Message from the Coordinator
Michel Gevers being ill, there is no message of the coordinator this month.
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
We welcome Heather Maclean, PhD student from Queen's University, Kingston (Ontario), Canada. She is working with Prof. Denis Dochain on a project managed by ESA named MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative), on the particular issue of biological systems modelling.
Within the framework of ARC, François-Xavier Orban de Xivry will start a doctoral research on February 16 under the supervision of Paul Van Dooren and Yurii Nesterov. This research will be dedicated to numerical optimization techniques for systems and control.
Gautier KRINGS (PhD student) is carrying out a scientific stay at MIT's SENSEable City Laboratory until July 15, 2009. He is working with Prof. Carlo Ratti and Francesco Calabrese.
Xavier Bombois (TUDelft) will visit us on February 10-11. He will work with Michel Gevers.
KUL 1
They left us :
- Carlos Trabuco Dorea (Guest Professor from Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil)
- Andrei Herdt (M. Diehl)
UGent-SYSTeMS
C. Renato Vazquez (University of Zaragoza, Spain) will visit the SYSTeMS Research Group, from February 9 till May 15, for joint research on fluid Petri net models for road traffic, with Prof. R. Boel.
VUB-ELEC
From 18 until 20 February 2009: microsymposium on system identification at ELEC:
- Lennart Ljung, Linköping University, Sweden
- Hakan Hjalmarsson, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- Paul Van den Hof, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
- Michel Gevers, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Bart De Moor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
FPMs
On December 31, 2008, Jonathan Demeyer left the TCTS group.
In January 2009, Ines Saraiva has started a doctoral research on state estimation and control of animal cell cultures under the supervision of Alain Vande Wouwer.
Theses Defences
UCL
The public thesis defence of Demet Yüksel took place on January 13, 2009 at UCL Brussels. Her thesis was entitled How to achieve binocular control in Duane Retraction Syndrome?
Jean-Baptiste Coulaud will publicly defend his thesis entitled Singularités de Saut, Singularités de Platitude et Commande Optimale on February 16 (14:15 - Barb.93). His promoter is Guy Campion.
Seminars
UCL
- 10 February 2009 - 14:00 - Bât. Euler
Olivier WHITE (School of Psychology, Bangor, UK) : Responsibility Assignment in Redundant Systems. - 12 February 2009 - 16:30 - Bât. de Hemptinne
Stefaan VAES (K.U.L.), Colloquium CESAME-MAPA : Algèbres de von Neumann et actions de groupes dénombrables préservant une mesure de probabilité.
KUL 1
- 11 February 2009 - 11:00-12:00 - Room ESAT 00.62
SISTA seminar : Joachim Taelman, Physiological stress detection in EMG signals. - 12 February 2009 - 15:00-16:00 - Room ESAT 00.92
K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering : Sasa Rakovic (Imperial College London), Set dynamics, fixed points & control synthesis. - 12 February 2009 - 16:30-17:30 - Room Mechanical Engineering, Seminar Room C (03.42)
K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering : Prof. Inna Sharf (McGill University), Dynamic locomotion with a wheeled-legged quadruped robot. - 18 February 2009 - 11:00 - Room ESAT 00.62
SISTA Seminar : Mariya Ishteva : Overview of numerical methods for best multilinear rank approximation of tensors. - 06 February 2009 - 14:00 - PW 00.01 (BioTeC, Willem de Croylaan 46, 3001 Heverlee)
Tom Van Gerven: Process Intensification using Localized Energy. (Laboratory of Applied Physical Chemistry and Environmental Technology) - 06 March 2009 - 14:00-16:00 - PW 01.06 (BioTeC, Willem de Croylaan 46, 3001 Heverlee)
Pieter Busschaert: Estimating distributions from censored microbiological contamination data for use in quantitative risk assessment.
Anke Verhulst: Basic principles of Individual-based modelling and its application in predictive food microbiology. - 27 March 2009 - 14:00-16:00 - PW 01.06 (BioTeC, Willem de Croylaan 46, 3001 Heverlee)
Nina Moelants (title to be announced)
Rob Van den Broeck: MBR sludge characteristics versus (synthetic) influent composition. - 08 May 2009 - 14:00-16:00 - PW 01.06 (BioTeC, Willem de Croylaan 46, 3001 Heverlee)
Laurence Mertens: Quantifying the effect of food structure on microbial spoilage characteristics by means of a semisolid food model system.
Pieter-Jan D'Huys: Batch culture characterization and metabolic flux analysis of the wild type and a heterologous protein producing strain of Streptomyces lividans TK24.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
B. Abouzaid, M.E. Achhab, V. Wertz, Stabilization of a class of partially observed infinite-dimensional systems with control constraints, IMA Journal of Mathematical Control of Information, 2009.
Jungers Raphaël, Protasov Vladimir, Blondel Vincent, Overlap-free words and spectra of matrices, to appear in Theoretical Computer Science, 2009.
Bastin Georges, Quantitative analysis of metabolic networks and design of minimal bioreaction models: a brief tutorial, ARIMA, Revue Africaine de la Recherche en Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées, Vol. 9, pp 41-55, 2008.
Bastin Georges, Coron Jean-Michel, D'andrea Novel Brigitte, On Lyapunov stability of linearised Saint-Venant equations for a sloping channel, Networks and Heterogeneous Media, 2008.
Favache Audrey, Dochain Denis, Perrier Michel, Guay Martin, Extremum-seeking control of retention for a microparticulate system, The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 86, pp. 815-827, 2008.
Coulaud Jean-Baptiste, Campion Guy, Gap-singular systems: definition and consequences in trajectory planning, International Journal of Control, 2008.
Coulaud Jean-Baptiste, Campion Guy, Improving trajectory constraints in some optimal control algorithms, Proc. 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, 2008.
Campion Guy, Chung Woojin, Wheeled robots, in Springer Handbook of Robotics, pp. 291-310, 2008.
Chares Robert, Glineur François, An interior-point method for the single-facility location problem with mixed norms using a conic formulation, Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Vol. 68(3), 2008.
Berry Michael W., Gillis Nicolas, Glineur François, Document Classification Using Nonnegative Matrix Factorization and Underapproximation, accepted in ISCAS 2008 (2009 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems).
Yurii Nesterov, Parabolic target space and primal-dual interior-point method, Discrete Applied Mathematics, Vol. 156, pp. 2079-2100, 2008.
Yurii Nesterov, Primal-dual interior-point methods with asymmetric barriers, Core Discussion Paper 2008/57, 2008.
Yurii Nesterov, Barrier subgradient method, Core Discussion Paper 2008/60, 2008.
Michel Journee, Yurii Nesterov, Peter Richtarik, Rodolphe Sepulchre, Generalized power method for sparse principal component analysis, CORE Discussion Paper 2008/70, 2008.
Orban De Xivry Jean-Jacques, Missal Marcus, Lefèvre Philippe, A dynamic representation of target motion drives predictive smooth pursuit during target blanking, Journal of Vision, 8(15):6, pp 1-13, 2008.
André T, Lefèvre P, Thonnard JL, A continuous measure of fingertip friction during precision grip, Journal of Neuroscience Methods, in press, 2009.
KUL 1
Wildiers H., Van Calster B., van de Poll-Franse L.V., Hendrickx W., Roislien J., Smeets A., Paridaens R., Deraedt K., Leunen K., Weltens C., Van Huffel S., Christiaens M.-R., Neven P., The relationship between age and axillary lymph node involvement in women with breast cancer, Internal Report 09-05, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Alzate C., Suykens J.A.K., A Regularized Formulation for Spectral Clustering with Pairwise Constraints, Internal Report 09-07, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Petrov V.S., Osipov G.V., Suykens J.A.K., Passive elements influence on the dynamics of oscillatory ensembles of cardiac cells, Internal Report 09-09, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Stegeman A., De Lathauwer L., A Method to Avoid Diverging Components in the Candecomp / Parafac Model for Generic I x J x 2 Arrays, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, vol. 30, no. 4, Jan. 2009, pp. 1614-1638.
Van Belle V., Van Calster B., Brouckaert O., Vanden Bempt I., Pintens S., Paridaens R., Amant F., Leunen K., Smeets A., Drijkoningen R., Wildiers H., Christiaens M.R., Vergote I., Van Huffel S., Neven P., Qualitative assessment of the progesterone receptor and HER-2 improve the Nottingham Prognostic Index for short term breast cancer prognosis, Internal Report 09-11, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Van Belle V., Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., Van Huffel S., Feature Selection in Survival Least Squares Support Vector Machines with Maximal Variation Constraints, Internal Report 09-12, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Testa A.C., Timmerman D., Van Belle V., Fruscella E., Van Holsbeke C., Savelli L., Ferrazzi E., Leone F.P.G., Marret H., Exacoustos C., De Placido G., Bokor D., Magri F., Ferrandina G., Valentin L., Ultrasound contrast examination using contrast-tuned imaging (CNTI) and the ultrasound contrast medium SONOVUE® for discrimination between benign and malignant adnexal masses with solid components, Internal Report 09-13, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Bottomley C., Van Belle V., Mukri F., Kirk E., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Bourne T., The optimal timing of an ultrasound scan to assess the location and viability of an early pregnancy, Internal Report 09-14, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.
Barhumi I., Moonen M., MLSE and MAP equalization for transmission over doubly selective channels, Internal Report 09-15, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.
F. Logist and J.F. Van Impe, Multiple objective optimisation of cyclic chemical systems with distributed parameters, 2008, accepted for oral presentation at the 14th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimisation (CAO-09), 6-8 May, Jyväskylä (Finland).
E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts, and J. F. Van Impe, Cardinal temperatures estimation via optimal dynamic experiment design for parameter estimation: validation on Z. bailii, invited oral presentation at the 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2009), Vienna (Austria), February 11-13, 2009
Theys T., Geeraerd A., Van Impe J., Evaluation of a mathematical model structure describing the effect of (gel) structure on the growth of Listeria innocua, Lactococcus lactis and Salmonella Typhimurium, Journal of Applied Microbiology, 2009 (accepted).
UGent-SYSTeMS
Jonathan Rogge and Dirk Aeyels, Multi-robot coverage to locate fixed and moving targets, 28th Benelux Meeting, March 16th-18th, Spa.
Gert de Cooman, Filip Hermans and Erik Quaeghebeur, Imprecise Markov chains and their limit behaviour, accepted for publication in Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences.
Gert de Cooman, Erik Quaeghebeur and Enrique Miranda, Exchangeable lower previsions, accepted for publication in Bernoulli.
K. Shariatmadar, G. de Cooman and K. Ovaere, Dealing with uncertainty via probability box in finite element method output, Finite Element Methods in Engineering and Science (FEMTEC) 2009 conference at Lake Tahoe, NV, USA.
VUB-ELEC
Karen Scheir, Stephane Bronckers, Johnathan Borremans, Piet Wambacq, Yves Rolain, A 52 GHz Phased-Array Receiver Front-End in 90nm Digital CMOS, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 12, December 2008, pp. 2651-2659.
Johnathan Borremans, Andrea Bevilacqua, Stephane Bronckers, Morin Dehan, Maarten Kuijk, Piet Wambacq and Jan Craninckx, A Compact Wideband Front-End Using a Single-Inductor Dual-Band VCO in nm Digital CMOS, IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Vol. 43, No. 12, December 2008, pp. 2651-2705.
Jean-Baptiste Poullet , Rik Pintelon, Sabine Van Huffel, A new FIR filter technique for solvent suppression in MRS signals, Journal of Magnetic Resonance 196 (2009) 61–73.
Liesbeth Gommé and Yves Rolain, Design and characterization of an RF pulse train generator for large-signal analysis, Measurement Science and Technology, 20 (2009) 025106 (12pp).
Wim Foubert, Carine Neus, Leo Van Biesen, Yves Rolain, Modeling and validation of the parameters of a Quad Cable for Common Mode DSL Applications, ICSPCS’2008 – 2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Systems, Gold Coast, Australia, December 15-17, 2008.
KUL 2
H. Speleers, P. Dierckx and S. Vandewalle, Quasi-hierarchical Powell-Sabin B-splines, Computer Aided Geometric Design 26, pp. 174-191, 2009.
W. Michiels, C.I. Morarescu and S.-I. Niculescu, Consensus problems with distributed delays, with application to traffic flow models, to appear in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. Special Issue on Control and Optimization in Cooperative Networks.
W. Michiels, T. Vhylidal, H. Huijberts and H. Nijmeijer, Stabilizability and stability robustness of state derivative feedback controllers, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. Vol.47 , No.6, 2009, pp.3100-3117.
W. Michiels, T. Vhylidal, P. Zitek, H. Nijmeijer and D. Henrion, Strong stability of neutral equations with an arbitrary delay dependency structure, to appear in SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.
T. Vyhlidal, W. Michiels, P. McGahan and P. Zitek, Stability impact of small delays in state derivative feedback applied to vibration suppression, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 17, 2009, pp.382-393
H. Huijberts, W. Michiels and H. Nijmeijer, Stabilisability via time-delayed feedback: an eigenvalue optimisation approach, SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems. Vol.8 , No.1, 2009, pp.1-20.
W.Michiels, E.Fridman, S.-I.Niculescu, Robustness assessment via stability radii in delay parameters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control.
ULB
A. Haye, Y. Dehouck, J.M. Kwasigroch, Ph. Bogaerts, M. Rooman, Modeling the temporal evolution of Drosophila gene expression from DNA microarray time series, Phys. Biol., 6 (2009) 016004 (9pp).
FPMs
G. Goffaux and A. Vande Wouwer, Design of a Robust Nonlinear Receding-Horizon Observer - First-order and second-order Approximations, in the Series "Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences" (Assessment anf future directions of nonlinear model predictive control, L. Magni, D. Raimundo, F. Allgoëwer, eds), Springer Verlag, to appear in 2009.
L. Dewasme, Ph. Bogaerts and A. Vande Wouwer, Monitoring of Bioprocesses: Mechanistic and Data-driven Approaches, in the Series "Studies in Computational Intelligence", (Computational Intelligent Techniques for Bioprocess Modelling, Supervision and Control, Maria do Carmo Nicoletti, Lakhmi C. Jain, eds.), Springer-Verlag, to appear in 2009.
F. Zamorano, A. Vande Wouwer, A.-L. Hantson, G. Bastin, Metabolic Flux Interval Analysis of CHO Cells, 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2009), Vienna, Austria, February 2009.
R. David, D. Dochain, A. Vande Wouwer, J.-R. Mouret, J.-M. Sablayrolles, Metabolic Modelling of Wine-Making: A State of the Art, 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2009), Vienna, Austria, February 2009.
R. M. Jungers, F. Zamorano, V. D. Blondel, A. Vande Wouwer, G. Bastin, A Fast algorithm for Computing a Minimum Decomposition of a Metabolic Flux Vector in terms of elementary Flux Vectors, 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2009), Vienna, Austria, February 2009.
I. Torres, A. Vande Wouwer and I. Queinnec, Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Observer Applied to a Denitrification Reactor, 6th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2009), Vienna, February 2009.
Graduate School on Systems, Optimization, Control and Network.
Subspace based identification in frequency domain and modelling with orthonormal bases functions, by Huseyin AKCAY (Anadolu University, Turkey)
Date : February 09, 13, 16, 20, 23, 27, 2009, 9:15-12:15.
This course will take place at CESAME, Bâtiment Euler, 4 av. G. Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.
For more details, see : Graduate School
You can register electronically by filling in this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
- The 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will be held in the Domain Sol Cress, Spa, Belgium, on March 16-18, 2009.
- 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization (BFG09)
September 14-18, 2009, Leuven, Belgium - Special Topic: Optimization in Engineering
This international conference is the 14th of the series of French-German meetings which started in Oberwolfach in 1980. This time, it is organized jointly with Belgian optimizers, and takes place in the historical center of Leuven, Belgium's oldest university town, close to Brussels. The conference will consist of 13 invited plenary talks, parallel contributed sessions, mini-symposia, and a poster session. It will address all aspects of optimization and its applications.
Prizes for the best non-plenary talk and best poster will be awarded during the gala dinner in the 13th century buildings of the Faculty Club of the University of Leuven.
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Pierre-Antoine ABSIL (Louvain-La-Neuve)
Samir ADLY (Limoges)
Jean-Baptiste CAILLAU (Dijon)
Roberto COMINETTI (Santiago de Chile)
Mirjam DUER (Darmstadt)
Karl KUNISCH (Graz)
Martine LABBE (Brussels)
Arkadi NEMIROVSKI (Georgia Tech)
Dominikus NOLL (Toulouse)
Sebastian SAGER (Heidelberg)
Volker SCHULZ (Trier)
Laurence WOLSEY (Louvain-La-Neuve)
Deadlines:
- Talk abstract submission: April 15th, 2009
- Early registration fee: June 1st, 2009
- BFG09 conference date: September 14-18, 2009
The conference is organized by OPTEC, the "Optimization in Engineering Center" of Katholieke Universiteit (K.U.) Leuven, in co-operation with CORE, the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics of the Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL).
More info: http://www.kuleuven.be/bfg09
Miscellaneous
Job opportunity : the University of Namur invites applications for two full-time Faculty positions (m/f).
Faculty: Faculty of Sciences
Department: Department of Mathematics
Grade: academic
Starting date: the hiring will be effective on September 1st, 2009 for both positions
Contract: in accordance with the Belgian law, positions will first be given for a probationary period of two years, before confirming the successful candidate in his (her) appointment
Category: academic staff (tenure track)
Positions: university basic funding
References: 08-119, 08-1739
These positions are intended to consolidate the Department of Mathematics project in "Complex Systems" in the field of applied mathematics (for a more complete description, see the Department of Mathematics web site in particular in synergy with its existing research activities.
Job description: in addition to research and organizational responsibilities, the open positions include general and specialized mathematics courses (in French, with a possible adaptation period) in the bachelor and master's programs, as well as in other curricula.
Profile: the candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in mathematics (or equivalent), must demonstrate a real interest for applications of mathematics and have postdoctoral experience. The candidates will be judged on the quality of their individual curriculum and experience and on the adequation of their scientific and teaching projects with the "complex systems" orientation of the department of Mathematics. Amongst submissions comparable for these two criteria, preference will be given to candidates with expertise in statistics and/or controlled systems.
For additional information, contact Prof. Anne LEMAITRE – Tél. +32 81 72 49 08 – directeur@math.fundp.ac.be
Remarks: the candidates should fill in and sign a candidature form. Moreover, they should provide a complete Curriculum Vitae with a full list of publications, a list of personnal references, and a scientific project and a teaching project. Copy of these documents should also be provided on CD-ROM.
Application forms are available from the Direction du Personnel, University of Namur, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium. They are also downloadable from the following page: http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/jobs/.
The complete submission file must be sent to the Rector of the University by February 27th, 2009 at the latest at the following address: The Rector, University of Namur, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium - rectorat@fundp.ac.be
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL-INMA | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL 1 | Ida Tassens, Kristel Bernaerts |
| UGent-SYSTeMS | Margot Roels |
| VUB-ELEC | Ann Pintelon |
| KUL 2 | Wim Michiels, Jan Swevers |
| ULg-SYST | Rodolphe Sepulchre |
| ULB | Michel Kinnaert |
| FPMs | Alain Vande Wouwer |