Message of the Coordinator
With my appointment just starting, it is my pleasure to write my first message as a coordinator of DYSCO.
The heritage I am receiving from my predecessor is invaluable, namely, a well functioning network which was molded over the years to become a model for national research networks in the IAP system. And Michel Gevers was clearly the main orchestrator behind this: systems and control theory in Belgium owes a lot to him. Rather than expanding on his role here, I urge you to attend the IAP day of October 28, where his contributions to the Systems and Control community in Belgium will be highlighted (yes, I know, meanwhile I am also inviting you to stay for an extra day honoring my 60th birthday, but that is mainly because I am getting older ...).
I also want to congratulate Jan Willems for the honorary doctorate he will receive from the University of Liege. This event will take place on October 16, but on October 15, Jan will present a special lecture on “Open Dynamical Systems”, which is just one of his many fundamental contributions to the area of Systems and Control.
Finally, let me draw your attention to the announcements of the Graduate School Programme of this academic year and of the Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 2011. Please circulate that information within your research group.
I hope to see many of you at these different events.
Paul Van Dooren
Freshly appointed coordinator of DYSCO
Staff Movements and Visitors
KUL 1
KUL1 welcomes the following new PhD students:
- Kathleen Boons, promoter: Jan Van Impe. Topic: Integration of microscopic information in predictive models applied to food safety and food quality.
- Dominique Vercammen, promoter: Jan Van Impe. Topic: Flux balance analysis for microbial dynamics.
- Dries Telen, promoter: Jan Van Impe. Topic: Advanced numerical methods for optimal experiment design: from theory to implementation in the (bio)chemical process industry.
- Mattia Vallerio, promoter: Jan Van Impe. Topic: Advanced numerical techniques for computer aided decision making in the (bio)chemical industry.
- Evelien Vervoort, promoters: Ilse Smets, Jan Van Impe. Topic: Towards more cost efficient water reuse through MBRs (MembraneBio-flocculation-Reactors).
- The Anh Cao, promoters: Ilse Smets, Jan Van Impe. Topic: Monitoring and model based control of biological wastewater treatment processes.
- Maria Baka, promoter: Jan Van Impe. Topic: Development of predictive models for structured food products: a multi-scale approach.
Post-Doc :
- Qi Zhu, promoter S. Van Huffel
Visitor :
- 23/10/2010 : Jannick Frasch, promoter M. Diehl
UGent-SYSTeMS
- Erik Quaeghebeur has returned to SYSTeMS as a postdoctoral researcher after a year as a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
- Mr. Ji Ke will do his doctoral research on formation control of UAVs under Prof. Robain De Keyser from Oct'2010 over a span of two years. He graduated from the Northwestern Polytechnical University, China and is funded by CSC (China Scholarship Council).
VUB-ELEC
- Charles Nader, University of Gävlekungsbäcksvägen, Sweden: from 18/9/2010 until 31/03/2011
- Mattias Thorsell, Chalmers University, Sweden: from 18/10/2010 until 28/02/2011
KUL 2
- Liesbeth Vanherpe, Joris Vanbiervliet, Yves Frederix (PhD theses defended in August/September) and Koen Delaere (postdoc) will leave the group. Eveline Rosseel (PhD thesis defended in September) will carry out a postdoctoral stay for one year at the University of Cambridge.
- The team welcomes Giacomo Mazzi, Bart Verleye (postdocs, collaborating with Dirk Roose), Nico Achtsis (PhD, promotor Ronald Cools), Nick Vannieuwenhoven (PhD, promotor Raf Vandebril and Karl Meerbergen), Mathias Humet (PhD, promotor Marc Van Barel) and Laurent Sorber (PhD, promotor Lieven de Lathauwer and Marc Van Barel).
ULg-SYST
- Gilles Loupe (PhD), October 1st (Promotor: P. Geurts)
- Firas Safadi (PhD), September 1st (Promotor: D. Ernst)
- Fabien Heuze (PhD), September 1st (Promotor: L. Wehenkel)
- Bamdev Mishra, September 1st (Promotor: R. Sepulchre)
- Bryan Guillaume, September 1st (Promotor: E. Bullinger)
- David Saint-Pierre', September 1st (Promotor: Q. Louveaux)
Seminars
UCL
- October 5, 2010 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
Nathan VAN DE WOUW (Eindhoven University of Technology), Networked Control Systems: a Discrete-time Approach' - October 12, 2010 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
Samuel MELCHIOR (UCL), Multigrid-based solvers for mixed partial differential equations - October 14, 2010 - 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Clémence MAGNIEN (LIP6, Paris), Integrating measurement, metrology and analysis for the study of dynamic complex networks - October 19, 2010 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
Julien HENDRICKX (UCL), A new result on unconditional convergence in continuous-time consensus - November 2, 2010 - 15:00 - Euler seminar room
Silvère BONNABEL (Mines ParisTech), Geometrical methods in observer design : observers and symmetries
KUL 1
- October 4, 2010 – 13:30–16:00 in aud. Arenberg Castle, Leuven
Symposium Cardiovascular Monitoring with speakers : S. Cerutti, B. Puers, A. Aubert. - October 4, 2010 – 16:30 in Aud. Arenberg Castle, Leuven
Doctoral Presentation Steven Vandeput (K.U. Leuven, ESAT-SCD), Heart rate variability: linear and nonlinear analysis with applications in human physiology. - October 5, 2010 – 16:00 in ESAT, Room 00.57
K.U. Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering - Nils Altmüller (University of Bayreuth-Germany), Model Predictive Control of PDEs. - October 7, 2010 – 17:00 in Aula Tweede Hoofdwet (Thermotechnisch Instituut)
Simon Stevin Lecture on Optimization in Engineering - Ole Sigmund (Technical University of Denmark, Department of Mechanical Engineering), Recent developments in topology optimization and multiphysics applications. - October 8, 2010 – 14:00 in Aud. Arenberg Castle
IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture organized by the IEEE Benelux Signal Processing Chapter : Sergios Theodoridis (Dept. of Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece), Adaptive Learning in a World of Projections. - October 11, 2010 – 17:00 in ESAT, room 00.57
K.U. Leuven Seminars on Optimization in Engineering - Edward Hartley (Dep. of Engineering, University of Cambridge), Initial Tuning of Predictive Controllers by Reverse Engineering - October 14, 2010 – 16:00 in ESAT, room 02.54
SISTA Seminar - 'Kim Batselier (K.U. Leuven, ESAT-SCD), Maximum Likelihood Estimation and Polynomial System Solving.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Luke B. Winternitz, P.-A. Absil, Primal-dual interior-point algorithms for linear programs with many inequality constraints, Book of abstracts of the 2nd IMA Conference on Numerical Linear Algebra and Optimisation, Birmingham, 13-15 September 2010
Chunhong Qi, Kyle A. Gallivan, P.-A. Absil, An Efficient BFGS Algorithm for Riemannian Optimization, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS 2010), July 5-9, 2010, Budapest, Hungary, pp. 2221-2227, 2010.
Abouzaid B., Winkin J., Wertz V., Positive Stabilization of Infinite-dimensional Linear Systems, submitted for presentation at the 49th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2010), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 15-17 December, 2010
Abouzaid B., Achhab E., Wertz V., Feedback Stabilization of Infinite-Dimensional Linear Systems with Constraints on Control and its Rate, European Journal of Control, 2010, to appear.
P.-A. Absil, R. Mahony, R. Sepulchre, Optimization on manifolds: methods and applications, Recent Advances in Optimization and its Applications in Engineering, Springer-Verlag, pp. 125-144, 2010.
Mariya Ishteva, P.-A. Absil, Sabine Van Huffel, Lieven De Lathauwer, On the best low multilinear rank approximation of higher-order tensors, Recent Advances in Optimization and its Applications in Engineering, Springer-Verlag, pp. 145-164, 2010.
M. Journée, F. Bach, P.-A. Absil, R. Sepulchre, Refining Sparse Principal Components, Recent Advances in Optimization and its Applications in Engineering, Springer-Verlag, pp. 165-171, 2010.
Chunhong Qi, Kyle A. Gallivan, P.-A. Absil, Riemannian BFGS algorithm with applications, Recent Advances in Optimization and its Applications in Engineering, Springer-Verlag, pp. 183-192, 2010.
Quentin Rentmeesters, P.-A. Absil, Paul Van Dooren, Identification method for time-varying ARX models, Recent Advances in Optimization and its Applications in Engineering, Springer-Verlag, pp. 193-202, 2010.
Vincent Blondel, Gautier Krings, Isabelle Thomas, Régions et frontières de téléphonie mobile en Belgique, Brussels Studies, submitted
N. Gillis, F. Glineur, On the Geometric Interpretation of the Nonnegative Rank, submitted
N. Gillis, F. Glineur, A Multilevel Approach for Nonnegative Matrix Factorization, submitted
N. Gillis, F. Glineur, Nonnegative factorization and the maximum edge biclique problem, submitted
S. Zein, B. Colson, F. Glineur, Finding D-optimal Design of Experiments for Regression-Based Polynomial Chaos Expansion, submitted.
O. Devolder, F. Glineur, Y. Nesterov, Double smoothing technique for infinite-dimensional optimization problems with applications to Optimal Control, submitted
J. Denies, H. Ben-Ahmed, F. Glineur, B. Dehez, Topology optimization with hybrid algorithm coupled to Voronoï formalism, in: 19th International Conference on Electrical Machines, ICEM'10, September 6-8, 2010, Roma, Italy, 6 p.
KUL 1
Domanov I., On invariant subspaces of matrices: A new proof of a theorem of Halmos, Linear Algebra and its Applications, vol. 433, no. 11-12, Dec. 2010, pp. 2255-2256.
Verbeeck N., Van de Plas R., De Moor B., Waelkens E., Improved Wavelet Analysis of MSI Data for Feature Selection and Data Compression through Incorporation of Spatial Information, Internal Report 10-181, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Deburchgraeve W., Development of an automated neonatal EEG seizure monitor, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Sep. 2010, 190 p.
Vandewalle J., Creatieve wiskundige modellen voor realistische toepassingen, Karakter, no. 31, 2010, pp. 19-21.
Pandey P.K., Moonen M., Deneire L., MMSE-based Partial Crosstalk Cancellation for Upstream VDSL, Internal Report 10-185, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
Signoretto M., De Lathauwer L., Suykens J.A.K., Nuclear Norms for Tensors and Their Use for Convex Multilinear Estimation, Internal Report 10-186, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2010.
UGent-SYSTeMS
Nicolae Emanuel Marinica, Rene K. Boel, Particle Filter for platoon based models of urban traffic, submitted paper to ACC2011
Mihaela Sbarciog, Erik Noldus, Bernard De Baets, Mia Loccufier, Steady state multiplicity of two-step biological conversion systems with general kinetics, Accepted for publication in "Mathematical Biosciences" Ms. No.: MBS-D-10-00088R2
Farias G., De Keyser R., Dormido S., Esquembre F., Developing networked control labs: a Matlab and Easy Java simulations approach, IEEE Transon Industrial Electronics, 57(10), 3266-3275, 2010
Ionescu C., Orban I., Neamtu D., De Keyser R., The constant-phase behaviour in integrate and fire neurons, Accepted for the 4th IFAC Int. Conf. on Fractional Differentiation and Applications, Badajoz, Spain, 2010
De Keyser R., Ionescu C., A generally valid algorithm for PID auto-tuners, Accepted for presentation at the Int. Conf. of Mathematical Methods in Engineering, Coimbra, Portugal, to be held 21-24 October, 2010
VUB-ELEC
Kurt Barbé, Johan Schoukens, Good short record confidence regions for system identification, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, March 30-1 April, 2010
Kurt Barbé, Wendy Van Moer, Lieve Lauwers, Danny Schoors, Accurate Oscillometric Blood Pressure Measurement: an Experimental Approach, 29th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Heeze, The Netherlands, March 30-1 April, 2010
M.L.D. Lumori, J. Schoukens, J. Lataire, Identification and quantification of nonlinear stiffness and nonlinear damping in resonant circuits, ISMA2010, International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering, Leuven, 20-22 September 2010, pp 3205-3220
John Lataire, Rik Pintelon, Frequency Domain Total Least Squares Estimator of Time-Varying Systems, Proceedings of the 19th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems Ð MTNS 2010, Budapest, Hungary, 5-9 July, 2010
Maite Bauwens, Veerle Beelaerts, Frank Dehairs, Johan Schoukens, Which proxies should be integrated in the multi-proxy model?, 2nd International Sclerochronology Conference, Mainz, Germany, 24-28th July 2010
Ludwig De Locht, Gerd Vandersteen, Yves Rolain, Greet Van de Perre, Mart Lybeert, Designing systems from concepts: a crucial engineering approach, EESD10, Engineering Education in Sustainable Development, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 19-22, 2010
Veerle Beelaerts, Fjo De Ridder, Nele Schmitz, Maite Bauwens, Rik Pintelon, Time-Series Reconstruction from Natural Archive Data with the Averaging Effect Taken into Account, Mathematical Geosciences, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 705-722, 2010
M. Bauwens, H. Ohlsson, K. Barbé, V. Beelaerts, F. Dehairs, J. Schoukens, A nonlinear multi-proxy model based on manifold learning to reconstruct water temperature from high resolution trace element profiles in biogenic carbonates, Geoscientific Model Development. Discussions, 3, pp. 1105-1138, 2010
Johan Schoukens, Kurt Barbé, Laurent Vanbeylen, Rik Pintelon, Nonlinear Induced Variance of Frequency Response Function Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 59, Nr. 9, September 2010, pp. 2468-2474
Johan Schoukens, Nonparametric preprocessing in system identification, ERNSI Workshop Cambridge,UK, September 26-29, 2010
Maarten Schoukens, Yves Rolain, Parametric identication of parallel Hammerstein and parallel Wiener systems, ERNSI Workshop Cambridge,UK, September 26-29, 2010
KUL 2
Bultheel Adhemar, Book review What's happening in the mathematical sciences, vol. 7, (D. Mackenzie), BMS-NCM News, volume 79, pages 6-7, 2010
Bultheel Adhemar, González-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
Choque Rivero Abdon E., Lasarow Andreas, Rahn Armin, On ranges and Moore-Penrose inverses related to matrix Carathéodory and Schur functions, Complex Analysis and Operator Theory, 2010 (Accepted)
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)
Frederix Yves, Multiscale Methods for the Simulation of Molecular Dynamics and Stochastic Models (Meerschalige methodes voor de simulatie van moleculaire dynamica en stochastische modellen), PhD thesis, K.U.Leuven, September 2010, Roose, Dirk (supervisor) (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 a class of extremal solutions of a moment problem for rational matrix-valued functions in the nondegenerate case II, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2010 (Accepted)
Fritzsche Bernd, Kirstein Bernd, Lasarow Andreas, On the Weyl matrix balls corresponding to the matricial Carathéodory 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
Gumussoy Suat, Michiels Wim, Fixed-order H-infinity optimization of time-delay systems, Recent Advances in Optimization and Its Applications in Engineering, Diehl, Moritz; Glineur, Francois; Jarlebring, Elias; Michiels, Wim (eds.), pages 103-112, Springer, 2010
Jarlebring Elias, Kvaal Simen, Michiels Wim, Computing all pairs (λ,μ) such that λ is a double eigenvalue of A+μB, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2010 (Submitted)
Jarlebring Elias, Meerbergen Karl, Michiels Wim, A Krylov method for the delay eigenvalue problem, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 2010 (Accepted)
Jarlebring Elias, Michiels Wim, Analyzing the convergence factor of residual inverse iteration, BIT, 2010 (Submitted)
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, Dec. 15-17 2010 (Accepted)
Jarlebring Elias, Vanbiervliet Joris, Michiels Wim, Characterizing and computing the H2 norm of time-delay systems by solving the delay Lyapunov equation, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2010 (Accepted)
Kvaal Simen, Jarlebring Elias, Michiels Wim, Computing singularities of perturbation series, Physical Review A, Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 2010 (Submitted)
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, Large sparse eigenvalue solvers for the determination of Hopf bifurcations of nonlinear dynamical systems, Computational Technology Reviews, Volume 2, Topping, B.H.V.; Adam, J.M.; Pallares, F.J.; Bru, R.; Romero, M.L (eds.), pages 223-246, Saxe-Coburg Publications, 2010
Meerbergen Karl, Bai Zhaojun, The Lanczos method for parameterized symmetric linear systems with multiple right-hand sides, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, volume 31, issue 4, pages 1642-1662, 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
Rosseel Eveline, Multigrid Algorithms for Stochastic Finite Element Computations (Multigrid algoritmen voor stochastische eindige-elementenberekeningen), PhD thesis, K.U.Leuven, August 2010, Vandewalle, Stefan (supervisor)
Speleers Hendrik, A normalized basis for quintic Powell-Sabin splines, Computer Aided Geometric Design, volume 27, issue 6, pages 438-457, 2010
Speleers Hendrik, A normalized basis for reduced Clough-Tocher splines, Computer Aided Geometric Design, 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, volume 81, issue 1, 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)
Vanbiervliet Joris, Michiels Wim, Jarlebring Elias, Using spectral discretization for the optimal H2 design of time-delay systems, International Journal of Control, 2010 (Submitted)
Vanherpe Liesbeth, Acceleration Strategies for Phase Field Simulation of Grain Growth in Polycrystalline Materials (Versnellingsstrategieën voor faseveldsimulatie van korrelgroei in polykristallijne materialen), PhD thesis, K.U.Leuven, September 2010, Vandewalle, Stefan and Blanpain, Bart (supervisors)
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
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
Call for contributions for the Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control 2011
The Organizing Committee has the pleasure of inviting you to participate in the 30th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control to be held in the Conference Centre at CenterParcs De Vossemeren, Lommel, Belgium, on March 15-17, 2011.
Please visit our website: www.beneluxmeeting.org
Contributions for regular and invited sessions are now being invited. Each submission consists of a one page abstract of the contribution and must be headed with the title, the names and affiliations of the authors, and the complete mailing address (including electronic mail address) of the corresponding author. Each contributed abstract must be submitted electronically. Preparation instructions and LaTeX Templates are available on the web site www.beneluxmeeting.org.
Proposals for Special Sessions consisting of four or five lectures centered around a specific topic are also solicited. Special Session Proposals have to be sent by email to : special.sessions@beneluxmeeting.org.
Abstract submission deadline: Dec. 6, 2010
Author notification: Dec. 24, 2010
Final abstracts due: Jan. 10, 2011
Announcement:
Jan WILLEMS will receive the Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Liege on October 16. The academic ceremony will take place on October 16, 10 am, Amphitéâtre de l'Europe. On this occasion, Jan WILLEMS will present a special lecture on Friday, October 15, at 4:15pm, Amphitéâtre de l'Europe. The title of the lecture is Open Dynamical Systems: their aims and origins.
The full program of lectures and the invitation are available at http://www.facsa.ulg.ac.be/cms/index.php
If you would like to attend either the lecture or/and the ceremony, you are welcome to contact r.sepulchre@ulg.ac.be for further details.
Two-day DYSCO workshop on 28 and 29 October in Louvain-la-Neuve to celebrate Michel Gevers and Paul Van Dooren
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), Dan Sorensen (Rice University)
16:05 Coffee break
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 |