Winner:

Saverio Bolognani Univ. of Padova

Title: A PI Consensus Controller with Gossip Communication for Clock Synchronization in Wireless Sensors Networks Authors: Saverio Bolognani, Ruggero Carli, Sandro Zampieri

Finalists:

Airlie Jane Chapman Univ. of Washington	Title: Identification and Infiltration in Consensus-Type Networks Authors: Airlie Jane Chapman, Marzieh Nabi-Abdolyousefi, Mehran Mesbahi
Ulrich Muenz Univ. of Stuttgart	Title: Generalized Nyquist Consensus Condition for Linear Multi-Agent Systems with Heterogeneous Delays Authors: Ulrich Muenz, Antonis Papachristodoulou, Frank Allgower

Awarding Committee:

Raffaello D'Andrea (ETH)

Ali Jadbabaie (GeorgiaTech)

Anders Rantzer (Lund Univ.)

Description: To recognize excellence in the Necsys Workshop paper whose primary contributor(s) is a (are) Student.

Prize: 1000Euro and a certificate

Sponsor: Sponsored by M31 .

Eligibility: Primary contributor(s) of a paper, who was a (were) student(s) at the time of original submission.

Basis for Judgement:  Originality, clarity, and potential impact on practical applications or theoretical foundations of estimation and control in networked systems.

Presentation: The winner will be announced during the buffet dinner.

Nomination:  The nomination must be requested by email by 15 July 2009 to the address below from the student's professor (advisor), specifying paper's title and certifying that primary contributor(s) to the paper was a (were) student(s) at the time of the paper's original submission.

Contact:
Prof. Luca Schenato
Department fo Information Engineering
University of Padova
Email: schenato@dei.unipd.it