Dear colleagues,

More than 500 contributions have been received
for the 18th European Control Conference (ECC 2020)
to be held in Saint Petersburg from 12-15 May, 2020.

The review process of the regular contributions
is over and the preliminary program will soon be
unveiled.
328 contributed (regular + invited) papers from
42 countries were accepted.

Meanwhile, there is still the possibility to contribute to
and participate in ECC 2020 with late breaking results.

The extended abstracts of 2-4 pages can be submitted
until 30 January, 2020
You can find further details at
http://www.ecc20.eu/.

We are pleased to introduce the outstanding plenary
speakers for ECC 2020:

Eduardo Sontag
(Northeastern University, Harvard Medical School, MIT, Rutgers University, USA)
"Some Control Theory Ideas in Systems and Synthetic Biology"

Mazyar Mirrahimi
(INRIA, Ecole Polytechnique and Mines Paristech, France)
"Towards a fault-tolerant quantum computer"

Emilia Fridman
(Tel Aviv University, Israel)
"Sampled and delayed control of ode and pde systems"

Stefano Stramgioli
(Enschede University, The Netherlands)
"Physical Control for Physical Systems: Why and How"

Vladimir Peshekhonov
(Concern CSRI "Elektropribor", Saint Petersburg, Russia)
"Prospects for Gyroscopy"

Last but not least for all wishing to attend the ECC'20
in Saint Petersburg: important information concerning
VISAS and REGISTRATION will be posted on the ECC'20
website
http://ecc20.eu on Jan 20, 2020.