There is one other point that I would like to draw your attention to. The deadline for submitting contributions to the IFAC World Congress in Milano 2011 is approaching (30 September). In view of our ambitions with IFAC and the organization of a future World Congress in Amsterdam, we would like to urge all people from our Dutch community to submit papers to the 2011 Congress. In order to strengthen our position it is important that we show a strong presence in the IFAC programme.

And for the rest, I would like to wish all DISC colleagues and students an inspiring new academic year.

Best regards
Paul Van den Hof

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DISC courses

On September 6 the following courses will start:

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lecturers: W. Ren and M. Cao

mathematical_models_of_systems
lecturers: J.W. Polderman and H.L. Trentelman

Check the course program here.
Don't forget you have to register before you can participate.

This academic year we have a new course location. The courses will be taught at Hogeschool Domstad in Utrecht, location Koningsbergerstraat 9.
For details check their website


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DISC Graduate School receives grant of 800K€

The Graduate School of DISC in which the 3TU MSc programme and the DISC PhD programme are combined into a joint effort to attract and educate research students in systems and control, has been selected by the NWO Graduate Programme as one of 10 newly recognized graduate schools in the Netherlands. In the scope of this grant, a research track will be started as part of the MSc programme Systems and Control, that is open for a selected group of students that will be prepared to continue with a PhD programme after their MSc graduation.

For further reading:
the NWO press message: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_887G32
and the DISC proposal: http://www.disc.tudelft.nl/images/stories/nwo_gp_disc_2010.pdf

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NWO Rubicon for Dr. Paolo Massioni

Paolo Massioni, who defended his PhD thesis on 21 June within DCSC, has been awarded the NWO Rubicon! Paulo goes to France for two years, Université de Paris, to do research in the field of adaptive optics.

We congratulate him with this award!

More information

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IFAC World Congress 2011

The IFAC World Congress 2011 will be held from August 28 - September 2, 2011 in Milano, Italy. Submission deadline September 30, 2010. It is very important for our position within IFAC that we show a strong participation in this Congress. In particular with respect to our ambition to possibly organize a future World Congress in Amsterdam, all DISC members are requested to consider submitting material to the 2011 World Congress.

For more information see: the_milano_manifesto_2011

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Lorentz Center: International Summer School/Workshop on Embedded Signal Processing = Systems

The international Summer School/Workshop on Embedded Signal Processing will be held from August 30 - September 03, 2010 at Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands. For more information check the website: http://www.lorentzcenter.nl/

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OSPT: Netherlands Process Technology Symposium 2010

NPS10 is approaching! The theme this year is: The Future of Process Technology - Process Technology of the Future

Submit an abstract before September 1. The only way for doing this is via the website http://www.nps10.nl/

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NWO: Talent Classes

In Fall 2010, NWO organizes Talent Classes on September 28, November 9 and December 7. Registrations for these Classes are pouring in. A couple of Classes have already reached the maximum number of attendees.
If you're a researcher at PhD or postdoc level you can register for one of the masterclasses. It is not required that you previously participated in one of the NWO-Talent Days.
You can register on www.nwo.nl/indepth. The registration fee is € 95.00.

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PhD defences

Candidate: Justin Rice
Thesis: Efficient Algorithms for Distributed Control A Structured Matrix Approach
Supervisor: prof.dr.ir. M. Verhaegen
Date: September 6, 2010
Location: Aula Senaatszaal, Delft
Time: 12:30

Candidate: Jelmer van Ast
Thesis: Ant Colony Optimization for Control
Supervisor: prof.dr. R. Babuska
Date: September 14, 2010
Location: Aula Senaatszaal, Delft
Time: 15:00

Vacancies

University of Twente

PhD vacancy on Quantized Information and Control for Distributed Formation Keeping.
For more information click here.

The University of Namur (FUNDP)

The University of Namur (FUNDP) has a vacancy for a full-time tenured-track faculty position (m/f) at the Department of Mathematics (Applied Mathematics - Complex Systems).
Preference should be given to a candidate with expertise in statistics and/or in SYSTEMS and CONTROL.
The application deadline is September 13, 2010. The position starts in January 1, 2011.
For a more complete description, see the website.

Ecole Centrale Paris and Supelec

Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) http://www.ecp.fr/ and Supelec http://www.supelec.fr/, two of the top five French engineering schools ("Grandes Ecoles"), have launched a Chair on Systems Science and Energetic Challenge (SSEC).
The Chair objective is to model, analyze and optimize complex energetic systems taking into account all aspects, from engineering to operations management and control, from safety to environment. The activities of the SSEC Chair include teaching, research with strong impact on industrial applications, and executive education.
Check the positions here and here.

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Next issue of the Newsletter

The next issue of this Newsletter will appear in September 2010.

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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