Message of the Coordinator

We received informal news that a follow-up of the IAP programmes is being considered in the future since all parties involved are convinced about their important role in scientific collaborations across regions. This is an encouraging message which also says that our activities bear fruit.

I use this opportunity to draw your attention to two of the upcoming activities mentioned below : our Graduate School in Systems, Optimization, Control and Networks with an upcoming course in Randomized algorithms for Big Data Optimization, and our DYSCO Study Day that will be held on November 23rd in Leuven.

I hope to see many of you there !


Paul Van Dooren
Coordinator of DYSCO


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Staff Movements and Visitors

UCL
  • Staff
    • Luc Rocher, PhD student, September 2015. Supervisor : J. Hendrickx.
    • Sanand Athalye, Postdoc, October 2015. Host : R. Jungers.
  • Visitors
    • Patrick Mafwila, September 28, 2015 - December 15, 2015. Host : D. Dochain.
    • Gerardo Lara Cisneros, October 10, 2015 - October 30, 2015. Host : D. Dochain.
    • Uriel de Jesús Garza Rubalcava, October 10, 2015 - December 10, 2015. Host : D. Dochain.
KUL
  • Staff
    • Robin Van Craen, PhD student, October 2015. Supervisor : B. De Moor.
    • Brecht Coghe, PhD student, October 2015. Supervisor : B. De Moor.
    • Ofelie De Wel, PhD student, October 2015. Supervisor : S. Van Huffel.
    • Simon Van Eyndhoven, PhD student, October 2015. Supervisor : S. Van Huffel.
VUB
  • Staff
    • Dries Peumans, PhD student. Promoter: Gerd Vandersteen.
    • Sandra Paola Vásquez Rodríguez, PhD student. Supervisors : R. Pintelon (VUB) and M. Kinnaert (ULB)
  • Visitors
    • Antonio Fazzi from the University of Udine is visiting ELEC for a period of 4 weeks working on Computational methods for large scale total least squares problems. He is a MS student supervised by Dario Fasino (University of Udine) and Ivan Markovsky: 28/09/2015 until 28/10/2015.

Theses defenses

UCL

Seminars

UCL
VUB

Seminars at ELEC: see http://vubirelec.be/education/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 : http://sites.uclouvain.be/socn/

The next course is entitled Randomized algorithms for big data optimization. It will be given by Peter Richtarik (University of Edinburgh) on October 26, 28, 30 and November 16, 18, 20, 2015 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/Courses2015-2

Travel instructions are available here.

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 !

Benelux Meeting 2016 : first announcement

The Benelux Meeting 2016 will be held on March 22-24 2016. The location will be conference hotel "Kontakt der Kontinenten", Soesterberg, The Netherlands.

EECI-IGSC-2016 : 2016 International Graduate School on Control
  • 28 Independent Graduate Modules – one 21 hours module per week, taught in English
  • Deadline for advance registration to each module: 31/12/2015
  • Eligible for 2nd Year Master Degree credits and Scientific Thesis modules (3 ECTS)
  • Partial financial support for selected PhD Students worldwide
  • Locations: Belgrade (1); Berlin (3); Bombay (1); Istanbul (3); L'Aquila (2) Paris-Saclay (16); St Petersburg (1); Zurich (1)
  • Pre-programme and summaries of the courses are available here.
  • Contact

Papers produced by the IAP Network

UCL

Mastronardi, Nicola; Van Dooren, Paul. Rank-revealing decomposition of symmetric indefinite matrices via block anti-triangular factorization. In: Linear Algebra and Its Applications, (2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/165102

De Terán, Fernando; Dopico, Froilán M.; Mackey, D. Steven; Van Dooren, Paul. Polynomial Zigzag Matrices, Dual Minimal Bases, and the Realization of Completely Singular Polynomials. In: Linear Algebra and Its Applications, (September 2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/165138

Giard, Thibault; Crevecoeur, Frédéric; McIntyre, Joseph; Thonnard, Jean-Louis; Lefèvre, Philippe. Inertial torque during reaching directly impacts grip‑force adaptation to weightless objects. In: Experimental Brain Research, (2015). (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/165268

Huang, Wen; Gallivan, Kyle A.; Srivastava, Anuj; Absil, Pierre-Antoine. Riemannian Optimization for Registration of Curves in Elastic Shape Analysis. In: Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, (2015). doi:10.1007/s10851-015-0606-8 (Accepted). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/165383

Hildebrand, Roland ; Gevers, Michel ; Solari, Gabriel. Closed-loop Optimal Experiment Design: Solution via Moment Extension. In: IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 60, no. 7, p. 1731-1744 (July 2015)

P.-A. Absil, Michael Azzam, Augustin Lefèvre, S. Easter Selvan, Mixed integer programming for the global solution of the economic load dispatch problem with valve-point effect, submitted, 2015.

Aissa Osmar Elosmani, Djillali Bouagada, Paul Van Dooren, LMI Stability Test for Multidimensional Linear State-Space Models, submitted to Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 2015.

Thomas Berger, Paul Van Dooren, Computing the regularization of a linear differential-algebraic system, submitted to Systems and Control Letters, 2015.

Guifang Zhou, Wen Huang, Kyle A. Gallivan, Paul Van Dooren, Pierre-Antoine Absil, Rank-Constrainted Optimization: A Riemannian Manifold Approach, submitted, 2015.

KUL

Feng Y., Lv S., Hang H., Suykens J. A.K., Kernelized Elastic Net Regularization: Generalization Bounds and Sparse Recovery, Internal Report 15-142, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Dreesen P., Batselier K., De Moor B., Back to the Roots - Polynomial System Solving Using Linear Algebra and System Theory, Internal Report 15-144, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Dreesen P., Batselier K., De Moor B., On Polynomial System Solving and Multidimensional Realization Theory, Internal Report 15-145, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Dreesen P., Goossens T., Ishteva M., De Lathauwer L., Schoukens J., Block-Decoupling Multivariate Polynomials Using the Tensor Block-Term Decomposition, in Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation, (Vincent E., Yeredor A., Koldovsky Z., and Tichavsky P., eds.), Proc. of the 12th International Conference on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation (LVA/ICA 2015), vol. 9237 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2015, pp. 14-21.

Koolen N., Dereymaeker A., Räsänen O., Jansen K., Vervisch J., Matic V., Naulaers G., De Vos M., Van Huffel S., Vanhatalo S., Early development of synchrony in cortical activations in the human, Internal Report 15-147, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Koolen N., Dereymaeker A., Räsänen O., Jansen K., Vervisch J., Matic V., De Vos M., Naulaers G., Van Huffel S., Vanhatalo S., Data-driven metric representing the maturation of preterm EEG, in Proc. of the 37th international conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2015), Milan, Italy, Aug. 2015, pp. 1492-1495.

Koolen N., Dereymaeker A., Räsänen O., Stjerna S., Jansen K., Vervisch J., Matic V., De Vos M., Naulaers G., Van Huffel S., Vanhatalo S., Data-driven method for tracking early EEG maturation, Proc. of the 9th International Conference on Brain Monitoring & Neuroprotection in the Newborn (BMN), Cork, Ireland, Sep.-Oct. 2015, 1 p.

Langone R., Reynders E., Mehrkanoon S., Suykens J. A. K., Automated structural health monitoring based on adaptive kernel spectral clustering, Internal Report 15-154, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Van Belle V., Van Calster B., Risk calculation charts for multiclass prediction models, Archives of Public Health 2015, 73 (Suppl. 1) (Methods in Epidemiology Symposium), Leuven, Belgium, Sep. 2015, 1 p.

Wynants L., Van Huffel S., Van Calster B., Prediction models in multicenter studies : methodological aspects and current state of the art

Matic V., Perumpillichira Cherian J., Jansen K., Koolen N., Naulaers G., Swarte R.M., Govaert P., Van Huffel S., De Vos M., Improving reliability of monitoring background EEG dynamics in asphyxiated infants, Internal Report 15-160, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering.

De Cooman T., Van de Vel A., Ceulemans B., Lagae L., Van Paesschen W., Vanrumste B., Van Huffel S., Estimation of the Maximal Heart Rate to Improve Online Tonic-Clonic Seizure Detection using ECG, Internal Report 15-161, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in Proc. of the 42nd Annual Computing in Cardiology (CinC2015).

Langone R., Van Barel M., Suykens J. A. K., Scalable Spectral Clustering algorithm using the Incomplete Cholesky Decomposition, Internal Report 15-162, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Popovic D., Davis J., Sifrim A., De Moor B., A Note on the Evaluation of Mutation Prioritization Algorithms, Internal Report 15-163, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015. Accepted for publication in Proceedings of IEEE SSCI CICARE 2015.

Feng Y., Yang Y., Huang X., Mehrkanoon S., Suykens J., Robust Support Vector Machines for Classification with Nonconvex and Smooth Losses, Internal Report 15-164, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

Braeken M.A.K.A., Jones A., Widjaja D., Van Huffel S., Monsieur G.J.Y.J., van Oirschot C.M., Van den Bergh B.R.H., Anxious women do not show the expected decrease in cardiovascular stress responsiveness as pregnancy advances, Biological Psychology, vol. 111, 2015, pp. 83-89.

Van Schoubroeck D., Raine-Fenning N., Installé A., De Neubourg D., De Moor B., Bourne T., Van den Bosch T., Timmerman D., Interobserver agreement in assessing polycystic ovarian morphology using pattern recognition, Internal Report 15-169, ESAT-SISTA, KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), 2015.

VUB

T. Dossogne, J.P. Noël, G. Kerschen, B. Peeters, J. Debille, M. Vaes, J. Schoukens, Nonlinear Ground Vibration Identification of an F-16 Aircraft. Part II: Understanding Nonlinear Behaviour in Aerospace Structures Using Sine-sweep Testing, International Forum on Aeroelasticity and Structural Dynamics IFASD 2015 – June 28 – July 2 , Saint Petersburg, Russia.

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), Sep 7, 2015 - Sep 9, 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.

Rishi Relan, Yousef Firouz, Laurent Vanbeylen, Jean-Marc Timmermans, Johan Schoukens, Nonparametric Analysis of the Short-term Electrical Response of the Li-ion Battery Cells, Accepted for publication (oral presentation) at the IEEE-Indian Control Conference (ICC) during January 4th-6th, 2016 in Hyderabad, India.

Egon Geerardyn, Mikaya Lumori, John Lataire, FRF Smoothing to Improve Initial Estimates for Transfer Function Identification, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, Vol. 64, No. 10, pp. 2838 – 2847.

I. Markovsky, An application of system identification in metrology, Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 43, October 2015, pp. 85-93, 2015.

Peacock, J., R. Pintelon, and J.J.J. Dirckx, Nonlinear vibration response measured at umbo and stapes in the rabbit middle ear, Journal of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology, Oktober 2015, Vol.16, No.5, pp. 569-580.

Pintelon, R., E. Louarroudi, and J. Lataire, Time-variant frequency response function measurement on weakly nonlinear, arbitrarily time-varying systems excited by periodic inputs, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation & Measurement, Vol. 64, No. 10, pp. 2829 – 2837.

K. Usevich and I. Markovsky, Adjusted least squares fitting of algebraic hypersurfaces, Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 2015, in press.

UMons

I. Saraiva, A.-L. Hantson, A. Vande Wouwer, Parameter identification of a dynamic model of CHO cultures, Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering (2015), in press.

A. Vargas, J. Moreno, A. Vande Wouwer. Super-twisting estimation of a virtual output for extremum-seeking output feedback control of bioreactors, Journal of Process Control (2015), in press.

M. Benavides, D. Coutinho, A.-L. Hantson, J. Van Impe, A. Vande Wouwer, Robust Luenberger Observers for Microalgal Cultures, Journal of Process Control (2015), in press.

J. Oviedo, A. Vande Wouwer, A. Vargas, Insight Towards an Experiment Design for Microalgae Models, Congreso Nacional de Control Automático AMCA 2015, Cuernavaca, Mexico, 14-16 October 2015.

A. Donoso-Bravo, A. Vande Wouwer, Model-based evaluation of the environmental and energetic impact of solid-waste anaerobic digestion in aquaculture systems, AD 14th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Vina de Mar, Chile, 15-18 November 2015.

G. Giovannini, M. Sbarciog, A. Donoso-Bravo, G. Ruiz, A. Vande Wouwer. Derivation of a reduced-order dynamic model of anaerobic digestion using maximum likelihood principal component analysis, AD 14th IWA World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Vina de Mar, Chile, 15-18 November 2015.

IAP Contact Persons

UCLMarie-Christine Joveneau
KULIda Tassens
UGentMargot Roels
VUBAnn Pintelon
ULgSophie Cimino
UMonsLaurent Dewasme
UNamurJoseph Winkin

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