Message from the DISC office
Course Scedule 2010-2011
IFAC 2017
Staff news
LDIA 2011 
Vacancies
Next issue of the Newsletter

Welcome to the DISC Newsletter of June / July 2010. 

Message from the DISC office

In this final DISC newletter before the summer vacation you will find the announcement of the new DISC course programme starting in september. The DISC Info Guides for the new academic year have meanwhile been mailed out to all DISC groups, so soon everybody should have a hard copy available on his/her desk. Note that as of September we have moved the location of the DISC lectures to the buildings of Domstad “Hogeschool”, also in the close neighbourhood of the Utrecht Railway Station. With the growing number of students attending the DISC courses we were forced to move to a location that can accommodate these larger groups.
As you also can read, the Dutch bid for the organizaiton of the IFAC World Congress 2017 in Amsterdam was unfortunately not successful. Despite substantial Dutch support during the recent ACC 2010 (including widespread orange tulips), the town of Toulouse was selected there as the site of IFAC 2017. We may want to try again for the next one in 2020 (…)
Systems and Control and DISC are growing. The number of PhD students listed in the new DISC Info Guide has increased to 180.
Rest to say that we wish all DISC members a relaxing and easy-going summer vacation!
The DISC secretariat will re-open again on August 9.

Best regards
Paul Van den Hof

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Course Scedule 2010-2011
This year the following courses are scheduled:

Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems
Mathematical Models of Systems
Modeling and Control of Hybrid Systems
Design Methods for Control Systems
System Identification for Control
Networked Contol Systems
System and Control Theory of Nonlinear Systems
Linear Matrix Inequalities for Control

Check the concept course program here.

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IFAC 2017

The Dutch Bid for the organization of the 20th IFAC World Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has unfortunately not been selected by the IFAC Council. During its meeting on Friday 2 July, 3 proposals were evaluated, presented by the delegations of Japan, France and The Netherlands. After a secret vote the French proposal was selected, and as a result the city of Toulouse will be the location of the World Congress in July 2017 with Prof. Janan Zaytoon as prospective IFAC President for the triennium 2014-2017.
We thank all people who have contributed to the Dutch proposal.
Within the Board of DISC we will further discuss whether a renewed proposal will be made for the 2020 version of the Congress.

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Staff news

University of Twente

Name: Abeje Yenehun Mersha
Starting date: June 16, 2010
Function: PhD student
Group: Department of Electrical Engineering, Section Control Engineering
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Supervisor: Raffaella Carloni
Project: AIROBOTS: Innovative aerial service robots for remote inspections by contact

Hello, I am Abeje Yenehun from Ethiopia. As my PhD research, I will be working on the EU project AIRobots in particular on telemanipulation of the aerial service robot under the supervision of Prof. dr. ir. Stefano Stramigioli and Dr. Raffaella Carloni. To say some about my background, I was born in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia. I followed my entire elementary and secondary school in Lideta Catholic Cathedral School, one of the most prestigious schools in the country. I followed my bachelor in Electrical Engineering in Mekelle University, Ethiopia. I was able to further excel in academia after I got NUFFIC-HSP scholarship to pursue my MSc. in Control engineering in the University of Twente, The Netherlands. My final thesis was on “Modeling and Control of unmanned Aerial Vehicle: the port Hamiltonian approach”. Apart from academia, I am a big football fan, and sometimes a player too. I like watching movies, reading fictions, playing volley ball, having long walk in the trees and working out.

Delft University of Technology

Name: Dieky Adzkiya
Function: PhD student
Group: Delft Center for Systems and Control
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Supervisor: Alessandro Abate
Project: Development of novel Hybrid Dynamical Models for the study of transportantion networks.

My name is Dieky Adzkiya and I come from Surabaya, Indonesia. I start my PhD under the supervision of Dr. Ir. Alessandro Abate and Prof. dr. ir. Bart De Schutter in the area of Stochastic Hybrid System with application to transportation networks. I did my MSc and BSc in Mathematics Department, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Surabaya.

Name: Nicolas Weiss
Starting date: June 1, 2010
Function: PhD student
Group: Delft Center for Systems and Control
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Supervisor: Ton van den Boom / Bart De Schutter
Project: STW-Project Model-Predictive Railway Traffic Management System.

My name is Nicolas, I will be working under the supervision of Dr. van den Boom and Prof. De Schutter as a PhD-Student on the STW-Project Model-Predictive Railway Traffic Management System. We will work with the Department of Transport and Planning of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences on a framework for closed-loop control of large-scale railway systems. So if everything goes well, we might be able to save you some of those annoying, and sometimes everlasting delays when travelling by train! I was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. After finishing school at the German School of Montevideo I studied Electrical and Information Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. About a year ago I arrived to The Netherlands to do my Diploma thesis project at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk. There I worked on the optimality of insect inspired optical flow landing strategies. Swimming, running, cycling, and playing water polo are some of my hobbies, and I hope to join some of you in the Thursday's football matches! I look forward to the upcoming, and challenging years among the DCSC!

Name: Han Woong Yoo
Starting date: May 3, 2010
Function: PhD student
Group: Delft Center for Systems and Control
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Supervisor: Michel Verhaegen
Project: Integrated Smart Microscopy

My name is Han Woong Yoo, and please call me Hans. I am from Seoul, South Korea. My PhD project is "integrated smart microscopy" and is conducted under the supervision of Prof. Michel Verhaegen and Prof. Georg Schitter. I received MSc at Seoul National University in 2007. At that time, I studied model based control and estimation theory for time delay systems. After that, I worked in Samsung Electronics and investigated noise and interference models for semiconductor devices such as NAND flash, SD-ADC, and CMOS RF systems. Based on the models, I developed signal processing algorithms and simulators to enhance their reliability.
I have a keen interest in optimization theory; model based stochastic control and signal processing in various applications such as adaptive optics, semiconductors, systems biology, and robotics. I am really happy to work with you at DCSC and please feel free to contact me.

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LDIA 2011

The Eight International Symposium on Linear Drives for Industry Applications (LDIA) will be held from July, 3-6 2011 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands. The goal of the symposium is to bring together researchers from both academia and industry, and to share research findings and discuss future developments in linear drive technology. For details check the flyer.

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Vacancies

University of Twente

Interdisciplinary PhD Project: Modelling and Control of Hybrid Systems.
Text of the vacancy can be found here.

Ecole Centrale Paris and Supelec

Ecole Centrale Paris (ECP) www.ecp.fr and Supelec 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.
Two permanent Junior Professor positions are open for applications of talented and dynamic young scientists with an outstanding curriculum of studies and a record of high quality research. Open mind and curiosity for innovative solutions to practical problems of system engineering are also necessary attributes.
For the complete text check here and here.

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