Message of the Coordinator

We had a great study day in Ghent yesterday, in a beautiful environment and with a superb programme. In particular, Malcolm Smith's lecture, which brilliantly showed how fundamental research about network synthesis led to victories in Formula One racing, is probably one of the best lectures we have ever had at our study days. His presentation was a pedagogical masterpiece, mixing fundamental duality relations between electrical and mechanical systems with exciting videos from Formula One races. Thank you, Malcolm. And of course, I extend my thanks also to the other two plenary speakers, Ali Jadbabaie and René Boel, to all people from the network who presented posters, and to Margot Roels and the local organizing team.

The study day was introduced by some very thoughtful and deep reflections of Dirk Aeyels on the IAP programme and its virtues, with a vibrant plea for its continuation under the future federal government. Let me also thank Dirk for the very kind words he had, in his inimitable style, for the soon to be outgoing coordinator of this network.

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.
  • Ababacar Diagne will stay at the CESAME from May 28 to June 6. He will work with Georges Bastin.
  • Kyle Gallivan (Florida State University, Tallahassee) will stay with us from June 7 to July 5. He will work with P-A Absil, P. Van Dooren and their team.
  • Manuel Lopez Martinez (Universidad de Sevilla) will work with us from June 15 to July 15.
  • Chafik Samir (Université de Clermont-Ferrand) will stay at the CESAME from June 24 to 29. He will attend a dissertation defense and Quentin Rentmeester's confirmation.
KUL 1
  • June 1, 2010 : Seyed Hamed Mirghasemi (predoc). Topic : Distributed dynamic spectrum management in DSL Networks (Promotor M. Moonen).
  • June 1, 2010 : Mehrkanoon Siamak (Phd). Topic : Prior knowledge incorporation in data-driven modelling (using kernel-based models and support vector machines) with applications to prognostics and networks (Promotor J. Suykens).
  • June 21, 2010 : Mikael Sorensen (postdoc). Topic : Tensors (Promotor L. De Lathauwer).
UGent-SYSTeMS
  • Mr. Daniel Sabiaz (CUJAE, Cuba) will visit UGent-SYSTeMS from June 1, 2010 for 6 months, to work with Prof. Robin De Keyser on multivariable predictive control.
VUB-ELEC
  • Mikaya Lumori, University of San Diego, from 04/06/2010 until 20/08/2010.
UMONS
  • On May 1, 2010, Dr. Mihaela Sbarciog joined our group as a post-doc fellow. She is currently working with Alain Vande Wouwer on the dynamic analysis and control of bioprocesses.

Theses Defenses

UMONS

The public defense of the PhD thesis of Laurent Dewasme, Optimizing Control of Fed-batch Cultures of Microorganisms with Overflow Metabolism, will take place on June 11, 2010, at UMONS (FPMs).

Seminars

UCL
  • June 15, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler Building
    Thanos Antoulas (Rice University, Texas, USA), Interpolatory model reduction for large-scale systems.
KUL 1
  • June 16, 2010 - 14:00 to 15:00 - room ESAT 00.57 - K.U.Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering
    Sina Ober-Bloebaum (Paderborn), Discrete variational mechanics for solving optimal control problems.
  • June 17, 2010 - 10:00 to 11:00 - room ESAT Aud. A - OPTEC-MaNet Seminar on Distributed network estimation and control problems
    Amir Forouzan (ESAT/SCD), Iterative facet dividing algorithm for optimization of Lagrange multipliers with logarithmic complexity.
  • June 29, 2010 - 11:00 to 12:00 - room ESAT Aud. A - K.U.Leuven Sista seminar
    Jeffrey Hokanson (Rice University), Fast Automatic system identification using optimization.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

F. Zamorano, A. Vande Wouwer, G. Bastin, Metabolic Flux Analysis of CHO-320 Cells: Undetermined Network and Effect of Measurement Errors, accepted CAB2010 Conference, Leuven, Belgium, July 2010.

G. Bastin, J-M. Coron, Further results on boundary feedback stabilisation of 2 × 2 hyperbolic systems over a bounded interval, accepted Nolcos 2010 Conference, Bologna, Italy, September 2010.

R.M. Jungers, F. Zamorano, V.D. Blondel, A. Vande Wouwer, G. Bastin, Fast computation of minimal decompositions of metabolic flux vectors, accepted for publication in Automatica - Special issue in System Biology, 2010.

N. Mastronardi, E.E. Tyrtyshnikov, P. Van Dooren, "A fast algorithm for updating and downsizing the dominant kernel principal components", SIAM Journal of Matrix Analysis and its Applications, 2010, in press.

E. Simon, P. Rodriguez, C. Stoica, D. Dumur, V. Wertz, Fixed-order output-feedback control design for LTI systems: a new algorithm to reduce conservatism, 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), July 5-9, 2010, Budapest, Hungary

E. Simon, P. Rodriguez, C. Stoica, D. Dumur, V. Wertz, A design solution with reduced conservatism for multi-objective output-feedback full-order control of systems with LTI model, International Journal of Control, in press, 2010.

M. Ishteva, P.-A. Absil, S. Van Huffel, L. De Lathauwer, Local minima of the best low multilinear rank approximation of tensors, 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), July 5-9, 2010, Budapest, Hungary.

S.J. Bennett, J-J Orban de Xivry, P. Lefèvre, G.R. Barnes, Oculomotor prediction of accelerative target motion during occlusion: long-term and short-term effects, Experimental Brain Research, in press, 2010.

G. Van Belle, M. Ramon, P. Lefèvre, B. Rossion, Fixation patterns during recognition of personally familiar and unfamiliar faces, Frontiers in Cognitive Science, in press, 2010.

KUL 1

Markovsky I., Amann A., Van Huffel S., Application of filtering methods for removal of resuscitation artifacts from human ECG signals, Internal Report 10-116, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Barhumi I., Moonen M., Time-Varying FIR equalization for MIMO transmission over doubly selective channels, Internal Report 10-117, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing.

Deprez J., Annaert K., Janssens K., Vandewalle J., Error correcting codes in secondary mathematics education, a teaching experiment, in Proc. of the Study Conference Educational Interfaces between Mathematics and Industry (EIMI) (EIMI Conference), Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 2010, pp. 177-188.

Signoretto M., De Lathauwer L., Suykens J.A.K., Kernel-based Learning from Infinite Dimensional 2-way Tensors, Internal Report 10-119, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Cornelis B., Moonen M., Wouters J., Binaural cue preservation in binaural hearing aids with reduced-bandwidth multichannel Wiener filter based noise reduction, Internal Report 10-120, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Karsmakers P., Sparse kernel-based models for speech recognition, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), May 2010, 216 p.

Van Herpe T., Gielen M., Van den Berghe G., De Moor B., Mesotten D., Assessment of blood glucose control in the intensive care unit: Extension of the Glycemic Penalty Index towards children and infants, Internal Report 10-124, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Ishteva M., Absil P.A., Van Huffel S., De Lathauwer L., Local minima of the best low multilinear rank approximation of tensors, Internal Report 10-125, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), July 5-9, 2010, Budapest, Hungary.

Necoara I., Dumitrache I., Suykens J.A.K., Fast primal-dual distributed projected linear iterations for constrained consensus, Internal Report 10-126, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Gil-Cacho P., van Waterschoot T., Moonen M., Holdt Jensen S., Estimation of acoustic resonances for room transfer function equalization, Internal Report 10-127, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Komarov M.A., Osipov G.V., Suykens J.A.K., Metastable states and transient activity in ensembles of excitatory and inhibitory elements, Internal Report 10-129, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Domanov I., De Lathauwer L., Enhanced Line Search for Blind Channel Identification Based on the Parafac Decomposition of Cumulant Tensors, Internal Report 10-130, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Proceedings 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), July 5-9, 2010, Budapest, Hungary.

Mosconi E., Fontanella M., Sima D.M., Van Huffel S., Fiorini S., Sbarbati A., Marzola P., Investigation of adipose tissues in Zucker rats using in vivo and ex vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Internal Report 10-131, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Luts J., Roldan Nofuentes J.A., Luna del Castillo J.D., Van Huffel S., An asymptotic hypothesis test to compare likelihood ratios in unpaired designs, Internal Report 10-132, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Tsiaflakis P., Yi Y., Chiang M., Moonen M., Dynamic Spectrum Management for Fast and Fair Green DSL, Internal Report 10-133, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

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

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, 20th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-20), Ischia (Italy), June 6-9, 2010 (Accepted for oral presentation).

E. Van Derlinden, J.F. Van Impe, On the impact of experiment design on the identification of the microbial growth/inactivation interface, 6th Modelling and Simulation in Food Engineering Conference (FOODSIM’2010), CIMO Research Centre, Bragança (Portugal), June 24-26, 2010 (Accepted for oral presentation).

UGent-SYSTeMS

Jonathan Rogge, Johan Suykens, Dirk Aeyels, Consensus with Nearest-Neighbor Interaction as a Quadratic Optimal Control Problem, accepted paper at 4th IFAC Symposium on System, Structure and Control.

Clara Ionescu, Robin De Keyser, Faiber Robayo, Milica Naumovic, The Transfer Function Analyzer Revisited, accepted for presentation at the 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'10), Marrakech, Morocco, June 23-25, 2010.

Robin De Keyser, Clara Ionescu, A Comparative Study of Three Relay-based PID Autotuners, accepted for presentation at the IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, July 15 -17, 2010, Banff, Alberta, Canada.

Clara Ionescu, A View upon the Fractal Structure and Dynamics of Glycogen, accepted for presentation at the 9th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS 2010), Leuven, Belgium, June 5-7, 2010.

Robayo F., Sendoya D., Hodrea R., Ionescu C, De Keyser R., Estimating the time delay for predictive control in general anaesthesia, in Proc. of the 22nd IEEE (IE Chapter) Chinese Control and Decision Conference, May 26-28, Xuzhou, China, ISBN: 978-1-4244-5182-1, pp. 3719-3724, 2010

Hodrea R., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Predictive control strategy with online time delay estimation applied in general anaesthesia, submitted to the 9th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems, 7-9 June 2010, Prague, Czech Republic.

Dutta A., Wyns B., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Predictive control for non strictly proper and non causal systems, presented at the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, 17-19 March, 2010, p 123.

Plaza Douglas, Robin De Keyser, Nonlinear non-Gaussian state estimation using a land surface model and the particle filter, presented at the 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, 17-19 March, 2010, p 217.

De Keyser R., Ionescu C., Modelling and simulation of a lighting control system, Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 18, pp. 165-176, DOI:10.1016/j.simpat.2009.10.003, 2010.

C. Ionescu, I. Muntean I., J.T. Machado, R. De Keyser, M. Abrudean, ''A theoretical study on modelling the respiratory tract with ladder networks by means of intrinsic fractal geometry'', IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, DOI: 10.1109/TBME.2009.2030496, 57(2), pp. 246-253, 2010.

C. Ionescu, J. Tenreiro-Machado, Mechanical properties and impedance model for the branching network of the sapping system in the leaf of Hydrangea Macrophylla, Nonlinear Dynamics, DOI: 10.1007/s11071-009-9590-0, 60(4), pp 207-216, 2010.

Ionescu C., Kosinsky W., De Keyser R., Viscoelasticity and fractal structure in a model of human lungs, Archives of Mechanics, 62(1), pp. 21-48, 2010.

Robin De Keyser, Clara Ionescu, Adaptive Control of an Artificial Ventilator for a COPD Patient, provisionally accepted for publication in the (CMPB-D-09-00301) Journal of Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.

C. Ionescu, J. Tenreiro-Machaod, R. De Keyser, ''Modeling of the Lung Impedance using a Fractional Order Ladder Network with Constant Phase Elements'', provisionally accepted in the (TBCAS-2009-Oct-0081) IEEE Transactions of Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

VUB-ELEC

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.

Anna Marconato, Jonas Sjoberg, Johan Schoukens, Johan Suykens, Estimating nonlinear dynamics in nonlinear state-space models, Poster presentation at IUAP/PAI DYSCO Study day, Gent, het Pand, May 31st, 2010.

Anne Van Mulders, Laurent Vanbeylen, Johan Schoukens, Reduction of polynomial nonlinear state-space models, Poster presentation at IUAP/PAI DYSCO Study day, Gent, het Pand, May 31st, 2010.

Laurent Vanbeylen, Anne Van Mulders, Johan Schoukens, Estimation of the probability of stable operation over a given time interval for discrete-time nonlinear state-space models, PhD Research Day, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, May 28, 2010.

B. Debaillie, P. Van Wesemael, G. Vandersteen, J. Craninckx, Calibration of Direct-Conversion Transceivers, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, June 2009, vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 488-498.

G. Vandersteen, M. Jain, R. Pintelon, An Armax Identification Method for Sigma-Delta Modulators Using Only Input-Output Data, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, May 2010, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 1007-1012.

J. Schoukens, T. Dobrowiecki, Y. Rolain, R. Pintelon, Upper Bounding Variations of Best Linear Approximations of Nonlinear Systems in Power Sweep Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, May 2010, Vol. 59, No. 5, pp. 1141-1148.

KUL 2

Bultheel Adhemar, Book review Riot at the calc exam and other mathematically bent stories (C. Adams), BMS-NCM News, volume 78, pages 1-1, 2010

Bultheel Adhemar, Geometric image approximation, Book of Abstracts, Wavelets and fractals, Esneux (BE), 26-28 April 2010

Bultheel Adhemar, Gonzalez-Vera Pablo, Hendriksen Erik, Njastad Olav, Computation of rational Szego-Lobatto quadrature formulas, Applied Numerical Mathematics, 2010 (Accepted)

Maes Jan, Bultheel Adhemar, Powell-Sabin spline based multilevel preconditioners for the biharmonic equation, Applied Numerical Mathematics, volume 60, issue 5, pages 527-530, 2010

Mallela Venkata Rama Rao, Pownuk Andrzej, Vandewalle Stefan, Moens David, Transient response of structures with uncertain parameters, Structural Safety, 2010 (Accepted)

Meerbergen Karl, Vandebril Raphael, ''A reflection on the implicitly restarted Arnoldi method for computing eigenvalues near a vertical line'', TW Reports, volume TW565, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, May 2010

Poppe Koen, Van Hoey Gert, Volume rendering: the added value of stereo in real-life applications, TW Reports, volume TW563, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, April 2010

Rosseel Eveline, De Gersem Herbert, Vandewalle Stefan, Spectral stochastic simulation of a ferromagnetic cylinder rotating at high speed, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, 2010 (Submitted)

Schumaker Larry L., Speleers Hendrik, Convexity preserving splines over triangulations, TW Reports, volume TW564, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, April 2010

Speleers Hendrik, Convex splines over triangulations, Computational Analysis Seminar, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, April 30, 2010

Speleers Hendrik, A normalized basis for quintic Powell-Sabin splines, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 2010 (Accepted)

Van Barel Marc, Chesnokov Andrey, ''A method to compute recurrence relation coefficients for bivariate orthogonal polynomials by unitary matrix transformations'', Numerical Algorithms, 2010 (Accepted)

Van Liedekerke Paul, Ghysels Pieter, Samaey Giovanni, Tijskens Engelbert, Roose Dirk, Ramon Herman, ''Particle-based model to simulate the micromechanics of biological cells'', Physical Review E, Statistical, Nonlinear and Soft Matter Physics, 2010 (Accepted)

Van Liedekerke Paul, Ghysels Pieter, Tijskens Engelbert, Samaey Giovanni, Roose Dirk, Ramon Herman, A particle based model to simulate the micromechanics of single plant cells and aggregates, Physical Biology, 2010

Vanherpe Liesbeth, Moelans Nele, Blanpain Bart, Vandewalle Stefan, ''Pinning effect of spheroid second-phase particles on grain growth studied by three-dimensional phase field simulations'', Computational Materials Science, 2010 (Accepted)

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, 2010

Verboven Pieter, Schenk Ann, Quang T.H., Verlinden Bert, Vandewalle Stefan, Nicolai Bart, Inzicht in de bewaarbaarheid van vruchten door een beterte kijk op hun microstructuur: een multischaal benadering, Fruitteeltnieuws, volume 13, pages 4-6, 2009

UMONS

J. Mailier, A. Vande Wouwer, A Fast and Systematic Procedure to Develop Dynamic Models of Bioprocesses - Application to Microalgae Cultures, Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering - in press.

L. Dewasme, A. Vande Wouwer, D. Coutinho, Linearizing Control of Yeast and Bacteria Fed-Batch Cultures - A Comparison of Adaptive and Robust Strategies, accepted for presentation at the 7th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2010), Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, June 15-18, 2010.

Lino O. Santos, L. Dewasme, A. Vande Wouwer, Nonlinear model predictive control of fed-batch cultures of E. coli: performance and robustness analysis, accepted for presentation at the 8th IFAC Symposium on Nonlinear Control Systems, University of Bologna – Italy, September 01-03, 2010.

C. Vilas, A. Vande Wouwer, A Receding-Horizon Multi-Model Approach to the Control of SMB Separation Processes, accepted for presentation at the 2010 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, September 8-10, 2010, Yokohama, Japan.

Lino O. Santos, L. Dewasme, A.-L. Hantson, A. Vande Wouwer, Nonlinear model predictive control of fed-batch cultures of micro-organisms exhibiting overflow metabolism, accepted for presentation at the 2010 IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, September 8-10, 2010, Yokohama, Japan.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

First annoucement : Two-day DYSCO workshop on 28 and 29 October in Louvain-la-Neuve to celebrate Michel Gevers and Paul Van Dooren.

Confirmed speakers :

Karl Aström (Lund University)
Keith Glover (University of Cambridge)
Lennart Ljung (Linköping University)
Michael Overton (New York University)
Nick Higham (University of Manchester)
Bob Bitmead (University of California)
Manfred Deistler (Vienna University of Technology)
Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Liège)
Hakan Hjalmarsson (Royal Institute of Technology)
Bart De Moor (KULeuven)
Patrick Dewilde (Institute for Advanced Study, Munich)

More details will follow in due time.

CORE Lecture Series OR CORE foundation event

Stochastic programming : Modeling and Theory
by Alexander SHAPIRO (ISyE, Georgia Tech)
21 - 25 June 2010

Preliminary program :

  • Monday 21 June:

12:30 Welcome lunch
14:00 - 16:00 Introduction and examples of stochastic programming modeling

  • News vendor and inventory models
  • Portfolio selection problem
  • Tuesday 22 June:

10:00 - 12:00 Two and multistage stochastic programming.

  • Two stage stochastic programming with recourse: basic theoretical properties, duality, optimality conditions etc.
  • Multistage stochastic programming: concept of nonanticipativity, dynamic programming equations, duality
  • Wednesday 23 June:

10:00 - 12:00 Statistical inference of Monte Carlo sampling approach.

  • Sample average approximation method
  • Rates of convergence, asymptotics
  • Complexity analysis
  • Validation analysis
  • Variance reduction techniques
  • Thursday 24 June:

14:00 - 16:00 Risk averse stochastic programming

  • Mean-risk modeling
  • Coherent risk measures
  • Multistage risk averse optimization
  • Friday 25 June:

10:00 - 12:00 Miscellaneous

  • Problems with chance (probabilistic) constraints
  • Stochastic approximation method
  • Stochastic Dual Dynamic Programming approach

Location:
CORE UCL - Room b-135
34 voie du Roman Pays
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

How to get to Louvain-la-Neuve and CORE: http://www.uclouvain.be/en-61118.html

Registration:
Registration is free but mandatory with Catherine Germain (catherine.germain@uclouvain.be) before June 15, 2010. Please send an email with your name, first name, affiliation and address.

Accommodation:
Participants are asked to make their own reservation. Rooms have been booked at Hotel Mercure in Louvain-la-Neuve. Please mention the reference "UCL-CORE Lecture Series" (87€/night). Hotel Mercure : h2200@accor.com. Tel. +32-10-450751.

Information:
Catherine Germain : catherine.germain@uclouvain.be or by phone :+32-10-474321 or fax +32-10-474301

OPTEC Workshop on Large Scale Convex Quadratic Programming - Algorithms, Software, and Applications

Leuven, November 25 and 26, 2010

The aim of this two-day workshop is to bring together scientists working on algorithms and software for the solution of large scale quadratic programs as they arise in numerous applications. Special emphasis will be given to convex QPs with large numbers of variables or constraints that necessitate specialized and possibly distributed algorithms.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • hierarchical or distributed QP solution algorithms
  • first order methods
  • optimal gradient schemes
  • structure exploiting interior point methods
  • structure exploiting active set strategies
  • dynamic programming and partial minimization type algorithms
  • direct sparse linear algebra
  • iterative linear algebra
  • parallel computation

The workshop will be planned as a two-day event (starting late on the first day and ending early on the second day to allow time for travel), including a workshop dinner on the first evening.

It will be single track with enough time for discussion after each talk. Two confirmed keynote speakers will give 45-minute talks:

  • Yurii Nesterov: Fast gradient methods for large-scale optimization problems
  • Michael Saunders

If you want to participate with a poster or a 25-minute talk, please send a short title and abstract to Attila Kozma (Attila.Kozma@esat.kuleuven.be) before July 15. We will confirm acceptance as a talk or as a poster latest by August 15. The workshop participation fee is 80 Euro.

The workshop is organized by M. Diehl and A. Kozma and financially supported by K.U. Leuven's Optimization in Engineering Center OPTEC and the EU FP7 Projects HD-MPC and EMBOCON.

IAP Contact Persons

UCL-INMAIsabelle Hisette
KUL 1Ida Tassens, Kristel Bernaerts
UGent-SYSTeMSMargot Roels
VUB-ELECAnn Pintelon
KUL 2Wim Michiels, Jan Swevers
ULg-SYSTRodolphe Sepulchre
ULBMichel Kinnaert
UMONSAlain Vande Wouwer

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