20-th Midwest
Conference of Differential Equations in Iowa City,
December 6-7, 1991.
- "On
nonregular optimization and abnormal optimal
control problems", at Second International Conference of
Industrial and Applied Mathematics, ICIAM 91, Washington,
D.C.,
July, 1991.
- "Optimality
conditions for abnormal optimal control problems of with additional
equality constraints", at International Conference on the Theory
and Applications of Differential Equations in Edinburg (Texas),
May 1991.
- "Necessary
conditions of optimality and Pareto optimality for abnormal optimization
and optimal control problems", at Optimization Days, Montreal (Canada),
May 1991.
- "On
the Dubovitskii-Milyutin method and abnormal
optimal control problems", at the Department of Systems Science and
Mathematics, Washington University, April 1991
- "On
some extension of the Pontryagin type maximum
principle to the abnormal optimal control problems", at the AMS
Annual Meeting in San
Francisco, January 16-19,
1991.
- "Optimality
conditions for abnormal optimal control problems of systems with terminal
data", at the International Conference on the Theory of
Differential Equations and Applications to Oceanography, Goa University (India), December 17-21, 1990.
- "On
an abnormal optimal control problem", at the International
Conference on Mathematical Theory of Control, IIT Bombay (India),
December 10-15, 1990.
- "On
optimal control of distributed parameter systems with terminal data",
at the Nineteenth Annual Midwest Differential and Integral Equations
Conference, Rolla (Missouri),
October 19-20, 1990.
- "On
optimization problems in the nonregular cases
and abnormal optimal controls", at Florida
Institute of Technology, Melbourne,
May 1990.
- "Conditions
of optimality and Pareto optimality in nonregular
extremum problems in Banach
spaces and their applications to abnormal optimal control problems",
at the XIX Conference of Applied Mathematics, Pradocin
(Poland),
September 19-25, 1990.
- "The
Euler - Lagrange equations for nonregular extremum problems in Banach
spaces", at the AMS Annual Meeting, Louisville,
January 1990.
- "On
some optimal control problems of parabolic and hyperbolic equations",
at the Midwest Conference on Differential Equations, Carbondale (Illinois),
Nov.10-11, 1989.
- "Application
of the Moser's technique to the tangent direction problem for nonlinear
evolution equations", at the International Conference on
Differential Equations, Theory and Applications to Stability and Control,
Colorado Springs, (Colorado), June 7-10, 1989.
- "On further extensions of the Dubovitskii-Milyutin
formalism", at the AMS Annual Meeting, Phoenix,
January 1989.
- "On
extensions of the Dubovitskii-Milyutin method
and their applications to optimal control of ordinary and partial
differential equations", at Southern Illinois University at
Carbondale, January 1989.
- "Application
of some specifications of the Dubovitskii-Milyutin
theorem to optimal control problems with additional equality
constraints", at the University
of Rhode Island,
Kingston,
August 1988.
- "On
some optimal control problems of differential equations with additional
equality contraints", at the International
Conference in Honor of Solomon Lefschetz and Joseph P.LaSalle
``30 Years of Modern Optimal Control Theory," Kingston
(Rhode
Island), June 1988.
- "Application
of Global Linearization Iterative Methods to general optimal control
problems in Banach spaces", at the International
Conference on Theory and Applications of Differential Equations, Columbus (Ohio),
April 1988.
- "The
Euler-Lagrange equation in the presence of unbounded operator
constraints" at the AMS Annual Meeting , Atlanta,
January 1988.
- "On
generalizations of the Duboviskii-Milyutin
theorem in optimization and their applications", at Southwest
Texas State University, San
Marcos, April 1987.
- "Application
of optimization methods under Frechet and
Gateaux differentiability in Banach spaces to
optimal control problems", at the University
of New Hampshire,
Durham,
March 1987.
- "Some
extensions of the Dubovitskii-Milyutin formalism
and their applications to optimal control problems", at Southern
Illinois University, Edwardsville, March 1987.
- "On
the Dubovitskii-Milyutin formalism in the case
of many equlity constraint and its applications
to optimal control of systems governed by ordinary and partial
differential equations" at the University of California, Irvine,
February 1987.
- "On
the optimization and optimal control problems with many equality
constraints" at the University
of West Virginia,
February 1987
- “Application
of the method of contractor directions to optimization and optimal
control” at the AMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio,
January 1987.
- “Applications
of the method of contractor directions to optimization theory” at
the Conference of Applied Mathematics, Sielpia,
1986.
- "Optimal
control problems of ordinary and differential equations with equality contraints" at the International Conference on
the Theory Applications of Differential Equations, Edinburg,
May 1985.
- "Extremum principle for optimal control problems with
mixed equality constraints" at the University
of Cracow,
May, 1984.
- "On
the optimal control problems of ordinary differential equations with
equality constraints" at the Session of the Polish Mathematical
Society, March, 1984.
- "On
some methods in discrete optimization", at the Conference of
Applied Mathematics, Burzenin, 1981.
Urszula Ledzewicz / uledzew@siue.edu / Updated: January
7, 2007