Sparsity-promoting optimal control of distributed systems

A version of this talk has been presented at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of Southern California, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at San Diego, University of California at Santa Barbara, Iowa State University, Delft University of Technology, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, University of Stuttgart, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, and at the 2013 European Control Conference (in a tutorial session on ‘‘Sparse and low-rank representation methods in control, estimation and system identification’’).