IAP Newsletter - April 2010 - Issue 128

Message of the Coordinator

Great news for our DYSCO network ! I have been contacted by the Royal Palace: the King has been so enthused by his visit to DYSCO last October that He would like us to participate in the ceremonies of the National Day in July. More precisely, the Palace wants us to organize an IAP Study Day that will take place at the Royal Palace on the eve of the National Day, i.e. July 20. The King wants to see first hand how our study days are organized. The planning of this study day will be organized at our promotors meeting this Friday 2 April; details will be announced as soon as possible. At this stage, I would like to ask all members of the network to make themselves available for this special study day; in particular, if you happen to have already organized your Summer vacation during this period, please make all efforts to reschedule them.

Other great news: let me congratulate Paul Van Dooren, who has been awarded the Francqui Chair 2009-2010 at the University of Antwerp where he will present a series of lectures on "Matrix methods for systems and control". The inaugural lecture, entitled "From Gauss to Google: why matrices matter", takes place on Monday 19 April (see details later in this Newsletter) and I invite you all to attend. As you know, Paul is a great teacher and I am sure this inaugural lecture will be enjoyable to all, experts and non-experts of matrices.

Michel Gevers
Coordinator of DYSCO

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL

Sebastian Bernhardsson, post-doc from Umea University, Sweden, will work with Vincent Blondel and his team from April 25 until May 28 on the topic "Analysis of large evolutive networks".
Vladimir Protassov, professor at the Moscow State University, Russia, will work with Vincent Blondel and his team from April 15 to May 15 on the issue "Convex analysis, switching, optimization methods".
Nicolas Mastronardi, director of the Instituto per le applicazioni del calcolo (CNR) will work with Paul Van Dooren and his team from April 7 until April 30 on the subject "Updating techniques for dominant feature extraction".
Samir Chafik (Université de Clermont-Ferrand) will work from April 22 to April 29 with Paul Van Dooren.

KUL 1

Milica Milosevic, April 1, 2010 (promotor S. Van Huffel)
Siamak Mehrkanoon, April 1, 2010 (promotor J. Suykens)

UGent-SYSTeMS

Ernesto Fabregas Acosta, PhD student at the National University for Distance Education, Spain, joined us on the 15th of March for a 3- month stay. He will work with Prof.Dr.ir. Robin De Keyser on the topic "Reset Control and Event Based Control for Virtual and Remotes Labs".

KUL 2

Kasra Mohagheg joined the KUL2 team as a postdoc working with Dirk Roose and Stefan Vandewalle.

Seminars

UCL

April 6, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
Samih Zein, Polynomial Chaos Expansion in Reliability Analysis and Robust Optimisation.
April 13, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
Emilie Marchandise (CESAME), Quality meshing of medical geometries with harmonic map.
April 16, 2010 - 11:00 - Euler Building
Francis Bach (École Normale Supérieure de Paris), Structured sparse principal component analysis and dictionary learning.
April 20, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
Guillaume Leclercq (CESAME), The brain accounts for 3D eye and head kinematics in the visuomotor transformation of velocity signals in manual tracking.
April 27, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
Didier Henrion (LAAS-CNRS, University of Toulouse), Occupation measures and LMI formulation of piecewise affine optimal control design problems.
April 30, 2010 - 11:00 - Euler Building
Narad Rampersad (University of Waterloo and Université de Liège), Cerny's Conjecture.

KUL 1

April 14, 2010 - 11:00 - ESAT, room 00.62 (SISTA Seminar)
Alexander Caicedo Dorado, title to be announced.
April 21, 2010 - 11:00 - ESAT, room 00.62 (SISTA Seminar)
Kris Cuppens (MOBILAB, Katholieke Hogeschool Kempen ), Detection of epileptic seizures using video data.
April 21, 2010 - 10:00-12:00, ESAT Aud. A : OPTEC Course on Numerical Methods for Optimal Control (Lecture 3)
Boris Houska and Moritz Diehl, Integration and Sensitivities, Inexact SQP/SCP for NLPs, Stopping criteria.
April 28, 2010 - 14:00-16:00, ESAT room 00.57 : OPTEC Course on Numerical Methods for Optimal Control (Lecture 4)
Moritz Diehl, QP Linear Algebra / Solving Large QPs (direct / iterative / Krylow).

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

M. Ishteva, P.-A. Absil, S. Van Huffel, L. De Lathauwer, Tucker compression and local optima, submitted, 2010.

P. Borckmans, M. Ishteva, P.-A. Absil, A Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for the Best Low Multilinear Rank Approximation of Higher-Order Tensors, submitted, 2010.

G. Van Belle, P. de Graef, K. Verfaillie, B. Rossion, P. Lefèvre, Face inversion impairs holistic perception: evidence from gaze-contingent stimulation, Journal of Vision, in press, 2010.

G. Bous, P. Fortemps, F. Glineur, M. Pirlot, ACUTA: A novel method for eliciting additive value functions on the basis of holistic preference statements, European Journal of Operational Research, in press, 2010.

M. Gevers, Techniques for the identification of fake blondes : optimal sensors and suboptimal decision strategies, Proc. 49th IEEE Conference on Dating Decision and Control (CDDC49), La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), August 19-20, 2010, pp. 2028-2078.

KUL 1

Ngo K., van Waterschoot T., Christensen M. G., Moonen M., Jensen S. H., Wouters J., Prediction-Error-Method-based Adaptive Feedback Cancellation in Hearing Aids using Pitch Estimation, Internal Report 10-57, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Defraene B., van Waterschoot T., Ferreau H.J., Diehl M., Moonen M., Perception-based clipping of audio signals, Internal Report 10-58, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Van Belle V., Pelckmans K., Van Huffel S., Suykens J.A.K., Improved Performance on High-Dimensional Survival Data using Survival-SVM, Internal Report 10-59, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Pelckmans K., van Waterschoot T., Suykens J.A.K., Efficient Adaptive Filtering for Smooth Linear FIR Models, Internal Report 10-60, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Vandeput S., Liu J.X., Li Y.Z., Chen Z.H., Chen S.G., Xie Q., Van Huffel S., Aubert A.E., Nonlinear dynamics of cardiovascular control during Chinese head-down bed rest, Internal Report 10-61, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Van Calster B., Van Holsbeke C., Valentin L., Testa A.C., Bourne T., Van Huffel S., Timmerman D., Multi-class probabilistic decision support for the preoperative diagnosis of ovarian tumors: development and validation of logistic regression and kernel-based classifiers, Internal Report 10-62, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Karsmakers P., Pelckmans K., De Brabanter K., Van hamme H., Suykens J.A.K., Sparse Conjugate Directions Pursuit with Application to Fixed-size Kernel Models, Internal Report 10-63, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Efficient sensor subset selection and link failure response for linear MMSE signal estimation in wireless sensor networks, Internal Report 10-65, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Giacobello D., van Waterschoot T., Christensen M. G., Jensen S. H., Moonen M., High-order sparse linear predictors for audio processing, Internal Report 10-66, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Gil-Cacho P., van Waterschoot T., Moonen M. and Jensen S.H., Multi-Microphone Acousitc Echo Cancellation using Multi-Channel Warped Linear Prediction of Common Acoustical Poles, Internal Report 10-67, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Tandur D., Digital compensation of front-end non-idealities in broadband communication systems, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Mar. 2010, 220 p.

Breckpot M., Barjas Blanco T., De Moor B., Flood control of rivers with model predictive control and moving horizon estimation, Internal Report 10-69, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Li B., Tsiaflakis P., Moonen M., Maes J., Guenach M., Dynamic Resource Allocation Based Partial Crosstalk Cancellation in DSL Networks, Internal Report 10-70, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Ercsey-Ravasz M., Fransens F., Pfeiffer H., Monavon G., Korosec C., Hillger W., Van Huffel S., Wevers M., Structural Health Monitoring of a helicopter tail boom using Lamb waves - Advanced data analysis of results obtained with integrated optical fibre sensing technology, Internal Report 10-75, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Herdt A., Diedam H., Wieber P.B., Dimitrov D., Mombaur K., Diehl M., Online walking motion generation with automatic foot step placement, Advanced robotics, vol. 34, no. 5-6, 2010, pp. 719-737.

Willems J., Debard G., Vanrumste B., Goedeme T., A video-based algorithm for elderly fall detection, in Proc. of the Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering World Congress (WC2009), München, Germany, Sep. 2009.

Debard G., Van den Bergh J., Bonroy B., Deschodt M., Dejaeger E., Milisen K., Goedeme T., Vanrumste B., FallCam : Practical considerations in implementing a camera-based fall detection system, in Proc. of the Positioning and context-awareness international conference (POCA 09), Antwerp, Belgium, May 2009, pp. 17-23.

Agudelo M., Espinosa J., De Moor B., Reduction of the computational burden of POD models with polynomial nonlinearities, Internal Report 10-79, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Cornelis B., Moonen M., Wouters J., Performance analysis of multichannel Wiener filter based noise reduction in hearing aids under second order statistics estimation errors, Internal Report 10-81, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Houska B., Ferreau H.J., Diehl M., ACADO Toolkit - An Open-Source Framework for Automatic Control and Dynamic Optimization, Internal Report 10-85, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Optimal Control Methods and Application, 2010.

Vandeput S., Jansen K., Milosevic M., Lagae L., Aubert A.E., Van Huffel S., Nonlinear cardiovascular oscillations in children with refractory epilepsy before and after vagus nerve stimulation, Internal Report 10-86, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of the 6th European Study Group on Cardiovascular Oscillations.

Vandeput S., Verheyden B., Aubert A.E., Van Huffel S., Nonlinear heart rate dynamics: circadian profile and influence of age and gender, Internal Report 10-87, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

F. Logist, B. Houska, M. Diehl, J. Van Impe, Fast Pareto set generation for nonlinear optimal control problems with multiple objectives, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (accepted for publication), 2010.

P. Van den Kerkhof, G. Gins, J. Vanlaer, J. Van Impe, Dynamic model-based fault diagnosis for (bio)chemical batch processes, accepted for poster presentation at the 20th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-20), Ischia (Italy), June 6-9, 2010.

F. Logist B. Houska, M. Diehl, J.F. Van Impe, A toolkit for efficiently generating Pareto sets in (bio)chemical multi-objective optimal control problems, accepted for poster presentation at the 20th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-20), Ischia (Italy), June 6-9, 2010.

J. Bonilla, F. Logist, M. Diehl, B. De Moor, J. Van Impe, A suboptimal solution to nonconvex optimal control problems involving input affine dynamic models, accepted for poster presentation at the European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE20), Ischia - Italy, June 6-9, 2010.

F. Logist, B. Houska, M. Diehl, J.F. Van Impe, A toolkit for multi-objective optimal control in bioprocess engineering, accepted for presentation at the 11th IFAC Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology, Leuven (Belgium), July 7-9, 2010.

N.S. Abo-Ghander, F. Logist, J.R. Grace, J.F.M. Van Impe, S.S.E.H. Elnashaie, C.J. Lim, Feasibility of coupling dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene with hydrogenation of nitrobenzene in an autothermal catalytic membrane reactor: modeling study, accepted for presentation at 9th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS2010), Leuven (Belgium), July 5-7, 2010.

P. Van Erdeghem, F. Logist, M. Heughebaert, Ch. Dittrich, J. F. Van Impe, Conceptual modelling and optimization of jacketed tubular reactors for the production of LDPE, accepted for presentation at 9th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, Leuven (Belgium), July 5-7, 2010.

P. Busschaert, A.H. Geeraerd, M. Uyttendaele, J.F. Van Impe, Keeping variability and uncertainty separated in sensitivity analysis: risk assessment of Listeria monocytogenes in deli meats, Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Statistical Methods for the Food Industry : 333-341. [Agrostat - the 10th European conference Food Industry and Statistics, Italy, February 24-26, 2010]

E. Van Derlinden, J.F. Van Impe, Microbial kinetics at the growth/inactivation interface:estimation of the maximum growth temperature, Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Statistical Methods for the Food Industry : 195-202. [Agrostat - the 10th European conference Food Industry and Statistics, Italy, February 24-26]

A.J. Verhulst, A.M. Cappuyns, E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts, J.F. Van Impe, Unravelling microbial growth dynamics through individual-based modelling: relevance of the inoculum state, Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Statistical Methods for the Food Industry : 121-127. [Agrostat - the 11th European conference Food Industry and Statistics, Italy, February 24-26]

P. Busschaert, A.H. Geeraerd, M. Uyttendaele, J.F. Van Impe, Fitting distributions to censored data using a Bayesian model for application in microbiological risk assessment related with foods, accepted for oral presentation at the Society for Risk Analysis - Europe 2010 Annual Meeting, London (Great Britain), June 21-23, 2010.

N. Lambert, A. Hulsmans, S. Houtmeyers, J. Van Impe, I. Smets, R. Dewil, Improvement of the biological activity of activated sludge by ultrasound and magnetic induction, accepted for oral presentation at 19th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering CHISA 2010 & 7th European Congress of Chemical Engineering - ECCE-7, Prague (Czech Republic), 28 August - 1 September 2010.

UGent-SYSTeMS

D. Aeyels, F. De Smet, Emergence and evolution of multiple clusters of attracting agents, Physica D, in press.

Hodrea R., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Predictive Control Strategy with Online Time Delay Estimation Applied in General Anesthesia, accepted for presentation at the 9th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, Prague, Czech Republic, June 7-9, 2010.

VUB-ELEC

D. Rijlaarsdam, Frequency Domain Based Feed Forward Tuning for Friction Compensation, ASPE 2010, Spring Topical Meeting in Cambridge, April 10 to 13, Massachusetts, USA

W. Van Moer, R. Pintelon, Y. Rolain, Measuring source-pull free nonlinear distortions: a multisine approach, Measurement Science and Technology, Vol. 20 (2009) 125104 (7pp).

W. Van Moer, Y. Rolain, Measuring the out-of-band best linear approximation, Measurement Science Technology, Vol. 21, No. 1, January 2010 (6pp).

KUL 2

Bultheel, A., Cruz Barroso, R., Van Barel, M., On Gauss-type quadrature formulas with prescribed nodes anywhere on the real line, Calcolo, 47(1), 21-48, 2010.

Schumaker, L., Speleers, H., Nonnegativity preserving macro-element interpolation of scattered data, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 27(3), 245-261, 2010.

Huybrechs, D., Iserles, A., Norsett, S., From high oscillation to rapid convergence V: The equilateral triangle, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 2010.

Deckers, K., Bultheel, A., Cruz Barroso, R., Perdomo-Pío, F., ''Positive rational interpolatory quadrature formulas on the unit circle and the interval'', Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2010.

Bultheel, A., González-Vera, P., Hendriksen, E., Njastad, O., Growth properties of Nevanlinna matrices for rational moment problems, Journal of Approximation Theory, 2010.

Meerbergen, K., Bai, Z., The Lanczos method for parameterized symmetric linear systems with multiple right-hand sides, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 31(4), 1642-1662, 2010.

Rosseel, E., Vandewalle, S., Iterative solvers for the stochastic finite element method. SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 32(1), 372-397, 2010.

Mallela, V., Pownuk, A., Vandewalle, S., Transient response of structures with uncertain parameters, Structural Safety, 2010.

Van Barel, M., Vandebril, R., Van Dooren, P., Frederix, K., Implicit double shift QR-algorithm for companion matrices, Numerische Mathematik, 2010.

Asheim, A., Huybrechs, D., Asymptotic analysis of numerical steepest descent with path approximations, Foundations of Computational Mathematics, 2010.

Chesnokov, A., Van Barel, M., A direct method to solve block banded block Toeplitz systems with non-banded Toeplitz blocks, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2010.

Cruz Barroso, R., González-Vera, P., Perdomo-Pio, F., Orthogonality, interpolation and quadratures on the unit circle and the interval [-1,1], Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2010.

Asheim, A., Huybrechs, D., Local solutions to high frequency 2D scattering problems, Journal of Computational Physics, 2010.

Ghysels, P., Samaey, G., Van Liedekerke, P., Tijskens, E., Ramon, H., Roose, D., ''Coarse implicit time integration of a cellular scale particle model for plant tissue deformation'', International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering, 2010.

Meerbergen, K., Spence, A., Inverse iteration for purely imaginary eigenvalues with application to the detection of Hopf bifurcations in large scale problems, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2010, Accepted.

Delvaux, S., Gemignani, L., Van Barel, M., QR-factorization of displacement structured matrices using a rank structured matrix approach, In: Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, vol. 199 (pp. 229-254). Basel/Switzerland: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2010.

Speleers, H., Dierckx, P., Vandewalle, S., On the local approximation power of quasi-hierarchical Powell-Sabin splines, In : Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5862, Mathematical Methods for Curves and Surfaces. Tønsberg, Norway, June 26 - July 1, 2008 (pp. 419-433), Springer.

ULg-SYST

M. Journée, Y. Nesterov, P. Richtarik, R. Sepulchre, Generalized Power Method for Sparse Principal Component Analysis, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 11(Feb):517−553, 2010.

R. Sepulchre, A. Sarlette, P. Rouchon, Consensus in non-commutative spaces, submitted to the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, 2010.

P. Wieland, G. S. Schmidt, R. Sepulchre, F. Allgower, Phase Synchronization through Entrainment by a Consensus Input, submitted to the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, 2010.

M. Journee, F. Bach, P.-A. Absil, R. Sepulchre, Refining sparse principal components, Proceedings of the 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization Leuven, September 14-18, 2009.

Ch. Lageman, R. Sepulchre, Optimal data fitting on Lie Groups: a coset approach, Proceedings of the 14th Belgian-French-German Conference on Optimization Leuven, September 14-18, 2009.

L. Trotta, R. Sepulchre, E. Bullinger, Delayed decision-making in bistable models, submitted to the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, 2010.

ULB

M. Galvez, M. Kinnaert, Sensor fault detection and isolation in doubly-fed induction generators accounting for parameter variations, submitted to Renewable Energy.

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks.

LMI optimization with applications in control

Lecturer : Didier HENRION (Laas CNRS-Toulouse, FRANCE)

Dates : April 26, 27, 28 and May 03, 04, 05, 2010

Schedule : Monday : 14:00-17:30, Tuesday and Wednesday : 9:00-12:30

This course will take place at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Thermotechnisch Instituut, Kasteelpark Arenberg 41, room 01.02 (Aula van de tweede hoofdwet), 3001 Heverlee

You can register electronically by filling in this form.

Awards

Belgian Francqui Chair 2009-2010 Paul Van Dooren

Prof.dr. Paul Van Dooren (Université Catholique de Louvain) has been awarded the Belgian Francqui Chair 2009-2010. As holder of this chair he will present at the University of Antwerp the lecture series Matrix methods for systems and control.
The lecture series commences on Monday, April 19, 2010 at 3.30 p.m. with the inaugural lecture From Gauss to Google: why matrices matter. Rector Alain Verschoren and prof.dr. Herwig Leirs (dean Faculty of Sciences) are pleased to invite you to this occasion. The inaugural lecture will take place at G.010-Jan Fabre Auditorium, building G, Campus Middelheim, Middelheimlaan 1, Antwerp. You can register for this occasion before April 1 by email to Martine Vermeiren (martine.vermeiren@ua.ac.be), mentioning the number of participants.

The lecture series continues with :

Friday, April 23, 2010: Distance problems, spectra and pseudospectra. Friday, April 30, 2010: Model reduction of dynamical systems. Friday, May 07, 2010: Dominant feature extraction and structured matrices. Friday, May 21, 2010: Networks and graphs.

All these lectures are delivered from 2 to 5.30 p.m. in room G.005 at Campus Middelheim including a coffee/tea break. Please confirm also your attendance at these lectures with Martine Vermeiren. Further information is provided on the attached flyer and can be obtained from prof.dr. Karel In ´t Hout (karel.inthout@ua.ac.be).

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

2nd IFAC Workshop on Estimation and Control of Networked Systems (NecSys'10)
September 13-14, 2010
Centre de Congrès de L’Impérial Palace, Annecy, France

CALL FOR PAPERS

Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2010

Scope : the 2nd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys’10) will focus on the most innovative mathematical methods proposed in the last few years for the analysis and design of networked systems. The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from control, computer science, communication, game theory, statistics, mathematics and other areas to discuss emerging topics in networked systems of common interest.

Keynote Speakers : J. Sifakis (VERIMAG, F), F. Baccelli (INRIA, F), K.H. Johansson (KTH, SW), G. Vinnicombe (Cambridge, UK), M. Morari (ETH, CH), F. Bullo (UCSB, USA), S. Zampieri (UNIPD, IT), D. Hill (ANU, Aust.), B. Hassibi (CalTech, USA)

Thematic areas :

Coordinated control and estimation over networks
Consensus and distributed averaging
Multivehicle systems and flocking
Control with communication constraints and quantization
Decentralized algorithms for computation over sensor networks
Randomized algorithms and gossip algorithms
Message passing algorithms and belief propagation
Graph models for networks. Percolation. Network coding
Distributed and decentralized signal processing
Decentralized and cooperative optimization
Transportation and human networks

Venue : the workshop will be hosted in an environment suitable for research interactions and discussions, namely the small-French Venice providing a special Lake-Mountain environment (http://www.hotel-imperial-palace.com/en/index.html)

Advisory Committee:

P.R. Kumar, UIUC, USA
R.M. Murray, CalTech, USA
J.S. Baras, UMD, USA
J.N. Tsitsiklis, MIT, USA
L. Schenato, UNIPD, Italy
S.P. Boyd, Stanford U., USA

Publication Chairs:

D. Simon, INRIA, France
A. Kibangou, CNRS-UJF, France

Organizers:

Carlos Canudas de Wit General Chair)
Alexandre Seuret (vice-General Chair)
Bruno Sinopoli (Technical Program Chair)
John Lygeros (Technical Program vise-Chair)

Vacancies

A position as assistant professor in automatic control is announced at Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)

The deadline for applying is April 19. For more information, click the following link : http://www.chalmers.se/s2/EN/news/vacancies-at-signals/positions/assistant-professor-in2689

Miscellaneous

ERCIM calls for nominations for the 2010 Cor Baayen Award

Deadline for nominations: 30 April 2010.

Each year, ERCIM awards a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics with the Cor Baayen Award. The winner of the award receives 5,000 euro, together with an award certificate. The award will be presented at a ceremony during the 2010 ERCIM fall meetings.

Nominees must have carried out their work in one of the "ERCIM countries" (i.e., Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the United Kingdom). Nominees must have been awarded their PhD (or equivalent) after 30 April 2007. Nominations may be submitted online only.

Detailed information and conditions: http://www.ercim.org/activity/cor-baayen-award

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