Summer school on Distributed Control and Estimation
June 2-5, Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst (Noordwijkerhout). Registration deadline extended to May 15, 2009

Invitation 
Scope
Lecturers
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Program        
Registration and payments
Organization
Location
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Invitation 
The organizers have the pleasure to invite you to participate in the DISC Summer School on Distributed Control and Estimation, which is scheduled to take place between June 2-5, 2009, at the NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst, Noordwijkerhout (near Leiden) the Netherlands.
The invitation is aimed at research students and staff members of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control (DISC), and other researchers and engineers engaged in the systems and control area. The Summer School will give an introduction to the area of distributed control and estimation. Distinguished speakers will each present a series of tutorial lectures, and several well-known researchers will provide talks on advanced topics, which complement these lectures.

The Summer School is financially supported by NWO
(Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research)

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Scope
Since 1990, DISC has successfully organized yearly summer schools on various topics pertinent to theoretical and practical aspects of systems and control, with an international audience of about 40-60 participants. Together with the graduate course program that is maintained by DISC, the summer schools form part of the educational facilities that DISC offers to PhD students in systems theory and control engineering. The main goal of the summer schools is to familiarize young researchers with recent developments in systems and control as well as in neighboring disciplines, and to provide them with the opportunity to enjoy, in an informal atmosphere, discussions with top researchers in systems and control. The summer schools also provide an opportunity for disc staff members and others to upgrade their knowledge of specific areas of interest. 

Complex systems receive growing interest in many fields of contemporary science, including physics, biology, social sciences and economics. In these domains we are uncovering more and more details about system behavior, which can no longer be understood by investigating the single components alone. At the same time, we are creating ever more complicated man-made technological systems (precision-manufacturing, robotics, communication, infrastructures, transportation, production to name a few), that consist of high numbers of components, sensing and actuation tools, which have to fulfill increasing demands. As current large-scale systems advance and new emerging technologies arise, distributed sensing, decision-making and information exchange get intimately intertwined with feedback loops and dynamic phenomena. Progress in these areas requires advances in fundamentals of systems and control theory, estimation and optimization. In addition to deeper fundamental understanding, diverse engineering tools are needed to analyze and design complex distributed control systems in a systematic way.

In order to capture both aspects of this challenging problem, the 2009 DISC Summer School focuses on distributed control and estimation both from a fundamental point of view (distributed decision-making and optimization) and an engineering perspective (applications). This is reflected in the list of speakers, which includes expert researchers, educators and engineers from leading groups around the world.

Lectures
Main lecturers of the summer school will include:
- Bassam Bamieh
  (UC Santa Barbara, USA)
- Ali Jadbabaie
  (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
- Karl H. Johansson
  (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
- Cedric Langbort
  (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
- Reza Olfati-Saber
  (Dartmouth College, USA)
- Michael Rotkowitz
  (University of Melbourne, Australia)

National lecturers:
- Ming Cao
   (University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
- Andrej Jokic
  (Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands)
- Tamas Keviczky
  (Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands)
- Joris Sijs
  (TNO Science and Industry, the Netherlands)

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Program
To take a look at the program of the DISC Summer School you can click here.

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Registration
The registration fee is 825 Euro with a reduction to 575 Euro for disc-members and disc-students.

The school is limited to 60 participants based on a first-come first-serve policy.

Registration deadline is now extended from May 1, 2009 to May 15, 2009. To register for the Summer School please complete the registration form. 

The registration fee includes:

• Admission to all sessions.
• A copy of the lecture notes.
• Coffee, tea, ice water, and mints during the meeting.
• Overnight stay on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Full accomodation, including all meals, from lunch on Tuesday until lunch on Friday.

All payments must be made in EUR, incorporating all charges, and should be made by bank transfer to:

• For Dutch accounts

Account number: 3127876
Account holder:  Stichting SMBT
                       Het Wedde 45
                       NL-2253 RB Voorschoten

• For other accounts

Account holder: Stichting SMBT 
                       Het Wedde 45 
                       NL-2253 RB Voorschoten
                       Bankname: Postbank
                       BIC: PSTBNL21
                       IBAN: NL17PSTB0003127876

Please indicate your name and mention "Disc Summer School 2009'' on the transfer, otherwise your payment cannot be traced to your reservation. We emphasize that reservations are firm only

• after we have received your registration fee and
• after receipt of the Registration form has been acknowledged.

Unfortunately Credit Card payments cannot be accepted.

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Cancellation and refund policy
Cancellations are to be made in writing/email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . Cancellations received before May 1 will be reimbursed in full after deduction of an administrative charge of EUR 35. For cancellations received after May 1 no refunds can be made. Substitutions can always be made at no additional charge if the accommodation is still available.

For communications regarding the conference location or registrations, please contact the disc secretariat: Saskia van der Meer (email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it )  
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Organization
The Summer School organizers are Siep Weiland ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ), Tamas Keviczky ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ) and Mircea Lazar ( This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). The organizers can provide further information regarding the program. The Summer School is an activity of the Dutch Institute of Systems and Control, DISC.

For information regarding the organization of the school please contact the disc secretariat:
Saskia van der Meer
Delft University of Technology
Disc
Mekelweg 2
2628 CD Delft
Phone: 015-27 85572 Fax: 015-27 86679 Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it   
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Location
NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst 

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Sheets lecturers
Sheets are only available for the participants of the Summer School and are password protected.
Clik here to go to the sheets.

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