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Peter Caines

Peter Caines

Distinguished James McGill Professor of electrical and computer engineering at McGill University; pioneering control theorist specializing in stochastic systems, adaptive control, and mean field games.

Jun 15, 2026

1:10
So I guess we could start from there, right? Because that's also where it all started, as your journey in control, I mean.
1:17
Yes.
1:17
I would in some sense start a bit earlier that when I was a mathematics student at Oxford, that my, uh, tutors there were Alan Taylor in applied mathematics, John Crossley for pure mathematics, who was a logician, and Graham Siegel, who's a topologist, a renowned topologist.
1:38
And they were all relatively young at that time, and, um, so that was a very positive start.
1:45
Uh, and of course, high school teachers who are marvelous and, um, but that, uh, uh...
1:51
I went to a small grammar school in London.
1:55
So if you're going to actually go to roots, something which I'd like to underline is that I came from a, a working class background.

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79:50
I thought it was unbelievable.

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