Mario di Bernardo
Professor of Nonlinear Systems and Control
Room 2.1 - Queen's Building Tel.: +44 (0) 117 3315604 [internal extn. 15604] Fax.: +44 (0) 117 3315606 [internal extn. 15606]
Email: m.dibernardo at bristol.ac.uk
Research Group: Bristol Centre
for Applied Nonlinear Mathematics
Home Page: http://www.enm.bris.ac.uk/anm/staff/enmdb
Contact
details in Italy and Travel Plans (local access only)
Current Research Interests
- Hybrid and Piecewise-smooth dynamical systems
- Nonlinear Control Theory
- Analysis, Synchronization and Control of Complex Networks
- Mathematical modelling and industrial applications of mathematics
- Systems and Synthetic Biology
Some Recent Publications
- M. di Bernardo, C.J. Budd, A.R. Champneys, P. Kowalczyk, "Piecewise-smooth
dynamical systems: theory and applications", Springer-Verlag
(Applied Mathematics series no. 163), November 2007
- M. di Bernardo, C. Budd, A.R. Champneys, P. Kowalczyk, A.B. Nordmark,
G. Olivar, P.T. Piiroinen, "Bifurcations in Nonsmooth Dynamical
Systems" SIAM Review , 2007 (to appear)
- F. Sorrentino, M. di Bernardo, F. Garofalo, G. Chen,
"Controllability of complex networks via pinning" Phys. Rev. E , 75 ,
4 , 046103 , 2007
- S. Manfredi, M. di Bernardo, F. Garofalo, "Reduction-based Robust Active Queue Management Control"
Control Engineering Practice
, 15
, 2
, 177-186
, 2007
- R. Alzate, M. di Bernardo, U. Montanaro, S. Santini, "Experimental and numerical verification of bifurcations and chaos in cam-follower impacting systems"
Nonlinear Dynamics - Springer
, 2007 (to appear)
- M. di Bernardo, G. Osorio, S. Santini, "Corner-impact bifurcations: a novel class of discontinuity-induced bifurcations in cam-follower systems"
SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems
, 2007 (to appear)
- P. Kowalczyk, M. di Bernardo, A.R. Champneys, S.J. Hogan, M. Homer,
Yu. A. Kuznetsov, A. Nordmark, P. T. Piiroinen, "Two-parameter
discontinuity-induced bifurcations of limit cycles: classification and
open problems" International Journal of Bifurcations and Chaos
, 6 , 3 , 601-629 , 2006
- F. Sorrentino, M. di Bernardo, G.Huerta Cuellar, S.Boccaletti, "Synchronization
in weighted scale-free networks with degree-degree correlation"
Physica D , 224 , 1-2 , 123-129 , 2006
- P. Kowalczyk, M. di Bernardo, "Two-parameter degenerate sliding
bifurcations in Filippov systems", Phyica D, no. 204, pp. 204-229,
2005
- M. di Bernardo, D P Stoten, "MCS Adaptive Control of Nonlinear
Systems: Utilizing the properties of chaos" Philosophical Trans.
of the Royal Society - London , 364 , 2397-2415 , 2006
- T. Richardson, M. Lowenberg, M. di Bernardo, G. Charles, "Design
of a gain scheduled flight control system using bifurcation analysis"
AIAA Journal of Guidance and Control , 2 , 444-453 , 2006
Research Grants
- VI EU Framework Project "Engineering Complexity in Biological
Systems (COBIOS)" , (EUR 2.500.000) - 2006 - 2009
- EPSRC Complexity Initiative: grant to organize graduate course
on complex networks in Bristol in July 2006. (£ 19.000)
- Co-investigator with Prof S.J. Hogan (Bristol)
- Italian Ministry of University and Research Grant (approx EUR
40.000) - 2006-2008
Node coordinator of research a network with the Universities of Naples,
Siena, Milan, L'Aquila and Cagliari
- V EU Framework Project "Simulation
and Control of Nonsmooth Systems (SICONOS)", (EUR 2.000.000)
- 2002-2006
C o-organiser with Prof. B. Brogliato (Grenoble, France) of the project
which involves 13 European Universities and Research Centres;
- EPSRC Critical Mass Grant, "Bristol Centre for Applied
Mathematics", (approx. £ 1.000.000) - 2002-2006
(co-investigator with Prof. S.J. Hogan, Prof. A.R. Champneys, Dr. B.
Krauskopf, Dr. E. Wilson, Dr. M. Homer, Dr. H. Osinga)
EPSRC Research Grant number: GR/R72020
- EPSRC CASE Award with Jaguar Engineering Centre "Analysis
of mechanical systems with backlash" (approx. £ 30.000) 2001-2004
(co-investigator with Dr R E Wilson)
- EPSRC Grant (General Engineering Programme) "Adaptive
Control of Systems with Nonlinear and Chaotic Dynamics with Applications
to the Control of Bifurcations in Flight Dynamics", 2000-2003
(£ 168.878) (co-investigator with Prof D Stoten, Dr M Lowenberg)
- Grant number: GR/M97923
- D.E.R.A (now QinetiQ) Grant on "Analysis of chaos synchronization
for secure communications"
(approx £ 125.000) (co-investigator with Prof S.J. Hogan)
- EPSRC Fast Stream (Mathematics Programme) "Analytical
and numerical investigation of sliding orbits and their bifurcations
in piecewise linear dynamical systems", (approx. £ 60.000)-
1999-2002
- Nuffield Award to Newly Appointed Lecturers "Analysis
and Classification of Discontinuous Bifurcations in Piecewise-smooth
Dynamical Systems and Applications" (£ 4.000) - 1999-2001
Workshops and Meetings
- Chair of the International Workshop on Complex Systems and Networks (IWCSN 09), Bristol, July 2009
- Publicity Chair of the International
Conference on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA 07),
Vancouver, Canada, September 2007
- 3 months Programme on Nonsmooth Complex
Systems at the Centre de Recerca Matematica, Barcelona, Spain, January-March
2007
- International
School on Piecewise Smooth Dynamical Systems, Naples, Italy, September
2006
- EPSRC
Graduate Course on Complex Networks held in Bristol in July 2006
- Publicity Chair of the International
Conference on Nonlinear Theory and its Applications (NOLTA 06),
Bologna, Italy, September 2006
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the 1st
IFAC Workshop on Control of Chaotic Systems, Reims, France, June
2006
- Member of the Organizing Committee of the IFAC
Conference on the Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems, Alghero,
Italy, June 2006
- Co-organizer and co-chairman of the International
Workshop on Piecewise Smooth Dynamical Systems, held in Bristol
in September 2004
- Co-organizer International Meeting on Nonlinear Dynamics in Information
and Communciation Technologies held in Bologna in September 2004
- Organizer of the International Workshop on the Analysis
and Applications of hybrid and switching systems" held in Milan
in October 2004
- Co-organizer of the International Meeting on Codimension-two
bifurcations in nonsmooth dynamical systems held in Bristol in June
2003
- Organizer of the International Workshop on "Bifurcations in nonsmooth
systems" held in Milan in October 2004
Editorial Activity
- Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (2008-)
- Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Sytems: Express Letters (Jan 2006-2008)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Newsletter of the Circuits
and System Society (2006-)
- Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
II (Jan 2003 - Dec 2005)
- Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
I (Jan 1999 - Dec. 2002)
- Guest Editor-in-chief Nonlinear Dynamics (2006)
- Guest Editor-in-chief IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
I (2003)
- Guest Editor Dynamical Systems (2002)
Professional Societies
Past and current PhD students and PostDocs
- Guy Charles, completed his PhD in 2002
- Piotr Kowalczyk, completed his PhD in 2003; jointly supervised
with Prof John Hogan
- Xiaofan Wang, PostDoc on Nonlinear Control Theory 2001-2002
- Paul Davison, completed his PhD in 2003, jointly supervised
with Dr M Lowenberg (Aerospace Engineering)
- Chris Halse, completed his PhD in 2005, jointly supervised
with Dr R E Wilson (Engineering Mathematics)
- Darren Venn, started in October 2002, jointly supervised with
Dr M Lowenberg (Aerospace Engineering)
- Piotr Kowalczyk, Research Assistant (BCANM), 2003-2006 (managed
with S.J. Hogan, M. Homer)
- Petri Piiroinen, Research Assistant (SICONOS), 2003-2006 (managed
with A.R. Champneys)
- Sabato Manfredi (Italy), completed his PhD in 2005, jointly
supervised with Prof. F. Garofalo (Univerisity of Naples Federico II)
- Gustavo Osorio (Italy), completed his PhD in 2007
- Francesco Sorrentino (Italy), completed his PhD in 2007
- Ricardo Alzate Castano (Italy), completed his PhD in 2008
- Athanasios Polynikis, started his PhD in 2006
- Pietro De Lellis (Italy), started his PhD in 2007
- Umberto Montanaro (Italy), started his PhD in 2007
- Giovanni Russo (Italy), started his PhD in 2008
- Lucia Russo (Italy), started her PhD in 2008
- Carlos Hoyos Velasco, started his PhD in 2008
- Thomas Gorochowski, started his PhD in 2009
- Oliver Purcell, started his PhD in 2009
Address for correspondence
Dr Mario di Bernardo
Department of Engineering Mathematics
University of Bristol
Queen's Building
University Walk
Clifton
Bristol
BS8 1TR
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