Dear all,
This is the last newsletter before the summer break. We will keep it short but we would like you to know that the registration for the DISC course program will open on August 1.
Enjoy the summer and see you in September!
With best regards,
Henk Nijmeijer,
scientific director
Martha Otte,
DISC secretariat
The DISC course program 2018-2019 is ready! You will find the course schedule here. Registration will open August 1 on the DISC course platform.
This fall the following courses are scheduled:
Adaptive Control (September 3, 10 and 17)
S. Baldi and B. Fidan
Computational Linear Algebra: a least squares perspective: (October 1, 8 and 15)
M. Verhaegen and B. De Moor
Underactuated Mechanical Systems: motion planning, motion representation and motion control methods (November 12 and 19)
A. Shiriaev and A. Pogromskiy
The courses are taught at cursus en vergadercentrum Domstad in Utrecht, location Koningsbergerstraat 9. For more information see their website.
Carlas Smith (DCSC) is the recipient of a Veni grant 2018. The Veni grants allow researchers who have recently obtained their PhD to conduct independent research and develop their ideas for a period of three years. Carlas’s proposal research concerns super-resolution microscopy in live tissue: “a considerable amount of knowledge is missing to effectively prevent, diagnose and treat diseases, due to lack of suitable techniques for super-resolution live-tissue imaging. The researcher will synergistically combine optics and information aspects to maximize recorded information content of a microscope. The technology targets imaging with nanometer-resolution in live-thick tissue.”
As of 1 September 2018, Prof. Bart De Schutter will be the new departmental chair of The Delft Centre for Systems and Control (DCSC). Bart is taking from Hans Hellendoorn, who was recently appointed chair of CoR (Cogntive Robotics).
KU Leuven (Belgium), Department of Mechanical Engineering, is looking for PhD and postdoc candidates in the field of systems and control:
MECO team (www.mech.kuleuven.be/meco):
-Postdoc position on robust optimal feedback control design methodologies for multivariate mechatronic systems: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54715540
-PhD position on multi-system learning control for interconnected mechatronic systems: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54747915
Remark: postdocs with a strong interest in this topic, may also contact us
Robotics team (www.mech.kuleuven.be/robotics):
– PhD position on discrete task-level robot programming and world modelling: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54706405
-Postdoc position on discrete task-level robot programming and world modelling: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54707562
– PhD position on generalizing human-demonstrated robot skills: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54669211
-Postdoct position on generalizing human-demonstrated robot skills: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/54676880
University of Groningen
Name: Md Sumon Hossain
Starting date: 01-07-2018
Function: PhD
Email: s.hossain@rug.nl
Group: System, Control and Applied Analysis (RUG-BI)
Supervisor: Dr. Stephan Trenn
Project: Model reduction of switched differential algebraic equations
Hi, I am Sumon Hossain from Bangladesh. I have graduated in Mathematics. The title of my MPhil thesis was ” Efficient solution of Lyapunov equation for descriptor system and application to Model order reduction “. I recently joined as a PhD student at the University of Groningen and my research topic is to find the Model reduction of switched systems.
Delft University of Technology
Candidate: Shuai Yuan
Group: DCSC
Thesis: Control of Switched Linear Systems: Adaptation and Robustness
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. B. De Schutter and dr.ir. S. Baldi
Date: 5-7-2018
Location: Aula Senaatszaal, Mekelweg 5
Time: 10.00
Candidate: M. Bharatheesha
Group: CoR
Thesis: Sampling-based Motion Planning in Configuration and State Spaces – using Supervised Learning Tools
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. M. Wisse
Date: 4-7-2018
Location: Aula Senaatszaal, Mekelweg 5
Time: 12.30
University of Groningen
Candidate: Erik Weitenberg
Group: ENTEG
Thesis: “Control of electrical networks robustness and power sharing”
Promotor: prof.dr. Claudio De Persis en Dr Pietro Tesi
Date: 10-7-2018
Location: Academiegebouw, Broerstraat 5 in Groningen
Time: 11.00
The next issue of this Newsletter will appear in September 2018.
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