R.S. Speaking on “Stuck in Traffic” at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Mathematics Department.

“Nonlinear Optimal Velocity Car Following Dynamics (I): Approximation in Presence of Deterministic and Stochastic Perturbations” and “Nonlinear Optimal Velocity Car Following Dynamics (II): Rate of Convergence In the Presence of Fast perturbation” by Hossein Nick Zinat Matin and R. Sowers have been accepted for publication in the 2020 American Control Conference.

R.S. spoke on “Big data and mobility: a mathematician looks at traffic” at the Kent Seminar at the Illinois Center for Transportation.

Rachneet Kaur has received the Kanako Miura Travel Support Award to attend the IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robotics.

“Stochastic Autonomous Platooning” has been funded by the UIUC Campus Research Board.