Upcoming Events

Please go to the following page for our up-to-date events page

• Thursday 25/10/2012
  Research unit day
  
• Friday 26/10/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Saso Dzeroski, Jozef Stefan Institute Slovenia
  "Predictive Clustering and Systems Biology"   abstract
• Friday 9/11/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Ram Abhinav Somaraju, VUB
  "Stabilization of an infinite-dimensional quantum stochastic"  abstract
• Friday 16/11/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Frauke Liers, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
  
• Friday 23/11/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Nicolas Petit, UCL
  
• Friday 30/11/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Marc Pfetsch, TU Darmstadt
  
• Friday 14/12/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Gunnar W. Klau, VU University Amsterdam
  
• Friday 21/12/2012: no seminar (PhD defenses this week)
  
• Friday 18/1/2013 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Peter Tass, Research Center Juelich and University Hospital of Cologne
  "Long-lasting neuronal desynchronization caused by coordinated reset neuromodulation"   abstract   (jointly organized by Systmod and GIGA-Neuroscience)

Past Events

• Monday 8/10/2012, Tuesday 9/10/2012, Wednesday 10/10/2012
  Kick-off meeting of the IAP DYSCO II
  
• Friday 5/10/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Fulvio Forni, ULg
  "Contraction analysis"   abstract
• Monday 24/9/2012 - 2:30 pm - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  François Schnitzler, ULg
  PhD thesis defense: "Mixtures of tree-structured probabilistic graphical models for density estimation in high dimensional spaces"   abstract
• Monday 24/9/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Yves Grandvalet, Université de Technologie de Compiègne
  "Sparsity in Learning"   abstract
• Wednesday 5/9/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R75, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Djalel Benbouzid, Université Paris-Sud
  "Fast Classification Using Sparse Decision DAGs"   abstract
• Friday 6/7/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Kavé Salamatian, Université de Savoie
  "An introduction to compressed sensing and its applications in Networking research"   abstract
• Monday 2/7/2012 - 10:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Davide Fabozzi, ULg
  "Decomposition, Localization and Time-Averaging Approaches in Large-Scale Power System Dynamic Simulation"   abstract
• Friday 29/6/2012 - 10:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Venkat Chandrasekaran, UC Berkeley
  "Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection via Convex Optimization"   abstract
• Friday 15/6/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Philipp Grohs, ETH Zurich
  "Algorithmic Treatment of Nonlinear Data"   abstract
• Friday 8/6/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Bayu Jayawardhana, University of Groningen
  "On the mathematical structure of balanced chemical reaction networks"   abstract
• Thursday 7/6/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Silvia Pineda Sanjuán, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre
  "Novel/Alternative statistical approaches for genetic association studies"   abstract
• Friday 1/6/2012 - 11:00 am - Amphi L. Fredericq, 5e étage, tour principale du GIGA
  Philippe Lefèvre, UCL
  "Eye movements in humans: a potential biomarker of incipient neurological disorders"   abstract   (jointly organized by Systmod and GIGA-Neuroscience)
• Friday 11/5/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Bernard De Saedeleer, UCL
  "Strengths and weaknesses of a synchronisation: possible jumps to other climate histories paced by the astronomical forcing"   abstract
• Friday 4/5/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Jean-Charles Delvenne, UCL
  "Consensus, communities and centralities for large networks"   abstract
• Friday 20/4/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Stijn Vansteelandt, UGent
  "Semi-parametric testing for gene-gene or gene-environment interactions"   abstract
• Thursday 19/4/2012 - 11:00 am - Room 1.21, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Shie Mannor, Technion
  "Data-driven Optimization and Model Discovery in Markov Processes"   abstract
• Friday 23/3/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture
• Friday 16/3/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture
• Friday 9/3/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture
• Friday 2/3/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture
• Thursday 1/3/2012 - 10:30 am - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Janusz Bialek, Durham University
  "Power system research at Durham University"   abstract
• Friday 24/2/2012 - 10:30-12:30 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair lecture
• Friday 17/2/2012 - 15:00 - Salle Académique, Place du 20 août
  Yurii Nesterov, Francqui Chair inaugural lecture
• Friday 10/2/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Rodolphe Sepulchre, ULg
  "A personal journey through spiking networks"   abstract
• Friday 3/2/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Benoit Donnet, ULg
  "Internet Topology Discovery"   abstract
• Friday 27/1/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Patrick De Leenheer, University of Florida
  "Optimal placement of Marine Protected Areas"   abstract
• Thursday 12/1/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Maarten Arnst, ULg
  "Dimension Reduction and Measure Transformation in Stochastic Multiphysics Modeling"   abstract
• Monday 9/1/2012 - 15:00 - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Vân Anh Huynh-Thu, ULg
  PhD defense: "Machine learning-based feature ranking: Statistical interpretation and gene network inference"  
• Monday 9/1/2012 - 10:00-12:00 - mini-workshop on gene network inference
  • Monday 9/1/2012 - 10:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
    Robert Küffner, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
    "Solutions and Practical Problems in Gene Regulatory Network Inference"   abstract
  • Monday 9/1/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
    Christophe Ambroise, Laboratoire Statistique et Génome, Université d'Evry Val d'Essonne
    "Inferring Sparse Gaussian Graphical Models for Biological Network"   abstract
• Friday 6/1/2012 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Boris Defourny, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
  "Novel Knowledge Gradient Policies"   abstract
• Friday 9/12/2011 - 14:00 - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Kai Heussen, Technical University of Denmark
  "Functional Modeling for Control Structure Design -- With Applications to Future Power Systems"   abstract
• Friday 9/12/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Roberto Tron, Johns Hopkins University
  "Riemannian Consensus and Camera Sensor Networks"   abstract
• Friday 25/11/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Wolfgang Eberle, Cell Interfacing Technology, IMEC
  "Microsystem- and nanotechnology for brain implants and cellular pharmacology"   abstract
• Friday 18/11/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Christophe Geuzaine, ULg
  "Partial Differential Equations and Meshing"   abstract
• Friday 4/11/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Georgi Nalbantov, Maastricht University
  "Data integration based on similarity matrices"   abstract
• Friday 28/10/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Dr. Lydia Bourouiba, MIT
  "Disease transmission: insights from fluid dynamics"  
• 24/10/2011 - Research unit day
• Friday 21/10/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Alessandro Lazaric, INRIA Lille-Nord Europe
  "Transfer of Samples from Multiple MDPs"   abstract
• Thursday 13/10/2011 - 10:00 am - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Laurent Praly, Mines-ParisTech
  "On observers, a meeting of many view points and applications"   abstract
• Wednesday 12/10/2011 - 14:30 - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Alexandre Mauroy, ULg
  PhD defense: "On the dichotomic collective behaviors of large populations of pulse-coupled firing oscillators"  
• Friday 7/10/2011 - 14:00 - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Jean-Pierre Leburton, University of Illinois
  "L’électronique du carbone peut-elle remplacer celle du silicium."   abstract
• Friday 7/10/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Tristan Gilet, ULg
  "Surface tension everywhere: from nature designs to high-tech devices"   abstract
• Friday 30/9/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Robert Mahony, Australian National University
  "Mortensen's approach to minimum energy filtering on the special orthogonal group"   abstract
• Thursday 29/9/2011 - 14:00 - Room R21, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Mini-workshop on Reinforcement Learning
  
  • 2 - 2.20 pm: Harm Van Seijen, University of Amsterdam - Exploiting best-match equations for efficient reinforcement learning
  • 2.40 - 3: Tobias Jung, University of Liège - Gaussian processes for sample efficient reinforcement learning with RMAX-like exploration
  • 3.20 - 3.40 pm: Francis Maes, University of Liège - Automatic discovery of ranking formulas for playing with multi-armed bandits
  • 4 - 4.20 pm: Cosmin Paduraru, McGill University - A framework for computing bounds for the return of a policy
  • 4.40 - 5 pm: Raphael Fonteneau, University of Liège - Min max generalization for batch mode reinforcement learning
• Friday 23/9/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Bärbel Maus, Department of Methodology and Statistics, Maastricht University
  "Optimal experimental designs for functional magnetic resonance imaging"   abstract
• Friday 16/9/2011 - 9am-5pm - Salle Académique, Place du 20 Août (A1)
  Montefiore Award workshop
  http://www.aimontefiore.org/workshop_montefiore/
  (registration is mandatory)
• Friday 2/9/2011 - 14:00 - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Gilles Meyer, ULg
  PhD defense: "Geometric optimization algorithms for linear regression on fixed-rank matrices"  
• Thursday 1/9/2011 - 2-5pm - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Mini-workshop "large scale data mining"
  • Inderjit Dhillon, UT Austin
    "Fast and memory-efficient low rank approximation of massive graphs"   abstract
  • Paul Van Dooren, UCL
    "A new matrix factorization of symmetric indefinite matrices"   abstract
  • Francis Bach, INRIA - Ecole Normale Supérieure
    "Structured sparsity and convex optimization"   abstract
• Friday 24/6/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Spyros Chatzivasileiadis, ETH
  "The Global Grid"   abstract
• Friday 17/6/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Florin Capitanescu, ULg
  "Challenges and future trends in security constrained optimal power flow computations"   abstract
• Friday 20/5/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Prof. Bikash Pal, Imperial College, London
  "Role of Robust Control and State Estimation in Future Electricity Networks"   abstract
• Thursday 12/5/2011 - Colonster
  DYSCO study day   program
• Friday 6/5/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Samuel Fiorini, ULB
  "Extended formulations, non-negative factorizations and randomized communication protocols"   abstract
• Friday 29/4/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Mohammad Ghavamzadeh, INRIA Lille
  "Analysis of Classification-based Policy Iteration Algorithms"   abstract
• Friday 15/4/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Dirk Van den Poel, UGent
  "Towards MDPs and POMDPs for Marketing Optimization"   abstract
• Monday 11/4/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Daniel J. Lizotte, Statistics Department -- Institute for Social Research -- University of Michigan, USA
  "Reward Preferences in Reinforcement Learning"   abstract
• Friday 8/4/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Ludovic Denoyer, LIP6, Paris 6
  "Text Classification as a Sequential Reading Process: Machine Learning with External Ressources"   abstract
• Friday 1/4/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Peter Crossley, University of Manchester
  "Protection of distribution networks with distributed generation"   abstract
• Thursday 31/3/2011 - 2:30 pm - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Dirk Fey, ULg
  PhD defense: Parameter Identification for Biological Models
• Thursday 31/3/2011 - 10:30 am - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Thierry Bastogne, Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy, Nancy-Université
  A stochastic bi-scale model of cellular damages caused by radiation therapies
• Thursday 31/3/2011 - 9:30 am - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Rolf Findeisen, Institute for Automation Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
  Predictive Control of Nonlinear Systems: From Stabilization to Path Following
• Friday 25/3/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Nikos Vlassis, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
  "Bayesian Model-Based Reinforcement Learning"   abstract
• Tuesday 22/3/2011 - 16:00 - Room 1.97, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Roberto Tempo, IEIIT-CNR, Politecnico di Torino
  "The PageRank Computation in Google, Randomized Algorithms and Consensus of Multi-Agent Systems"   abstract
• Friday 11/3/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Raphaël Jungers, UCL
  "Dynamical Lyapunov functions for the control of switched systems"   abstract
• Friday 4/3/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Jia Yuan Yu, Ecole Normale Supérieure
  "Bandit problems with many arms"   abstract
• Friday 25/2/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Alain Sarlette, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "Some basics of quantum control: introduction and application"   abstract
• Thursday 24/2/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Michèle Sebag, INRIA Saclay
  "Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Feature Selection"   abstract
• Thursday 24/2/2011 - 10:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Rémi Munos, INRIA Lille
  "Optimism for decision making"   abstract
• Friday 18/2/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Laurence Wolsey, CORE and IMMAQ, UCL
  "Simple MIPs and Lot-Sizing: Theory and Computation"   abstract
• Friday 11/2/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Luca Scardovi, TU München
  "Synchronization of Nonlinear Interconnected Systems: an Input-Output Approach"   abstract
• Friday 28/1/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Renaud Ronsse, Centre for Research in Mechatronics, UCL
  "Motor primitives for human-centered robotics: applications in state filtering, impedance control, and adaptive control"   abstract
• Friday 21/1/2011 - 11:00 am - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Tobias Jung, UT Austin
  "Reinforcement Learning with Regularization Networks"   abstract
• Tuesday 4/1/2011 - 14:00 - Room II.93, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Marc Deisenroth, University of Washington
  "Probabilistic Inference and Learning for Control"   abstract
• Tuesday 21/12/2010 - 15:00 - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Bertrand Cornelusse, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "PhD defense: Supervised Learning for Sequential and Uncertain Decision Making Problems -- Application to Short-Term Electric Power Generation Scheduling"  
• Monday 20/12/2010 - 15:00 - Room R3, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Boris Defourny, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "PhD defense: Machine Learning Solution Methods for Multistage Stochastic Programming"  
• Mini-Workshop "Stochastic programming and machine learning"
  Organizers: Quentin Louveaux and Louis Wehenkel December, 20 -- 9:00- 12:30 at the Montefiore Institute (Room R3).
• Friday 3/12/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Marc Van Droogenbroeck, ULg
  "Introduction to mathematical morphology"  
• Friday 26/11/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Gaetan Kerschen, ULg
  "Periodic orbits of nonlinear mechanical systems: computation, interpretation and constructive utilization"   abstract
• Thursday 18/11 and Friday 19/11/2010
  control workshop
• Friday 5/11/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Laurent Poirrier, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "An algorithm for the separation of two-row cuts"   abstract
• Thursday 28/10 and Friday 29/10/2010
  DYSCO research meeting
• Friday 22/10/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Franz Wesselmann, Universität Paderborn
  "Computational Experiments with Multi-Row Cuts"   abstract
• Wednesday 20/10/2010
  Research unit day
• Friday 15/10/2010 - 4:15 pm - Auditorium 304, Amphithéâtres de l'Europe
  Jan C. Willems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
  "Special departmental seminar on the occasion of the Doctor Honoris Causa degree ceremony"   announcement
• Friday 8/10/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Domenico Salvagnin, Università di Padova
  "A Relax-and-Cut Framework for Gomory's Mixed-Integer Cuts"   abstract
• Friday 1/10/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Athanasios Antoulas, Rice University
  "Model reduction of large-scale systems"  
• Friday 24/9/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Lucian Busoniu, TU Delft
  "Efficient reinforcement learning for control"   abstract
• Thursday 19/8/2010 - 14:30 - Room 2.93, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Rudy Negenborn, TU Delft
  "Towards intelligent electricity and water infrastructures"   abstract
• Friday 2/7/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Alexandre Mauroy, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "Synchronization and clustering in models of pulse-coupled firing oscillators: discrete and continuous approaches"   abstract
• Friday 25/6/2010 - 11:00 am - Room 2.93, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Jonas Sjöberg, Chalmers University of Technology and VUB
  "Nonlinear system identification, on algorithms finding initial parameter values for the iterative minimization of the cost function."   abstract
• Friday 18/6/2010 - 10:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Adamantios Marinakis, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  PhD defense: "Multi-actor optimization-based coordination of interacting power flow control devices or competing transaction schedulers in overlapping electricity markets"  
• Friday 11/6/2010 - 11:00 am - Room 2.93, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Francis Maes, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "Building blocks for large-scale learning based systems"   abstract
• Friday 28/5/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Jean Ponce, Ecole Normale Supérieure
  "What is a camera?"  
  
• Friday 7/5/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Mathieu Van Vyve, UCL
  "The Impact of Network Modeling on Prices in Power Markets"   abstract
• Friday 30/4/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Jean-Philippe Vert, Mines ParisTech - Institut Curie
  "Including prior knowledge in shrinkage classifiers for genomic data"   abstract
  
• Friday 23/4/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Prof. Costas Vournas, National Technical University of Athens
  "Large Scale Wind Power Integration in Power Systems: Modelling and Stability Aspects with Applications"   abstract
• Friday 16/4/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Pierre Geurts, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "Learning on pairs with tree-based methods"   abstract
• Friday 9/4/2010 - 14:00 - Room II.93, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Romain Herault, INSA Rouen
  "Solving non-convex lasso type problems with DC programming"   abstract
• Friday 26/3/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Daniele Catanzaro, ULB - GOM
  "MIP models for parsimonious haplotype estimations"   abstract
• Friday 19/3/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Silvère Bonnabel, Mines Paris-Tech
  "Symmetry-based observers for some water-tank problems: theory and application to an oceanography example"   abstract
• Friday 12/3/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Peter Wieland, Institute for Systems Theory and Automatic Control University of Stuttgart
  "From Static to Dynamic Couplings in Synchronization and Consensus"   abstract
• Friday 5/3/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Andrea Castelletti, Politecnico di Milano
  "Recent experiences in dealing with complexity and dimensionality in water resources management"   abstract
• Friday 19/2/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Gael Close, Storage Technologies department, IBM Research – Zurich
  "Matériaux émergents et circuits nanoélectroniques"   abstract
• Friday 12/2/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Karen Aardal, TU Delft
  "Integer programming on a simplex"   abstract
• Friday 5/2/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Willem Waegeman, Department of Applied Mathematics, Biometrics and Process Control, Ghent University
  "Kernel methods for conditional ranking from relational data"   abstract
• Friday 29/1/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Francis Bach, ENS et Projet Willow INRIA
  "Discriminative Clustering for Image Co-segmentation"   abstract
• Friday 15/1/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Romeo Ortega, Supelec
  "Control by Interconnection and Passivity-Based Control of Physical Systems"   abstract
• December 14-15, University of Liège
  BBC 2009
  BBC09, the fifth Benelux Bioinformatics Conference
• Friday 8/1/2010 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Gilles Meyer, Montefiore Institute, ULg
  "Regression on fixed-rank positive semidefinite matrices: a geometric approach"   abstract
• Friday 11/12/2009 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Hector Latorre, Department of Electric Power Systems, School of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
  "Selective Control for a VSC-HVdc"   abstract
• Friday, November 27: DYSCO research meeting, Leuven
• Friday 20/11/2009 - 11:00 - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  Antonis Papachristodoulou, Oxford University
  "Biological network analysis tools using sum of squares"   abstract
• Friday 13/11/2009 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Annick Sartenaer, FUNDP, Department of Mathematics
  "A branch-and-refine method for nonconvex mixed integer optimization"   abstract
• Friday 6/11/2009 - 11:00 am - Room R7, Montefiore Institute (B28)
  Ulrich Pferschy, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of Graz, Austria
  "Knapsack Problems: Applications, Algorithms and Generalizations"   abstract
• Thursday, October 29: Research Unit Day, Namur
• Thursday, October 22: BIOMAGNET research meeting, Ghent
• Friday 16/10/2009 - 11:00 - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore)
  Luc Moreau (Arcelor Mittal Gent)
  "Crane automation at ArcelorMittal-Ghent"   abstract
• Friday 9/10/2009 - 11:00 - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  Olivier Teytaud (Inria-Futurs)
  "Bandit-Based Monte-Carlo Planning: Beyond the Game of Go"   abstract
• Tuesday 22/09/2009 - 15:15 - GIGA, third floor, meeting room
  Dr. Djomangan Adama Ouattara (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  "Modélisation de la dynamique du VIH : vers une approche basée sur les réseaux de régulation biologique"   abstract
• Tuesday 22/09/2009 - 14:00 - GIGA, third floor, meeting room
  Dr. Marie-José Mhawej (IRCCyn – Ecole Centrale de Nantes)
  "Modélisation et commande de l’infection par le VIH : aide au diagnostic et à la décision des traitements"   abstract
• Friday 11/09/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  Lude Frank (University Medical Centre Groningen)
  "Identifying the functional downstream consequences of genetic variants that are associated with complex disease"   abstract
• Friday 03/07/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  Bertram MULLER-MYHSOK (head of statistical genetics @ Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich)
  "Statistical genetics and complex psychiatric phenotypes, especially major depression"   abstract
• Friday 19/06/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  V. CACCHIANI (University of Bologna)
  "A hybrid approach to beam angle optimization in intensity-modulated radiation therapy"   abstract
• Friday 26/06/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  K. VANSTEEN & T. CATTAERT (ULg)
  "Multifactor dimensionality reduction methods -- Coping with epistasis"
• Friday 12/06/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room 1.18 - Institut Montefiore
  A. SARLETTE (ULg)
  "Distributed systems with symmetries: general properties arising from an application"   abstract
• Friday 05/06/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room 2.93 - Institut Montefiore
  F. THEIS (Helmholtz Research Center Munich)
  "Independent subspace analysis and extraction"   abstract   (joint seminar with GIGA-R)
• Friday 29/05/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  Emmanuel Rachelson (University of Crete)
  "Experience feedback about asynchronous policy iteration and observable time MDPs"   abstract
• The 18th Belgian-Dutch Conference on Machine Learning (Benelearn 09) has taken place at Tilburg University, The Netherlands, from 18/05/2009 to 19/05/2009. For further information see the website
• Friday 15/05/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  R. SCHULTZ (Universitaet Duisburg)
  "Models and algorithms in stochastic programming with emphasis on risk aversion"   abstract
• Friday 08/05/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  Santanu DEY (UCL and GeorgiaTech)
  "Split rank of triangle and quadrilateral inequalities"   abstract
• Tuesday 28/04/2009 - 2:30 PM - Room 2.93 - Institut Montefiore
  Balázs Csanád Csáji (UCL)
  "On parameter uncertainties of Markov decision processes"   abstract
• Friday 24/04/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  R. SEPULCHRE (ULg)
  "Computing with low-rank positive semidefinite matrices: a geometric approach"   abstract
• Friday 03/04/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  X. PENNEC (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis)
  "Statistical Computing on Manifolds for Computational Anatomy"   abstract
• Monday 23/03/2009 - 2:00 PM - Room S.33 - Mathematics Institute
  Yurii Aulchenko (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
  "A review of methods for pedigree-based association analysis"
• The 28th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control has taken place in Spa, Belgium, from 16/03/2009 to 18/03/2009. For further information see the website
• Friday 13/03/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  René Vidal (Johns Hopkins University)
  "Manifold clustering with applications to computer vision and diffusion tensor imaging"   abstract
• Friday 20/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  B. MASCHKE (Université de Lyon)
  "A port-Hamiltonian perspective to systems of conservation laws and their boundary control"
• Tuesday 17/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room I.123 (former library) - Institut Montefiore
  S.BERNARD (Laboratoire LITIS, Université de Rouen)
  "Towards a better understanding of Random Forest mechanisms"   abstract
• Friday 13/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  J.M. CORON (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)
  "Control of navigable channels and related questions"
• Visiting from 06/02/2009 to 13/02/2009 -- Miguel José Simões Barão, INESC-ID and Universidade de Evora   (information geometry)
• Friday 06/02/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  M.J.S. Barão (INESC-ID and Universidade de Evora)
  "Optimization on discrete probability spaces and applications"   abstract
• Friday 23/01/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  W. ROSEHART (University of Calgary)
  "Optimization, uncertainty, and complementarity based modeling in power system dynamic performance management"   abstract
• Visiting from 12/01/2009 to 23/01/2009 -- William Rosehart, University of Calgary   (electrical power systems)
• Tuesday 06/01/2009 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  F. BULLO (University of California Santa Barbara)
  "Motion coordination and territory partitioning for minimalist robots"   abstract
• Tuesday 06/01/2009 - 3:00 PM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore
  A. Sarlette (thesis defense)
  "Geometry and symmetries in coordination control"   abstract
• Wednesday 17/12/2008 - 11:00 AM - GIGA Building +1, Room A, CHU
  P. DUPONT (UC Louvain)
  "Robust biomarker selection from DNA microarray data with resampling techniques"   abstract
• Friday 05/12/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore
  Ch. DIMITRAKAKIS (University of Amsterdam)
  "Belief tree search"   abstract
• Friday 28/11/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore
  G.B. STAN (Cambridge U.)
  "Improving consensus algorithms with predictive mechanisms"   abstract
• Friday 21/11/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore
  A.ZIEGLER (U. Luebeck)
  "Gene-gene and gene-environment interaction"   abstract
• Friday 14/11/2008 -- Meeting of the Interuniversity Attraction Pole DYSCO in Brussels.
• Thursday 13/11/2008 - 3:00 PM - Room I 126 - Institut Montefiore
  L.STOUGIE (Free University and CWI Amsterdam)
  "Building phylogenetic networks from triplet data"   abstract
• Monday 03/11/2008 - 12:30 - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  J.LEMEIRE (VUB)
  "Learning causal structure from data"   abstract
• Friday 31/10/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore
  T.ERNEUX (ULB)
  "Applications of delay equations"   abstract
• Friday 17/10/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore
  L.WEHENKEL (ULG)
  "Learning (probabilistic) dependency models and estimating (probability) densities with simple graphical (probabilistic) models"
• Friday 03/10/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore
  Ch.LAGEMAN (ULG)
  "Gradient-like observers for invariant systems"   abstract
• Wednesday 17/09/2008 - 12:30 - Amphithéâtre Stainier - B36, CHU
  organized with GIGA-Systems Biology and Chemical Biology (BIOMOD)
  Y.FREUND (UCSD)
  "From microscopy images to models of cellular processes"   abstract
• MLSB08 The Second International Workshop on Machine Learning in Systems Biology was held in Brussels on September 13-14 2008 in the Palace of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
• Friday 06/06/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  V.BLONDEL (UCL)
  "Information retrieval in large graphs and networks"   abstract
• Friday 23/05/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  P.RICHTARIK (UCL)
  "An efficient algorithm for large-scale linear and convex optimization in relative scale"   abstract
• BENELEARN08 The annual machine learning conference of Belgium and The Netherlands was held on May 19-20 2008 in SPA
• Friday 16/05/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  P.LAMBRECHTS (UCL)
  "The Poincaré conjecture and the classification of 3-manifolds"   abstract
• Friday 09/05/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  B. DEFOURNY (Systems and Modeling, ULg)
  "Order statistics, with application to the distribution of optimal solutions to perturbed optimization problems"
• Friday 25/04/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  E. BULLINGER (Strathclyde University)
  "Identification of Biochemical reaction networks: challenges and possible solutions"
• Friday 18/04/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  H. VAN MALDEGHEM (Ghent University)
  "Buildings: From real estate denomination to pure mathematics and back to real life."   organized by statgen
• Friday 11/04/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  M. HAFNER (EPFL)
  "Quantification of robustness. Application to a model of the cyanobacterial circadian cycle."   abstract
• Tuesday 11/03/2008 - 2:00 PM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  O. LEZORAY (University of Caen)
  "Équations aux différences partielles sur graphes: un cadre général pour le traitement et analyse d'images et de données"
• Friday 07/03/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  J.HEIJMAN (Maastricht University)
  "Computational modeling of cardiac dynamics"   abstract
• Friday 29/02/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  M. MIRRAHIMI (INRIA)
  "Feedback control of multi-qubit systems"   abstract
• Friday 22/02/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  R. WEISMANTEL (Magdeburg University)
  "Discrete structures in cell biology"   abstract
• Friday 08/02/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room R7 - Institut Montefiore
  G. BASTIN (UCL)
  "Hypergraphs, metabolic networks and bioreaction systems"
• Seminar by H. GUEGUEN (Supelec) on Thursday 07/02/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room MIPS - Institut Montefiore
  "Reachability computation for safety analysis of hybrid systems: an approach based on linear inclusion abstraction"   abstract
• Friday 04/01/2008 - 11:00 AM - Room 2.93 - Institut Montefiore
  A. DONZE (Carnegie Mellon University)
  "Techniques for reachability by sampling"   abstract
• Friday 07/12/2007 - 11:00 AM - Room 2.93 - Institut Montefiore
  Q. LOUVEAUX (Professor, Systems and Modeling, ULg)
  "Integral Farkas type Lemmas for systems with equalities and inequalities"   abstract
• Friday 30/11/2007 - 3:15 PM - Amphi 02 - Mathematical Institute
  (out-of-series seminar organized by Prof. G. HAESBROECK, Statistics, ULg)
  K. VANSTEEN (newly appointed ULg professor, currently Ghent University)
  "Unraveling the mysteries of genetic interactions - a statistical challenge"
• Friday 23/11/2007 - 11:00 AM - Room 2.93 - Institut Montefiore
  N. BRUNEL (Lecturer, Informatique, Biologie Intégrative et Systèmes Complexes, Université d'Evry)
  "Parameter estimation of ODE's using support vector regression and qualititative constraints"   abstract
• Friday 09/11/2007 - 11:00 AM - Room 2.93 - Institut Montefiore
  S. BONNABEL (Postdoctoral researcher, Systems and Modeling, ULg)
  "Non-linear observers (estimators) and symmetries : theory and examples"   abstract
• P. LERAY : Réseaux bayésiens : introduction et apprentissage (cours) - 17/09/2007 - 2.30 PM - Local R75 - Institut Montefiore
• R. CASTELO & D. GEIGER : Half-day workshop on Graphical models for Genomics - 18/09/2007 - 8:30 AM - Room R3 - Institut Montefiore - University of Liege, Sart-Tilman
• V. AUVRAY : Contributions to Bayesian Network Learning (PhD thesis defense) - 19/09/2007 - 3.00 PM - Rooom R3 - Institut Montefiore - University of Liege, Sart-Tilman
• Seminar: Multiple kernel learning and convex optimization, given by Francis Bach, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Monday 17th June 2007, 11.30AM, Montefiore Institute B28 Room R7, University of Liège.
• December 4th 2006: Seminar "Méthodes de résolution approchées en apprentissage par renforcement et contrôle optimal", Rémi Munos (INRIA Futurs, Lille)
• Nov 9th 2006: Seminar "A lecture on homogeneity", Dr Emre Tuna (UCSB)
• Seminar: Preventing Future Blackouts by Means of Enhanced Electric Power Systems Control: From Complexity to Order, Prof. Dr. Marija ILIC, Monday 21st of November 2005 – 11h00 – 12h30, R7, Montefiore Institute.
• Seminar: Neural Reinforcement Learning for Control, Prof. Dr. Martin Riedmiller, Monday 5th September 2005, 11h30-13h, R7, Montefiore Institute
• 15th Power Systems Computation Conference (PSCC'05) in Liège, August 22-26, 2005.
• J. Goncalves (Cambridge University), "", 7th March 2005, Seminar, Montefiore Institute
• F. D'Alché-Buc (Genopole & LaMI UMR 80 42 CNRS), "Machine learning for gene networks modeling", 8th february 2005, Seminar, Montefiore Institute.
• C. Schmid (INRIA), "Building local part models for category-level recognition", 8th february 2005, Seminar, Montefiore Institute
• 7th Workshop on Dynamics and Computation: Iterated Games and Cooperation Arenberg Castle, Leuven, October 27-28, 2003.
  Guest: Karl Sigmund (University of Vienna, Austria).

• 6th Workshop on Dynamics and Computing: From robotics to quantum control Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels, July 1-2, 2002
  Guest: Roger W. Brockett (Harvard Robotics Laboratory, Harvard University, USA).
• Workshop on dynamics and verification
  Royal Academy of Sciences, Brussels, July 16-17, 2001
  Guest: Rajeev Alur (Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, USA).
• Workshop on the dynamics of neurons and vision
  Brussels, September 4-5, 2000 Guest: H. R. Wilson (Visual Science Center, University of Chicago, USA).
• Workshop on the Dynamics of Switching, August 1999
• Workshop on the Dynamics of Computing, July 1998
• Minicourse, May 4-5, 1999. Dr. R. Mahony, HeuDiaSyC UMR 6599, Université de Compiègne. Optimization Algorithms on Manifolds and their Corresponding Flows. May 4-5, 1999, Institut Montefiore, Université de Liège.
• Minicourse, April 10, 2000. Dr. J. De Doná, University of Newcastle. Input Constrained Linear Control April 10, 2000, Institut Montefiore, Université de Liège.
• Participation in the EUROBOT robotics competition, edition 2002