Dimensionality Reduction of the Pinning Control Problem for Network Synchronization In this talk, Prof. Sorrentino reviews the pinning control problem for synchronization of networks of coupled oscillators. He first considers the case of connections all of the same type. Then he considers the network pinning control problem in the presence of two different types of coupling: (i) node-to-node coupling among the network nodes and (ii) input-to-node coupling from the source node to the ‘pinned nodes’. For the latter problem, Prof. Sorrentino shows how the stability analysis of the target synchronous solution can be decoupled into subproblems of the lowest dimension by using the techniques of simultaneous block diagonalization (SBD) of matrices. Speaker(s): Francesco Sorrentino Agenda: Agenda 4:00 pm Start – Gathering – Introduction 4:10 pm – Talk – Discussion 5:30 pm End Speaker: Prof. Francesco Sorrentino Moderator: Prof. Ljiljana Trajkovic Room: ASB 9896, Bldg: Applied Science Building , Simon Fraser University, Burnaby , British Columbia, Canada, V5A 1S6, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/432469