Graduate School in Systems,
Optimization, Control and Networks


Graduate School Courses in 2011-2012

Topics in Mathematical and Systems Biology

Lecturers : Patrick DE LEENHEER (University of Florida, USA) and Eric BULLINGER (Université de Liège)
October 18, 19, 20, 25, 26, 27, 2011 - UCL



Stability and control of time-delay systems

Lecturers : Wim MICHIELS (K.U.Leuven) and Silviu-Iulian NICULESCU (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electricité (CNRS - Supélec)),
November 21, 23, 25, 28, 30 and December 2, 2011 - K.U.Leuven



Mathematics of PDE constrained optimization

Lecturer : Michael HINZE (University of Hamburg, Germany)
February 20, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 2012 - K.U.Leuven



Observers for Control

Lecturers : Jaime MORENO (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico)
April 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27, 2012 - UCL



Registration

You can register electronically by filling in this form. See the participants.
If you encounter any trouble, or in case of questions, please contact Nathalie Ponet.
The admission is free for doctoral students and participants from Belgian academic institutions. Other participants are requested to pay a registration fee of EURO 500,- per course. However, a waiver can be obtained under special conditions (contact Mrs Ponet). Payment can be made by bank transfer onto the account 310-0959001-48 with the following mention : "AUTO2866 ACTIVITES DIDACTIQUES"

Other Courses, Conferences & Workshops in 2011-2012

Doctoral course 2012 - 6 lectures in multicriteria decision analysis and multi-objective optimization

Organizers: Y. De Smet (ULB), Th. Marchant (UGent), M. Pirlot (UMONS)

Target audience: doctoral students in decision, optimization, operational research, preferences

Goal: offer an introduction (at doctoral level) to a few fundamental mathematical models in the field of multiple criteria decision analysis and multi-objective optimization and to algorithmic problems raised by the use of such models.

Organization: six lectures of about 3 hours in English (once a month from February to June). Each lecture focuses on a specific topic. All lectures will take place in Brussels (ULB, Campus Plaine) or Mons (UMONS, Faculté Polytechnique) as indicated in the programme below. The precise room will be announced later.

Venue for the first lecture in Mons: UMONS, Faculté Polytechnique, rue de Houdain 9, 7000 Mons, Room 25, Second Floor.

Further information: contact Prof. Marc Pirlot: marc.pirlot@umons.ac.be

Registration is free but requested (for organizational purposes).

Programme

1. February 17, 2012 (Friday), 14.00—17.00 in Mons. Prof. R. Slowinski (Poznan University of Technology), Dominance-based Rough Set Approach (DRSA) to multiple-criteria decision aiding.

2. March 5, 2012 (Monday), 14.00—17.00 in Brussels. Prof. B. Mayag (Université Paris-Dauphine, LAMSADE), The Choquet integral as a tool for aggregating preferences.

3. March 21, 2012 (Wednesday), 14.00—17.00 in Mons. Prof. V. Mousseau (Ecole Centrale Paris), Eliciting preferences in outranking and value function models.

4. April 19, 2012 (Thursday), 14.00—17.00 in Mons. Prof. P. Kunsch (ULB-VUB), Systems dynamics and multicriteria decision.

5. May 11, 2012 (Friday), 14.00—17.00 in Brussels. Prof. Y. De Smet (ULB), PROMETHEE and GAIA methods.

6. June 13, 2012 (Wednesday), 14.00—17.00 in Brussels. Prof. X. Gandibleux and A. Przybylski (University of Nantes), Multi-objective optimization: exact and approximate methods.

This programme is subject to change. To be informed of possible changes in the programme, please contact the organizers.

This course is organized with the financial support of the Thematic Doctoral School in Mathematics and the Académie Wallonie Bruxelles.

EECI Graduate School

The 2012 edition of the EECI Graduate School will take place from February to May 2012. This year, 18 modules are proposed, among which 15 will be held at Supélec (South of Paris, France), 2 at Istanbul (Turkey) and 1 at L'Aquila (Italy).

Each of these modules is programmed on one week (21 hours) and will be taught by a renowned expert of the domain. Participants may apply to financial support to partially cover travel and living expenses. The deadline for advanced registration is 16th of December 2011. Full information is available at http://www.eeci-institute.eu/GSC2012

The program is available at http://www.eeci-institute.eu/EECI-docs2/EECI-Modules-2012.pdf

Convex Optimization Lecture at K.U.Leuven - Spring 2012

Instructor: Goele Pipeleers (goele.pipeleers@mech.kuleuven.be)

Session dates : from February 15 to March 25, 2012

Course summary :

This course concentrates on recognizing and solving convex optimization problems that arise in engineering, and covers the following topics:

  • Convex sets, functions, and optimization problems ;
  • Optimality conditions, duality theory, theorems of alternative, and applications ;
  • Interior-point methods ;
  • Applications to signal processing, control, digital and analog circuit design, computational geometry, statistics, and mechanical engineering.

More information and complete schedule available here.

Attendance is free but registration is mandatory. Please send an e-mail to Goele Pipeleers: goele.pipeleers@mech.kuleuven.be.

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