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NWO Graduate Programme
The Minister of Education, Culture and Science has requested NWO to develop a pilot for a subsidy programme that will focus on Graduate Schools and research schools. NWO will respond to this request by setting up a pilot programme in consultation with VSNU and KNAW. In this pilot programme national and local research schools or Graduate Schools can be nominated for a block grant of about € 800,000 that is intended for the appointment of PhD students who will carry out their research within the school.
Procedure
A multidisciplinary committee will first assess the applications to ensure that they comply with the conditions relating to the form of organisation and then select the schools to receive the block grants on the basis of quality.
The views of external referees will be sought, after which a maximum of 14 schools will be invited for interview.
The selection committee will ultimately recommend seven schools to the Governing Board of NWO. Block grants will be awarded to at least three interuniversity schools, provided that they display sufficient quality.
Latest news:
In March this year DISC submitted their proposal.
Recently we received the reviews and they were good!!!
Now we are waiting for an invitation for interview.
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DISC PhD-Thesis Award 2008 for Jan-Willem van Wingerden
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DISC PhD-Thesis Award 2008 for Jan-Willem van Wingerden (TUD-DCSC)
Dr.ir. Jan-Willem van Wingerden, researcher at the Delft Center for Systems and Control, has been awarded the DISC Best PhD-Thesis Award for the best PhD thesis defended in 2008 in the Netherlands in the area of systems and control. The award is installed by DISC, the Dutch Graduate School in the field of systems theory and control engineering.
Jan-Willem received the award for the excellent quality of his PhD Thesis “Control of Wind Turbines with 'Smart' Rotors: Proof of Concept & LPV Subspace Identification” for which he obtained the doctoral degree “cum laude” at Delft University of Technology in November 2008. In his thesis new concepts have been developed for reducing the load on wind turbine blades by using dynamically controlled piezo actuators, while innovative concepts have been developed for the nonlinear dynamic characterization of the windturbine from experimental data. The PhD project was supervised by Professor Michel Verhaegen. Jan-Willem received the Award, including a cheque of € 1000, from Prof.dr. Anton Stoorvogel, chairman of the DISC jury, during the 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Spa, Belgium, on March 17, 2009.
  
Details of his PhD Thesis:
Control of Wind Turbines with 'Smart' Rotors: Proof of Concept & LPV Subspace Identification. Wingerden, J.W. Promotor: Prof. M. Verhaegen, Delft, 2008, 147 pages, ISBN: 978-90-9023583-7.
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Summer School 2009: Distributed Control and Estimation
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The Summer School on Distributed Control and Estimation will be held from 2-5 June, 2009 at NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands. Registration deadline extended to May 15, 2009. See for detailed information Summer school 2009.
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Farewell Agnes van Regteren
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On thursday January 22, Mrs. Agnes van Regteren will complete her final working day as Office Manager at the DISC Secretariat. Agnes is leaving DISC to follow her husband and family to Los Angelos, California, where her husband has accepted a job for the next couple of years. 
Agnes has been serving DISC in an excellent way over a period of almost 7 years. We thank her for all support in organizing and administrating the DISC courses, Benelux Meetings, Summer Schools, and all the other things, and wish her all the best in the US!
Paul Van den Hof, scientific director
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Extra DISC Wintercourse by prof. Roberto Tempo.
In February 2009 DISC will offer an extra course, lectured by prof. Roberto Tempo (IEIIT-CNR, Italy).
The course is titled “Probabilistic and Randomization Methods for Control of Uncertain Systems”. (abstract)
The course will be taught in 4 days of 4 hours. The lecturing days are:
- Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February, Location Delft
- Tuesday 17 and Wednesday 18 February, Location Eindhoven
Timeschedule per day: 10.00-11.00, 11.30-12.30, 13:30-14:30, 15:00-16:00 hrs.
We're planning to have some social activities after 16.00, organized by local PhD students. If you like to stay the night in a hotel, we could arrange the booking. Please send an email to the DISC secretariat. Costs will be for your own account.
To register for this course please fill in the courseregistration form. This course is added to the regular courseprogram form. The ascribed credits are at least 1,5 EC for auditing. It's not yet known if the course includes homework assignments, if so you can obtain 6 EC.
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