IAP Newsletter - September 2010 - Issue 132

Message of the Coordinator

This is the first DYSCO Newsletter of the new academic year, and almost my last message as coordinator, since Paul van Dooren will soon take over as coordinator of DYSCO.

Let me thus welcome all the new members of DYSCO: the PhD students, many of whom start their PhD fellowship in September and the newly arrived Post-Docs. It is my pleasure this year to also welcome two new academic members of DYSCO (this is more like a rare event): Jean-Charles Delvenne and Julien Hendrickx who have both obtained an academic position in the UCL/INMA team. I wish them both many productive years within our DYSCO network.

In writing this, I also formulate the hope that this wonderful programme of IAP networks will be allowed to continue despite the political uncertainties. It is clear for all of us that the Belgian community in systems, control and optimization has enormously benefited and grown over the last 20 years thanks to the existence of our network. So let me hope that wisdom will prevail and that DYSCO will be allowed to continue for many years to come.

Michel Gevers
Coordinator of DYSCO

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL

Visitors :

Brian D.O. Anderson (The Australian National University, Canberra) will visit us from 2 to 18 September to work with Michel Gevers and his team. He will give a seminar on 7 September (see seminar annoucements).
Bassam Bamieh (University of California at Santa Barbara) will visit us from 7 to 9 September, on the invitation of Jean-Charles Delvenne. He will give a seminar on 8 September (see seminar announcements).

New staff members :

We welcome Jean-Charles Delvenne and Julien Hendrickx, who have joined the academic staff of INMA as full time members.
Raphaël Jungers will start a two-year postdoctoral stay at INMA on September 1, 2010. He will work on combinatorics, optimization, and control of hybrid systems.
Céline Casenave (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Toulouse - ENSEEIHT) will carry out a one-year postdoctoral stay at INMA within the framework of the IAP from September 1, 2010. She will work with Denis Dochain and Joseph Winkin on the topic "Link between system theory and irrerversible thermodynamics in the context of reaction systems".
Easter Selvan (National Research Council, Naples, Italy) will start a one-year postdoctoral position on September 1, 2010. He will work with Pierre-Antoine Absil on the issue "Optimization algorithms: A statistical signal processing perspective".
Romain Hollanders de Ouderaen will start a PhD thesis on September 6, in the framework of a Concerted Research Action. He will work under the supervision of Jean-Charles Delvenne and Raphaël Jungers on the topic "Stochastic optimisation in large networks".
Nicolas Boumal will join us on October 1, 2010 to start a PhD thesis. He will be funded by the FNRS, and he will work with Pierre-Antoine Absil on the topic "Design and analysis of numerical algorithms for fitting smooth paths on Riemannian manifolds".

KUL 1

Torstein Skara (The Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research) will stay for one year at KUL1/BioTeC to work on his Phd (promotors: Jan Van Impe, Jan Thomas Rosnes, Vasilis Valdramidis).
Kirsten Van Hoorde, August 1, 2010 (Promotor S. Van Huffel)
Reinhart Paelinck, August 15, 2010 (Promotor M. Diehl)
Rosy Li Yuqian, September 1, 2010 (Promotor S. Van Huffel)
Devy Widjaja, September 15, 2010 (Promotor S. Van Huffel)

UGent-SYSTeMS

Mr. Dongfei Fu will be a doctoral student under Prof. Robain De Keyser from September 2010 to August 2013, and will focus on predictive control applications for non classical systems. He graduated from the Ocean University of China and is supported by LiSUM (EM ECW partnership of European and Chinese HEI and Associations).

VUB-ELEC

Visitors :

Verena RUPP, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Universität Karlsruhe (TH)), from 1/9/2010 until 15/01/2011
Przemylaw ELIAS, AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, Poland, from 10/8/2010 until 21/09/2010

New staff members :

Maarten SCHOUKENS (PhD Scholarship): from 1/09/2010
Diane DE COSTER (PhD Scholarship): from 1/10/2010
Koen TIELS (Phd Scholarship): from 1/10/2010
Kevin VOET (PhD Scholarship): from 1/8/2010
Maulik JAIN (PhD Scholarship): from 1/9/2010
Michel GEVERS, part-time emeritus, from 1/10/2010

Theses Defenses

KUL 1

Laurence Mertens (KUL1/BioTeC) will defend her PhD entitled Microbial Dynamics in a Viscoelastic model system: methodologies for growth/no growth assessment of yeast on Wednesday October 22th, 2010 at KULeuven.

Seminars

UCL

September 7, 2010 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
Brian D.O. ANDERSON (Australian National University and National ICT Australia), Bias in localization problems
September 8, 2010 - 11:30 - Euler seminar room
Bassam BAMIEH (University of California at Santa Barbara), Coherence in Large-Scale Controlled Networks: Fundamental Limitations of Local Feedback

KUL 1

September 3, 2010 - 16:30 - Aud. Arenberg Castle
Doctoral Presentation - Wouter Deburchgraeve : "Development of an automated neonatal EEG seizure monitor"
September 7, 2010 - 14:00 - ESAT Room 01.60 : SISTA Seminar
Philippe Dreesen, Kim Batselier : "Solving Systems of Polynomial Equations"
September 7, 2010 - 14:30 - ESAT Room 01.60 : SISTA Seminar
Xinhai Liu, Lieven De Lathauwer, Wolfgang Glänzel, Bart De Moor : "Hybrid Clustering of Multi-view Data via MLSVD"
September 7, 2010 - 15:00 - ESAT Room 01.60 : SISTA Seminar
Pieter Penninckx, Lieven De Lathauwer : "Additional Structure in the JADE Algorithm for Independent Component Analysis"

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

M. Journée, F. Bach, P.-A. Absil, R. Sepulchre, Low-rank optimization on the cone of positive semidefinite matrices, SIAM Journal on Optimization, 20(5), pp. 2327-2351, May 2010

P.-A. Absil, J. Malick, Projection-like retractions on matrix manifolds, submitted, 2010

Coppe S., Orban de Xivry J.-J., Missal M., Lefèvre P., Biological motion influences the visuomotor transformation for smooth pursuit eye movements, Vision Research, in press, 2010.

Blohm G., Lefèvre P., Visuomotor velocity transformations for smooth pursuit eye movements, Journal of Neurophysiology, in press, 2010.

Yüksel D., Orban de Xivry J.-J., Lefèvre P., Review of the major findings about Duane Retraction Syndrome (DRS) leading to an updated form of classification, Vision Research, in press, 2010.

Crevecoeur F., Sepulchre R., Thonnard J.-L., Lefèvre P., Improving the state estimation for optimal control of stochastic processes subject to multiplicative noise, Automatica, in press, 2010.

Favache Audrey, Dochain Denis, Winkin Joseph, Power-shaping control: writing the system dynamics into the Brayton-Moser form, Systems and Control Letters, 2010.

Drame Abdou, Dochain Denis, Winkin Joseph, Wolenski P. R., Periodic solutions of a biochemical reactor distributed parameter model with delay growth response, Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 2010.

Khan AZ, Lefèvre P, Heinen SJ, Blohm G, The default allocation of attention is broadly ahead of smooth pursuit, Journal of Vision, in press, 2010.

KUL 1

E. Van Derlinden, J.F. Van Impe, E. coli population heterogeneity: subpopulation dynamics at super-optimal temperatures, Food Microbiology, 2010 (Accepted for publication)

A. Potschka, F. Logist, J. Van Impe and H.G. Bock, Tracing the Pareto frontier in bi-objective optimization problems by ODE techniques, Numerical Algorithms, 2010 (Accepted for publication)

A.J. Verhulst, A.M. Cappuyns, E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts and J.F. Van Impe, Analysis of th lag phase to exponential growth transition by incorporating inoculum characteristics, Food Microbiology, 2010 (Accepted for publication)

L. Mertens, E. Van Derlinden, T.D.T. Dang, A.M. Cappuyns, A. Vermeulen, J. Debevere, P. Moldenaers, F. Devlieghere, A.H. Geeraerd and J.F. Van Impe, On the critical evaluation of growth/no growth assessment of Zygosaccharomyces bailii with optical density measurements: liquid versus structured media, Food Microbiology, 2010 (Accepted for publication)

Velliou E.G., Van Derlinden E., Cappuyns A.M., Nikolaidou E., Geeraerd A.H., Devlieghere F. and Van Impe J.F., Towards the quantification of the effect of acid treatment on the heat tolerance of Escherichia coli K12 at lethal temperatures, Food Microbiology, 2010 (Accepted for publication)

P.-J. D’Huys, I. Lule, S. Van Hove, D. Vercammen, C. Wouters, K. Bernaerts, J. Anné, J.F.M. Van Impe, Amino acid uptake profiling of wild type and recombinant Streptomyces lividans TK24 batch fermentations, Journal of Biotechnology, 2010 (Accepted for publication)

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 20 (7): 810–822, 2010.

F. Logist, B. Houska, M. Diehl and J. Van Impe, Fast Pareto set generation for nonlinear optimal control problems with multiple objectives, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization 42 (4): 591–603, 2010.

N. Moelants, I. Smets, R. Van Den Broeck, N. Lambert, S. Liers, P. Declerck, L. Vanysacker, J.F. Van Impe, Towards a low complexity carbon removal model for the optimal design of compact decentralised wastewater treatment systems, Water Science and Technology 61 (6): 1579–1588, 2010.

T. Theys, A. Geeraerd, F. Devlieghere and J. Van Impe, On the selection of relevant environmental factors to predict microbial dynamics in solidified media, Food Microbiology 27 (2): 220-228, 2010.

N.S. Abo-Ghander, F. Logist, J.R. Grace, J.F.M. Van Impe, S.S.E.H. Elnashaie and C.J. Lim, Feasibility of coupling dehydrogenation of ethylbenzene with hydrogenation of nitrobenzene in an autothermal catalytic membrane reactor: modeling study, In: Mayuresh Kothare, Moses Tade, Alain Vande Wouwer, Ilse Smets (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS2010): 365-370.

Peter M.M. Van Erdeghem, Filip Logist, Michiel Heughebaert, Christoph Dittrich and Jan F. Van Impe, Conceptual modelling and optimization of jacketed tubular reactors for the production of LDPE, In: Mayuresh Kothare, Moses Tade, Alain Vande Wouwer, Ilse Smets (Eds.) Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems (DYCOPS2010): 419-424.

E. Van Derlinden and J.F. Van Impe, Modeling microbial kinetics as a function of temperature: identification of the growth/inactivation interface, In: Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010): 519-524.

A.J. Verhulst, A.M. Cappuyns, E. Van Derlinden, K. Bernaerts, and J.F.M. Van Impe, Individual-based Modelling of Non-motile Bacterial Colony Formation In Structured Foods: A Comparative Study, In: Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010) : 329-334.

P. Busschaert, A.H. Geeraerd, M. Uyttendaele and J.F. Van Impe, Sensitivity analysis of a two-dimensional microbiological risk assessment, In: Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010) : 323-328.

F. Logist, B. Houska, M. Diehl, J.F. Van Impe, A toolkit for multi-objective optimal control in bioprocess engineering, In: Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010) : 281-286.

Astrid M. Cappuyns, Linde J. Debor, Ilse Y. Smets, Dirk Springael, Leen Bastiaens and Jan F. Van Impe, Quantification of MTBE and TBA biodegradation, In: Julio R. Banga, Philippe Bogaerts, Jan Van Impe, Denis Dochain, Ilse Smets (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Computer Applications in Biotechnology (CAB 2010): 513-518.

De Brabanter K., De Brabanter J., Suykens J.A.K., De Moor B., Approximate Confidence and Prediction Intervals for Least Squares Support Vector Regression, Internal Report 10-156, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Adaptive distributed noise reduction for speech enhancement in wireless acoustic sensor networks, Internal Report 10-157, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Proc. of the International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC).

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Distributed adaptive estimation of node-specific signals in wireless sensor networks with a tree topology, Internal Report 10-158, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Alzate C., Suykens J.A.K., Sparse Kernel Spectral Clustering Models for Large-Scale Data Analysis, Internal Report 10-159, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Pavlov E.A., Osipov G.V., Chan C.K., Suykens J.A.K., Map-based model of the cardiac action potential, Internal Report 10-160, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Bertrand A., Moonen M., Consensus-based distributed total least squares estimation in ad hoc wireless sensor networks, Internal Report 10-165, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Cuppens K., Lagae L., Vanrumste B., Towards automatic detection of movement during sleep in pediatric patients with epilepsy by means of video recordings and the optical flow algorithm, in Proc. of the 4th European Congress for Medical and Biomedical Engineering (EMBEC2008), Antwerp, Belgium, Nov. 2008, pp. 784-789.

Cuppens K., Lagae L., Ceulemans B., Van Huffel S., Vanrumste B., Automatic Video detection of body movement during sleep based on optical flow in pediatric patients with epilepsy, Internal Report 10-167, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing.

Cuppens K., Vanrumste B., Ceulemans B., Lagae L., Van Huffel S., Detection of epileptic seizures using video data, in Proc. of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE10), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Jul. 2010.

Van Holsbeke C., Van Calster B., Bourne T., Melis G.B., Testa A.C., Guerriero S., Fruscio R., Lissoni A.A., Czekierdowski A., Savelli L., Van Huffel S., Valentin L., Timmerman D., External validation of diagnostic models to predict the risk of malignancy in adnexal masses, Internal Report 10-171, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Osorio-Garcia M.I., Sima D.M., Nielsen F.U., Himmelreich U., Van Huffel S., Quantification of in vivo Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy signals with baseline and lineshape corrections, in Proc. of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST), Thessaloniki, Greece, Jul. 2010.

Werbrouck E., Veldman J., Luts J., Van Huffel S., Van Schoubroeck D., Timmerman D., Van den Bosch T., Detection of endometrial pathology using saline infusion sonography versus gel instillation sonography: a prospective cohort study, Internal Report 10-173, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010. Accepted for publication in Fertility and Sterility.

Batselier K., De Moor B., Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Polynomial System Solving, Internal Report 10-174, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.

Vanderperren K., De Vos M., Mijovic B., Ramautar J.R., Novitskiy N., Vanrumste B., Stiers P., Van den Bergh B.R.H., Wagemans J., Lagae L., Sunaert S., Van Huffel S., PARAFAC on ERP data from a visual detection task during simultaneous fMRI acquisition, in Proc. of the International Biosignal Processing Conference., Berlin, Germany, Jul. 2010, pp. 103:1-4.

Hunyadi B., De Vos M., Van Paesschen W., Van Huffel S., A mimicking approach for human epileptic seizure detection, in Proc. of the International Biosignal Processing Conference, Berlin, Germany, Jul. 2010, pp. 1-4.

UGent-SYSTeMS

Mohammad Moradzadeh and René Boel, A hybrid Framework for coordinated Voltage Control of Power Systems, accepted for the 9th IEEE International Power and Energy Conference (IPEC 2010), 27 - 29 October 2010, suntec Singapore

F.Petit, M. Loccufier, D.Aeyels, Adjusting the energy thresholds of a nonlinear vibration absorber, 17th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 17, Cairo, 19-22 July, 2010.

F. Petit, M. Loccufier, D. Aeyels, Feasibility of nonlinear absorbers for transient vibration reduction, accepted for the International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering ISMA 2010, Leuven, 20-22 september, 2010.

Ionescu C., Robayo F., De Keyser R., Naumovic M., The frequency response analysis revisited, in Proc. the IEEE 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, 23-25 June, Marrakesh, Marocco, pp. 1441-1446, IEEE Cat Nr CFP10MED-CDR, ISBN 978-1-4244-8090-6, 2010.

Ionescu C., Fractal Structure and Storage Dynamics of Glycogen, in Proc. of the 9th Int. Symposium on Dynamics and COntrol of Process Systems (DYCOPS 2010), Leuven, Belgium, (Eds.: M. Kothare, M. Tade, A. Vande Wouwer, I. Smets), pp. 330-334, July 5-7, 2010.

Ionescu C., Orban I., De Keyser R., ''Respiratory impedance and corresponding phase-constancy in the 7.5 to 247.5 Hz frequency interval for healthy subjects'', 39th IEEE EMBC, 04/09 Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010

De Keyser R., Ionescu C., A Matlab interactive tool for computer aided control systems design in frequency domain: FRTool, chapter in book: Matlab - Modelling, Programming and Simulations, in press.

Muntean I., Ionescu C., De Keyser R., Abrudean M., An electrical model of the respiratory tree based on morphological insight, in press to Monograph of Romanian Science Academy.

Ionescu C., Muntean I., De Keyser R., The influence of asymmetric space filling in the human lung, in press to Acta Universitatis Apulensis.

Ionescu C., Machado J.T., De Keyser R., Modeling of the Lung Impedance using a Fractional Order Ladder Network with Constant Phase Elements, accepted for publication in the IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems.

Ionescu C., Hodrea R., De Keyser R., Variable time-delay estimation for anesthesia control during intensive care, accepted for IEEE Trans Biomedical Engineering, 2010.

VUB-ELEC

Kurt Barbé, Wendy Van Moer and Lieve Lauwers, Oscillometric Blood Pressure Measurements: a signal analysis, 13th IMEKO TC1-TC7 Joint Symposium, Without Measurement No Science, Without Science No Measurement, 1 - 3 September 2010, City University London, UK

Anna Marconato, Anne Van Mulders, Rik Pintelon, Yves Rolain, Johan Schoukens, A simple and fast technique to evaluate the possibility of approximating a nonlinear system by a nonlinear PISPO model, UKACC International Conference on CONTROL 2010, Coventry, UK, 7-10 September 2010

W. Dhammika Widanage, John Lataire and Johan Schoukens, Nonparametric modelling of a linear time varying system, UKACC International Conference on CONTROL 2010, Coventry, UK, 7-10 September 2010

Maarten Schoukens, Yves Rolain, Rik Pintelon and Johan Schoukens, Semi-parametric identification of parallel Hammerstein systems, UKACC International Conference on CONTROL 2010, Coventry, UK, 7-10 September 2010

Johan Schoukens and Rik Pintelon, High Quality Frequency Response Function Measurements without User Interaction, UKACC International Conference on Control 2010, Coventry, UK, 7-10 September 2010

R. Pintelon, G. Vandersteen, J. Schoukens, Y. Rolain, Noise Leakage Suppression in Multivariate FRF Measurements Using Periodic Excitations, ISMA2010, International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Leuven, 20-22 September 2010

Johan Schoukens, Gerd Vandersteen, Rik Pintelon, Frequency Response Function measurements using concatenated data records, ISMA2010, International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Leuven, 20-22 September 2010

Anna Marconato, Jonas Sjoberg, Johan Schoukens, Johan Suykens, Estimating nonlinear dynamics in nonlinear state-space models, ERNSI Workshop Cambridge,UK, September 26-29, 2010

John Lataire and Rik Pintelon, Frequency domain total least squares estimator of linear, time-varying systems, ERNSI Workshop Cambridge,UK, September 26-29, 2010

E. Zhang, J. Antoni, R. Pintelon, J.Schoukens, Fast detection of system nonlinearity using nonstationary signals, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing 24 (2010) 2065-2075

KUL 2

Bultheel, Adhemar, Linear algebra aspects of the Christoffel transform for orthogonal polynomials on the unit circle, Workshop on "Polinomios y Funciones Racianales Ortogonales, aplicaciones y temas afines", La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, 29 July 2010

Bultheel, Adhemar; Gonzalez-Vera, Pablo; Hendriksen, Erik; Njastad, Olav, Growth properties of Nevanlinna matrices for rational moment problems, Journal of Approximation Theory, 2010 (Accepted)

Bultheel, Adhemar; Lasarow, Andreas, On the existence of para-orthogonal rational functions on the unit circle, Analysis, volume 30, issue 3, pages 301-316, 2010

Chesnokov, Andrey; Van Barel, Marc, Recurrence relations for multivariable orthogonal polynomials and discrete least-squares approximations, Spring Meeting of the the Werkgemeenschap Scientific Computing, Antwerp, Belgium, 3 May 2010

Chesnokov, Andrey; Van Barel, Marc; Mastronardi, Nicola; Vandebril, Raphael, Homotopy algorithm for symmetric diagonal-plus-semiseparable eigenvalue algorithms, International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, 5-9 July 2010

Chesnokov, Andrey; Van Barel, Marc; Mastronardi, Nicola; Vandebril, Raphaël, Homotopy algorithm for symmetric diagonal-plus-semiseparable eigenvalue problems, BIT 50 – Trends in Numerical Computing, Lund, Sweden, 17-20 June 2010

Choque Rivero, Abdon E.; Lasarow, Andreas; Rahn, Armin, On ranges and Moore-Penrose inverses related to matrix Caratheodory and Schur functions, Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, 2010 (Accepted)

De Lathauwer, Lieven; Van Barel, Marc, Unmixing of rational functions by tensor computations, Conference of the International Linear Algebra Society, Pisa, Italy, 21-25 June 2010

Deckers, Karl; Bultheel, Adhemar; Perdomo-Pio, Francisco, Positive rational interpolatory quadrature rules on the interval and the complex unit circle with preassigned nodes, Book of Abstracts I Jaen Conference on Approximation, I Jaen Conference on Approximation, Ubeda (SP), 4-9 July 2010, pages 138-139

Deckers, Karl; Bultheel, Adhemar; Van Deun, Joris, Rational Gauss-type quadrature formulas with a prescribed node anywhere on the real line, Book of Abstracts I Jaen Conference on Approximation, I Jaen Conference on Approximation, Ubeda (SP), 4-9 July 2010, pages 65-66

Dubovoj, Vladimir K.; Fritzsche, Bernd; Kirstein, Bernd; Lasarow, Andreas, Shift operators contained in contractions, pseudocontinuable Schur functions and orthogonal systems on the unit circle, Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, 2010 (Accepted)

Fritzsche, Bernd; Kirstein, Bernd; Lasarow, Andreas, ''On a class of extremal solutions of a moment problem for rational matrix-valued functions in the nondegenerate case I'', Mathematische Nachrichten, 2010 (Accepted)

Fritzsche, Bernd; Kirstein, Bernd; Lasarow, Andreas, On the Weyl matrix balls corresponding to the matricial Caratheodory problem in both nondegenerate and degenerate cases, Numerical Methods for Structured Matrices and Applications; Operator Theory: Advances and Applications, Bini, Dario A.; Mehrmann, Volker; Olshevsky, Vadim; Tyrtsyhnikov, Eugene; van Barel, Marc (eds.), pages 289-332, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2010

Gawad, Jerzy; Van Bael, Albert; Eyckens, Philip; Van Houtte, Paul; Samaey, Giovanni; Roose, Dirk, An effect of texture evolution in cup drawing predictions by multiscale model, Steel Research International, 2010 (Accepted)

Gawad, Jerzy; Van Bael, Albert; Van Houtte, Paul; Samaey, Giovanni; Roose, Dirk, The dynamic local facet method for multiscale modeling of texture anisotropy in metal forming processes, ECCM 2010 European Conference on Computational Mechanics, Paris, 16-21 May, 2010

Gawad, Jerzy; Van Bael, Albert; Yerra, Sampath Kumar; Samaey, Giovanni; Van Houtte, Paul; Roose, Dirk, A coupled multiscale model of texture evolution and plastic anisotropy, AIP Conference Proceedings, Barlat, F.; Moon, Y. H.; Lee, M. G (eds.), NUMIFORM 2010, Pohang, Korea, 13-17 June 2010, volume 1252, issue 1, pages 770-770, Springer New York LLC

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, volume 8, issue 4, pages 379-396, 2010

Honnor, Mick; Trevelyan, Jon; Huybrechs, Daan, Numerical evaluation of 2D partition of unity boundary integrals for Helmholtz problems, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, volume 234, issue 6, pages 1656-1662, 2010

Huybrechs, Daan; Olver, Sheehan, Superinterpolation in highly oscillatory quadrature, TW Reports, volume TW569, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, June 2010

Jarlebring, Elias; Vanbiervliet, Joris; Michiels, Wim, Explicit expressions for the H2 norm of time-delay systems based on the delay Lyapunov equation, Proceedings of the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, USA, 15-17 December 2010

Lasarow, Andreas, An introduction to the theory of orthogonal rational functions on the unit circle, Course of Lectures Given at the "Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo" in Morelia (Mexico), April 12-16, 2010

Lasarow, Andreas, On canonical solutions of the truncated trigonometric matrix moment problem, International Workshop on Operator Theory and its Applications, Berlin, 12-16 July 2010

Lasarow, Andreas, More on a class of extremal solutions of a moment problem for rational matrix-valued functions in the nondegenerate case, Journal of Approximation Theory, 2010 (Accepted)

Lasarow, Andreas, On maximal weight solutions in a truncated trigonometric matrix moment problem, Functiones et Approximatio Commentarii Mathematici, 2010 (Accepted)

Meerbergen, Karl; Spence, Alastair; Vandebril, Raphaël, The solution of a class of two-parameter eigenvalue problems and a connection with the implicitly restarted Arnoldi method, Goovaerts, Marc; Van Daele, Marnix; Vandewalle, Stefan (eds.), International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICCAM2010), Leuven, 5-9 July 2010

Michiels, Wim, Stability analysis of oscillatory systems subject to large delays: a synchronization point of view, Journal of Vibration and Control, volume 16, issue 7/8, pages 1087-1110, 2010

Michiels, Wim; Gumussoy, Suat, Characterization and computation of h-infinity norms of time-delay systems, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, volume 31, issue 4, pages 2093-2115, 2010

Moelans, Nele; Vanherpe, Liesbeth; Heulens, Jeroen; Rodiers, B., New directions in phase-field modeling of microstructure evolution in polycrystalline and multi-component alloys, Annual Workshop for Hierarchic Engineering of Industrial Materials (Hero-m), Saltsjöbaden (SE), 17-18 May 2010

Poppe, Koen; Cools, Ronald, Multivariate Clenshaw-Curtis integration using Chebyshev lattices, International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, 5-9 July 2010

Rosseel, Eveline; Scheerlinck, Nico; Vandewalle, Stefan, Multigrid solver for biological reaction-diffusion problems with random coefficients, International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, 5-9 July 2010

Speleers, Hendrik, The construction of normalized B-splines defined on Powell-Sabin triangulations, International Conference on Curves and Surfaces, Avignon, France, 24-30 June 2010

Van Bael, Albert; Eyckens, Philip; Gawad, Jerzy; Samaey, Giovanni; Roose, Dirk; Van Houtte, Paul, Evolution of crystallographic texture and mechanical anisotropy during cup drawing, Steel Research International, 2010 (Accepted)

Van Barel, Marc; Vandebril, Raphael; Van Dooren, Paul; Frederix, Katrijn, Computing the eigenvalues of a companion matrix, International Workshop on Accurate Solution of Eigenvalue Problems, Berlin, Germany, 28 June - 1 July 2010

Van Beeumen, Roel; Meerbergen, Karl, Model reduction by balanced truncation of linear systems with a quadratic output, Goovaerts, Marc; Van Daele, Marnix; Vandewalle, Stefan (eds.), International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICCAM2010), Leuven, 5-9 July 2010

Vanbiervliet, Joris, Stability Optimization and Robust Control Design for the Class of Time-Delay Systems (Stabiliteitsoptimalisatie en ontwerp van robuuste regelaars voor systemen met tijdsvertragingen), PhD thesis, K.U.Leuven, August 2010, Vandewalle, Stefan and Michiels, Wim (supervisors)

Vandereycken, Bart; Vandewalle, Stefan, Riemannian optimization approach for computing low-rank solutions of Lyapunov equations, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2010 (Accepted)

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, volume 49, issue 2, pages 340-350, 2010

Vanherpe, Liesbeth; Moelans, Nele; Blanpain, Bart; Vandewalle, Stefan, Three-dimensional phase field simulations of grain growth in a polycrystalline microstructure with anisotropic grain boundary properties, International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, Belgium, 5-9 July 2010

Vannieuwenhoven, Nick; Meerbergen, Karl, An element-by-element algebraic multilevel block-ilu preconditioner, International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Leuven, 5-9 July 2010

Yue, Yao; Meerbergen, Karl, Accelerating design optimization with model order reduction, Goovaerts, Marc; Van Daele, Marnix; Vandewalle, Stefan (eds.), International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics (ICCAM2010), Leuven, 5-9 July 2010

Verleye, Bart; Morren, G.; Lomov, Stepan Vladimirovitch; Sol, H.; Verpoest, Ignace; Roose, Dirk, User friendly permeability predicting software for technical textiles, Research Journal of Textile and Apparel, volume 13, issue 2, pages 19-27, 2009

ULg-SYST

Lucian Busoniu, Robert Babuska, Bart De Schutter and Damien Ernst, Reinforcement Learning and Dynamic Programming Using Function Approximators, in the Automation and Control Engineering series of Taylor & Francis CRC Press, http://www.dcsc.tudelft.nl/rlbook/.

ULB

Anton O Chugunov, John Simms, David R Poyner, Yves Dehouck, Marianne Rooman, Dimitri Gilis, Ingrid Langer, Evidence that interaction between conserved residues in transmembrane helices 2, 3 and 7 are crucial for human VPAC1 receptor activation, Mol Pharmacol. 78 (2010):394-401.

Helen M. Saunders, Dimitri Gilis, Marianne Rooman, Yves Dehouck, Amy L. Robertson, Stephen P. Bottomley, The Impact of Flanking Domain Stability on Aggregation Kinetics of a PolyQ Protein, submitted (2010).

A. Haye, J. Albert, M. Rooman, Robustness analysis of a linear dynamical model of the Drosophila gene expression, to appear in the Proceedings of the 7th international meeting on computational intelligence methods for bioinformatics and biostatistics, Palermo, September 16-18 (2010).

J. Albert, M. Rooman, Modeling delays in state transition of a bistable genetic switch under the influence of extrinsic noise, submitted to the Bioinformatics 2011 Conference on Bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms, Rome, January 26-29 (2011).

T. Delwiche, L. Catoire, S. Torfs, M. Kinnaert, Tuning of a robust three-channel controller for teleoperation, submitted to the 2011 IFAC World Congress.

V. Grosfils, R. Hanus, A. Vande Wouwer, M. Kinnaert, Parametric uncertainties and influence of the dead volume representation in modelling simulated moving bed separation processes, submitted to Journal of Chromatography A.

Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks

The SOCN Graduate School 2010-2011 programme is available on-line : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/. We strongly encourage you to circulate this information to the doctoral students in your groups !

The next course, entitled "Introduction to Compressed Sensing and Sparse Approximation", will be given by Jared Tanner (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh) on November 29, December 1, 3, 6, 8, 10, 2010 (9:15-12:15) at K.U.Leuven, Building ESAT, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Heverlee (room 00.62).

More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2010-1

On-line registrations are welcome via this form.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

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

More information will be provided soon, but here is the preliminary programme :

Thursday 28 October 2010 - Michel Gevers turns 65

09:30 Registration and Welcome Desk
10:15 Plenary lecture 1: Prof Robert Bitmead, University of California, San Diego
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Plenary lecture 2: Prof Keith Glover, University of Cambridge
12:00 Address by Prof Bruno Delvaux, Rector of UCL
12:15 Lunch
13:45 Poster session
15:00 Plenary lecture 3: "Sum-of-Norm regularization in estimation problems", Prof Lennart Ljung, Linköping University
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Celebratory talks by Profs Manfred Deistler (Vienna University of Technology), Håkan Hjalmarsson (KTH Stockholm), Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Liège) 17:00 End

Friday 29 October 2010 - Paul Van Dooren turns 60

09:30 Registration and Welcome Desk
10:15 Plenary lecture 1: "A Fast Algorithm for Approximating the Pseudospectral Abscissa", Prof Michael Overton, New York University
11:00 Poster session and coffee break
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Plenary lecture 2: "A Schur-Padé Algorithm for Fractional Powers of a Matrix", Prof Nick Higham, University of Manchester
14:45 Celebratory talks by Profs Patrick Dewilde (TU Munich), Bart De Moor (K.U.Leuven), Iain Duff (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory), Dan Sorensen (Rice University)
16:05 Coffee break

CINBIOS - Centre de BioInformatique et BioModélisation, Université Libre de Bruxelles

4th scientific meeting
Tuesday September 14, 2010
Room NB.2VIS (Human Sciences Library, Campus Solbosch)

Program :

9h00 – 10h00 : Serge Van Sint Jan and Véronique Feipel (Laboratoire d’Anatomie, Biomécanique et Organogenèse et Laboratoire d’Anatomie fonctionnelle, ULB), The Physiome paradigm : description, what occurs in Europe, what could be done at ULB (scientific and pedagogic perspectives)
10h00 – 10h40 Véronique Thomas-Vaslin (Integrative Immunology: Differentiation, Diversity, Dynamics, CNRS- UPMC UMR 7211, Paris), Modeling of T-cell population dynamics in mouse: from homeostasis to perturbations
10h40 - 11h00 : Coffee break
11h00 - 11h40 : Geneviève Dupont (Unité de Chronobiologie théorique, ULB), Calcium oscillations and cell cycle resumption at fertilization in mammals : a modelling approach\\ 11h40 - 12h20 : Gianluca Bontempi (Machine Learning group, ULB), Perspective of feature selection in bioinformatics: from relevance to causal inference
12h20 - 13h00 : David Gall (Laboratoire de Neurophysiologie, ULB), Elucidating the functional role of calcium binding proteins in neurons : playing with experiments and models
13h00 - … in room UD5.114:
- Informal discussions about possible collaborations in the framework of the virtual physiological human project
- Sandwich lunch upon registration by email to Nathalie Vercruysse (navercru@ulb.ac.be)

Vacancies

The University of Namur invites applications for a full-time Faculty position (m/f), in order to consolidate the Department of Mathematics project in "Complex Systems" in the field of applied mathematics (for a more complete description, see the web site http://www.fundp.ac.be/facultes/sciences/departements/mathematique/orientation) by becoming a member of the interdisciplinary research center NAXYS (see the web site http://www.fundp.ac.be/sciences/naxys ).

In addition to research and organizational responsibilities, the open position includes general and specialized mathematics courses (in French) in the bachelor and master's programs, as well as in other curricula.
The candidates must hold a Ph.D. degree in mathematics (or equivalent), must demonstrate a real interest for applications of mathematics and have postdoctoral experience. The candidates will be judged on the quality of their individual curriculum and experience and on the adequation of their scientific and teaching projects with the "complex systems" orientation of the department of Mathematics. Amongst submissions comparable for these two criteria, preference will be given to candidates with expertise in statistics and/or controlled systems.

Supplementary information can be obtained from Prof. Anne LEMAITRE – Tél. 32 81 72 49 08 – directeur@math.fundp.ac.be

Remarks: The candidates should fill in and sign a candidature form. In addition they should provide a complete Curriculum Vitae with a full list of publications, a list of 3 personal references, and a scientific project and a teaching project. Copy of these documents should also be provided on CDROM.

Application forms are obtainable from the University of Namur, Direction du Personnel, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur, Belgium, or downloadable from http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/jobs/. The complete submission file must be sent to the Rector of the University at the following address by September 13th, 2010 at the latest:

Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, ASBL, rue de Bruxelles, 61 B-5000 NAMUR, Belgium.

For a more complete description, see http://www.fundp.ac.be/universite/jobs/emploi.2010-06-29.7824267395

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
UMONS	Alain Vande Wouwer