Technical Committees:

• IEEE Technical Committee on Biosystems and Control (TCBC)
• IEEE Technical Committee on Sensor Guided Manipulation in Automation (SGMA)

Conferences:

• 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2006, December 13-15, 2006, San Diego, California USA. (Call for Papers)
• 2007 Annual Meeting of Institute of Biological Engineering (IBE) , March 30 - April 1, 2007, St. Louis, Missouri ( Submission deadline : December 1, 2006 , Call for papers)
• 8th International Conference on Systems Biology, October 1-6, 2007, Long Beach, California

• 2006 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, September 28-29, 2006, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.( Submission deadline: May 31st)
•  The 25th Chinese Control Conference, August, 7-10, 2006, Harbin, China.
• 2006 American Control Conference, June 14-16, 2006, Minneapolis, Minnesota ,USA.(Call for Papers)
• The 6th Asian Control Conference , July 18-21, 2006, Bali, Indonesia.(Call for Papers)
• 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, July 24-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan.(Call for Papers)

Research Projects:

• Collaborative Research on the Turtle Cortex
• NSF - Learning and Intelligent Systems (LIS) Project

Related Presentations:

• Workshop on Dynamical Modeling of Complex Biomedical Systems
• Workshop on the research needs in the modeling, dynamics, control and monitoring of complex engineering systems

Related Articles/Websites:

• Memory bottleneck limits intelligence, Tanguy Chouard, Nature, April 15, 2004
• The Other Half of the Brain, R. Douglas Fields, Scientific American, April, 2004
• The FIRES Within, Christine Gorman and Alice Park, TIME Magazine, February 23, 2004
• Systems Biology at Washington University
• AFOSR Panel Report on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems, (CDS Panel Homepage)
• Neural Mechanisms of Learning and Control, Kenji Doya, Hidenori Kimura, Mitsuo Kawato, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2001
• Ocular Dynamics and Skeletal Systems, Lawrence Schovanec, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2001
• Adaptive CMOS: from biological inspiration to systems-on-a-chip
  Diorio, C.; Hsu, D.; Figueroa, M., Proceedings of the IEEE , Volume: 90 Issue: 3 , Mar 2002, Page(s): 345 -357
• The brain and its control of kinematics by Tutis Vilis and Douglas Tweed.
• MITECS - The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences on-line.
• Mathematical Programming Glossary
• Concise Encyclopedia of Mathematics
• History of Mathematics

Article Search:

• IEEE Xplore
• PubMed
• Journals in PubMed with full text
• MathSciNet
• Axiom
• WashU Libraries, Engineering Journal Indexes & Databases, Biology Journal Indexes & Databases
• Bernard Becker Medical Library - Washington University
• Collection of Paper References

LaTeX links:

• LaTeX Home
• TUGIndia Online tutorials on LATEX (very good!)
• A LaTeX manual
• The not so Short Introduction to LaTeX2e
• LaTeX tips and tricks (local copy)
• Installing a LaTeX2e package (i.e. installing a file from CTAN)
• Working with BibTeX - List of BIB entries
• Why is my PDF file created with ps2pdf look fuzzy and unreadable?
• How to split one dvi file into two ps file and then convert them into pdf files?
• LaTeX presentations:
  • Making Flashy Presentations with LaTeX - LaTeX source (PPower4)
  • Prosper - LaTeX class for writing transparencies
  • Powerpoint style LaTeX presentations, (local copy of all the files)
• List of Tex/LaTeX-Shells for Windows (TeXnicCenter, WinShell, and TeXShell are good, free editors)
• Some info on Using LaTeX on Windows

Miscelleneous links:

• NSF Nugget for CBCIS PDF, html
• CBCIS Lab Meetings
  
• Small FAQ about using the computers in the lab
• Resources for authorized lab members (You need a password to access this link)