Message of the Coordinator
Let me first wish you the very best for 2012 and let us hope it will bring us good news about the new IAP proposal we submitted.
Don't forget to mark the following dates in your agendas : the next graduate school course will be given by Michael Hinze at the K.U.Leuven in February (see below) and the upcoming Benelux Meeting in Systems and Control will be held from March 27 to 29 in Heijden (see below). Notice that the deadline for submitting your abstracts to this conference is January 20th ! I hope to see many of you there.
Best wishes to all of you.
Paul Van Dooren
DYSCO coordinator
Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
- Manuel Lopez (associate professor, Universidad de Sevilla) will be with us from January 3 to March 31, 2012. He will work with V. Blondel and J.-Ch. Delvenne on the topic "Stability of systems with wireless interconnections-consensus approach".
- Ababacar Diagne, PhD student invited by G. Bastin, will stay at UCL from January 16 to March 15, 2012. The topic of his research is "Theory of hydraulic systems control reprented by Saint-Venant equations".
UGent-SYSTeMS
- HERNANDEZ Andres, PhD student with promotors R. De Keyser and C. Ionescu, joined our team on January 2012.
Seminars
UCL
- January 24, 2012 - 14:00 - Euler seminar room
Kim McAuley (Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Canada),Statistical Methods for Developing Reliable Fundamental Models. - January 27, 2012, 11:00 - Euler seminar room
Alain Barrat (Centre de Physique Théorique, Marseille, France / Institute of Scientific Interchange, Torino, Italy), Dynamical networks: from measurements to models.
ULg-SYST
Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.
Theses defenses
KUL 1
Eirini Velliou (KUL1/BioTeC), Microbial inactivation in a liquid and viscoelastic model system: predictive modeling of heat adaptation after exposure to chaperones, metabolites, and acids. Promoters: Profs. Jan Van Impe, Annemie Geeraerd, Frank Devlieghere. Date : January 23th, 2012.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
M. Ishteva, P.-A. Absil, P. Van Dooren, Jacobi algorithm for the best low multilinear rank approximation of symmetric tensors, submitted, 2011.
P. M. Daye, G. Blohm, P. Lefèvre, Target motion direction influence on tracking performance and head tracking strategies in head-unrestrained conditions, Journal of Vision, in press, 2012.
F.-X. Orban de Xivry, Y. Nesterov, P. Van Dooren, Nearest stable system using successive convex approximations, submitted to Automatica, 2011.
N. Mastronardi, P. Van Dooren, An algorithm for computing the anti-triangular factorization of symmetric matrices, submitted to SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2011.
A. Dramé, D. Dochain, J. Winkin, P. Wolenski, Periodic trajectories of distributed parameter biochemical systems with time delay, In: Applied Mathematics and Computation, to appear, http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/88909.
F. Glineur, L. Lu, P. Van Dooren, X. Wang, Extended Lanczos Bidiagonalization for Dimension Reduction in Information Retrieval, submitted to the 8th International Conference on Natural Computation (ICNC '12), 29-31 May 2012, Chongqing, China.
KUL 1
P. Krzeminski, W. Langhorst, P. Schyns, D. de Vente, R. Van den Broeck, I.Y. Smets, J.F.M. Van Impe, J.H.J.M van der Graaf and J.B. van Lier, The optimal MBR configuration: Hybrid versus stand-alone - Comparison between three full-scale MBRs treating municipal wastewater, Desalination 284: 341-348, 2012.
D. Telen, F. Logist, E. Van Derlinden, J. Van Impe, Robust Optimal Experiment Design: A Multi-Objective Approach, accepted for presentation at Mathmod 2012 - 7th Vienna International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Vienna, February 15-17, 2012.
E. Van Derlinden, I. Lule, K. Boons and J.F. Van Impe, On the influence of the experimental set-up on the heterogeneous heat response of E. coli K12, In: Proceedings of the 11th International Congress on Engineering and Food (ICEF 201) MFS724, 11th International Congress on Engineering and Food, Athens (Greece), May 22-26, 2011.
P.-J. D'Huys, I. Lule, L. Van Mellaert, J. Anné, J.F. Van Impe, K. Bernaerts, Metabolic Footprinting and Flux Analysis of Streptomyces lividans Growing on a Rich Medium, In: Francisco Barona-Gómez (Ed.), 16th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes - Book of abstracts, p. 203, Puerto Vallarta, December 5-11, 2012.
De Lathauwer L., CPD Study, Part III, Internal Report 11-221, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
De Lathauwer L., CPD Study, Part IV, Internal Report 11-222, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
De Lathauwer L., Simultaneous Maximization of the Trace of a Set of Matrices, Internal Report 11-223, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Cornelis B., Design and evaluation of noise reduction techniques for binaural hearing aids, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Dec. 2011, 243 p., Lirias number: 322243.
Osorio Garcia M.I., Advanced signal processing for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Nov. 2011, 145 p., Lirias number: 317470.
Pandey P.K., Resource allocation in modulation and equalization procedures in DSL Modems, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Oct. 2011, 196 p., Lirias number: 310117.
Logist F., Houska B., Diehl M., Van Impe J., Robust multi-objective optimal control of uncertain (bio)chemical processes, Chemical Engineering Science, vol. 66, no. 20, 2011, pp. 4670-4682, Lirias number: 312528.
Abbeloos D., Diehl M., Hinze M., Vandewalle S., Nested multigrid methods for time-periodic, parabolic optimal control problems, Internal Report 11-235, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011. Accepted for publication in Computing and Visualization in Science, 2011, Lirias number: 301620.
Van den Broeck L., Diehl M., Swevers J., A model predictive control approach for time optimal point-to-point motion control, Internal Report 11-236, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011. Accepted for publication in Mechatronics, 2011, Lirias number: 313659.
Vandersteen J., Diehl M., Aerts C., Swevers J., A novel attitude estimation filter for the PLATO space mission based on moving horizon estimation, in Proc. of the 8th International ESAT conference on Guidance and Navigation Control Systems, Carlsbad, Czech Republic, Jun. 2011, Lirias number: 318137.
Nion D., De Lathauwer L., A Study of the Decomposition of a Third-Order Tensor in Rank-(L,L,1) Terms, Internal Report 11-239, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Vanderperren K., Improving data-driven EEG-fMRI analyses for the study of cognitive functioning, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Dec. 2011, 208 p., Lirias number: 324036.
Van Belle V., Van Huffel S., Suykens J.A.K., Boyd S., Interval coded scoring systems for survival analysis, Internal Report 11-241, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Dreesen P., Batselier K., De Moor B., Weighted/Structured Total Least Squares Problems and Polynomial System Solving, Internal Report 11-242, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Houska B., Logist F., Diehl M., Van Impe J., A Tutorial on Numerical Methods for State and Parameter Estimation in Nonlinear Dynamic Systems, in Chapter 5 of Identification for Automotive Systems, (Alberer D., Hjalmarsson H., and Del Re L., eds.), Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol. 418, Springer, 2012, pp. 67-88, Lirias number: 331120.
Vandewalle J., Challenges and opportunities for introducing basic circuits and systems in electrical engineering education, in Proc. of the ELEO Conference, Bursa, Turkey, Dec. 2011, pp. 1-5, Lirias number: 331122.
Signoretto M., Kernels and Tensors for Structured Data Modelling, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Dec. 2011, 219 p., Lirias number: 325628.
Cornelis B., Moonen M., Wouters J., Reduced-bandwidth Multichannel Wiener Filter based binaural noise reduction and localization cue preservation in binaural hearing aids, Internal Report 11-248, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Cornelis B., Moonen M., Wouters J., Speech intelligibility improvements with hearing aids using bilateral and binaural adaptive multichannel Wiener filtering based noise reduction, Internal Report 11-249, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
Bertrand A., Szurley J., Ruckebusch P., Moerman I., Moonen M., Efficient calculation of sensor utility and sensor removal in wireless sensor networks for adaptive signal estimation and beamforming, Internal Report 11-251, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2011.
De Brabanter K., De Brabanter J., De Moor B., A Note on Properties of Linear Smoothers, Internal Report 12-01, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2012.
UGent-SYSTeMS
L. Giustarini, P. Matgen, R. Hostache, M. Montanari, D. Plaza, V.R.N. Pauwels, G.J.M. De Lannoy, R. De Keyser, L. Pfister, L. Hoffmann, and H.H.G. Savenije, Assimilating SAR-derived water level data into a hydraulic model: a case study, Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci., 15, 2349-2365 (2011) (HESS Special Issue "Latest advances and developments in data assimilation for operational hydrologic forecasting and water resources management").
VUB-ELEC
Sánchez, B., Vandersteen, G., Bragós, R. and Schoukens, J., In-cycle myocardium tissue impedance characterization using multisine broadband Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy, 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, USA, August 30th - September 3rd, 2011, pp. 2518-2521.
Sánchez, B., Bragós, R. and Vandersteen, G., Influence of the multisine broadband excitation amplitude design for Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy biomedical applications, 33rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Boston, USA, August 30th - September 3rd, 2011, pp. 3975-3978.
Sánchez, B., Vandersteen, G., Bragós, R. and Schoukens, J., A Novel Approach for Impedance Spectrum Estimation: the Local Polynomial Method, International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy (IWIS), Chemnitz, Germany, September 28-30, 2011.
M. Gevers, R. Pintelon and J. Schoukens, The Local Polynomial Method for nonparametric system identification: improvements and experimentation, 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference (CDC-ECC11), Orlando, FL, USA, December 12-15, 2011, pp. 4302-4307.
K. Barbé and W. Van Moer, Automatic detection, estimation and validation of harmonic components in measured power spectra: all-in-one approach, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 60, No. 3, pp. 1061-1069, March 2011.
Charles Nader, Niclas Bjorsell, Peter Handel, Unfolding the frequency spectrum for undersampled wideband data, Signal Processing, May 2011, Vol. 91, No. 5, pp. 1347-1350.
J. Fritzin, Y. Jung, P.N. Landin, P. Handel, M. Enqvist, A. Alvandpour, Phase Predistortion of a Class-D Outphasing RF Amplifier in 90 nm CMOS, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, October 2011, Vol. 58, No. 10, pp. 642-646.
Miro Zivanovic and Johan Schoukens, Single and Piecewise Polynomials for Modeling of Pitched Sounds, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, October 2011.
Charles Nader, Wendy Van Moer, Kurt Barbé, Niclas Björsell, and Peter Händel, Harmonic Sampling and Reconstruction of Wide-band Undersampled Waveforms: Breaking the Code, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, November 2011, Vol. 59, No. 11, pp. 2961-2969.
Maarten Schoukens, Rik Pintelon, Yves Rolain, Parametric Identification of Parallel Hammerstein Systems, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, December 2011, Vol. 60, No. 12, pp. 3931-3938.
B. Sanchez, J. Schoukens, R. Bragos, G. Vandersteen, Novel Estimation of the Electrical Bioimpedance using the Local Polynomial Method, Application to In-cycle Myocardium Tissue Impedance Characterization, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, December 2011, Vol. 58, No. 12, pp. 3376-3385.
W. D. Widanage, J. Stoev, A. Van Mulders, J. Schoukens and G. Pinte, Nonlinear System-identification of the Filling Phase of a Wet-clutch System, Control Engineering Practice, Volume 19, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 1399-1410.
Charles Nader, Per Landin, Wendy Van Moer, Niclas Bjorsell, Peter Handel, Performance Evaluation of Peak-to-Average Power Ratio Reduction and Digital Pre-Distortion for OFDM Based Systems, IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, December 2011, Vol. 59 , No. 12, Part 2, pp. 3504 – 3511.
KUL 2
Deckers, Karl; Bultheel, Adhemar; Perdomo-Pío, Francisco, Rational Gauss-Radau and rational Szegő-Lobatto quadrature on the interval and the unit circle respectively, Jaen Journal on Approximation, volume 3, issue 1, pages 15-66, 2011.
Jarlebring, Elias; Meerbergen, Karl; Michiels, Wim, Computing a partial Schur factorization of nonlinear eigenvalue problems using the infinite Arnoldi method, SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, 2011 (Submitted).
Speleers, Hendrik, Construction of normalized B-splines for a family of smooth spline spaces over Powell-Sabin triangulations, Constructive Approximation, 2011 (Accepted).
Wang, Haiyong; Huybrechs, Daan; Vandewalle, Stefan, Explicit barycentric weights for polynomial interpolation in the roots or extrema of classical orthogonal polynomials, TW Reports, volume TW604, 21 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, December 2011.
Wang, Haiyong; Zhang, Lun; Huybrechs, Daan, Asymptotic expansions and fast computation of oscillatory Hilbert transforms, TW Reports, volume TW605, 31 pages, Department of Computer Science, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, December 2011.
Wu, Zhen; Michiels, Wim, Reliably computing all characteristic roots of delay differential equations in a given right half plane, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2011 (Accepted).
ULB
Marianne Rooman, Jaroslav Albert, Yves Dehouck, Alexandre Haye, Detection of perturbation phases and developmental stages in organisms from DNA microarray time series data, PLoS One 6 (2011) e27948.
Z. Amribt, H. Niu and Ph. Bogaerts, Macroscopic modelling of overflow metabolism in fed-batch cultures of hybridoma cells, accepted in the Proceedings of the 7th Symposium on Mathematical Modelling (MATHMOD 2012), Vienna (Austria), 15-17/2/2012.
Emmanuel Nuño, Ioannis Sarras, Luis Basanez, Michel Kinnaert, A Proportional Plus Damping Injection Controller for Teleoperators with Joint Flexibility and Time-Delays, to appear in the proceedings of IEEE ICRA 2012, May 14-18, 2012, RiverCentre, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks
The SOCN Graduate School 2011-2012 programme is available on-line : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
The next course is entitled Mathematics of PDE constrained optimization. It will be given by Michael HINZE (University of Hamburg, Germany) on February 20, 22, 24, 27, 28, 29, 2012 at K.U.Leuven (9:00-12:30) (ESAT, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, B-3001 Heverlee (Leuven) - room 00.62 except on February 20 : room ESAT 02.58).
More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2011-3
On-line registrations are welcome via this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
31th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
The 31th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will be held from March 27-29 2012 at CenterParcs Heijderbos, Heijden, The Netherlands.
Please note that the deadline for submitting abstracts is January 20, 2012.
For detailed information and registration check the website : http://www.wfw.wtb.tue.nl/benelux2012/
Vacancies
The Faculty of Engineering of the Université de Mons (UMONS) announces the opening of a full-time academic position in the Department of Mathematics and Operational Research starting September 1, 2012.
More information about this position available here : http://portail.umons.ac.be/FR/universite/admin/drh/emploi/Pages/Emploi.aspx
The application deadline is February 6, 2012.
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 |