Welcome to disc Newsletter April 2008. We plan to send out the Newsletter monthly. The next issue of this Newsletter will appear end of May 2008.

We encourage the contributors to provide essential information. In principle, we intend to publish any message offered. However, we reserve the right to edit certain parts of a submission.

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Summer school 2008
We would bring to your attention it is still possible to register for the Summer School on Cells and Systems, to 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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New staff 
Dr. Wojtek Paszke started as a Post Doc on the Condor Porject (ESI/FEI), within the TU/e researchgroup Control Systems Technology (Prof. Maarten Steinbuch)

On 1 March 2008 Ms. Svetlana V. Polenkova started as a PhD student at the Systems, Signals and Control group of the University of Twente.

Greetings! My name is Arturo (R 2 \rho, not R2D2 ;-) Tejada Ruiz. I’m a new PostDoc at DCSC. I am originally from Lima Peru, where I got my bachelor in Electrical Engineering. In 2006 I completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering at Old Dominion University (Norfolk, VA, USA). My dissertation topic was the stability analysis of a particular type of stochastic hybrid system, which we used to study the effects of faults in digital flight controllers. For the last six months I visited NASA LaRC, where I developed a simulation tool to study cracked vibrating cantilevers (a cantilever is the basic model of an aircraft wing). At DCSC, I will work in the CONDOR project with Prof. Paul Van den Hof, dr. Arjan den Dekker, and dr. Sara van der Hoeven. I’m very excited to be here and hope to get the chance to meet you all in (and out) DCSC. Arturo Tejada Ruiz – room 8C-4-21, phone 81550, email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it (TU address will follow).  
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PhD presentations


Speaker: Ir. Dirk Vries
Thesis: "Estimation and Prediction of Convection–Diffusion– Reaction Systems from Point Measurements"
Promotor: prof. dr. ir. G. van Straten
Date: June 6, 2008
Time: 11:00-13:00
Location: Aula, Wageningen University

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Scholarships

• For the academic year 2008-2009, the French Embassy as well as the organisations Sodexho, Total, Air France-KLM, Unilever and Corus will award 9 study scholarships. The selection will be held by a committee, composed by representatives of different universities and organisations, in the spring of 2008.
  These scholarships are meant for Master students or post-grads willing to follow university courses in France.
  Students from all academic directions can apply for a scholarship. The scholarship amounts to 700 euros a month.
  More information about the scholarship (application form, specifications) can be found on the website of the French Embassy: www.ambafrance.nl/beurzen or by sending an e-mail directly to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ,
  020 531 95 46. Application forms need to be sent to the following address before May 23rd 2008:
  Affaires universitaires Maison Descartes
  Vijzelgracht 2A
  1017 HR Amsterdam.
  
• PhD Fellowship Carolina MacGillavry (KNAW)

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