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Message from the DISC office
Winter Course 2011
Summer School 2011
DISC courses
Vacancies
Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems
HYCON2 PhD School on Control of Networked and Large-Scale Systems
Van Gogh Programme
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Welcome to the DISC Newsletter of March 2011.
Message from the DISC office
Dear DISC colleagues,
The Benelux Meeting of last week in Lommel (B) , being the 30th in a row since 1982, has shown a record attendance of PhD students. The high attendance (in total around 280 participants) shows that our field and our Benelux community are very much alive and active. A more extensive report of this meeting (with pictures) will follow in our next newsletter. Here we just mention that
(a) The DISC PhD Theses Award 2010, was awarded to Shaik Fiaz (RUG-IWI) who graduated in 2010 with promotor Prof. Harry Trentelman.
(b) The Best Junior Presentation Award 2011 was awarded to Jef Vanlaer (KULeuven).
Congratulations to these award-winners.
With best regards
Paul Van den Hof,
scientific director
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Winter Course 2011
The Winter Course 2011 on Modelling, Simulation, Control and Optimization with Differential-algebraic Systems was held in Eindoven on February 14 and 15 and in Delft on February 16 and 17. Prof. Volker Mehrmann (Technical University Berlin) was the guest-lecturer of this course. In total there were 23 participants. Like previous years there also was a joint dinner, this year at Van der Dussen in Delft.
  
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Summer School 2011
The Summer School on Medical Robotics will be held from June 20 - 23, 2011 at NH Conference Centre Leeuwenhorst, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands.
Lecturers
Professor Blake Hannaford (University of Washington)
Professor Gregory D. Hager (Johns Hopkins University)
Professor Tim Salcudean (University of British Columbia)
Professor Seth Hutchinson (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champain)
Registration
The registration fee is 1100 Euro with a reduction to 700 Euro for DISC-members.
The school is limited to 60 participants based on a first-come first-serve policy.
Organization
Organizers are: Prof. Stefano Stramigioli (UT), Dr. Sartak Misra (UT), Dr. Dr. Dragan Kostic (TU/e) and Gabriel Lopes (TUD).
You can register on the student info & forum site, or send an email message to the DISC secretariat,
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Check the website for more information.
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DISC courses
On April 4 this course will start:
Linear matrix inequalities for control 2010-2011
lecturer: S. Weiland
Check the course program here.
Don't forget that you have to register before you can participate.
 This academic year we have a new course location. The courses are being taught at Hogeschool Domstad in Utrecht, location Koningsbergerstraat 9.
For details check their website
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Vacancies
University of Twente
The University of Twente, Faculty of Engineering Technology has a vacancy for a full professor in the area: Systems and Control, Mechanical Engineering, Embedded Systems.
More information click here.
University of Bath, UK
There are two vacancies at Bath in the area of differential equations (including control theory).
Check the website.
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The 4th HYCON2 PhD School on Control of Networked and Large-Scale Systems
We would like to attract your attention to the "The 4th HYCON2 PhD School on Control of Networked and Large-Scale Systems", which will take place on June 21-24, 2011 in Trento, Italy. 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. Selected speakers will lecture during the school covering the basic concepts and results on stability and control of networked control systems, wireless communication, event-triggered control, consensus algorithms, decentralized control, distributed optimization, model predictive control, real-time control, and large-scale applications such as power and traffic networks. The program of the school includes four full days of lectures, interleaved by enough time slots to allow scientific discussions among the participants and with the speakers.
The school is organized by Alberto Bemporad and Maurice Heemels. More information you can find here.
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4th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems
The 4th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) will be held from June 6-8, 2012 in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
The IFAC conference series on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) focuses on the broad area of hybrid dynamical systems and has already a long and rich history. ADHS'12 is the fourth conference in this series after ADHS'03 in Saint Malo (France), ADHS'06 in Alghero (Italy), and ADHS'09 in Zaragoza (Spain). In addition, the ADHS series was preceded by the successful conference series on Automation Of Mixed Processes: ADPM'92 in Paris (France), ADPM'94 in Brussels (Belgium), ADPM'98 in Reims (France) and ADPM'2000 in Dortmund (Germany). As such, the ADHS series has roots of more than 2 decades ago.
We are happy to continue this tradition and announce that the next edition of the IFAC conference ADHS will take place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, from 6 to 8 June 2012. The aim will be to bring together international researchers and practitioners with backgrounds in control, computer science and operations research and to provide an overview of the recent advances in the field of hybrid systems. In particular, contributions that present hybrid tools for the analysis and design of Networked Control Systems are encouraged. As the development of systematic methods for hybrid automation systems is a key issue in industrial information and control technology, also many applications of hybrid systems theory will be presented at ADHS'12. The following keynote speakers agreed to share their views on hybrid systems with us:
- Alberto Bemporad (Italy)
- George Pappas (USA)
- Andy Teel (USA)
The deadline for submissions is set to 15 November 2011.
Contributions are invited in all areas pertaining to the theory and engineering of hybrid dynamical systems including modeling, specification, analysis, verification, controller synthesis, simulation, and implementation. Contributions on applications of hybrid methods in various fields, such as networked control systems, large-scale process industries, transportation systems, energy distribution networks, communication networks, safety systems, etc, are particularly encouraged. Synthetic presentations of hybrid-system problems in these fields are also encouraged.
More information is available at http://www.adhs12.org/
We are looking forward to welcome you in the Netherlands in June 2012 for this inspiring event!
Organizers: Maurice Heemels and Bart De Schutter
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Van Gogh Programme
In 1997, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW) signed a bilateral agreement to increase the possibilities for scientific cooperation between the two countries, resulting in the Van Gogh programme. The programme is administered by the FNA on the Dutch side and by EGIDE on the French side. The objective of the Van Gogh programme is to encourage and facilitate the exchange of French and Dutch researchers within the framework of a joint research project.
Deadline submission: May 18, 2011
More information: http://www.frnl.eu/, programme, application_form
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Next issue of the Newsletter
The next issue of this Newsletter will appear in April 2011.
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