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Since 1982 the Dutch and Belgian systems and control community meets yearly for a three day conference in which recent research results are presented, international keynote speakers are invited, and tutorial mini-courses are given by senior researchers. In the course of years this yearly Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control has become an important event where academics and PhD students from The Netherlands and Belgium meet each other both scientifically and socially. Additionally, the Benelux Meetings serve as a training platform for PhD students to present and discuss their work in an -informal- international setting.
During the Benelux Meeting the <Best Junior Presentation Award> is awarded for the best presentation by a PhD student. New since 2009 is the <PhD Thesis Award> for the best Thesis. The winner gets a cheque of €1000,-.

The 31th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control will be held from March 27-29 2012 at CenterParcs Heijderbos, Heijen, The Netherlands. For detailed information and registration check the website.

Best Junior Presentation Award
The Best Junior Presentation Award (BJPA) is an award that since 1996 is granted by disc and awarded to the Dutch or Belgian PhD student that gives the best presentation during a Benelux Meeting. Winners of BJPA are:

2011 - Jef Vanlaer (KUL Leuven)

2010 - John Lataire (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

2009 - Fréderic Crevecoeur (UCL Loucain-la-Neuve)

2008 - Gert Witvoet (TU/e Eindhoven)

2007 - Goele Pipeleers (KUL Leuven) and Cristobald de Kerchove (UCL Louvain-la-Neuve))

2006 - Nico Deblauwe (VUB Brussels)

PhD Thesis Award
The PhD Thesis Award is new since 2009. It is a yearly award for the best defended thesis of a DISC PhD student. The winner gets this award toghether with a price of €1000,-.

Winners:

2011 - Shaik Fiaz (University of Groningen)

2010 - Roel Merry (TU/e-ME)

2009 - Jan-Willem van Wingerden (TUD-DCSC)

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A nation-wide institute that links all academic research groups in systems and control theory and engineering in the Netherlands, ranging from the three universities of technology: TUDelft, TUEindhoven and UTwente, to research groups in Amsterdam, Groningen, Maastricht, Tilburg and Wageningen.

disc has a coordinated research programme and provides an international network environment for researchers and PhD students.

A central PhD program is provided for PhD students in systems and control. It consists of a course programme offered in Utrecht, international summer schools and a yearly three-day Benelux Meeting. Since its start in 1987 this PhD program has become a cornerstone of the cooperation among the dutch academic community in this field.

Controlling the positioning and motion of objects with high speed and ultra-high precision (up to nanometers) is crucial in storage equipment as dvd’s, hard disk drives, in IC manufacturing and in scientific imaging instruments as AFM’s. Without feedback control this technology would not exist.

Industrial production processes in (petro)chemical, food and energy industry are dependent on appropriate control technology for designing operations that are economically efficient, safe, with optimal usage of resources and minimal environmental load. Model-based control technology provides the tools for achieving this.

Future automotive systems will show vehicles where comfort and driving conditions are highly automated while they are intelligently supervised to keep optimal distance and to optimize route planning. In this development distributed sensing and control is a key technology.

Guidance and navigation of airplanes and spacecrafts highly depends on automatic control systems. This dependency is even more pronounced when steering unmanned vehicles, e.g. for inspection tasks, or controlling (micro) sattelite formations in space. Aerospace applications have been important drivers for developing advanced and robustly operating control systems.

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