Message of the Coordinator

With the start of the academic year I'd like to welcome all the new members who joined our network. I hope that they will find our network an inspiring environment to develop and expand their research interests. The newsletter is our main tool to distribute information of our network and you will find a lot of information about our networking activities. Have a look at the website of our Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks (see http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/); the first course is scheduled already in mid September. You will also find information on the seminars organized in the different universities. And most importantly, I wish to draw your attention to the IAP Study day that will be hosted by our KULeuven partner on Monday November 23 in Leuven. Take note of this date already !

I wish all of you an excellent academic year !

Newsletter subscription

The newsletter Dysco News is the monthly newsletter of the Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Pole "Dynamical systems, control and optimization" (DYSCO) funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office. The DYSCO network includes partners at UCL, KUL, UGent, VUB, ULg, UMons, UNamur, and international partners at Stanford, Princeton and MIT. Subscription is free and open to anyone: subscribe here, or unsubscribe.

Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL

• Staff
  • Leto Peel, postdoc, August 3, 2015. Host : J.-C. Delvenne.
  • Leonardo Gutierrez Gomez, PhD student, September 1, 2015. Supervisor : J.-C. Delvenne.
  • Tang Xianchao, PhD student, September 1, 2015. Supervisor : J.-C. Delvenne.
  • Gianni Di Girolamo, PhD student, September 1, 2015. Supervisor : R. Jungers.
  • Aarón Romo Hernandez, PhD student, September 1, 2015. Supervisor : D. Dochain.
  • Fourny Laurent, PhD student, September 15, 2015. Supervisor : V. Wertz.
  • Benjamin Vincent, PhD student, September 15, 2015. Supervisor : D. Dochain.
  • Estelle Massart, PhD student, September 15, 2015. Supervisors : J. Hendrickx and P.-A. Absil.
• Visitors
  • Prof. Juan Paulo Garcia Sandoval (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico), August 10 - September 2, 2015. Host : D. Dochain.
  • Armando Campos Rodrigues, postdoc (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico), August 10 - November 11, 2015. Host : D. Dochain.
  • Prof. Papa Ngom (University Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal), September 9 - October 11, 2015. Host : P.-A. Absil.

KUL

• Staff
  • Prof. Panagiotis Patrinos, 1/09/2015.
  • Carlos Alaiz Gudin, postdoc, 1/09/2015. Supervisor : J. Suykens.
• Visitors
  • Lorenzo Stella, 01/09/2015-30/11/2015. Supervisor : P. Patrinos.
  • Andreas Themelis, 15/09/2015-14/06/2016. Supervisor : P. Patrinos.
  • Puya Latafat, 15/09/2015-14/06/2016. Supervisor : P. Patrinos.

VUB

• Staff
  • Dries Peumans, PhD student. Supervisor : Gerd Vandersteen.
  • Cederic Busschot, PhD student. Supervisor : Gerd Vandersteen.
  • Sandra Paola Vásquez Rodríquez, PhD student. Supervisors : Rik Pintelon and Michel Kinnaert (ULB) (cotutelle).
  • Matthijs van Berkel, postdoc. Host : Gerd Vandersteen.

Theses defenses

UCL

• Caroline Ego, Maturation of visual tracking in typically developing children and individuals with cerebral palsy and autism spectrum disorder, 20/07/2015. Supervisor : P. Lefèvre.
• Adeline Decuyper, Big Data for Modeling Human Behavior: Applications using mobile phone data, 15/09/2015. Supervisors : V. Blondel and J.-C. Delvenne.

Seminars

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 2015-2016 programme is available here (some pages are still "under construction" ): http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/

The next course is entitled Stability, control and computation for time-delay systems. It will be given by Wim Michiels (KU Leuven) and Silviu Niculescu (CNRS-CentraleSupélec-Université Paris-Sud, France) on September 10, 11, 15, 16, 17, 21, 2015 at KU Leuven, Room A05.01 (C++), Department of Computer Science, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Heverlee.

More information about this course : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/Courses/Courses2015-1

On-line registrations are welcome via this form.

Study Days, Workshops and Summer Schools

IAP DYSCO Study Day : Monday November 23, 2015 - Leuven

The programme of this study day will be available soon. Save the date !

Workshop on Riemannian and nonsmooth optimization : September 25, 2015 - Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

The purpose of this meeting is to allow scientists interested in nonsmooth optimization, optimization on manifolds, and their applications to interact and share their work.

The plenary speakers are :

Nicolas Boumal (Inria & ENS Paris)
Michael M. Bronstein (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Somayeh Hosseini (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn)
Artiom Kovnatsky (Università della Svizzera italiana)
Bart Vandereycken (Université de Genève)

More info: http://sites.uclouvain.be/absil/RANSO-2015-09-25/

Vacancies

Junior Quantitative Analyst

Macquarie is looking for a junior Quantitative Analyst for their Commodities & Financial Markets Quantitative team in London, UK.
You will find more information about this position here.

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

Chevalier, Pierre-Yves; Hendrickx, Julien; Jungers, Raphaël M. Efficient Algorithms for the Consensus Decision Problem. In: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, (2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/162319

Frasca, Paolo; Garin, Federica; Gerencser, Balazs; Hendrickx, Julien. 'One-dimensional coverage by unreliable sensors. In: SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, (2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/162317

Tréfois, Maguy; Delvenne, Jean-Charles. Zero forcing number, constraint matchings and strong structural controllability. In: Linear Algebra and Its Applications, , no.484, p. 199-218 (2015). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/162878

Blondel, Vincent; Decuyper, Adeline; Krings, Gautier. A survey of results on mobile phone datasets analysis. In: E P J Data Science, Vol. 4, no.10 (August 2015). doi:10.1140/epjds/s13688-015-0046-0. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/164891

Garcia-Sandoval, Juan Paulo; Hudon, Nicolas; Dochain, Denis; Gonzalez-Alvarez, Victor. Stability analysis and passivity properties of a class of thermodynamic processes: An internal entropy production approach. In: Chemical Engineering Science, (2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/164893

Absil, Pierre-Antoine; Oseledets, Ivan V. Low-rank retractions: a survey and new results. In: Computational Optimization and Applications : an international journal, Vol. 62, no. 1, p. 5-29 (September 2015). doi:10.1007/s10589-014-9714-4. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/152310

Huang, Wen; Gallivan, Kyle A.; Absil, Pierre-Antoine. A Broyden Class of Quasi-Newton Methods for Riemannian Optimization. In: SIAM Journal on Optimization, Vol. 25, no. 3, p. 1660-1685 (2015). doi:10.1137/140955483. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/160460

Huang, Wen; You, Yaqing; Gallivan, Kyle A.; Absil, Pierre-Antoine. Karcher mean in elastic shape analysis. BMVC 2015 (Swansea, UK, 7-10 September 2015). In: Proceedings of the 26th British Machine Vision Conference, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/164892

KUL

Fanuel M., Suykens J.A.K., Coherent States and Wavelets in Least Squares-Support Vector Machines using HHK Transform, Internal Report 15-101, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Houthuys L., Langone R., Suykens J.A.K., Clustering From Two Data Sources Using a Kernel-Based Approach with Weight Coupling, Internal Report 15-102, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Chandorkar M., Mall R., Lauwers O., Suykens J. A. K., De Moor B., Fixed-Size Least Squares Support Vector Machines:Scala Implementation for Large Scale Classification, Internal Report 15-103, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

He Z., Agudelo M., Wang Q., De Moor B., Two-sided coupled generalized Sylvester matrix equations solving using a simultaneous decomposition for fifteen matrices, Internal Report 15-104, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Smyth P., De Lathauwer L., Tensors from graphs with applications to clustering, Internal Report 15-105, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Laudadio T., Croitor Sava A.R., Sima D.M., Wright A.J., Heerschap A., Mastronardi N., Van Huffel S., Hierarchical non-negative matrix factorization applied to three-dimensional 3T prostate MRSI data for automatic tissue charcterisation of the prostate, Internal Report 15-106, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Laudadio T., Croitor Sava A.R., Li Y., Sauwen N., Sima D.M., Van Huffel S., NMF in MR Spectroscopy, Internal Report 15-107, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in Non-negative matrix factorisation techniques : Advances in theory and application (Ganesh R. Naik, ed), Springer, 2015).

De Laet T., De Wachter L., Vandewalle J., Van Soom C., Orienteringsproeven, Thema Hoger Onderwijs, vol. 3, 2015, 80 p.

Varon C., Jansen K., Lagae L., Van Huffel S., Can ECG monitoring identify seizures?, Internal Report 15-109, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in Journal of Electrocardiology, pp. 1-15.

Milosevic M., Van de Vel A., Bonroy B., Ceulemans B., Lagae L., Vanrumste B., Van Huffel S., Automated detection of tonic-clonic seizures using 3D accelerometry and surface electromyography in pediatric patients, Internal Report 15-110, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, pp. 1-9.

Lin L.G., Vandewalle J., Liang Y.W., Analytical representation of the state-dependent coefficients in the SDRE/SDDRE scheme for multivariable systems, Automatica, vol. 59, 2015, pp. 106-111.

Baldewijns G., Sabbe P., Rombouts K., Peeters K., Mondelaers A., Hekking J., Croonenborghs T., Vanrumste B., Establishing a collaboration between care providers and engineers, in Proc. of the Engineering 4 Society Conference, Leuven, Belgium, Jun. 2015, pp. 1-4.

De Laet T., Callens R., Vanderoost J., Vandewalle J., Niemand moet het, bijna iedereen doet het, Thema, vol. 2, 2015, pp. 53-55.

Baets R., Bruynseraede Y., Henriet J.P., Hirsch C., De Moor B., Fransaer D., Tambuyser E., Verstraete W., Innovative Entrepreneurship via Spin-offs of knowledge centers, Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium, Position Paper, standpunten 32, vol. *, 2015, pp. 1-34.

Lee G., De Lathauwer L., Efficient Update and Downdate of Multilinear Singular Value Decomposition, Internal Report 15-123, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Jumutc V., Suykens J.A.K., Regularized and Sparse Stochastic K-Means for Distributed Large-Scale Clustering, Internal Report 15-126, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Van den Bosch T., Dueholm M., Leone F.P.G., Valentin L., Rasmussen C.K., Votino A., Van Schoubroeck D., Landolfo C., Installé A.J.F., Guerriero S., Exacoustos C., Gordts S., Benacerraf B., D'Hooghe T., De Moor B., Brolmann H., Goldstein S., Epstein E., Bourne T., Timmerman D., Terms, definitions and measurements to describe sonographic features of myometrium and uterine masses: a consensus opinion from the Morphological Uterus Sonographic Assessment (MUSA) group, Ultrasound in Obstetrics & Gynecology, Aug. 2015, pp. 1-15 (online).

Varon C., Van Huffel S., ECG-derived respiration for ambulatory monitoring, Internal Report 15-129, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in 42nd annual conference of Computing in Cardiology.

Van Huffel S., The power of tensor decompositions in smart patient monitoring, Internal Report 15-134, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in SIAM News.

Wang H., Van Huffel S., Gui G., Wan Q., One-bit matrix compressed sensing algorithm for sparse matrix recovery, Internal Report 15-136, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

VUB

Adam Cooman and Gerd Vandersteen, Wideband Distortion Contribution Analysis of Analog Circuits with Differential Signalling, International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD), Istanbul, Turkey, September 7 - September 9, 2015

Lataire, J., E. Louarroudi, R. Pintelon, and Y. Rolain, Benchmark data on a linear time- and parameter-varying system, 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2015), Beijing, China, October 19-21, 2015

Philippe Dreesen, Mariya Ishteva, Johan Schoukens, Recovering Wiener-Hammerstein nonlinear state-space models using linear algebra, 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2015), Beijing, China, October 19-21, 2015

Pintelon, R, E. Louarroudi, and J. Lataire, Nonparametric estimation of time-variant dynamics, 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2015), Beijing, China, October 19-21, 2015 - Plenary presentation

Pintelon, R., and Y. Rolain, MIMO lowly damped system: free-free vibrations of an aluminium tooling plate, 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2015), Beijing, China, October 19-21, 2015

Zhang, E., and R. Pintelon, Errors-in-variables identification of dynamic systems in general cases, 17th IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID 2015), Beijing, China, October 19-21, 2015

Antonio Moschitta, Johan Schoukens, Paolo Carbone, Information and Statistical Efficiency When Quantizing Noisy DC Values, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 64, No. 2, February 2015, pp. 308-317

Zhang, E., R. Pintelon, and P. Guillaume, Modal identification using OMA techniques: Nonlinearity effect, Shock and Vibration, Volume 2015, Article ID 178696, 12 pages

Antonio Moschitta, Johan Schoukens, Paolo Carbone, Parametric System Identification Using Quantized Data, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, Vol. 64, No. 8, August 2015, pp. 2312-2322

Francesco Ferranti, Yves Rolain, Modeling of linear parameter-varying systems using interpolation of root macromodels and scaling coefficients, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Vol. 60-61, August 2015, pp. 836-852

Koen Tiels, Maarten Schoukens, Johan Schoukens, Initial estimates for Wiener-Hammerstein models using phase-coupled multisines, Automatica, Vol. 60, October 2015, pp. 201-209

Gabriel Hollander, Philippe Dreesen, Mariya Ishteva, Johan Schoukens, Decoupling noisy multivariate polynomials in nonlinear system identification, ERNSI workshop, Varberg, Sweden, September 20-23, 2015

Maarten Schoukens, Jean-Philippe Noël, Challenging Ourselves: Three Benchmarks for Nonlinear System Identification, ERNSI workshop, Varberg, Sweden, September 20-23, 2015

Rishi Relan, Jean-Marc Timmermans, Johan Schoukens, Nonlinear system identification of the Li-ion battery cells for traction applications, ERNSI workshop, Varberg, Sweden, September 20-23, 2015

Adam Cooman, Ebrahim Louarroudi, Yves Rolain, Gerd Vandersteen, The Best Linear Approximation and Linearisation, ERNSI workshop, Varberg, Sweden, September 20-23, 2015

UMons

Radhouane Fekih-Salem, Alain Vande Wouwer, Cristiana Castro, Clarisse Nobre, Anne-Lise Hantson. Parameter Identification of the Fermentative Production of Fructo-Oligosaccharides by Aureobasidium Pullulans. Accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE-International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC) in Cheile Gradistei (Romania).

Laurent Dewasme, Yudi Samyudia, Alain Vande Wouwer. Modeling and optimization of bioethanol production process. Accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE-International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC) in Cheile Gradistei (Romania).

IAP Contact Persons

UCL	Marie-Christine Joveneau
KUL	Ida Tassens
UGent	Margot Roels
VUB	Ann Pintelon
ULg	Sophie Cimino
UMons	Laurent Dewasme
UNamur	Joseph Winkin

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