new staff
Mechatronica Magazine - free subscription
Interview Tech United - Robot football (TUe)
vacancies- new PhD position RUG-IWI  
HYCON-EECI Graduate School on Control programme 2009
CAS-KNAW Joint PhD Training Programme

Welcome to DISC Newsletter October 2008. We plan to send out the Newsletter monthly. The next issue of this Newsletter will appear end of November 2008.

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• New staff
  Per 1 September Edward Holweg started as professor “Intelligent automotive systems” at DCSC (TUD)
  
  Per 1 September Pia Kempker started as PhD student at Vrije Universiteit and CWI. Her research advisors are prof. dr. ir. Jan van Schuppen (CWI) and prof. dr. Andre Ran (VU).
  
  Per 1 October T.Q. Le started as PhD student at the University of Groningen, department of Mathematics and Computer Science, group Systems, Control and Applied Analysis. His research advisor is dr. M.K. Camlibel.
  
  Per 1 January 2009 Jan Willem van Wingerden is appointed as post-doc on “Large Scale Data Driven Modeling and Control”. Jan Willem will start as a two-year post-doc and after that period will continue as an assistant professor in a tenure track position within DCSC. We are very happy with this extension of our staff and we congratulate Jan Willem with this new appointment!
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• Mechatronica Magazine
  Referring to the article about the flying robot, in the last DISC newsletter, we are asked to draw your attention to the Mechatronica Magazine and the possibility to subscribe to this magazine and the e-newsletter, for free. For more information see: http://www.mechatronicamagazine.nl/service/abonneren.html
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• HYCON EECI Graduate School on Control programme 2009
  The course programme 2009 of the Graduate School on Control is available here.
  
  Please note that there's financial substantial supports from the French Ministery of Research and from the Center of Excellence DIGITEO for allowing Master or PhD Students from ALL OVER THE WORLD attending the 2009 EECI Graduate School on Control.
  Therefore financial (trip and stay) supports of 500 EUR (400 EUR for selected students registered in French universities outside Region Ile de France). will be given in situ to selected students.
  To apply the student should send by e-mail to Doctor Francoise Lamnabhi-Lagarrigue as soon as possible (and before 18 December 2008) - his(her) CV - a letter of recommendation from his(her) advisor - the EECI Graduate School on Control registration form, see Financial_support.
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• CAS-KNAW Joint PhD Training Programme
  The CAS-KNAW Joint PhD Programme offers excellent PhD students form China and the Netherlans the unique opportunity to acquire research experience in their respective countries.
  This is a joint initiative of the Chinese Academy of Science (CAS) and the Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
  See for detailed information http://www.knaw.nl/china/cas/#cas
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