Message of the Coordinator
The main event of the coming month for our DYSCO network is the Study Day organized in Ghent on 31 May. I believe we have an outstanding team of plenary speakers. The preliminary programme can be found further in this Newsletter. All members of the network are invited to present a poster at that Study Day; the contributions of the different teams to these poster sessions are coordinated by the promotors. I invite each one to propose a poster contribution; it is a great opportunity to get feedback on your latest results.
The other news of the month is that the report that will serve for the evaluation of our DYSCO network has been finalized and submitted to BELSPO ahead of the deadline. This has represented a substantial amount of work for many of us. I wish to thank all members of the network for their contribution to this report, whose production has run remarkably smoothly. A couple of paper copies have been sent to each promotor. Additional copies can be produced on demand. In addition to the Main Report, whose content follows the BELSPO guidelines, and the complete list of publications, we have also produced an Appendix that contains the trajectories of our PhD students and post-docs since 2002, the visits received between 2007 and 2009, testimonies about our DYSCO network received from academic visitors, post-docs and PhD students, a section on awards and scientific responsibilities of all members of the network, a description of our Graduate School, and a very brief report on the Royal Visit to DYSCO of 1 October 2009.
Michel Gevers
Coordinator of DYSCO
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
- Anurag Sharma (Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay), will stay at the CESAME from May 3rd until July 21st. He will work with Vincent Blondel and his team.
UGent-SYSTeMS
- Mr. Lokesh Bhojwani (IIT Roorkee) will visit UGent-SYSTeMS from May 15 till July 18, 2010, to work with Prof. R. Boel on modelling and control of electrical power systems.
VUB-ELEC
- Peter Eredics, University of Technology and Economics, dept. of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest, Hungary : from 28/4/2010 until 2/7/2010
- Ketan Knoongo, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharaghpur, India : from 10/05/2010 until 2/7/2010
- Piyush Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India : from 7/05/2010 until 4/7/2010
- Aditya Pappula, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharaghpur, India : from 15/05/2010 until 15/7/2010
Seminars
UCL
- May 4, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
Peter Van Roy (UCL), The clouds of revolution. - May 7, 2010 - 11:00 - Euler Building
Sebastian Bernhardsson (Umeå University, Sweden), Equilibrium Solution to the Reversed Auction Game. - May 11, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
Laurent Jacques (UCL), Dequantizing Compressed Sensing: Recovering Quantization Consistency with Oversampling and Non-Gaussian Constraints. - May 18, 2010 - 11:00 - Euler Building
François-Xavier Standaert (UCL), Towards Leakage-Resilient Cryptographic Devices. - May 25, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
Sébastien Coppe (CESAME), Modeling of the interaction between smooth pursuit and saccadic eye movements.
KUL 1
- May 05, 2010 - 11:00/12:00 (Celestijnenlaan 200A, 05.01) - K.U. Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Eric de Sturler (Department of Mathematics, Virginia TechBlacksburg, USA), Subspace Recycling for Sequences of Linear Systems. - May 05, 2010 - 15:00/17h00 - K.U. Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Michael Hinze (Fachbereich Mathematik, University of Hamburg), Mathematics of pde constrained optimization. - May 06, 2010 - 11:00/12:00 (Celestijnenlaan 200A, 0.0144) - K.U. Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Michael Hinze (Fachbereich Mathematik, University of Hamburg), PDE constrained optimization in engineering applications. - May 11, 2010 - 11:00/12:00 (ESAT 00.62) - K.U. Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
Gerhard Wesp (Google, Zurich), The Flight Simulator in Google Earth. - May 11, 2010 - 11:00/12:00 (Thermotechnisch Instituut, Kasteelpark Arenberg 41, 3001 Heverlee, Aula Van de Tweede Hoofdwet) - SISTA Seminar
Ingrid Daubechies (Princeton university, USA), Surfing with Wavelets. - May 26, 2010 - 11:00/12:00 (ESAT 00.62) - SISTA Seminar
Bogdan Mijovic, Integration of EEG and fMRI. - May 10, 2010 - 14:00/16:00 - OPTEC Course on Numerical Methods for Optimal Control (Lecture 5)
Moritz Diehl, MPC Stability Theory, Problem Formulations (L1, L2 norms) for MHE, NMPC''. - May 12, 2010 - 9:30/18:00 (ESAT Aud. A) - OPTEC Course on Numerical Methods for Optimal Control (Lecture 6)
Moritz Diehl, Real-Time Iterations and Fast Online Algorithms
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
N. Beniich, A. El Bouhtouri, D. Dochain, Input constrained adaptive tracking for a nonlinear distributed parameter tubular reactor, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, 2010, vol. 24, pp. 249-260
M. Journée, F. Bach, P.-A. Absil, R. Sepulchre, Low-rank optimization for semidefinite convex problems, SIAM Journal on Optimization, in press
Hildebrand R., Gevers M., Solari G., Closed-loop Optimal Experiment Design: the Partial Correlation Approach, 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2010), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, December 2010, submitted for presentation
Van Barel M., Vanberghen Y., Van Dooren P., Using semiseparable matrices to compute the SVD of a general matrix product/quotient, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (JCAM), 2010
Plaghki L., Decruynaere C., Van Dooren P., Le Bars D., The Fine Tuning of Pain Thresholds: A Sophisticated Double Alarm System, Plos One, vol.5, n°4, 2010, pp.1-28
Mastronardi N., Tyrtyshnikov E., Van Dooren P., A fast algorithm for updating and downsizing the dominant kernel principal components, in press.
KUL 1
Necoara I., Dumitrache I., Suykens J.A.K., Fast primal-dual projected linear iterations for distributed consensus in constrained convex optimization, Internal Report 10-88, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Falck T., Suykens J.A.K., Schoukens J., De Moor B., Nuclear Norm Regularization for Overparametrized Hammerstein Systems, Internal Report 10-89, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Ojeda F., Falck T., De Moor B., Suykens J.A.K., Polynomial componentwise LS-SVM: fast variable selection using low rank updates, Internal Report 10-91, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2010).
Combaz A., Chumerin N., Manyakov N.V., Suykens J.A.K., Van Hulle M.M., Error-related potential recorded by EEG in the context of a P300 mind speller brain-computer interface, Internal Report 10-92, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Matic V., Deburchgraeve W., Van Huffel S., Comparison of ICA algorithms for ECG artifact removal from EEG signals., in Proc. of the 4th Annual symposium of the IEEE-EMBS Benelux Chapter. (IEEE-EMBS), Twente, The Netherlands, Nov. 2009, pp. 137-140.
De Tollenaere J., Deburchgraeve W., De Vos M., Van Huffel S., New Approaches for the Adaptive Segmentation of Neonatal EEG Signals, in Proc. of the 4th Annual symposium of the IEEE-EMBS Benelux Chapter (IEEE-EMBS), Twente, The Netherlands, Nov. 2009, pp. 141-144.
Ferreau H.J., Houska B., Diehl M., Numerical Methods for Embedded Optimisation and their Implementation within the ACADO Toolkit, in 7th Conference - Computer Methods and Systems (CMS'09), (Tadeusiewicz R., Ligeza A., Mitkowski W., and Szymkat M., eds.), Oprogramowanie Naukowo- Techniczne (Krakow, Poland), 2009, pp. 13-29.
Van den Broeck L., Ferreau H.J., Diehl M., Swevers J., Time Optimal Model Predictive Control for Motion Control of Mechatronic Systems, Internal Report 10-105, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
F. Logist, S. Sager, C. Kirches and J.F. Van Impe, Efficient multiple objective optimal control of dynamic systems with integer controls, Journal of Process Control (Accepted for publication), 2010.
J. Bonilla, M. Diehl, F. Logist, B. De Moor and J. Van Impe, An automatic initialization procedure in parameter estimation problems with parameter-affine dynamic models, Computers & Chemical Engineering 34 (6): 953-964, 2010.
N.S. Abo-Ghander, F. Logist, J.R. Grace, J.F.M. Van Impe, S.S.E.H. Elnashaie, and C.J. Lim, Optimal design of an autothermal membrane reactor coupling the dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene to styrene with the hydrogenation of nitrobenzene to aniline, Chemical Engineering Science 65 (10): 3113–3127, 2010.
P.M.M. Van Erdeghem, F. Logist, C. Dittrich and J.F. Van Impe, Optimization of jacketed tubular reactors for the production of low-density polyethylene: conceptual approach, In: H. Stigter and G. Meinsma (Eds.), Book of abstracts of the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : 38, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control , Heeze (The Netherlands), March 30-April 1, 2010.
F. Logist, B. Houska, M. Diehl, and J.F. Van Impe, ACADO Multi-Objective: a toolkit for multiple objective optimal control, In: H. Stigter and G. Meinsma (Eds.), Book of abstracts of the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : 91, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze (The Netherlands), March 30 - April 1, 2010.
B. Huyck, F. Logist, J. De Brabanter, J. Van Impe and B. De Moor, Identification and control of a binairy distillation column in view of PLC based control, In: H. Stigter and G. Meinsma (Eds.), Book of abstracts of the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : 33, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze (The Netherlands), March 30 - April 1, 2010.
J. Vanlaer, G. Gins and J.F.M. Van Impe, The influence of measurement noise on PLS-based data mining techniques, In: H. Stigter and G. Meinsma (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : 137, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze (The Netherlands), March 30 - April 1, 2010.
G. Gins, J. Vanlaer and J.F.M. Van Impe, Combined online quality prediction and critical vs. non-critical process disturbance discrimination in (bio-)chemical batch processes, In: H. Stigter and G. Meinsma (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : 135, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze (The Netherlands), March 30 - April 1, 2010.
P. Van den Kerkhof, G. Gins, J. Vanlaer and J.F.M. Van Impe, Online fault detection and diagnosis of (bio)chemical batch processes, In: H. Stigter and G. Meinsma (Eds.), Book of Abstracts of the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control : 136, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze (The Netherlands), March 30 - April 1, 2010.
UGent-SYSTeMS
K. Shariatmadar, R. Andrei, G. de Cooman, P. Baekeland, E. Quaeghebeur and E. Kerre, Optimization with uncertain constraints: an application to safety analysis for bridge design, International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics (USD2010) conjunction with the ISMA2010 conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, 20-22 September, 2010, Leuven, Belgium
Erik Quaeghebeur, Keivan Shariatmadar, Gert De Cooman, A Constrained Optimization Problem under Uncertainty, 9th International FLINS Conference on Foundations and Applications of Computational Intelligence (FLINS2010), August 2-4, 2010, Chengdu(EMei), China
VUB-ELEC
Johan Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Gerd Vandersteen, Yves Rolain, Design of excitation signals for nonparametric measurements on MIMO-systems in the presence of nonlinear distortions, I2MTC 2010, International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, 3-6 May, 2010
Wendy Van Moer, Rik Pintelon, Compensating out-of-band nonlinear distortions, I2MTC 2010, International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, 3-6 May, 2010
Rik Pintelon, Kurt Barbé, Gerd Vandersteen, Johan Schoukens, Noise Leakage Suppression in FRF Measurements Using Periodic Signals, I2MTC 2010, International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, 3-6 May, 2010
Kurt Barbé, Johan Schoukens, Robust small sample properties for likelihood based confidence regions, I2MTC 2010, International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, 3-6 May, 2010
Johan Paduart, Lieve Lauwers, Jan Swevers, Kris Smolders, Johan Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Identification of nonlinear systems using Polynomial Nonlinear State Space models, Automatica, Volume 46, pp. 647-656
Gerd Vandersteen, Nonlinear Distortion Analysis in Circuits and Systems, Tutorial presentation at I2MTC 2010, International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, 3-6 May, 2010
Gerd Vandersteen, DSP in Measurement, Part 2, convolution / correlation, presentation at I2MTC 2010, International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, Austin, Texas, 3-6 May, 2010
Kurt Barbé, Wendy Van Moer, Linearizing oscillometric blood pressure measurements: (non)sense?, Poster presentation at IUAP/PAI DYSCO Study day, Gent, het Pand, May 31st, 2010
KUL 2
Asheim Andreas, Huybrechs Daan, Local solutions to high frequency 2D scattering problems, Journal of Computational Physics, 2010 (Accepted)
Bini Dario Andrea, Mehrmann Volker, Olshevsky Vadim, Tyrtyshnikov Eugene E., Van Barel Marc (eds.), ''Numerical Methods for Structured Matrices and Applications'', Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, volume 199, Birkhäuser/Springer, 2010
Bultheel Adhemar, Book review Numerical methods for special functions (A. Gil, J. Segura, N.M. Temme), Journal of Approximation Theory, volume 162, issue 4, pages 872-874, 2010
Bultheel Adhemar, Cruz-Barroso Ruyman, González-Vera Pablo, Perdomo-Pío Francisco, 'Jacobi matrices and quadrature rules on the unit circle and the real line, Book of Abstracts, Conference on Recent Advances in Function Related Operator Theory, Rincon, Puerto Rico, 22- 26 March, 2010
Deckers Karl, Bultheel Adhemar, Cruz Barroso Ruyman, Perdomo-Pío Francisco, ''Positive rational interpolatory quadrature formulas on the unit circle and the interval'', Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2010 (Accepted)
Ghysels Pieter, Samaey Giovanni, Van Liedekerke Paul, Tijskens Engelbert, Ramon Herman, Roose Dirk, ''Coarse implicit time integration of a cellular scale particle model for plant tissue''
Huybrechs Daan, Iserles Arieh, Norsett Syvert, From high oscillation to rapid convergence V: The equilateral triangle', IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis, 2010 (Accepted)
Matton Mike, Van Compernolle Dirk, Cools Ronald, Minimum classification error training in example based speech and pattern recognition using sparse weight matrices, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 234, issue 4, pages 1303-1311, 2010
Van Barel Marc, Chesnokov Andrey, ''A method to compute recurrence relation coefficients for bivariate orthogonal polynomials by unitary matrix transformations'', Numerical Algorithms, 2010
Ghysels Pieter, Samaey Giovanni, Van Liedekerke Paul, Tijskens Engelbert, Ramon Herman, Roose Dirk, Multiscale modeling of viscoelastic plant tissue, International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering, accepted, 2009
Vanherpe Liesbeth, Wendler Frank, Nestler Britta, Vandewalle Stefan, ''A multigrid solver for phase field simulation of microstructure evolution'', Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, volume 80, issue 7, pages 1438-1448, 2009
ULB
T. Delwiche, L. Catoire, S Torfs, M. Kinnaert, Unstructured controller for teleoperation : experimental evaluation, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Robotics.
B. Boulkroune, M. Galvez-Carrillo and M. Kinnaert, Robust sensor fault detection and isolation for a doubly-fed induction generator, submitted to the IEEE CDC2010
J. Verspecht, T. Delwiche, A. Buttafuoco, L. Catoire, S. Torfs, M. Kinnaert, Modelling of the interaction force between the instrument and the trocar in minimally invasive surgery, Proceedins of the 11th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control, Nagaolka, Japon, 21-24 mars 2010, pp 313- 318
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks.
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 takes 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.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
PAI VI/4 DYSCO Study Day - 31 May 2010
Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent
Preliminary Programme
9:30 Registration at the Welcome Desk
10:00 Plenary lecture 1: Consensus, Social Learning and Distributed Estimation in Complex Networks, Prof. Ali Jadbabaie, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
11:00 Poster session 1
12:15 Lunch
13:45 Plenary lecture 2: Coordinated Estimation and Control for Traffic Networks, Prof. René Boel, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium
14:45 Poster session 2
15:45 Plenary lecture 3: Active and passive control: from thought experiment to Formula One racing, Prof. Malcolm C. Smith, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
16:45 End
Vacancies
Post-doctoral Research Associate position in Robust and Modular Engineering Design in Synthetic Biology
Imperial College London
A post-doctoral Research Associate position is available for 36 months in the first instance to work with Dr Guy-Bart Stan at the new EPSRC Centre for Synthetic Biology and Innovation at Imperial College London, U.K. The research project will be responsive to the applicant’s research history and interests but will fall broadly into the research goals of the Centre: (i) to build foundational tools for the robust and modular design of synthetic biology circuits and (ii) to derive applications using synthetic biology. The project is also an excellent opportunity for a skilled individual to cross-over into the exciting field of synthetic biology.
Applicants should have a PhD (or equivalent) in either, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical (Bio)physics, Control Engineering, Computational Biology, a closely aligned discipline or an equivalent level of professional qualifications and experience. Previous experience in nonlinear dynamical systems, control, stochastic modelling of gene expression, systems biology, or equivalent research and industrial or commercial experience is desirable. Previous research on synthetic biology is also desirable but is not a requirement.
More information can be found at http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/g.stan
Informal enquires may be directed to Dr Guy-Bart Stan: g.stan@imperial.ac.uk
Our preferred method of application is online via our website at the following link: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/employment (select "Job Search" and enter the job reference no EN20100087). Please complete and upload an application form as directed and submit any other relevant supporting documents such as your full CV.
Should you have any queries regarding the application process please contact Barbara Skene at b.skene@imperial.ac.uk
Closing date: June 1, 2010
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 |