The Colloquia Roberto Tempo in Automatica were established in 2018 by the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems Society to honor Roberto Tempo’s memory:
“The Colloquia are dedicated to the memory of our friend, colleague and outstanding scientist Roberto, who passed away suddenly in 2017 during a ski mountaineering trip in the Alps. Roberto always believed in importance of sharing and disseminating results in his community.
Roberto was an extraordinary communicator. His talks were always clear and highly inspiring. As an author of scientific contributions, he spent an incredible amount of time making sure that his papers were accurate and easily accessible.
The Colloquia are general seminars held by renowned scientists. They range over all aspects of systems and control, and on interdisciplinary subjects where control plays a fundamental role. They aim to contribute at the cultural atmosphere of our Institute, so offering young people the opportunity to be exposed to the teaching of internationally known scholars working in different research areas.”
The Colloquia have been co-sponsored by Politenico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano – DEIB, Università degli Studi di Padova, Politecnico di Bari and by the Italian Chapters of the IEEE Control Systems Society, the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, the IEEE Power & Energy Society, the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, and the IEEE PoliTo Student Branch.
Colloquia organizing committe:
Prof. Sergio Bittanti, Prof. Patrizio Colaneri, Dr. Fabrizio Dabbene
6th Colloquium Roberto Tempo in Automatica
Hideaki Ishii
Professor, Dept. of Information Physics and Computing, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
“Resiliency in Multi-Agent Consensus under Adversarial Attacks”
October 10.2025 – Politecnico di Bari
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Karl H. Johansson
Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Director of Digital Futures, KTH Royal Inst. of Technology, Sweden
“Emergent behaviors and collective decisions in cyber-physical-human systems”
October 22, 2024 – DEI – Università degli Studi di Padova
4th Colloquium Roberto Tempo in Automatica
Frank Allgöwer
Director of Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control, University of Stuttgart
“MPS is going data: A data-driven MPC framework with theoretical guarantees”
November 7, 2023 – Politecnico di Milano
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Tamer Basar
Swalund Endowed Chair Emeritus and CAS Professor Emeritus of ECE, Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Consensus and Dissensus in Multi-population Multi-agent Systems”
October 19, 2022 – Politecnico di Torino
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Francesco Bullo
University of California, Santa Barbara
“Network Systems: Theory and Applications to Synchronous Power Flows”
April 19, 2019 – Politecnico di Torino
1st Colloquium Roberto Tempo in Automatica
Bob Ross Barmish
University of Wisconsin
“When the Expected Value is Unexpected”
June 18, 2018 – Politecnico di Torino
