Message of the Coordinator
The Belgian weather invites us all to a tempting and well-deserved Summer break.
There are also plenty of interesting scientific conferences and so I wish you all a very pleasant and fruitful vacation.
Vincent Blondel
DYSCO coordinator
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Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
- Chafik Samir (Université d’Auvergne) will visit us from 3 to 12 July. He is a member of Quentin Rentmeesters' thesis jury.
- Prof. John Tsitsiklis (MIT) will be at UCL to work with V. Blondel and J. Hendrickx on July 9 and 10.
- Mélina Freitag (University of Bath) will visit us between 15 and 19 July to work with P. Van Dooren.
- Prof. Alex Bazanella (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) will visit us from 22 to 27 July. He will work with Michel Gevers.
- Dr Luciola Campestrini (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) will visit us from 12 to 16 August. She will work with Michel Gevers.
VUB
- Fakhrizade Esfahani Alireza, Lappeenranta, Finland, from 25/6/2013 until 04/07/2013
- Indrek Keskkula (IAESTE student), Tallinn, Estonia, from 23/08/2013 until 31/01/2014
Seminars
VUB
ELEC Seminars take place at the department ELEC (Pleinlaan 2, Building K, 7th floor) every two weeks, normally on Thursdays in the morning. The final time and date are announced at least one week before a seminar at https://intranet.vub.ac.be/doctoral-schools/nse/team-seminars/elec-seminars/.
ULg
Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.
UNamur
naXys weekly seminars normally take place on each Tuesday, 1pm. They are announced on this webpage.
Theses defenses
UCL
- François-Xavier Orban de Xivry, Nearest stable system, supervisors : Paul Van Dooren, Yurii Nesterov. July 2, 2013.
- Quentin Rentmeesters, Algorithms for data fitting on some common homogeneous spaces, supervisors : Paul Van Dooren, P-A Absil. July 4, 2013.
KUL
- Maarten Breckpot, Flood control of river systems with Model Predictive control, supervisor : Bart De Moor. July 10, 2013 (17:00) at Aula 2e Hoofdwet, Thermotechnisch Instituut, Heverlee.
VUB
- Mirko Scholz, Closing the design gap between system-level and component-level Electro Static Discharge (ESD), Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, May 2013
- Wong, Hin Kwan Roland, Study of the Best Linear Approximation of Nonlinear Systems with Arbitrary Inputs, Doctoral Dissertation, Vrije Universiteit Brussel - University of Warwick, UK, June 2013
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks
The SOCN Graduate School 2013-2014 programme is on-line : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
The next course is entitled Derivative-Free Optimization: Basic Principles and State of the Art. It will be given by Luis Nunes VICENTE (University of Coimbra - Dept of Mathematics) on August 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 2013 (9:00-12:30) at UCL, Bâtiment Euler, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (room A002, ground floor).
More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2013-1
On-line registrations are welcome via this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
8th Workshop on Control of Distributed Parameter Systems, July 1-5, 2013, Craiova, Romania
Web site : http://math.ucv.ro/wcdps/index.html
Workshop on Time-Dependent and Multiplex Networks, July 8–9 2013, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
Web site : http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~lee/workshop.html
International Workshop ROKS-2013, Leuven - July 8-10, 2013, Aud. Arenbergcastle
Web site : http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013
Euroscipy, Brussels, Belgium - August 21-24, 2013
Web site : https://www.euroscipy.org/
Learning Control for Production Machines - Final workshop - August 26, 2013, Leuven
Web site : http://www.lecopro.org/final_workshop.html
The flyer can be downloaded here
Protocells: Back to the Future - September 3, 2013, Taormina, Italy
Workshop organized by T. Carletti (UNamur) in the framework of the European Conference on Artificial Life, Sept. 2-6, 2013, Taormina, Italy.
Web site : http://www.unamur.be/en/sci/naxys/pb2f
Cultural and opinion dynamics: Modeling, Experiments and Challenges for the future, September 18, 2013, Barcelona, Spain
Workshop organized by T. Carletti (UNamur) in the framework of the European Conference on Complex Systems, Sept. 16-20, 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
Web site : http://www.unamur.be/en/sci/naxys/eccs2013
1st IFAC Workshop CPDE 2013 on Control of Systems Modeled by Partial Differential Equations
Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, September 25 - 27, 2013
Web site : http://www.cpde2013.fr/index1.xhtml
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Johansson, Stefan; Kagstrom, Bo; Van Dooren, Paul, Stratification of full rank polynomial matrices. In: Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Vol. 439, no. 2013, p. 1062-1090 (2013). doi:10.1016/j.laa.2012.12.013. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128409
Lambiotte, Renaud; Tabourier, Lionel; Delvenne, Jean-Charles, Burstiness and spreading on temporal networks. In: European Physical Journal B. Condensed Matter and Complex Systems, (2013). doi:10.1140/epjb/e2013-40456-9 (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131351
Krings, Gautier; Carpantier, Jean-François; Delvenne, Jean-Charles, Trade integration and trade imbalances in the European Union: a network perspective. In: PLoS One, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131353
Delvenne, Jean-Charles; Sandberg, Henrik, Finite-time thermodynamics of port-Hamiltonian systems. In: Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, (2013). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131356
Tréfois, Maguy; Delvenne, Jean-Charles, Zero forcing sets, constrained matchings and minimum rank. In: Linear and Multilinear Algebra, (2013). (Soumis). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131358
Fagnani, Fabio; Delvenne, Jean-Charles, The robustness of democratic consensus. In: Automatica, (2013). (Submitted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131364
Hautphenne, Sophie; Krings, Gautier; Delvenne, Jean-Charles; Blondel, Vincent, Sensitivity analysis of epidemic networks. In: Mathematical Biosciences, (2013). (Submitted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131362
Ishteva, Mariya; Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Van Dooren, Paul, Jacobi algorithm for the best low multilinear rank approximation of symmetric tensors. In: SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications, Vol. 34, no. 2, p. 651-672 (2013). doi:10.1137/11085743X. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/128410
Haustenne, Laurie; Bastin, Georges; Wahl, Astrid; Delplace, Brigitte; Fontaine, Laetitia; Hols, Pascal, Mathematical Modelling of the Gene Regulatory Network Governing Natural Transformation in Streptococcus thermophilus. 7th Conference on Functional Genomics of Gram-positive Microorganisms (Montecatini Terme, Italy, 23-27/06/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/130496
Renard, Emilie; Dupont, Pierre; Verleysen, Michel, User control for adjusting conflicting objectives in parameter-dependent visualization of data. Workshop on Visual Analytics using Multidimensional Projections (EuroVis 2013) (Leipzig, Germany, 17-21/06/2013). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/130595
Delvenne, Jean-Charles; Schaub, Michael T.; Yaliraki, Sophia N.; Barahona, Mauricio, The stability of a graph partition: A dynamics-based framework for community detection. In: Niloy Ganguly and Animesh Mukherjee and Monojit Choudhury and Fernando Peruani and Bivas Mitra (eds.), Dynamics On and Of Complex Networks (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology; Vol.2), Birkhauser, Springer, 2013, 221-242. doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-6729-8_11. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/131348
KUL
Mall R., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Highly Sparse Reductions to Kernel Spectral Clustering, Internal Report 13-95, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Jumutc V., Suykens J., Weighted Coordinate-Wise Pegasos, Internal Report 13-96, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Van Belle V., Van Calster B., Visualization of risk prediction models, Internal Report 13-98, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Guha S., Van Belle V., Bottomley C., Preisler J., Vathanan V., Sayasneh A., Stalder C., Timmerman D., Bourne T., External validation of models and simple scoring systems to predict miscarriage in intrauterine pregnancies of uncertain viability, Internal Report 13-99, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Chen H.H., Torrea-Duran R., Tsiaflakis P., Moonen M., Joint precoding vector and modulation and coding scheme recalculation for LTE-A multi-user MIMO, Internal Report 13-101, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013. Accepted for publication in WIC Symposium 2013.
Langone R., Alzate C., De Katelaere B., Vlasselaer J., Meert W., Suykens J.A.K., LS-SVM based regression and spectral clustering for predicting maintenance of industrial machines, Internal Report 13-104, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
Breckpot M., Flood control of river systems with Model Predictive Control, PhD thesis, Faculty of Engineering, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), Jul. 2013, 236 p.
Gil-Cacho J.M., van Waterschoot T., Moonen M., Holdt Jensen S., Linear-in-the-parameter nonlinear adaptive filters for acoustic echo cancellation applications, Internal Report 13-110, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
De Moor B., Samen onze universiteit inspireren, Internal Report 13-112, ESAT-SISTA, K.U.Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2013.
UGent
A. Sarlette, Performance limitations for distributed systems via spatial-frequency Bode integrals, Proceedings of the European Control Conference, Zurich July 2013
Mohammad Moradzadeh, Brecht Zwaenepoel, René Boel and Lieven Vandevelde, Use of Energy Storage for Belgian Power Network, Accepted for Electrical Power and Energy Conference (EPEC), Halifax, NS, Canada, August 21-23, 2013
VUB
K. Usevich and I. Markovsky, Variable projection for affinely structured low-rank approximation in weighted 2-norm, accepted for publication in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2013
I. Markovsky, A software package for system identification in the behavioral setting', accepted for publication in Control Engineering Practice, 2013
I. Markovsky and K. Usevich, Structured low-rank approximation with missing values, Accepted for publication in SIAM J. Matrix Anal. Appl., 2013
Adam Cooman, Gerd Vandersteen, Yves Rolain, Finding the dominant source of distortion in two-stage op-amps, accepted for publication in Journal Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, 2013
Guillemette Joly-Turquin, Philippe Dubois, Sandra Leyzour, Philippe Pernet, Fjo De Ridder, Rik Pintelon and Monique Guillou, Contrasting relationships between pyloric caecum and gonad growth in the starfish Asterias rubens: combined field and experimental approaches, Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 2013, 93(4), pp. 1073-1086
Maarten Schoukens, C. Lyzell and M. Enqvist, Combining the best linear approximation and dimension reduction to identify the linear blocks of parallel Wiener systems, 11th IFAC International Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing (ALCOSP), July 3-5, 2013 Caen, France
Koen Tiels and Johan Schoukens, Iterative update of the pole locations in a Wiener-Schetzen model, 11th IFAC International Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing (ALCOSP), July 3-5, 2013 Caen, France
Anna Marconato and Johan Schoukens, Study of User-Specified Parameters in Nonlinear Dynamics Modeling with Neural Networks, 11th IFAC International Workshop on Adaptation and Learning in Control and Signal Processing (ALCOSP), July 3-5, 2013 Caen, France
David Oliva Uribe, Johan Schoukens and Joerg Wallaschek, Piezoelectric Tactile Sensor using Multisine Excitation for Differentiation of Biological Tissues and Phantom, Presentation of poster at IWPMA 2013, The 10th International Workshop on Piezoelectric Materials and Applications in Actuators, Hannover, Germany, July 14-18, 2013
Griet Monteyne, Gerd Vandersteen, Rik Pintelon, Diana Ugryumova, Transient suppression in FRF measurement: Comparison and analysis of four state-of-the-art methods, Measurement, Volume 46, Issue 7, August 2013, Pages 2210–2222
Renske Hijbeek, Nico Koedam, Md Nabiul Islam Khan, James Gitundu Kairo, Johan Schoukens, Farid Dahdouh-Guebas, An Evaluation of Plotless Sampling Using Vegetation Simulations and Field Data from a Mangrove Forest, PLOS ONE, Vol. 8, No. 6, June 2013
UMons
M. Duvinage, T. Castermans, M. Petieau, T. Hoellinger, G. Cheron, T. Dutoit, 2013, Performance of the Emotiv Epoc headset for P300-based applications, BioMedical Engineering OnLine, Volume 12:56, Published: 25 June 2013, doi:10.1186/1475-925X-12-56.
N. Riche, M. Mancas, M. Duvinage, M. Mibulumukini, B. Gosselin, T. Dutoit, 2013, RARE2012: A multi-scale rarity-based saliency detection with its comparative statistical analysis, Signal Processing: Image Communication, issn:0923-5965, doi:10.1016/j.image.2013.03.009.
N. Riche, M. Duvinage, M. Mancas, B. Gosselin, T. Dutoit, 2013, A study of parameters affecting visual saliency assessment, Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Attention in Cognitive Systems (ISACS'13) , Beijing, China, August 3-5.
UNamur
Hoffmann T., Porter M. A., Lambiotte R., Random Walks on Stochastic Temporal Networks, Temporal Networks, Springer, Berlin – Heidelberg, 2013, pp. 295-313.
Pandit A.S., Expert P., Lambiotte R., Bonnelle V., Leech R., Turkheimer F.E., Sharp D.J., Traumatic brain injury impairs small-world topology, Neurology, 80 (20), 1826-1833, 2013.
Gratton S., Laloyaux P., Sartenaer A., Derivative-free optimization for large-scale nonlinear data assimilation problems, Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, accepted.
R. Lambiotte, L. Tabourier, J.-C. Delvenne, Burstiness and spreading on temporal networks, to appear in European Physical Journal B, 2013, DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2013-40456-9.
J. Perez, A. Füzfa, T. Carletti, L. Mélot and L. Guedezounme, The Jungle Universe and its Twisting Species, 2013, arXiv preprint arXiv:1306.1037, submitted.
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL | Ida Tassens |
| UGent | Margot Roels |
| VUB | Ann Pintelon |
| ULg | Sophie Cimino |
| UMons | Laurent Dewasme |
| UNamur | Joseph Winkin |