IAP DYSCO Study Day: Dynamical systems, control and optimization
Thursday May 19, 2016, Hotel Ibis Styles (Mercure), Louvain-la-Neuve
Programme
8:30 Registration of participants and welcome coffee
9:50 Opening remarks
10:00 Plenary lecture: Malcolm SMITH (University of Cambridge, UK), Reciprocity, Passivity and Optimal Control
11:00 Speed dating session
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch with dessert and coffee
14:00 Parallel sessions
1. Optimization
- Annick Sartenaer (UNamur), Getting some insight on the interaction between the blocks (Hessian vs constraints) in KKT systems arising in constrained optimization
- François Glineur, Adrien Taylor and Julien Hendrickx (UCL), Performance estimation of first-order methods for (composite) convex optimization
- Quentin Louveaux (ULiège), Load flexibility in electrical networks: a game-theoretic approach
2. Identification and Machine Learning
- Michel Verhaegen (TUDelft), Machine Learning and Identification for Smart Optics Systems
- Francesco Ferranti and Yves Rolain (VUB), Who needs to identify a flexible, adaptive, multi-purpose parameter-varying model?
- Pierre Geurts (ULiège), Random forests variable importances: application to gene regulatory network inference
3. Modeling and Control
- Erik Ydstie (Carnegie Mellon University), Reinforcement learning from the perspective of dual control: the value of exploration
- Ilse Smets (KULeuven), From experiments to models ... and back: a case-study in wastewater treatment processes
- Frédéric Crevecoeur (UCL), Neural mechanisms underlying fast feedback control during postural control and reaching
15:30 Coffee
16:00 Plenary lecture: Jorge GONCALVES (Univ Luxemburg), Network Inference: from Theory to Applications in Biology
17:00 Drink
Booklet
Download the program with abstracts
Venue
The meeting will be held at the Hotel Ibis Styles, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve.