DYSCO workshop on 28 and 29 October to celebrate Michel Gevers and Paul Van Dooren

Programme :

Thursday 28 October 2010 - Michel Gevers turns 65

09:30 Registration at the Welcome Desk
10:15 Plenary lecture 1: "Stochastic Reconstructibility and Optimal Control", Prof Robert Bitmead, University of California, San Diego
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Plenary lecture 2: "Control Challenges in a Couple of Large Scale Applications", Prof Keith Glover, University of Cambridge
12:00 Address by Prof Bruno Delvaux, Rector of UCL
12:15 Lunch
13:45 Poster session
15:00 Plenary lecture 3: "Sum-of-Norm Regularization in Estimation Problems", Prof Lennart Ljung, Linköping University
15:45 Coffee break
16:00 Celebratory talks by Profs Manfred Deistler (Vienna University of Technology), Håkan Hjalmarsson (KTH Stockholm), Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Liège)
17:00 End

Friday 29 October 2010 - Paul Van Dooren turns 60

09:30 Registration at the Welcome Desk
10:15 Plenary lecture 1: "A Fast Algorithm for Approximating the Pseudospectral Abscissa and Pseudospectral Radius of a Matrix", Prof Michael Overton, New York University
11:00 Poster session and coffee break
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Plenary lecture 2: "A Schur-Padé Algorithm for Fractional Powers of a Matrix", Prof Nick Higham, University of Manchester
14:45 Celebratory talks by Profs Patrick Dewilde (TU Munich), Bart De Moor (K.U.Leuven), Dan Sorensen (Rice University)
16:05 Coffee
16:30 End

Abstracts

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Venue

Château-Ferme de Profondval
Chemin de Profondval
1490 Court-Saint-Etienne

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