Graduate School in Systems,
Optimization, Control and Networks


Graduate School Courses in 2012-2013

Real-Time Optimization of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

Martin Guay (Queen's University, Canada) and Denis Dochain (UCL)
September 24, 26, 28 and October 1, 3, 5, 2012



Nonlinear Control and Synchronization of Large-Scale Systems

Henk Nijmeijer (Eindhoven UT, The Netherlands) and Arjan van der Schaft (Univ. Groningen, The Netherlands)
November 7, 8, 9, 16, 20, 21, 2012



Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Applications, Algorithms, and Computation

Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
February 18, 20, 22, 25, 27 and March 1, 2013



Parallel Coordinates: Visual Multidimensional Geometry and its Applications

Alfred Inselberg (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
April 15, 16, 18, 19, 22, 24, 26, 2013



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 2012-2013

Doctoral course 2013 - MCDA & MOO - 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 specific topics and 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: A full day conference + 4 lectures of about 3 hours and an afternoon of poster sessions in English. The 4 lectures focus on independent topics. All activities will take place either in Brussels (ULB, Campus Plaine) or in Mons (UMONS, Faculté Polytechnique) as indicated in the programme below. The precise room will be announced later.

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

Inscription is free but requested (for organizational purposes)

Programme

  • March 27, 2013 (Wednesday), 14:00—17:00 in Brussels. Dr. P. Viappiani (CNRS-Lip6, University Paris VI), Preference learning models
  • April 15, 2013 (Monday), 09:30—18:00 in Mons. A one-day conference on Selected Topics in Optimization
  • April 24, 2013 (Wednesday), 14:00—17:00 in Mons. Prof. P. Meyer (Telecom Bretagne), Diviz, a tool for combining and executing multi-criteria decision procedures
  • May 08, 2013 (Wednesday), 14:00—17:00 in Brussels. Poster sessions in which PhD students present their research topic. Discussion with the other PhD students and senior researchers
  • May 29, 2013 (Wednesday), 14:00—17:00 in Brussels. Prof. Th. Denoeux (University of Technology in Compiègne) and Prof. Y. De Smet (ULB): Belief functions theory and applications to Multi-criteria decision analysis
  • June 11, 2013 (Tuesday), 14:00—17:00 in Mons. Prof. Philippe Fortemps (UMONS), Rough sets for preference learning

This programme could be modified. The persons who want to be informed of possible changes in the programme are invited to contact the organizers.

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

ROKS 2013 - International Workshop on Advances in Regulation, Optimization, Kernel methods and Support vector machines : theory and applications

Dates: July 8-10, 2013

Place: Leuven, Belgium

Invited Speakers:

  • Francis Bach, INRIA
  • Martin Jaggi, Ecole Polytechnique Paris
  • James Kwok, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain UCL
  • Massimiliano Pontil, University College London
  • Justin Romberg, Georgia Tech
  • John Shawe-Taylor, University College London
  • Alexander Smola, Google & UC Berkeley
  • Joel Tropp, California Institute of Technology
  • Ding-Xuan Zhou, City University of Hong Kong

Web site: http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013/index.php

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