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Graduate school courses scheduled in the academic year 2010-2011

Introduction to Compressed Sensing and Sparse Approximation
Lecturer : Jared TANNER (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Game Dynamics and the Evolution of Cooperation
Lecturer : Karl SIGMUND (University of Vienna, Austria)

Randomized Algorithms for Systems and Control: Theory and Applications
Lecturer : Roberto TEMPO (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

System Identification
Lecturers : Xavier BOMBOIS and Paul VAN DEN HOF (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Dynamic analysis of chemical and biochemical reaction networks
Lecturer : Antonio ALONSO (IMM-CSIC, Vigo, Spain)

Lectures in multicriteria decision aid and multi-objective optimization
Lecturers : Y. De Smet (ULB), Th. Marchant (UGent) and M. Pirlot (Umons)

ELEC Spring School 2011

Dynamical modelling, estimation and control of reaction systems
Lecturer : Denis DOCHAIN (UCL, ICTEAM)

Graduate school courses scheduled in the academic year 2009-2010

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL
Lecturer : Jan MACIEJOWSKI (University of Cambridge, UK)

COMPLEX NETWORKS : STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS
Lecturer : Santo FORTUNATO (ISI Foundation, Torino, Italy)

MODELLING, ESTIMATION AND CONTROL OF BIOSYSTEMS
Lecturers : Philippe BOGAERTS (ULB), Denis DOCHAIN (UCL), Alain VANDE WOUWER (FPMs), Jan VAN IMPE (KUL)

LMI OPTIMIZATION WITH APPLICATIONS IN CONTROL
Lecturer : Didier HENRION (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France)

NUMERICAL OPTIMAL CONTROL ALGORITHMS, AND APPLICATIONS IN RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
Lecturers : Moritz DIEHL (KUL, Leuven, Belgium) and B. HOUSKA (KUL, Leuven, Belgium)

NONLINEAR OBSERVER DESIGN : A DISSIPATIVE APPROACH
Lecturer : Jaime MORENO (UNAM, MEXICO)

BELGIAN FRANCQUI CHAIR 2009-2010
Lecturer : Paul VAN DOOREN (UCL)

Graduate school courses scheduled in the academic year 2008-2009

CONTROL AND NONLINEARITY
Lecturer : Jean-Michel CORON (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Laboratoire Jacques-Louis Lions, France)

INTRODUCTION TO DERIVATIVE-FREE OPTIMIZATION
Lecturer : Luis N. VICENTE (University of Coimbra, Portugal)

OPTIMAL CONTROL AND OPTIMIZATION
Lecturer : Erik VERRIEST (Georgia Institute of Technology)

SOME TOPICS IN COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION
Lecturers : Satanu DEY and Marco DI SUMMA (UCL, Belgium)

SUBSPACE BASED IDENTIFICATION IN FREQUENCY DOMAIN AND MODELLING WITH ORTHONORMAL BASES FUNCTIONS
Lecturer : Huseyin AKCAY (Anadolu University, Turkey)

LINEAR AND NONLINEAR OBSERVERS WITH APPLICATIONS TO FAULT DETECTION AND ISOLATION
Lecturers : Michel KINNAERT (ULB, Belgium) and Gildas BESANCON (INP Grenoble, France)

Graduate school courses scheduled in the academic year 2007-2008

OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS ON MATRIX MANIFOLDS
Lecturers : Pierre-Antoine ABSIL (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium) and Rodolphe SEPULCHRE (Université de Liège, Belgium)

NUMERICAL METHODS FOR NONLINEAR OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS
Lecturer : Moritz DIEHL (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)

MECHATRONICS : DYNAMICS OF ELECTROMECHANICAL AND PIEZOELECTRIC SYSTEMS, WITH APPLICATIONS IN VIBRATION CONTROL
Lecturer : André PREUMONT (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

ROBUST TRACKING AND DISTURBANCE REJECTION
Lecturer : Alberto ISIDORI (University of Roma, Italy)

CONSTRUCTIVE LMI APPROACHES FOR ANTI-WINDUP COMPENSATOR DESIGN FOR SYSTEMS SUBJECT TO SATURATION
Lecturer : Sophie TARBOURIECH (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France)

Graduate school courses scheduled in the academic year 2006-2007

VARIATIONAL PROBLEMS IN ENGINEERING AND COMPUTERS SCIENCE
Lecturer : Knut Hüper (National ICT Australia Ltd, Canberra, Australia)

OPTIMIZATION METHODS FOR VARIATIONAL DATA ASSIMILATION
Lecturers : S. Gratton (CERFACS, France) and Ph. L. Toint (F.U.N.D.P., Namur, Belgium)

DESIGN METHODS FOR CONTROL SYSTEMS
Lecturers : M. Steinbuch (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) and G. Meinsma (University of Twente, The Netherlands)

MECHATRONICS : DYNAMICS OF ELECTROMECHANICAL AND PIEZOELECTRIC SYSTEMS, WITH APPLICATIONS IN VIBRATION CONTROL
Lecturer : A. Preumont (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

AN INTRODUCTION TO MONTE CARLO, MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO (MCMC), AND SEQUENTIAL MONTE CARLO METHODS (SMC)
Lecturer : Anuj Srivastava (Florida State University, U.S.A.)

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION : MODELS AND METHODS
Lecturer : F. Glineur (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)

INTEGER AND MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING
Lecturer : L. A. Wolsey (Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)

IDENTIFICATION OF LINEAR SYSTEMS IN THE PRESENCE OF NONLINEAR DISTORTIONS / A FREQUENCY DOMAIN APPROACH
Lecturer : J. Schoukens (Vrije Universiteit, Brussel)

POLYTOPES AND GRAPHS
Lecturers : J.P. Doignon and S. Fiorini (ULB, Brussel)

Graduate school courses scheduled in the academic year 2005-2006

SYNCHRONISATION AND CONTROL
Lecturers : H. Nijmeijer and A.Yu. Pogromsky (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS AND BLIND IDENTIFICATION/DECONVOLUTION
Lecturers : P. Comon (Laboratoire I3S, France), L. De Lathauwer (Laboratoire ETIS, France) and F. Desbouvries (Institut National des Télécommunications, France)

REGULATOR TUNING METHODS
Lecturers : A. Bazanella (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and M. Gevers (CESAME, UCL, Belgium)

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION
Lecturer : L. Vandenberghe (University of California Los Angeles, USA)

LMI OPTIMIZATION WITH APPLICATIONS IN CONTROL
Lecturer : Didier Henrion (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France, and FEL-CVUT, Prague, Czech Republic)