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Curriculum Vitae

Name: Gerard Olivar Tost

Date: April 2008

Surnames: Olivar Tost Name: Gerard Spanish Passport: 39673831G Date of birth : 22/10/1963 Sex: V Nationality: Spanish Colombian Foreign Identification: 323888

Actual Professional Situation Institution: Universidad National de Colombia, Sede Manizales Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Arquitecture Department: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Science Postal Address: Campus La Nubia, Manizales, Colombia (South-America) Telephone: +57 6 8879300 ext 55723 Fax: +57 6 8879498 Email: [email protected] Specialization (UNESCO Codes): 120404 Professional category: Full Professor Start Date: 1st September 2006 Administrative situation Staff member Dedication Full time member Exclusive dedication Partial time member

Research interests

Non-linear Control, Piecewise-linear dynamical systems, Bifurcations, Chaos, DC-DC Converters, Modelling, Simulation

Academic Background Degree Centre Date

Degree in Mathematics Faculty of mathematics, University of Barcelone 01/09/1987

Ph D Centre Date

Ph D. in Mathematics Faculty of Mathematics, Technical University of Catalonia 01/07/1997

Previous activities (scientific-professional)

Activity Institution Dates

Lecturer Department of Applied mathematics and Telematics, Technical University of Catalonia

02/11/1987

Assistant Professor Department of Applied mathematics and Telematics, Technical University of Catalonia

16/03/1990

Associate Professor Department of Applied Mathematics 4, Technical University of Catalonia

06/02/1999

Associate Professor Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science

01/09/2005

Participation in R+D Projects with Public Funding

(national and international)

Project title: Advanced Systems of Nonlinear Control Funding Institution: CICYT Participant entities: C.S.I.C., U.P.C. Dates, from: 1/01/1994 to: 31/12/1996 Main researcher: Jordi Riera Colomer Number of researchers in the project: 9 TOTAL: 52.635 EUROS

Project title: Non-linear control of an energetic bus Funding Institution: CICYT Participant entities: C.S.I.C., U.P.C., U.R.V. Dates, from: 1/01/1997 to: 31/12/1999 Main researcher: Enric Fossas Colet Number of researchers in the project: 15 TOTAL: 110.391 EUROS Project title: Non-holonomic systems and Control Funding Institution: CICYT Participant entities: U.P.C. Dates, from: 1/01/2000 to: 31/12/2002 Main researcher: Miguel Carlos Muñoz Lecanda Number of researchers in the project: 8 TOTAL:15.028 EUROS Project title: New Generation of Ocean Bottom Seismometers Funding Institution: MCYT Participant entities: U.P.C., C.S.I.C. Dates, from: 1/01/2001 to: 31/12/2003 Main researcher: Antonio Mànuel Lázaro Number of researchers in the project: 9 TOTAL: 94.930 EUROS Project title: Digital Controllers of variable structure for reversible converters back-to-back Funding Institution: MCYT Participant entities: U.P.C., C.S.I.C, U.R.V. Dates, from: 1/01/2001 to: 31/12/2003 Main researcher: Jordi Riera i Colomer Number of researchers in the project: 121 TOTAL: 67.326 EUROS Project title: Modelling, Simulation and Control of Non-smooth Dynamical Systems Funding Institution: European Comission (5th Framework Program) Participant entities: U.P.C., INRIA, LMGC-UM2, UJM, DIS, CRB,UNIV BRIS, KTH, TU/e, ETHZ,TUD, UNITILB, TWEN Dates, from: 1/09/2002 to: 31/08/2006 Main researcher: Gerard Olivar Tost Number of researchers in the project: 6 (Spanish team) TOTAL: 2.000.000 EUROS (Parte española: 229.476 EUROS)

Project title: Development of a new oceanic autonomous observation platform Funding Institution: MCYT Participant entities: UTM-SARTI(UPC-CSIC), SRV y DMI (U.I.B), Imedea (UIB-CSIC) Dates, from: 15/12/2003 to: 14/12/2006 Main researcher: Gerard Olivar Tost Number of researchers in the project: 18 TOTAL: 107.600 EUROS Actually, main researcher in 4 colombian national projects, and 1 international project, in the areas of Nonlinear Control, Dynamics and Simulation, with applications to Electronics and Biotechnology.

Publications and Scientific-Technical Documents (KEY: L = Book, CL = Book chapter, A = paper, R = “review”, E = editor) Authors: G. Olivar, R. Ramírez, N. Sadovskaia Title: Polynomial Vector Field on the Plane with a Given Liapunov Function Journal/Book: Vestnik RUDN Serie Matemática Key: A Volume: 1 Pages, initial: 108 final: 124 Date: 1/02/1995 Editor: Publication:

Authors: E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Study of Chaos in the Buck Converter Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications Key: A Volume: 43 Pages, initial: 13 final: 25 Date: 01/1996 Editor: Publication:

Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas Title: Multiple Pulsing in the Buck Converter Journal/Book: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ZAMM Key: A Volume: 75 Pages, initial: 367 final: 368 Date: 12/1996 Editor: Publication:

Authors:C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Stabilization of Periodic Orbits in Variable Structure Systems. Application to Dc-Dc Power Converters Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Key: A Volume: 6 Pages, initial: 2635 final: 2643 Date: 12/1996 Editor: Publication:

Authors:M. Di Bernardo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, F. Vasca Title: Secondary Bifurcations and High Periodic Orbits in Voltage Controlled Buck Converter Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Key: A Volume: 7 Pages, initial: 2755 final: 2771 Date: 12/1997 Editor: Publication:

Authors:L. Benadero, A. El Aroudi, E. Toribio, G. Olivar, L. Martínez Title: Characteristic Curves for Analysing Limit Cycle Behaviour in Switching Converters Journal/Book: Electronics Letters Key: A Volume: 35 Pages, initial: 687 final: 689 Date: 04/1999 Editor: Publication: Authors:A. El Aroudi, L. Benadero, E. Toribio, G. Olivar Title: Hopf Bifurcation and Chaos from Torus Breakdown in a PWM Voltage-Controlled Dc-Dc Boost Converter

Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I: Fundamental Theory and Applications Key: A Volume: 46 Pages, initial: 1374 final: 1382 Date: 11/1999 Editor: Publication:

Authors:C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Stabilization of Periodic Orbits of the Buck Converter by Time-Delayed Feedback Journal/Book: International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications Key: A Volume: 27 Pages, initial: 617 final: 631 Date: 11/1999 Editor: Publication:

Authors:G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle Title: Bifurcations and Chaos in Converters: Discontinuous Vector Fields and Singular Poincaré Maps Journal/Book: Nonlinearity Key: A Volume: 13 Pages, initial: 1095 final: 1121 Date: 07/2000 Editor: Publication:

Authors:E. Toribio, A. Elaroudi, G. Olivar, L. Benadero Title: Numerical and Experimental Study of the Region of Period-One Operation of a PWM Boost Converter Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Key: A Volume: 15 Pages, initial: 1163 final: 1171 Date: 11/2000 Editor: Publication:

Authors:F. Vasca, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar Title: A Closer Look at Sampled-Data Models for Power Converters Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits Key: CL Volume: Pages, initial: 38 final: 52 Date: 2001 Editor: IEEE Press Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA

Authors:E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Coexisting Attractors, Basins of Attraction and Crises Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits Key: CL Volume: Pages, initial: 101 final: 110 Date: 2001 Editor: IEEE Press Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA

Authors:M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar, F. Vasca Title: Routes to Chaos in the Voltage-Controlled Buck Converter Without Latch Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits

Key: CL Volume: Pages, initial: 208 final: 228 Date: 2001 Editor: IEEE Press Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA

Authors:M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar, C. Batlle Title: Control of Chaos Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits Key: CL Volume: Pages, initial: 393 final: 406 Date: 2001 Editor: IEEE Press Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA

Authors:L. Benadero, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, E. Toribio, E. Gómez Title: Two-Dimensional Bifurcation Diagrams. Background Pattern of Fundamental DC-DC Converters with PWM Control Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Key: A Volume: 13 Pages, initial: 427 final: 451 Date: 02/2003 Editor: Publication:

Authors: A. Manuel, S. Shariat, J. del Río, S. Ventosa, M. Papis, H. Torruella, G. Olivar, A. Bermúdez, R. González, J.J. Dañobeitia, T. Owen Title: A robust and compact recorder system for ocean bottom seismometers Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint Key: A Volume: 1 Pages, initial: 7 final: 10 Date: 10/ 2003

Editor: Publication:

Authors: A. Alvarez, G. Olivar Title: CORMORAN, development of a new mobile and autonomous ocean observation platform Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint Key: A Volume: 2 Pages, initial: 4 final: 4 Date: 04/ 2004


Authors: G. Olivar Title: SICONOS Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint Key: A Volume: 2 Pages, initial: 6 final: 7 Date: 04/ 2004


Authors: F. Angulo, G. Olivar Title: Nonsmooth Bifurcations in Electronic Circuits

Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint Key: A Volume: 3 Pages, initial: 4 final: 6 Date: 04/ 2005


Authors:A. El Aroudi, M. Debbat, G. Olivar, L. Benadero, E. Toribio, R. Giralt Title: Bifurcations in DC-DC Switching Converters: Review of Methods and Applications Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Key: A Volume: 15 Pages, initial: 1549 final: 1578 Date: 05/2005 Editor: Publication: Authors:F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Feedback Control of Limit Cycles: A Switching Control Strategy Based on Nonsmooth Bifurcation Theory Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I Key: A Volume: 52 Pages, initial: 366 final: 378 Date: 02/2005 Editor: Publication: Authors:F. Angulo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Transition From Periodicity to Chaos in a PWM-Controlled Buck Converter with ZAD Strategy Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos Key: A Volume: 15 Pages, initial: 3245 final: 3264 Date: 10/2005 Editor: Publication: Authors:F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar Title: Two-Parameter Discontinuity induced Bifurcation Curves in a ZAD-Strategy Controlled DC-DC Buck Converter Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I (in press) Key: A Volume: Pages, initial: final: Date: submitted Editor: Publication:

Authors:F. Angulo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Técnica ZAD Aplicada a un Convertidor Tipo Buck Journal/Book: Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática RIAI Key: A Volume: 2 Pages, initial: 25 final: 35 Date: 10/2005 Editor: Publication: Authors:M. di Bernardo, C. Budd, A. Champneys, P. Kowalczyk, A. Nordmark, G. Olivar, P. Piroiinen, Title: A Review of Codimension-One Nonsmooth Bifurcations

Journal/Book: SIAM Review (in press) Key: A Volume: Pages, initial: final: Date: 2007


Authors:T. Griffin, S.J. Hogan, G. Olivar Title: Dynamics of Stochastic Nonsmooth Systems Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part II (submitted) Key: A Volume: Pages, initial: final: Date:submitted 10/2004


Authors:F. Angulo, C. Ocampo, G. Olivar, R. Ramos Title: Nonlinear and Nonsmooth Dynamics in a DC-DC Buck Converter: Two Experimental Set-ups Journal/Book: Nonlinear Dynamics Key: A Volume: 46 Pages, initial: 239 final: 257 Date: 07/2006


Authors:F. Angulo,M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar Title: Switching and Sliding Control of Limit Cycles in Planar Systems Journal/Book: Advances in Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , Vol. 334 Key: CL Volume: Pages, initial: final: Date: 2006 Editor: Springer Verlag Publication:

Authors:F. Angulo,M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar Title: Continuation of Periodic Orbits in a ZAD-Strategy Controlled Buck Converter Journal/Book: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals Key: CL Volume: Pages, initial: final: Date: available on-line (in press) Editor: Elsevier Publication:

Authors: M. di Bernardo, A. Nordmark and G. Olivar Title: Discontinuity-induced bifurcations of equilibria in piecewise-smooth and impacting dynamical systems Journal/Book: Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena Key: CL Volume: Pages, initial: final: Date: available on-line (in press) Editor: Elsevier Publication:

1Contributions to International Congresses Authors: G. Olivar Title: Bifurcaciones y caos en un convertidor Buck Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI'94 Publication:Memoria técnica del SAAEI'94

City: Tarragona (Spain) Date: 12/09/1994 Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas Title: Multiple Pulsing in the Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: The Third International Congress On Industrial and Applied Mathematics ICIAM’95 Publication:Book of Abstracts of ICIAM’95 City: Hamburgo (Germany) Date: 03/07/1995 Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas Title: Órbitas periódicas en sistemas de control Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: XIV CEDYA / IV Congreso de Matemática Aplicada Publication:Resúmenes de las Ponencias XIV CEDYA City: Vic (Spain) Date: 18/09/1995 Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Stabilization of Periodic Orbits in Variable Structure Systems Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 4th International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems NDES’96 Publication:Proceedings of NDES’96 City: Sevilla (Spain) Date: 27/06/1996 Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Time-Delay Stabilization of Periodic Orbits of the Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 1st International Congress on Energy, Power and Motion Control EPMC’97 Publication:Proceedings of EPMC’97 City: Tel Aviv (Israel) Date: 05/05/1997 Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Time-Delay Stabilization of the Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 1st International Conference on Control of Oscillations and Chaos COC’97 Publication:Proceedings of COC’97 City: San Petersburg (Russia) Date: 27/08/1997

Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar Title: Time-Delay Stabilization of Periodic Orbits of the Current-Mode Controlled Boost Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 1st IFAC International Workshop on Linear Time Delay Systems Publication:Proceedings of IFAC’98 City: Grenoble (France) Date: 06/07/1998 Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle Title: Modelling a Buck Converter by a One-Dimensional Complex Map Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 6th International Specialists Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems NDES’98 Publication:Proceedings of NDES’98 City: Budapest (Hungary) Date: 16/07/1998 Authors: A. El Aroudi, E. Toribio, G. Olivar, L. Benadero Title: Chaos via Torus Breakdown in the Boost Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’98 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’98 City: Pamplona (Spain) Date: 16/09/1998 Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle Title: Non-Smooth Continuation of Periodic Orbits in a Chaotic Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: International Symposium of Circuits and Systems ISCAS’99 Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS’99 City: Orlando (U.S.A.) Date: 30/05/1999 Authors: G. Olivar Title: Modelling Switching Networks by a One-Dimensional Complex Map Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: The Fourth International Congress On Industrial and Applied Mathematics ICIAM’99 Publication:Book of Abstracts of ICIAM’99 City: Edimburg (U.K.) Date: 05/07/1999

Authors: A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, L. Benadero, E. Toribio Title: Modelling PWM Boost and Buck-Boost Converters by 2-Dimensional Approximated Nonlinear Mapping Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems NDES’99 Publication:Proceedings of NDES’99 City: Ronne Bornholm (Denmark) Date: 15/07/1999 Authors: J. Franch, E. Massat, G. Olivar Title: Diagramas de bifurcaciones 2-dimensionales de un convertidor DC-DC Buck controlado por PWM Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’99 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’99 City: Madrid (Spain) Date: 22/09/1999 Authors: A. El Aroudi, D. Gastón, E. Toribio, L. Benadero, G. Olivar Title: Stabilization of Power Electronic Converters by Time Delay Feedback Control Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’99 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’99 City: Madrid (Spain) Date: 22/09/1999 Authors: L. Benadero, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, L. Martínez Title: Análisis de convertidores DC-DC conmutados con la condición de campos en oposición Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’99 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’99 City: Madrid (Spain) Date: 22/09/1999

Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle Title: One More Step Towards Proving Chaos in Converters Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems NDES’2000 Publication:Proceedings of NDES’2000 City: Catania (Italy) Date: 18/05/2000 Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar

Title: From Floquet Exponents to Control of Chaos in Piecewise Linear Systems Sort of Participation: Talk in a Special Session Congress: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS’2000 Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS’2000 City: Geneve (Switzerland) Date: 28/05/2000 Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle Title: Chaotic Behavior in Converters. Transformations in the State Space Sort of Participation: Talk in Minisimposium Congress: No Lineal 2000 Publication: Proceedings de No Lineal 2000 City: Almagro (Spain) Date: 31/05/2000 Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, A. Ras Title: A Smooth Version of the Dc-Dc Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Poster Congress: 3rd European Congress of Mathematics Publication:Book of Abstracts del 3ECM City: Barcelona (Spain) Date: 10/07/2000 Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, A. Ras Title: Lie-Group Theoretic Control of a Buck-Like Converter Sort of Participation: Poster Congress: 3rd European Congress of Mathematics Publication:Book of Absatracts del 3ECM City: Barcelona (Spain) Date: 10/07/2000 Authors: A. Manuel, E. Trullols, G. Olivar, M. Moreno Title: Measurement of the Parameters of the Mains of the Oceanographic Vessel Hesperides Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Oceans 2000 MTS/IEEE Publication:Proceedings of Oceans 2000 MTS/IEEE City: Providence (Rhode Island, USA) Date: 11/09/2000

Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle Title: OGY Method Applied to a Buck DC-DC Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI 2000 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2000 City: Terrassa (Spain) Date: 13/09/2000 Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle Title: A Second-Order Approximated Map for the Voltage-Controlled Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI 2000 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2000 City: Terrassa (Spain) Date: 13/09/2000 Authors: R. Ramos, A. Manuel, G. Olivar, E. Trullols, J. Del Río Title: Application by Means of FPGA of an Adaptive Canceller 50Hz Interference in Electrocardiography Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2001 Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2001 City: Budapest (Hungary) Date: 21/05/2001 Authors: A. Manuel, R. Ramos, G. Olivar, M. Moreno, P. Rodríguez Title: Automatic Measurement in the Oceanographic Vessel Hesperides Sort of Participation: Poster Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2001 Publication:Proceedings of IMTC’ 2001 City: Budapest (Hungary) Date: 21/05/2001 Authors: G. Olivar Title: Analysis and Control of Piecewise-Smooth Systems Sort of Participation: Poster invitado Congress: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: where should we go from here? Publication:Proceedings of the Workshop City: Bristol (UK) Date: 08/06/2001

Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas Title: Bifurcations and Continuation in a Smooth Model of a Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design ECCTD 2001 Publication:Proceedings of ECCTD 2001 City: Espoo (Finland) Date: 28/08/2001 Authors: J.J. Dañobeitia, A. Bermúdez, J. Prades, P. Rodríguez, J. Díaz, T. Owen, A. Manuel, X. Roset, G. Olivar, J. Del Río, E. Trullols Title: Nueva Generación de Sensores Submarinos Autónomos Ligeros (Sismómetros) Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’2001 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2001 City: Matanzas (Cuba) Date: 17/09/2001 Authors: A. Manuel, J. Del Río, G. Olivar, P. Rodríguez, J. Sorribas Title: Distributed Acquisition System for Oceanographic Data Processing Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2002 Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2002 City: Anchorage (Alaska, USA) Date: 21/05/2002 Authors: J.J. Dañobeitia, A. Bermúdez, J. Díaz, T. Owen, A. Manuel, X. Roset, G. Olivar, J. Del Río, H. Torruella Title: New Generation of Ocean Bottom Seismometers Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2002 Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2002 City: Anchorage (Alaska, USA) Date: 21/05/2002

Authors: G. Olivar, R. Quiles, A. Manuel, J. Del Río Title: Two-Dimensional Bifurcation Diagrams with Data Acquisition Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2002 Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2002 City: Anchorage (Alaska, USA) Date: 21/05/2002

Authors: A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar Title: Quasi-Periodic Phenomena and Phase-Locked Orbits in DC-DC Boost Switching Regulators Sort of Participation: Talk en sesión invitada Congress: 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control Publication:Proceedings of 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control City: Barcelona (Spain) Date: 21/07/2002 Authors: A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, M. Debbat, J. Calvente, R. Giral, L.M. Salamero. Title: Stability Analysis and Bifurcations in Hysteritic Controlled DC-DC Switching Regulators Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference EPE-PEMC 2002, (Croatia) Publication:Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 2002 City: Cavtat & Dubrovnik (Croatia) Date: 09/09/2002 Authors: L. Benadero, V. Moreno, E. Toribio, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, E. Gómez. Title: Multistability and Global Bifurcations of DC-DC Converters with High Switching Modulating Frequency Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference EPE-PEMC 2002, (Croatia) Publication:Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 2002 City: Cavtat & Dubrovnik (Croatia) Date: 09/09/2002 Authors: Gerard Olivar, Carles Batlle, Alícia Miralles, Imma Massana, Yolanda Zúñiga Title: Bifurcation Phenomena in a Sliding-Mode Controlled Boost Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference EPE-PEMC 2002, (Croatia) Publication:Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 2002 City: Cavtat & Dubrovnik (Croatia) Date: 09/09/2002 Authors: J. Del Río, A. Manuel, G. Olivar, L. Rolín, R. Nogales Title: Bus de campo abierto para la medición de múltiples parámetros ambientales Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’ 2002 Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2002 City: Alcalá de Henares (Spain) Date: 18/09/2002

Authors: A. Manuel, J. del Río, S. Shariat, H. Torruella, M. Papis, G. Olivar, J. Dañobeitia, A. Bermúdez, T. Owen Title: Small-size Ocean Bottom Seismometers Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society IECON/IEEE 2002 Publication:Proceedings of IECON 2002 City: Sevilla (Spain) Date: 05/11/2002 Authors: G. Olivar, O. Gonzalez Title: Nonlinear Dynamics in Techtonics: A two-blocks Stick-Slip Model Sort of Participation: Poster Congress: XV Congress National de Ingeniería Mecánica Publication:Proceedings of XVCNIM 2002 City: Cádiz (Spain) Date: 10/12/2002 Authors: L. Benadero, V. Moreno, E. Toribio, E. Gomez, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar Title: Birth and death patterns of Large Limit Cycles Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: International Conference on Industrial Technlogy ICIT Publication:Proceedings ICIT 2003 City: Maribor (Slovenia) Date: 10-12/12/2003 Authors: G. Olivar, M. di Bernardo, F. Angulo Title: Discontinuous bifurcations in DC-DC Converters Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: International Conference on Industrial Technlogy ICIT Publication:Proceedings ICIT 2003 City: Maribor (Slovenia) Date: 10-12/12/2003 Authors: E.Trullols, J.Sorribas, J.del Rio, R.Morillas, A.Mànuel, G. Olivar, C.Samitier

Title: LabVir: A Virtual Distributed Measurement System Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2003 Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2003 City: Vail, Colorado USA Date: 20-22/05/2003

Authors: A.Mànuel, J.Del Rio, G.Olivar, H.Torruella, J.J.Dañobeitia, T.Bermudez, T. Owen Title: Design of a Geophone for Marine Seismology Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC 2003 Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2003 City: Vail, Colorado USA Date: 20-22/05/2003 Authors: I. Merillas, G. Olivar

Title: Bifurcations in a Two-Blocks Stick-Slip Model Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential Equations (SciCADE) Publication:Proceedings of SciCADE City: Trondheim, Norway Date: 30/06-04/07/2003 Authors: G. Olivar, I. Merillas

Title: Non-Smooth Continuation of Periodic Orbits in a Chaotic Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Workshop on Continuation and Analysis of Bifurcations 2004 Publication:Proceedings of the workshop City: Seville, Spain Date: 19-21/05/2004 Authors: F. Angulo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, M. di Bernardo

Title: Controlling Limit Cycles in Planar Dynamical Systems: A Nonsmooth Bifurcation Approach Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: International Sysmposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS City: Vancouver, Canada Date: 23-26/05/2004 Authors: G. Olivar, F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo

Title: Hopf-like Transitions in Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: International Sysmposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS City: Vancouver, Canada Date: 23-26/05/2004 Authors: I. Merillas, G. Olivar

Title: Bifurcaciones no suaves en sistemas Stick-Slip Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: NoLineal 2004 Publication:Proceedings of NoLineal 2004 City: Toledo, Spain Date: 01-04/06/2004 Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar

Title: On Some Non-smooth Bifurcations Appearing in Variable Structure Systems Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 8th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems VSS 2004 Publication:Proceedings of the VSS 2004 City: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain Date: 06-08/09/2004 Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar

Title: Feedback Control of Limit Cycles: a New Strategy Based on Non-smooth Bifurcation Theory Sort of Participation: Poster Congress: Piecewise Smooth Dynamical Systems: Analysis, Numerics and Applications Publication:Proceedings of BCANM City: Bristol, U.K. Date: 13-16/09/2004 Authors: I. Merillas, G. Olivar

Title: Some non-smooth bifurcations in a stick-slip model Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: Workshop on Bifurcations and Hybrid Dynamical Systems Publication:Proceedings of the Workshop on Bifurcations and Hybrid Dynamical Systems City: Milan, Italy Date: 21-22/10/2004 Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar

Title: Switching Control of Limit Cycles in Planar Systems: A Nonlinear Dynamics Approach Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 43rd IEEE Conference on Decisión and Control CDC Publication:Proceedings of the 43rd CDC City: Bahamas Date: 14-17/12/2004

Authors: F. Angulo, G. Olivar

Title: Smooth and Non-smooth Bifurcations in a DC-DC Buck Converter with ZAD strategy Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005 Publication: Proceedings of ENOC City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands Date: 07-12/08/2005 Authors: M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar, F. Angulo

Title: Bifurcation-based switching control of smooth systems: a novel design approach Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005 Publication: Proceedings of ENOC City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands Date: 07-12/08/2005 Authors: M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar

Title: Structural Stability of Boundary Equilibria in Piecewise-Smooth Dynamical Systems Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005 Publication:Proceedings of ENOC City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands Date: 07-12/08/2005 Authors: T. Griffin, J. Hogan, G. Olivar, V. Moreno

Title: Dynamics of Stochastic Non-Smooth Systems Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005 Publication:Proceedings of ENOC City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands Date: 07-12/08/2005

Authors: F. Angulo, E. Fossas, C. Ocampo, G. Olivar

Title: Stabilization of Chaos with FPIC: Application to ZAD-Strategy Buck Converters Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 16th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control IFAC Publication: Proceedings of the 16th IFAC City: Praga, República Checa Date: 4-8/07/2005 Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar

Title: Control of Limit Cycle Amplitude Through Nonsmooth Bifurcations

Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 44th IEEE Conference on Decisión and Control CDC - ECC Publication: Proceedings of the 44th IEEE CDC-ECC City: Sevilla, Spain Date: 12-15/12/2005 Authors: G. Olivar, F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo

Title: Corner-Sliding Bifurcations for Control Design Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: 1st IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems Publication: Proceedings of IFAC On Chaos City: Reims, France Date: 28-30/06/2006 Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, J. Hogan, P. Kowalczyk, G. Olivar Title: On two-parameter non-smooth bifurcations in power converters Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: ISCAS 2005 Publication: Proceedings of ISCAS 2005 City: Kyoto, Japan Date: 2005 Authors: F. Angulo, G. Olivar, A. Rincon Title: Control of an anaerobic upflow fixed bed bioreactor Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: MED 07 Publication: Proceedings of MED 07 City: Athens Greece Date: 27-29/06/2007 Authors: F. Angulo, J. Burgos, G. Olivar Title: Chaos Stabilization with TDAS and FPIC in a Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: MED 07 Publication: Proceedings of MED 07 City: Athens Greece Date: 27-29/06/2007 Authors: F. Angulo, R. Muñoz-Tamayo, G. Olivar Title: Control of a Bioreactor using Feedback Linearization Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: MED 07 Publication: Proceedings of MED 07 City: Athens Greece Date: 27-29/06/2007 Authors: F. Angulo, J.E. Burgos and G. Olivar

Title: Nonsmooth Bifurcations in a ZAD-Strategy Lateral Pulse Buck Converter Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: SIAM 2007 Publication: Proceedings of SIAM 07 City: Snowbird, Utah (USA) Date: 28-01/07/2007 Authors: Fabiola Angulo, Jorge E. Burgos, Gerard Olivar Title: Study Of Nonlinear Dynamics In A Buck Converter Controlled By Lateral Pwm And Zad Sort of Participation: Talk Congress: DSTA 2007 Publication: Proceedings of DSTA 07 City: Lodz, Poland Date: 17-20/12/2007

2Organization of Congresses

Title:6th International Conference on Teaching Astronomy Activity: Congress International Date: 23 – 25 November 2000, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain)

Title:Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI 2001 Activity: Congress International

Date: 17 – 19 September 2001, Matanzas (Cuba) Title: XI Congress Universitario de Innovación Educativa en las Enseñanzas Técnicas Activity: Congress National Date: 23 – 25 July 2003, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain) Title:General Meeting SICONOS Activity: Workshop International Date: 10 – 11 November 2003, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain) Title: Variable Structure Systems 2004 Activity: Congress International Date: 06 – 08 September 2004, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain) Title: Trimestre de Control, Geometría e Ingeniería (CRM) Activity: Congress International Date: January to March 2005, Bellaterra (Spain) Title: 1st International Meeting on Non-Smooth Dynamics: Industry Applications Activity: Congress International Date: 19 – 23 September 2005, Manizales (Colombia) Title: International Workshop on Marine Technology Activity: Congress International Date: 17 - 18 November 2005, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain)

3Other research and administrative activities Academic Secretary of EPSEVG (Technical University of Catalonia): years 1998-2000 Academic Secretary of the Departament of Applied Mathematics 4 (Technical University of Catalonia): years 2000-2004 Panel Member of Selection of Personnel in the Department of Applied Mathematics 4, and in the EPSEVG (Technical University of Catalonia). President of Selection Examinatiions for the University (1999 - 2004)

Reviewer of the international journal IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I (1998 - actual) and the Congress ISCAS International Sysmposium on Circuits and Systems (1999 - actual). Reviewer of the international journal IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part II (2004 - actual). Reviewer of the international journal Physics Letters A (2003) Reviewer of the international journal Journal of Nonlinear Science (2003) Reviewer of the international congress IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (2003) Reviewer of the international congress IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2004 - 2005) Reviewer of the international congress IEEE International Congress on Industrial Technology (2004) Reviewer of the international congress IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (2005) Member of the IPC (International Programm Commitee) of the 1st IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems, CHAOS'06, 28-30 June 2006, Reims, France Member of the societies SEMA (Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada), SCM (Sociedad Catalana de Matemàtiques), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), IEEE-CAS (Circuits and Systems Society) Member of the Unidad Asociada Tecnoterra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas CSIC-UPC) Member of the research group ACES (Advanced Control of Energy Systems) Member of the research group SARTI (Remote Acquisition Systems and Information Processing), Responsible of Scientific Production. Member of the spanish net DANCE (Dinámica, Atractores y Nolinealidad: Caos y Estabilidad) Thesis supervisor of the Ph. D students Ivan Merillas and Imma Masana Participation as an adjoint organizer in the doctorate programm in Applied Mathematics of the Technical University of Catalonia, quality mention of the spanish Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Member of the panel of the Ph. D Thesis students: Mohammed Debbat (2004), Nonlinear Analysis of Multiple Configurations and High Order Power Electronic Systems, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain); and Tom Griffin (2005), University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K. Evaluator of the CIRIT Prizes (Departamento de Universidades del Gobierno Catalan) 2 favorable research evaluations granted from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología MCyT . Research visits in University of Bristol, Department of Engineering Mathematics, Bristol, U.K. during the following dates: 26/01/2004 to 09/02/2004, 06/03/2004 to 14/03/2004, 11/09/2004 to 25/09/2004, and 27/01/2005 to 05/02/2005 Research visits in University of Naples Federico II, Departament of Electronic Engineering, Naples, Italy, during the following dates: 16/07/2003 to 20/07/2003, and 04/10/2003 to 08/10/2003 Research visit in Universidad de Sevilla, Department of Applied Mathematics, December 2005 Research visit in Universidad de Granada, Department of Mathematics, December 2005

Sabbatical Year Granted from the Technical University of Catalonia for the period September-2004 to August-2005, to be in the Departament of Electric, Electronic and Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Manizales. Adjoint Profesor in this university. Co-Editor of the journal Instrumentation Viewpoint, ISSN: 1697-2562