Message from the Coordinator

Great news for our DYSCO network: King Albert II will honour our network with a special visit. The visit will take place at CESAME on 1 October, from 10:30 to 12:30. The King will be accompanied by the Federal Minister for Research, Mme Laruelle, as well as a number of dignitaries from the scientific community (BELSPO, FWO, FNRS, scientific committee of the Palace, etc). The event will be covered by the media.

The idea of this visit, as I was told, is to put the spotlight on the IAP programme by honouring our network for its achievements. DYSCO has been considered in successive scientific evaluations as a "model network" both in terms of its scientific performance and in terms of its operating methods and management.

The Palace has asked me to organize this visit in a rather convivial atmosphere, so that discussions can take place between him and his entourage, and myself and the promotors. This is why it will take place in the CESAME seminar room rather than in a large auditorium. Presentations will be made by myself, Moritz Diehl, Philippe Lefèvre, Rodolphe Sepulchre and Jan Van Impe.

OK folks, I believe we can all be proud of this official recognition of the collaborative work we have accomplished together during a succession of IAP phases, covering a period of 20 years.

Michel Gevers
DYSCO coordinator

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL-INMA
  • Brian D. O. Anderson (The Australian National University, Canberra) will stay at CESAME from August 31 until September 23 to work with Michel Gevers and his team.

On the 1st of September we had several new arrivals :

  • Vincent Theate (industrial engineer) who has recently been hired by Philippe Lefèvre and Jean-Louis Thonnard within the framework of their ESA Prodex contract whose subject is Dexterous Manipulations in Microgravity.
  • Thibault Dasnoy (PhD student) and Benoît Delhaye (PhD student) who will perform their doctoral research with Philippe Lefèvre and Jean-Louis Thonnard within the framework of the ESA Prodex contract mentioned above.
  • Goedele Van Belle (Post-Doc) who was hired part-time on the PAI VI/04 contract to work with Philippe Lefèvre.

We had also some departures since Balasz Csaji, Chafik Samir, Jean-Charles Delvenne and Peter Richtarik left us.

KUL 1

New arrivals on the 1st of September :

  • Borbala Hunyadi : PhD student, promotor S. Van Huffel
  • Atilla Kozma : PhD student, promotor M. Diehl
  • Ioanna Stamati : PhD student, promotor M. Diehl
  • Bruno Defraene : PhD student, promotor M. Moonen

Visitors :

  • 01/09/09 - 20/12/09 : Matus Kopacka (M. Diehl)
  • 01/09/09 - 31/10/2010 : Milica Milosevic (S. Van Huffel)
  • 01/09/09 - 15/02/2010 : Carlo Romani (M. Diehl)
UGent-SYSTeMS
  • Jonathan Rogge (Ghent University) will work for three months, starting October 1st, at SISTA, KULeuven as a post-doctoral researcher.

He will join the team of Johan Suykens.

  • Erik Quaeghebeur will be a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for one year, starting 14 September, with a postdoctoral BAEF fellowship. He will be working with professor Seidenfeld on topics in imprecise probability theory.
VUB-ELEC
  • Jonas Sjoberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden : from 1/8/2009 until 30/6/2010.
KUL 2

The KUL2/NATW team welcomes the following new PhD students :

  • Hieu Le Thanh
  • Jeroen De Vlieger
  • Dirk Abbeloos
  • Yaidel Lopez Reyes
ULB
  • Holger Flechsig, Complex Systems Group, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, is visiting ULB to work with Marianne Rooman from September 21 to September 25, 2009.

Theses Defences

UCL-INMA

Public defence of the PhD thesis of Audrey Favache : "Thermodynamics and Process" on Tuesday September 1, at 2 pm (Auditoire BARB93). Her thesis advisors are Denis Dochain and Bernhard Maschke (Univ. C. Bernard – Lyon).

Seminars

UCL-INMA
  • September 15, 2009 - 14:00 - Euler Building
    Brian ANDERSON (Australian National University), Multivariable zero-free Transfer Functions and Spectra, and their application in Economic Modelling.
KUL 1
  • September 2, 2009 - 16:00-17:30 - Room ESAT Aud. A.
    K.U. Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering - Boris Houska, Solving Optimal Control Problems with ACADO Toolkit and Hans Joachim Ferreau, Using ACADO Toolkit for Parameter Estimation and Model Predictive Control.
  • September 17, 2009 - 17:00-18:00 - Room 01.0046 of the University Halls (Naamsestraat 22, 3000 Leuven)
    Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering - Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh University), Linear Optimization and Extensions: Three decades of polynomial time algorithms.
  • September 23, 2009 - 14:00-15:00 - Room ESAT Aud. B.
    SISTA Seminar - Gonzalo Acuna (Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Comp. Eng. Dept.), Towards appropriate training of Neural Networks and Support Vector Machines for complex dynamic processes.
  • September 30 - October 21, 2009 : SOCN course on Model Predictive Control - Jan Maciejowski (University of Cambridge, UK), Model predictive Control.
    Dates : September 30 and October 1, 2, 19, 20, 21.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL-INMA

De Kerchove C., Krings G., Lambiotte R., Van Dooren P. and Blondel V. D., The role of second trials in cascades of information over networks, Physical Review E, vol. 79, Issue 1, id. 016114, 2009.

Krings G., Calabrese F., Ratti R., and Blondel V. D., Urban gravity: a model for inter-city telecommunication flows, J. Stat. Mech., L07003, 2009, in press.

Crevecoeur F., Thonnard J.-L., Lefèvre P., Optimal integration of gravity in trajectory planning of vertical pointing movements, Journal of Neurophysiology, 102, pp. 786-796, 2009.

Orban de Xivry J.-J., Missal M., Lefèvre P., Smooth pursuit performance during target blanking does not influence the trigger of predictive saccades, Journal of Vision, 2009, in press.

Absil P.-A., Van Dooren P., Two-sided Grassmann-Rayleigh quotient iteration, Numerische Mathematik, 2009, in press.

Beniich N., Dochain D., Design and analysis of a nonlinear stabilizing controller for a mass structured cell population balance model with input constraints, Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009, pp 1884-1888.

Favache A., Dos Santos V., Dochain D., Maschke B., Stability properties of contact structure dynamical systems, Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2009, Budapest, Hungary, August 23-26, 2009, pp 1106-1111.

Samir C., Absil P.-A., Srivastava A., Klassen E., A Gradient-Descent Method for Curve Fitting on Riemannian Manifolds, submitted, 2009.

Absil P.-A., Trumpf J., Mahony R., Andrews B., All roads lead to Newton: Feasible second-order methods for equality-constrained optimization, submitted, 2009.

KUL 1

Logist F., Huyck B., Fabre M., Verwerft M., Pluymers B., De Brabanter J., De Moor B., Van Impe J., Identification and control of a pilot scale binary distillation column, Internal Report 09-129, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Vanderperren K., De Vos M., Ramautar J., Novitskiy N., Vanrumste B., Stiers P., Van den Bergh B., Wagemans J., Lagae L., Sunaert S., Van Huffel S., Removal of BCG artifacts from EEG recordings inside the MR scanner: a comparison of methodological and validation-related aspects, Internal Report 09-130, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Komarov M.A., Osipov G.V., Suykens J.A.K., Rabinovich M.I., Emergence of slow rhythms in neural microcircuit: bifurcations and stability, in Proc. of the 17th International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (NDES 2009), Rapperswil, Switzerland, June 2009, pp. 168-171.

Osipov G.V., Komarov M.A., Suykens J.A.K., Transient dynamics in the network of Hodgkin-Huxley neurons, in Proc. of the 17th International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (NDES 2009), Rapperswil, Switzerland, June 2009, pp. 161-164.

Petrov V.S., Osipov G.V., Suykens J.A.K., Wave dynamics of oscillatory ensembles under the influence of passive elements, in Proc. of the 17th International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems (NDES 2009), Rapperswil, Switzerland, June 2009, pp. 82-85.

Vandeput S., Taelman J., Spaepen A., Van Huffel S., Heart Rate Variability as a Tool to Distinguish Periods of Physical and Mental Stress in a Laboratory Environment., in Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Biosignal Interpretation (BSI), New Haven, Connecticut, June 2009, pp. 187-190.

Van Belle V., Pelckmans K., Suykens J.A.K., Van Huffel S., Learning Transformation Models for Ranking and Survival Analysis, Internal Report 09-135, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Bonilla J., Diehl M., Logist F., De Moor B., Van Impe J., An automatic initialization procedure in parameter estimation problems with parameter-affine dynamic models, Internal Report 09-136, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Ishteva M., De Lathauwer L., Absil P.-A., Van Huffel S., Best low multilinear rank approximation of higher-order tensors, based on the Riemannian trust-region scheme, Internal Report 09-142, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Suykens J.A.K., Alzate C., Pelckmans K., Primal and dual model representations in kernel-based learning, Internal Report 09-143, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Saez C., Garcia-Gomez J.M., Vicente J., Tortajada S., Luts J., Dupplaw D., Van Huffel S., Robles M., A generic and extensible automatic classification framework applied to brain tumour diagnosis in HealthAgents, Internal Report 09-144, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in The Knowledge Engineering Review.

Van Holsbeke C., Zhang J., Van Belle V., Paladini D., Guerriero S., Czekierdowski A., Muggah H., Ombelet W., Jurkovic D., Testa A.C., Valentin L., Van Huffel S., Bourne T., Timmerman D., Acoustic streaming cannot reliably discriminate between endometriomas and other types of adnexal lesions: a multicenter study of 633 adnexal masses, Internal Report 09-145, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Vandeput S., Naulaers G., Daniels H., Van Huffel S., Heart Rate Variability during REM and non-REM Sleep in Preterm Neonates with and without Abnormal Cardiorespiratory Events, Internal Report 09-146, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Sahhaf S., De Brabanter K., Degraeve R., Suykens J.A.K., De Moor B., Groeseneken G., Detecting the Maximum Shift in Hysteresis Curves using Least Squares Support Vector Machines, Internal Report 09-155, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Chiang M., Tsiaflakis P., Yi Y., Moonen M., Green DSL: Optimizing Fairly for Energy Efficiency, in 20th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), Chicago, US, August 2009.

Giacobello D., Murthi M., Christensen M.G., Jensen S.H., Moonen M., Re-estimation of linear predictive parameters in sparse linear prediction, Internal Report 09-168, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009. Accepted for publication in proc. of Asilomar 2009.

Van Calster B., Gevaert O., Van Holsbeke C., De Moor B., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Clinical decision support for ovarian tumor diagnosis using Bayesian models: Results from the IOTA study, in Chapter 8 of Computational Intelligence and Bioingineering, (Masulli F., Micheli A., and Sperduti A., eds.), vol. 196 of Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, IOS Press (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), 2009, pp. 111-128.

Karsmakers P., Pelckmans K., Van Hamme H., Suykens J.A.K., Large-Scale Kernel Logistic Regression for Segment-Based Phoneme Recognition, Internal Report 09-174, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2009.

Bonilla J., Diehl M., Logist F., De Moor B., Van Impe J., A convexity-based homotopy method for nonlinear optimization in model predictive control, Optimal Control Applications and Methods, accepted for publication, 2009.

Van Derlinden E., Bernaerts K., Van Impe J. F., Unraveling E. coli dynamics close to the maximum growth temperature through heterogeneous modeling, Letters in Applied Microbiology, accepted for publication, 2009.

Logist F., Saucez P., Van Impe J., Vande Wouwer A., Simulation of (bio)chemical processes with distributed parameters using Matlab, Chemical Engineering Journal, accepted for publication, 2009.

Mertens L., Geeraerd A.H., Dang T.D.T., Vermeulen A., Serneels K., Van Derlinden E., Cappuyns A.M., Moldenaers P., Debevere J., Devlieghere F., Van Impe J. F., Design of an experimental viscoelastic food model system for studying yeast spoilage in acid sauces, Applied and Environmental Microbiology, accepted for publication, 2009.

Van den Broeck R., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., Assessment of activated sludge stability in lab-scale experiments, Journal of Biotechnology 141: 147-154, 2009.

Van den Broeck R., Van Dierdonck J., Caerts B., Bisson I., Kregersman B., Nijskens P., Dotremont C., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., The impact of (synthetic) influents on bioflocculation in membrane bioreactors, Proceedings of the IWA Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition 2009 : 6 p., IWA Membrane Technology Conference & Exhibition 2009, Beijing (China), September 1-3, 2009, accepted for poster presentation.

Houska B., Logist F., Van Impe J.F., Diehl M., 'Approximate robust optimization of time-periodic stationary states with application to biochemical processes, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai (China), December 16-18, 2009, accepted for oral presentation.

Bonilla J., Diehl M., Logist F., De Moor B., Van Impe J., A Convex Approximation for Parameter Estimation Involving Parameter-Affine Dynamic Models, 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control-CDC2009, Shanghai (China), December 16-18, 2009, accepted for publication.

Van den Broeck R., Moelants N., Everts K., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., Temperature correction factor for maximum specific oxygen uptake rate (SOURmax) measurements, Proceedings of the 10th IWA Instrumentation, Control & Automation (ICA) conference 2009, 8 p., Cairns (Australia), June 14-17, 2009.

Vanlaer J., Gins G., Van Impe J.F., Comparison of MPCAV, ARPCA, and BDPCA fault detection performance in a fed-batch penicillin fermentation process, In: Joseba Quevedo, Teresa Escobet and Vicenç Puig(Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th IFAC International Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SafeProcess2009) : 840-845, Barcelona (Spain), June 30 - July 3, 2009.

Gins G., Vanlaer J., Van Impe J.F., Online batch-end quality estimation: does laziness pay off?, In: Joseba Quevedo, Teresa Escobet and Vicenç Puig (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th IFAC International Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SafeProcess2009) : 1246-1251, Barcelona (Spain), June 30 - July 3, 2009.

Moelants N., Smets I.Y., Van den Broeck R., Declerck P., Vanysacker L., Van Impe J.F., An integrated hydraulic and biological carbon removal model for the optimal design of decentralised wastewater treatment systems, In: V.A. Tsihrintzis, K.P. Tsagarakis (Eds)., Proceedings of the IWA specialist conference on Asset Management of Medium and Small Wastewater Utilities 2009 : 177-184, Alexandroupolis (Greece), July, 3-4, 2009.

Bonilla J., Diehl M., De Moor B., Van Impe J.F., Nonlinear Least Squares Estimation Procedure without Initial Parameter Guesses, Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control : 5519-5524, Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2008.

Van den Broeck R., Van Dierdonck J., Caerts B., Kregersman B., Nijskens P., Dotremont C., Van Impe J.F., Smets I.Y., The impact of the ratio of [monovalent/polyvalent] cations in the influent on bioflocculation in membrane bioreactors, Proceedings of the 1st IWA BeNeLux Regional Young Water Professionals Conference : 3 p., Eindhoven (Nederland), September 30 - October 2, 2009, accepted for oral presentation.

UGent-SYSTeMS

De Smet F., Aeyels D., Cluster transitions in a multi-agent clustering model, accepted for the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, December 16-18, 2009.

Petit F., Loccufier M., Torsional Vibrations on a Hopper Dredger Due to Transient Conditions, 22nd Biennial Conference on Mechanical Vibration and Noise (VIB), IDETC/CIE 2009, San Diego August 30-September 2, 2009.

De Keyser R., Ionescu C., Lazar C., Frequency-Response based CACSD for Fractional Order Systems, chapter in New Trends in Nanotechnology and Fractional Calculus Applications, Baleanu et al (Eds), Springer, 2009.

De Geeter N., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., A mechanical model of soft biological tissue – an application to lung parenchyma, accepted for publication in the Proceedings of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Minneapolis, USA, 4-6 September 2009.

Farias G., De Keyser R., Dormido S., Esquembre F., Building Remote Labs Using Easy Java Simulation and Matlab, Proceedings of the European Control Conference ECC09, Budapesta, Hungary, 23-26 August 2009.

Hodrea R., Nour B., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Model Reduction for Adaptation in Surgery Anaesthesia, Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Modelling and Control in Biomedical Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, 12-14 August, pp. 240-245, 2009.

Ionescu C., Derom E., De Keyser R., Assessment of respiratory mechanical properties with constant-phase models in healthy and COPD lungs, Computer Methods in Biology and Medicine, DOI 10.1016/j.cmpb.2009.06.006, 2009.

Ionescu C., Muntean I., Machado J. T., De Keyser R., Abrudean M., A theoretical study on modelling the respiratory tract with ladder networks by means of intrinsic fractal geometry, accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

Ionescu C. De Keyser R., Desager K., Derom E., Fractional-Order Models for Characterizing the Impedance of the Respiratory System, chapter in Advances in Biomedical Engineering, pp. 1-20, www.intechweb.org/books.php (open access), to appear, 2009.

Ionescu C., Oustaloup A., Levron F., Melchior P., Sabatier J., De Keyser R., A model of the lungs based on fractal geometrical and structural properties, Proceedings of the IFAC System Identification SYSID09 conference, St. Malo, France, 6-8 July, pp. 994-999, 2009.

Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Flow controlled artificial ventilation of a COPD patient, Proceedings of the European Control Conference ECC09, Budapest, Hungary, 23-26 August 2009.

Syafiie S., Nino J., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., NMPC for Propofol drug dosing during anesthesia induction, L. Magni et al. (Eds): Nonlinear model predictive control, LNCIS 384, 501-509, Springer Verlag, Berlin, 2009.

VUB-ELEC

Schoukens J., Barbé K., Vanbeylen L., Pintelon R., Analysis of the Nonlinear Induced Variability in Linear System Identification, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2009), July 6-8, 2009, St. Malo, France, pp. 634-639.

Marconato A., Schoukens J., Identification of Wiener-Hammerstein Benchmark Data by Means of Support Vector Machines, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2009), July 6-8, 2009, St. Malo, France, pp. 816-819.

Ferranti F., Rolain Y., Vandermot K., Knockaert L., Dhaene T., A Multivariate Orthonormal Vector Fitting based estimation technique, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2009), July 6-8, 2009, St. Malo, France, pp. 1632-1637.

Douce J.L., Widanage W.D., Godfrey K.R., Errors in frequency response estimates using overlapping blocks with random inputs, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2009), July 6-8, 2009, St. Malo, France, pp. 599-604.

Schoukens J., Suykens J., Ljung L., Wiener-Hammerstein Benchmark, 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2009), July 6-8, 2009, St. Malo, France.

Schoukens J., Vandersteen G., Barbe K., Pintelon R., Nonparametric preprocessing in system identification: a powerful tool, European Control Conference 2009 - ECC'09, 23-26 August 2009, Budapest, Hungary.

Schoukens J., Nonparametric preprocessing in system identification, a powerful tool, Presentation at the Open and Interconnected Systems Modeling and Control Celebrating Jan Willems's 70th Birthday, K.U.Leuven, ESAT-SCD, (Signals, Identification, System Theory and Automation), September 16-17th 2009, Bruges, Belgium.

Schoukens J., Vandersteen G., Barbe K., Pintelon R., Nonparametric preprocessing in system identification: a powerful tool, European Journal of Control (2009), 3-4, pp. 260-274.

Schoukens J., Pintelon R., Estimation of Nonparametric Noise Models for Linear Dynamic Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 58(8), August 2009, pp. 2468-2474.

Bronckers S., Vandersteen G., De Locht L., Libois M., Van der Plas G., Rolain Y., Experimental Analysis of the Coupling Mechanisms Between a 4 GHz PPA and a 5Ð7 GHz LC-VCO, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 58(8), August 2009, pp. 2706-2713.

de Brauwere A., De Ridder F., Pintelon R., Schoukens J., Dehairs F., A comparative study of methods to reconstruct a periodic time series from an environmental proxy record, Earth-Science Reviews, 95(2009), pp. 97-118.

KUL 2

Maes J., Oswald P., Multilevel finite element preconditioning for √3 refinement, Mathematics of computation, 78(268), 1869-1890, 2009.

Bultheel A., Cantero M., A matricial computation of rational quadrature formulas on the unit circle, Numerical algorithms, 52(1), 47-68, 2009.

Frederix Y., Samaey G., Vandekerckhove C., Li T., Nies E., Roose D., Lifting in equation-free methods for molecular dynamics simulations of dense fluids, Discrete and continuous dynamical systems, Series B, 11(4), 855-874, 2009.

Damerval C., Meignen S., Study of a robust feature: the pointwise Lipschitz regularity, International Journal of Computer Vision, 2009.

Damerval C., Jansen M., Lifting scheme using smoothing kernels on non-equispaced data, IEEE workshop on Statistical Signal Processing (SSP 2009), Cardiff, UK, August 31 - Sept. 3, 2009.

Damerval C., Jansen M., Multiscale kernel smoothing using a lifting scheme, EUSIPCO, Glasgow, UK, 24-28 August 2009.

Damerval C., Meignen S., Highlight on a feature extracted at fine scales: the pointwise Lipschitz regularity, In : Scale space and variational methods in computer vision, 5567/2009. Scale-Space and Variational Methods. Voss, Norway, 1-5 June 2009 (pp. 782-794). Berlin: Springer, 2009.

Vyhlidal T., Michiels W., Zitek P., Quasi-direct pole placement for time delay systems applied to a heat transfer, In : Proceedings of the 8th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Sinaia, Romania, 1-3 September 2009.

MacGahan P., Vyhlidal T., Michiels W., Optimization based synthesis of state derivative feedback controllers for retarded systems, In: Proceedings of the 8th IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, IFAC Workshop on Time-Delay Systems, Sinaia, Romania, 1-3 September 2009.

Spence A., Meerbergen K., Shift-and-invert iteration for the calculation of purely imaginary eigenvalues with application to the detection of Hopf bifurcations in large scale problems, Linear and Nonlinear Eigenproblems for PDEs, Oberwolfach, 9-15 August 2009.

Van Aerschot W., Bultheel A. (adv.), Jansen M. (adv.), Multiscale Geometric Image Approximation (Multischaal benadering van geometrische beelden), PhD thesis, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Belgium, 2009.

ULB

Galvez M., Kinnaert M., Model-based sensor fault detection and isolation in balanced three-phase signals, Proceedings of the 15th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, pp 717-722, 2009.

Galvez M., Kinnaert M., Fault detection and isolation in current and voltage sensors of doubly-fed induction generators, Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes, SafeProcess 2009, pp 1360-1365, 2009.

Kinnaert M., Delwiche T., Yamé J., State resetting for bumpless switching in supervisory control, Proceedings of The European Control Conference 2009, pp 2097-2102, 2009.

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Network.

Lecturer : Jan MACIEJOWSKI (University of Cambridge, UK)
Dates : September 30 and October 01, 02, 19, 20, 21, 2009
Place : Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Department Elektrotechniek ESAT, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001 Heverlee.

For more details and to read this year's programme, please visit the Graduate School web site.

You can register electronically by filling in this form.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

Open and Interconnected Systems Modeling and Control
Celebrating Jan Willems's 70th Birthday!

K.U.Leuven, ESAT-SCD (Signals, Identification, System Theory and Automation)
Date : September 16-17, 2009
Place : Bruges, Belgium

For all details about this two-day workshop dedicated to all aspects of modeling and control of dynamical systems, follow the following link : http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/scd/oismc/

BFG 2009 : 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization - Leuven

Date : September 14-18, 2009
Place : Leuven, Belgium

Special Topic: Optimization in Engineering.

For all details, see : http://www.cs.kuleuven.be/conference/bfg09/

NE{S|T}COC:

- Symposium on Recent Trends in Networked Systems and Cooperative Control
- Workshop on Network Induced Constraints in Control

Date : September 28-29, 2009
Place : Stuttgart, Germany

The NE{S|T}COC symposium and workshop is a two-day event meant to give an overview over the rapidly developing field of networked systems and cooperative control and will serve as a platform to discuss current issues and future trends in the field.

On the first day, eight invited speakers will give plenary talks on recent trends in networked systems and cooperative control within the "Symposium on Recent Trends in Networked Systems and Cooperative Control" (NESCOC). Confirmed speakers are:

- Murat Arcak (Berkeley)
- Pierre-Alexandre Bliman (INRIA)
- Francesco Bullo (UCSB)
- Joao Hespanha (UCSB)
- Ali Jadbabaie (UPenn)
- Karl Henrik Johansson (KTH)
- Antonis Papachristodoulou (Oxford)
- Rodolphe Sepulchre (Liege)

On the second day, a tutorial "Workshop on Network Induced Constraints in Control" (NETCOC) provides introductory presentations to different aspects of network induced constraints in control and serves as a platform for discussion. This workshop will deal with different aspects of network induced constraints like quantization or loss and delay of packets. It is perfectly suited as an introduction to this expanding area.

The registration fee is Euro 90 (Euro 120 when registering after August 14) and includes lunches and an evening banquet on September 28. Please register online at http://www.ist.uni-stuttgart.de/nestcoc/registration.shtml.

The events take place on the occasion of the 10th Anniversary of the Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control (IST) at the University of Stuttgart.

Further information about NE{S|T}COC can be found at the conference web page at www.ist.uni-stuttgart.de/nestcoc or by contacting the conference organizers :

Frank Allgower, Ulrich Muenz and Peter Wieland
nestcoc2009@ist.uni-stuttgart.de
Tel. +49-711-68567734
Fax. +49-711-68567735

Awards

UGent-SYSTeMS

At ISIPTA'09 in Durham, participants from SYSTeMS were awarded some prizes:

The best poster prize was awarded to : "Epistemic Irrelevance in Credal Networks: the Case of Imprecise Markov Trees" by Gert De Cooman, Filip Hermans, Alessandro Antonucci, Marco Zaffalon.

Both poster prize runner-ups were also awarded to posters from SYSTeMS:

2009 IJAR (Gold) prize for young researchers (one of two): Erik Quaeghebeur.

Job vacancies

Institute of Mathematics, University of Wuerzburg

At the Chair of Mathematics II (Dynamical Systems and Control Theory) there is an opening for two postdoctoral research positions, starting from 1.1.2010 or earlier.

We are looking for highly motivated researchers with a PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or Physics, with some track record in interdisciplinary research between Mathematics, Science and Engineering. Applicants should be fluent in English and/or German language.

Position CMSR This position is initially for 3 years, with an extension possible. The main duties (40 %) include administrative assistance for the research management of the new center "Computational Mathematics and Systems Research (CMSR)" at the Institute of Mathematics. An engagement in establishing interdisciplinary research collaborations between CMSR and other faculties of the University of Wuerzburg is expected. There is a teaching load of 5 hours per week during each semester.

Position BIO This position is initially limited to 2 years, starting January 1, 2010, or earlier if desired. This research position is within the broad areas of systems and control theory, signal processing, model reduction and data analysis. Applicants with special interests in bio-medical application areas like mathematical biology, bio-imaging, bio-informatics, or algebraic statistics are particularly welcome.

The prospective candidates should send by email their resumes, short research statement along with names and contact information of 2 references, as well as copies of 4 research papers, before October 1, 2009, to :

Prof. Dr. Uwe Helmke
Institute of Mathematics
University of Wuerzburg
97074 Wuerzburg, Germany
Email: helmke@mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de
Please refer to one of the above position names in your application.

Applications are invited for positions as Linnaeus Postdoctor at Lund University, Sweden.

The positions are tied to the newly formed LCCC, Lund Centre for Control of Complex engineering systems. This is an opportunity for excellent young researchers to develop their own line of research in synergy with a strong environment. LCCC has been created with support from a ten year Linnaeus grant by the Swedish Research Council, a special grant allocated to research environments of highest international quality.

For all details, see the LCCC homepage and the official job announcement

The closing date for applications is August 31, 2009.

The application should be addressed to the Faculty of Engineering and sent to: Registry Office, Lund University, P.O. Box 117, SE-221 00 LUND or to registrator@lu.se.

A theme semester devoted to Distributed Decision-Making and Control will be organized in the spring of 2010 by the research center LCCC at Lund University.

There will be four workshops with about 30 invited speakers each. A limited number of openings for appointment as visiting scholar during 2-3 weeks or more is hereby announced with application deadline August 31. For more information see http://www.lccc.lth.se.

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