Monday October 8, 2012
DYSCO Study Day : Dynamical systems, control and optimization
Kickoff of phase VII (2012-2017)
9:00 Welcome breakfast & coffee
9:30 Registration at the Welcome Desk
10:00 Welcome and introduction by Vincent Blondel, DYSCO coordinator
10:10 Introduction of the new partners
- Stanford University
- Princeton University
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- FUNDP University of Namur
- UGent University of Ghent
10:45 Poster spotlights (1 page and 1 minute per poster)
11:00 Poster session 1 & coffee break
12:00 Science and Society by Philippe Mettens, Director of the Belgian Science Policy
12:30 Lunch
13:45 Science in the news: On the "Sparse Fast Fourier Transform" by Paul Van Dooren, UCL.
14:00 Plenary talk, Francqui lecture by Yurii Nesterov (UCL): Algorithmic Optimization: new challenges in the old field
14:45 Poster spotlights (1 page and 1 minute per poster)
15:00 Poster session 2 & coffee break
16:00 Plenary talk by Jean-Jacques Slotine (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): Synchronization and Controllability in Biological Systems
17:00 End of the scientific program (meeting of the DYSCO academics at 17:15)
Tuesday October 9, 2012 - JojoFest
Celebration of Georges Bastin becoming Emeritus professor
9:00 Welcome breakfast & coffee
10:00 Introduction
10:10 Iven Mareels (University of Melbourne, Australia): An Introduction to Extremum Seeking: 1922-2012
10:50 Miroslav Krstic (University of California at San Diego, USA): Stochastic and Infinite-Dimensional Extremum Seeking
11:30 Coffee break
11:50 Jean-Michel Coron (Institut Universitaire de France): On the control of 1-D hyperbolic systems
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Laurent Praly (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France): Necessary conditions convergence for observer convergence
14:40 Olivier Bernard (INRIA, France): From hydrodynamics to metabolism: modelling and analyzing the fast time scale response of microalgae to light
15:20 Jan Van Impe (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium): The Tree of Life: a Systems Biology approach to Bioprocess Optimization
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 Rodolphe Sepulchre (Université de Liège, Belgium): Contraction analysis: late answers to early questions by Jojo
17:10 Brigitte d’Andréa-Novel (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France): Estimation and control of wind instruments : a meeting between science and music
17:50 End of the scientific program and group picture
18:00 Banquet (on invitation only; please contact Vincent Blondel for more information)
At 9:30 PM, a bus will take back to their hotel the attendees who stay at the Mercure.
Wednesday October 10, 2012 - Workshop
Contraction analysis, fifteen years later
Venue: Bat Euler, Université catholique de Louvain
9:00 Introduction by Rodolphe Sepulchre
9:15 Jean-Jacques Slotine (MIT): Fifteen years of contraction analysis
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 P. Rouchon (Mines Paris-Tech): Contraction analysis and quantum physics
11:15 A. Yu Pogromsky (Technical University Eindhoven): Contraction analysis and estimation of topological entropy
12:00 Lunch
14:00 A. Rantzer (Lund Institute of Technology): Lyapunov functions and density functions for monotone systems
14:45 B. Rueffer (Universität Paderborn, Germany): Convergent systems and incremental stability
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Fulvio Forni (University of Liège, Belgium): A differential Lyapunov framework for contraction analysis
17:00 End of scientific program
Pictures
DYSCO Study Day and JojoFest.
Abstracts
Download the booklet.
Venue
The 8 & 9 October events (including the meetings and the banquet) will take place at the Château-Ferme de Profondval (see maps below), while the workshop on October 10 will take place at UCL, Bâtiment Euler, 4 av. Georges Lemaître, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (seminar room A002, ground floor).
Going to Profondval by train : we strongly advise you to get off at Ottignies station and to take a taxi to the Château-Ferme de Profondval (or your hotel if you are staying at the Mercure). You will find here a list of taxi companies in the Ottignies area.
Accommodation : please note that there is no accommodation available at the Château-Ferme. Shuttles will be organized between the Mercure Hotel of Louvain-la-Neuve and the Château-Ferme. In order to book a room at the Mercure Hotel of Louvain-la-Neuve, please use the following form and send it directly to the hotel : http://sites.uclouvain.be/inma/mercure.pdf
Shuttle bus : a shuttle bus will take the attendees who stay at the Mercure Hotel to the Chateau-Ferme at 9 AM on October 8 and 9. The bus will transport people back to their hotel at 5 PM on October 8 and at 9:30 PM on October 9.
