Jan Camiel Willems

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Jan Camiel Willems (born September 18, 1939 in Bruges ; † August 31, 2013 ) was a Belgian mathematical systems theorist.

Willems studied at the University of Ghent and the University of Rhode Island and received his PhD in electrical engineering (nonlinear harmonic analysis) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1968 with Roger W. Brockett . He was then assistant professor there until 1973 and from 1973 professor for systems and control theory at the University of Groningen , where he retired in 2003. Afterwards he was visiting professor at the Catholic University of Leuven.

In 1972 he introduced the concept of dissipative dynamic systems into systems theory and in the 1990s he developed what he called a behavioral approach to systems and control theory.

Willems was editor of the SIAM Journal of Control and Optimization and Systems & Control Letters.

He was chairman of the Wiskundig Genootschap . He was a fellow of the IEEE , the American Mathematical Society , the SIAM, and the International Federation of Automatic Control. He was an honorary doctor in Liège (2010).

Fonts

  • with J. Polderman: Introduction to Mathematical Systems Theory, Springer Verlag 1998
  • Dissipative dynamical systems, 4 parts, Séminaires IRIA, Analyze et Contrôle de Systèmes, IRIA, Rocquencourt 1972
  • The behavioral approach to open and interconnected systems: Modeling by tearing, zooming, and linking, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Volume 27, 2007, pp. 46-99
  • In Control, almost from the beginning to the day after tomorrow, European Journal of Control, Volume 13, 2007, 71-81

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jan Camiel Willems in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Willems, Jan Camiel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruges
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 2013