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Newsletter March 2008

Summer school 2008
Inaugural speech prof. Jacquelien Scherpen
New staff
Positions
PhD presentations
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Welcome to disc Newsletter March 2008. We plan to send out the Newsletter monthly. The next issue of this Newsletter will appear end of April 2008.

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Summer school 2008
The Summer School on Cells and Systems will be held from 17-20 June, 2008 at Conference centre Woudschoten, Zeist, the Netherlands. Registration deadline 16 May 2008.
See for detailed information Summer school 2008.

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Inaugural speech
Tuesday February 26, 2008, prof. Jacquelien Scherpen held her inaugural speech at the University of Groningen.

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New staff
Per 1 January 2008 dr. Eloisa Garcia Canseco has started on a post-doctoral position at the University of Groningen in the group of Jacquelien Scherpen.

Per 1 February 2007 dr. Bayu Jayawardhana has started a position with tenure track at the Industrial Engineering and Management Department of the University of Groningen with the group of Jacquelien Scherpen. Bayu Jayawardhana holds a Ph.D. degree from Imperial College, London. After he obtained his Ph.D. degree, he has held post-doctoral positions at the University of Bath and at the University of Manchester. His research interests include nonlinear control sytems theory with applications towards micro- and nano manufacturing processes.

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PhD presentations
Speaker: Maarten Zandvliet
Thesis: Model-Based Lifecycle Optimization of Well Locations and Production Settings in Petroleum Reservoirs
Promotor: Prof.ir. O.H. Bosgra (TUD-DCSC) and Prof.dr.ir. J.D. Jansen (TUD)
Date:17 April 2008
Time: 12.30-13.00
Location: Aula Senaatszaal at Delft University of Technology

Speaker: Redouane Hallouzi
Thesis: Multiple-Model Based Diagnosis for Adaptive Fault-Tolerant Control
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. M. Verhaegen (TUD-DCSC)
Date:17 April 2008
Time: 15:00-17:00
Location: Aula Senaatszaal at Delft University of Technology

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Summer School 2012 This year DISC will organize a Summer School on the topic "Optimization in Control Theory". The Summer School is scheduled from Monday June 11 through Thursday June 14, 2012 and will be held in conference Centre "De Baak,... Read more...

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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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