Message of the Coordinator
We had a great study day a few weeks ago in Ghent: the UGent team had put together a nice program.
Many thanks to the local organizers for the smooth organization, to the participants who carefully prepared their posters and to the speakers, Moritz Diehl, Rafael Hassin, Jean-Charles Delvenne and Bram Vanderborght for turning it into a successful event.
Here are some of the forthcoming events.
The 34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will take place in Lommel (Belgium) on March 24-26 and is this year jointly organized by the DYSCO teams of KULeuven, UGent and VUB. The program includes plenary talks and lectures by Tore Hägglund (Lund University, Sweden), Achiem Kienle (Max Planck Institure, Germany) and Paul Van den Hof (TU Eindhoven, The Netherlands).
Then there are the Francqui chair lectures on Local Methods for Nonlinear Science and Engineering to be delivered by Rodolphe Sepulchre from the Université de Liège at the Université catholique de Louvain during the months of February and March. These lectures will also be part of our graduate school programme (follow this link for more details). I use this opportunity to congratulate Rodolphe with this honor.
You will find more information about these events in the newsletter. I hope to see many of you there.
Paul Van Dooren
Coordinator of DYSCO
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Staff Movements and Visitors
UCL
Staff
- Sebastian Stich, postdoc, joined us on November 10, 2014. His host is François Glineur and his research theme is "Mining and optimization of big data models".
- Michael Schaub, postdoc, will join us on December 1, 2014. His host is Jean-Charles Delvenne and his research topic is "Complex networks and dynamics".
Visitors
- Nicola Mastronardi (Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "M. Picone", Italy) stayed at UCL from November 24 to November 28, 2014. He worked with Paul Van Dooren on the topic Anti-triangular factorization of Hermition matrices .
- Antonio Cicone (University of L'Aquila, Italy) visited us between November 25 and November 28, 2014. He worked with Raphaël Jungers on the topic Switching systems for wireless networks control.
VUB
- Paolo Carbone, University of Perugia, Italy: 30/11/2014 - 4/12/2014
- Istvan Kollar, BUTE, Budapest, Hungary: 1/12/2014 - 5/12/2014
UNamur
- Sarah de Nigris (October 1, 2014), postdoc, host : Renaud Lambiotte.
- Michael Schaub (December 1, 2014), postdoc, host : Renaud Lambiotte.
Theses defenses
KUL
- Nico Verbeeck, Datamining of imaging mass spectrometry data for biomedical tissue exploration, 18/12/2014 (14h00 - Aula Tweede Hoofdwet).
- Kirsten Van Hoorde, Updating and calibration of multinomial risk prediction models, 19/12/2014 (14h00 - Aula Tweede Hoofdwet).
Seminars
UCL
- December 2, 2014 – 14:00, Euler seminar room
Pierre-Antoine Absil (UCL), Geometric methods for recommender systems. - December 9, 2014 – 14:00, Euler seminar room
Antonios Garas (ETH Zurich), The importance of non-Markovianity in temporal networks.
KUL
- December 8, 2014 - 8h30-12h00 - ESAT 00.62)
BIOMED workshop : Multimodal biomedical signal processing.
VUB
- December 3, 2014 - 10:30-11:30 - ELEC seminar room (7th floor, building K, VUB)
Paolo Carbone (University of Perugia, Italy), DC+noise+quantization: What do we know?. - January 15, 2015 - 10:30-11:30 - ELEC seminar room (7th floor, building K, VUB)
Bart Peeters (Siemens), Special multisine excitation signals for characterizing non-linearities in structural dynamics.
ULg
Systmod weekly seminars normally take place on each Friday, 11am. They are announced on this webpage.
UNamur
Unless otherwise stated, naXys weekly seminars take place on each Tuesday, 1pm, in the Salle de Conférence (room E25), Department of Mathematics, 2nd floor of the Faculté des Sciences Economiques, Sociales et de Gestion building, Rempart de la Vierge 8, Namur. They are announced on this webpage.
Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks
The SOCN Graduate School 2014-2015 programme is available here : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/
On-line registrations are welcome via this form.
Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools
34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control
The 34th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will take place in "Center Parc de Vossemeren", Lommel, Belgium, on March 24-26, 2015.
For further information, please refer to the following web site : http://www.beneluxmeeting.eu/2015/
Training Course : Data Integration in the Life Sciences
Monday 2 - Friday 6 February 2015 in Leiden, The Netherlands
Organised by ERASysAPP and BioSB Research School.
Organisers
Roel van Driel (University of Amsterdam), Jaap Molenaar (Wageningen University), Lodewyk Wessels (Netherlands Cancer Institute) and Hans Westerhoff (Free University Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam).
Course programme and registration:
Visit the following web site : http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/lc/web/2015/684/info.php3?wsid=684&venue=Snellius
Registration closes December 24, 2014.
Content
Biological systems function through the dynamic interplay of large numbers of components. At the molecular level these include genes, transcripts, proteins and metabolites. At higher organisational levels the main players are cells, tissues, organs and organisms. Understanding biological systems, for instance in the context of biomedical and industrial applications, requires combining multiple diverse data sets on all components and their interactions. This integration process is hampered by the fact that in modern data acquisition technologies each concentrates on one specific component of the system, e.g. a specific type of molecule. Proteomics, metabolomics and transcriptomics are examples. To overcome this hurdle novel approaches are being developed, enabling the integration of disparate data sets in ways that are biologically sound and that provide insight into the architecture and dynamics of biological systems.
The basic concept in this course is that diverse data sets can be integrated in predictive and quantitative computational models. Depending on the types of data and the research aim, optimal integration and modelling approaches must be selected.
The training course will give students:
- overview of different types of data sets and data integration approaches
- hands-on training in applying such approaches in selected case studies
- insight into how such approaches may affect their individual research project
The about 20 participants will be PhD students and postdocs that obtained their PhD not more than five years ago. They will be selected based on the relevance of the course for their research and on their motivation to participate in this workshop.
Awards
UNamur
Charles Hubaux received the Outstanding Paper Award for Young Scientists for the paper published in Advances of space research entitled Influence of Earth's shadowing effects on space depris stability.
Papers produced by the IAP Network
UCL
Mastronardi, Nicola; Van Dooren, Paul, Revisiting the stability of computing the roots of a quadratic polynomial. In: Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, (2014). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/152309
Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Oseledets, Ivan V., Low-rank retractions: a survey and new results. In: Computational Optimization and Applications : an international journal, (2014). doi:10.1007/s10589-014-9714-4 (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/152310
Ego, Caroline; Orban de Xivry, Jean-Jacques; Nassogne, Marie-Cécile; Yüksel, Demet; Lefèvre, Philippe, Spontaneous improvement in oculomotor function of children with cerebral palsy. In: Research in Developmental Disabilities, 36(2015), pp 630-644. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/151738
KUL
Fan R., Wan Q., Wen F., Chen H., Liu Y., Iterative projection approach for phase retrieval of semi-sparse wave field, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2014, no. 24, Feb. 2014, pp. 1-13.
Mall R., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Netgram: Visualizing Communities in Evolving Networks, Internal Report 14-181, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Langone R., Mall R., Vandewalle J., Suykens J. A. K., Discovering cluster dynamics using kernel spectral methods, Internal Report 14-182, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
Varon C., Caicedo Dorado A., Testelmans D., Buyse B., Van Huffel S., A novel algorithm for the automatic detection of sleep apnea from single-lead ECG, Internal Report 14-184, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2014.
UGent
De Bock Jasper; Van Camp Arthur; Diniz Marcio and de Cooman Gert, Representation theorems for partially exchangeable random variables. Fuzzy Sets and Systems (Accepted for publication).
VUB
Maarten Schoukens, Anna Marconato, Rik Pintelon, Gerd Vandersteen and Yves Rolain, Parametric identification of parallel Wiener-Hammerstein systems, Automatica, January 2015, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 111 - 122.
Maarten Schoukens, Gerd Vandersteen, Yves Rolain and Francesco Ferranti, Fast Identification of Wiener-Hammerstein Systems using Discrete Optimization, IET Electronics Letters, accepted for publication.
Jan Goos, Rik Pintelon, Continuous time frequency domain LPV state space identification via periodic time-varying input-output modeling, CDC conference, Los Angeles, 5-17 December 2014.
Van Mulders A., J. Schoukens and L. Vanbeylen, Nonparametric analysis and nonlinear state-space identification: a benchmark example, Proceedings of the 32nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Orlando, FL, USA, 2-7 February 2014, pp. 203-214.
Vanbeylen, L. and A. Van Mulders, Nonlinear black-box identification of a mechanical benchmark system, Proceedings of the 32nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, Orlando, FL, USA, 2-7 February 2014, pp. 215-222.
I. Markovsky, Data-Driven Signal Processing: A Low-rank approximations approach, International Conference on Numerical Methods for Scientific Computations, Bansko, Bulgaria, May 19–22, pp. 82-83.
M. Ishteva, K. Usevich and I. Markovsky, Structured low-rank approximation by Factorization, International Conference on Numerical Methods for Scientific Computations, Bansko, Bulgaria, May 19–22, pp. 49-52.
UNamur
Casanova, D.; Tardioli, C.; Lemaître, A., Space debris collision avoidance using a three-filter sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 442, Issue 4, 2014, p.3235-3242.
Mayer, A., Bay, A., Gaouyat, L., Nicolay, D., Carletti, T. & Deparis, O., Genetic algorithms used for the optimization of light-emitting diodes and solar thermal collectors, 2014, Proceedings of SPIE. 3987, p. 918705, 10 p.
Mayer, A. , Gaouyat, L. , Nicolay, D. , Carletti, T. & Deparis, O., Multi-objective genetic algorithm for the optimization of a flat-plate solar thermal collector, 2014, Optics Express. 22, 21, p. A1641-A1649.
Nicolay, D., Andrea, R. & Carletti, T., Learning multiple conflicting tasks with artificial evolution, 6 Nov 2014, Advances in Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation: 9th Italian Workshop, WIVACE 2014, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, May 14-15, Revised Selected Papers. Pizzuti, C. & Spezzano, G. (eds.) Springer, Vol. 445, p. 127-139 (Communications in Computer and Information Science).
Asllani, M., Busiello, D. M., Carletti, T., Fanelli, D. & Planchon, G., Turing patterns in multiplex networks, 27 Oct 2014. In : Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 90, 4, 042814.
Sanli Cakir, C. , Saitoh, K., Luding, S. & Van Der Meer, D., Collective motion of macroscopic spheres floating on capillary ripples: dynamic heterogeneity and dynamic criticality, 30 Sep 2014? In : Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics. 90, 3, 033018.
Renaud Lambiotte and Michal Kosinski, Tracking the Digital Footprints of Personality, Proceedings of the IEEE, December 2014.
IAP Contact Persons
| UCL | Isabelle Hisette |
| KUL | Ida Tassens |
| UGent | Margot Roels |
| VUB | Ann Pintelon |
| ULg | Sophie Cimino |
| UMons | Laurent Dewasme |
| UNamur | Joseph Winkin |