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NWO
MTNS
Summer School
Lecture by prof. Anton Shiriaev
NWO Talent Classes
Grand Cooperate Driving Challenge
3rd WIDE PhD School on Networked Control Systems 2009
Staff news
Vacancies
Welcome to DISC Newsletter of April/May 2009. We plan to send out the Newsletter monthly. The next issue of this Newsletter will appear end of June 2009.
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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.
The reviews we received were good!!!
We have just been invited for the interview....
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MTNS 2014
at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
In collaboration with DISC the University of Groningen will organize the MTNS 2014.
In 2014, the University of Groningen will celebrate its 400-year's existence (being the second oldest university of the Netherlands). We expect that the celebrations around this event will further facilitate the organization of the MTNS.
The national organizing committe for the MTNS 2014 is planned to include the following faculty members of the University of Groningen:
Kanat Camlibel
Ming Cao
Bayu Jayawardhana
Jacquelien Scherpen
Harry Trentelman
Arjan van der Schaft
Proposal for the conference dates: July 7-11, 2014
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Summer School 2009
The Summerschool on Distributed Control and Estimation was a great succes.
You will find details and pictures in the next issue of the newsletter!
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Lecture by prof. Anton Shiriaev at the University of Twente
Analysis, Control and Synchronization of Oscillations in Mechanical Systems
Abstract: From Monday, 24 August up and until Friday, 28 August at 10.30 prof. Anton Shiriaev from the Umea University, Sweden will give 5 lectures and exercises in the Hogekamp, room 8132 and 8128.
Content in short: The course equips participants with a variety of ideas, methods and algorithms, developed for analysis and control of periodic behaviors in mechanical systems with one or several passive links such as walking/running robots and underactuated pendulums. Tools for finding and planning periodic motions and tools for their orbital stabilization are discussed and illustrated by several examples. In addition to analytical steps and computer simulations, experiments are reported and the implementation issues are discussed.
Audience: The course can be of interest for graduate students and researchers in the subjects of Robotics, Mechatronics, Control, Analysis of Human Motions, and Applied Mathematics. Lectures and exercises require only basic knowledge of mechanics and control theory as well as basic familiarity with Matlab/Simulink.
Keywords: Periodic motion planning, orbital stability/stabilization, sensitivity of cycles, the Poincare first return map, the moving Poincare section, the transverse dynamics, synchronization, the compass gait biped, the cart-pendulum system, the Furuta pendulum, the spherical pendulum on the puck, the Pendubot
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NWO Talent Classes
For the NWO Talent Classes of Spring and Fall 2009 check their website: www.nwo.nl/talentclasses.
Grand Cooperative Driving Challenge
 “The paradigm shift goes from a car receiving information only to a car communicating bi-directionally with its environment. The car will become an open system and the car industry will see a change in much the same way that mainframe computer vendors and incumbent telecom operators saw their world change within a decade. We invite all the bright minds to create the best solution and to test them in an open challenge. Who will become the Microsoft of the car operating system? It will take decades, five system generations of evolution, but the automobile will become a real auto (auto) mobile.”
For more information check the website.
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3rd WIDE PhD School on Networked Control Systems 2009
We would like to attract your attention to the "3rd WIDE PhD School on Networked Control Systems" that will take place in Siena, Italy on July 7-9, 2009. The school is targeted at graduate students and researchers who want to learn the main concepts of the appealing field of networked control systems, as well as at graduate students and postgraduate researchers already working in the area.
The full program of the school and other information can be found at http://ist-wide.dii.unisi.it/school09/
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Staff news
University of Groningen
 Peter Dickinson
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Supervisor: Mirjam Dür
In May 2009 I started a PhD with the Systems, Control and Applied Analysis Department of the University of Groningen. This PhD is in the development of algorithmic methods to solve optimisation problems. Previous to this I obtained a MSc in Natural Sciences (specifically Theoretical Physics) from Cambridge University in June 2007. Between these two things I have traveled in Australia, where I worked as a Scuba Diver.
 Julia Katharina Sponsel, E-mail:
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, Supervisor: Dr. Mirjam Duer.
Hello, my name is Julia Sponsel and I am a new PhD student at the Systems, Control and Applied Analysis group of the University of Groningen.
In March 2009, I obtained the Diplom (which is comparable to a Master degree) from the Faculty of Mathematics of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany. The subject of my diploma thesis was "The maximum clique problem as a copositive program".
Since May 2009, I am at the University of Groningen. The topic of my PhD project is "A copositive approach to graph theoretic problems" which means that I can build on the results of my diploma thesis.
Delft University of Technology
 As of June 1, 2009 Dr. Georg Schitter will take up a position as assistant professor in the department PME, section MSD (Mechatronic System Design) under the leadership of Prof. Rob Munnig Schmidt.
We wish Georg all the best in his new environment.
 Hi, I am Zulkifli Hidayat from Indonesia. I am a new PhD student in Delft Center for Systems and Control in TU Delft. I finished my bachelor in Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology in Surabaya, Indonesia and my master was in Control Engineering Lab in Twente University. The topic was about learning control. Now I work within the topic of distributed estimation.
As of 1 May, prof. Hans Hellendoorn has left Siemens Nederland. He will remain to be active in his role as part-time professor (0,2 fte) within DCSC, and continue his regular activities here.
From the some day onwards, Prof. Hellendoorn has started as a project leader working for our dean Prof. Marco Waas on special projects, among which the project Clean Delta, where TUD in cooperation with the cities of Rotterdam and The Hague, and with several industries tries set up a regional innovative center around sustainable development.
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Vacancies
Other non-DISC:
Research Fellow in Distributed Coding: University of Melbourne, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
A research fellow position is available for an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded research project on Smart
Coding for Improved Performance of Complexity Constrained Devices. You will conduct research into the development of new theory on distributed source coding methods based on convolutional codes.
A starting point for the research consists of theory linking this area with system theoretic concepts, involving systems over finite fields and systems over finite rings.
A PhD in Electrical Engineering or Computer Science or Mathematics or a related field is required. A strong research record in system theory/coding theory/data compression is desirable.
The position is for a period of two years. Salary range: $73,863 - $82,170.
For a more detailed position description and to submit your application: access the online advertisement at
http://www.jobs.unimelb.edu.au/ by using the position number 0021413 or title as the keyword in the Job
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