"Program of OPTEC-II Kick-Off Retreat"
Venue: SOLCRESS
Spaloumont, 5. B-4900 Spa . Belgium.
http://www.solcress.be/ Phone: 087 77 23 53. Fax: 087 77 48 93
for urgent questions, call Moritz Diehl's Mobile: +32472449374
Preliminary Agenda
Thursday, September 23, 2010
7:26 Train Travel from Leuven Main Station
via Verviers (arrival 8:25, departure 9:05)
to Spa (arrival 9:29). Walk to SOLCRESS.
Car pooling organized within departments.
9:30 Registration in SOLCRESS + Coffee
10:00 Introduction to the Retreat (Moritz Diehl)
10:15 OPTEC Facts and Figures (Jan Van Impe)
10:35-11:10 Working Group Short Presentations
10:35 WG1 - Dynamic and Embedded Optimization (Moritz Diehl)
10:40 WG2 - Data-driven modelling (Johan Suykens)
10:45 WG3 - Parameter and State Estimation (Filip Logist)
10:50 WG4 - Shape and Topology Optimization (Geert Lombaert)
10:55 WG5 - Advanced Linear Systems Analysis and Control (Wim Michiels)
11:00 WG6 - PDE-constrained Optimization (Johan Meyers)
11:10 Break
11:30 Speed Dating on Research (12 Slots a 5 minutes)
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Parallel Working Group Meetings (WG1, WG2, WG4/6)
15:30 Break
15:45: Group photograph
16:00-17:00 Tutorial "Integrated Application Project" Presentations (each 15 minutes)
16:00 Optimal human-robot interaction (Joris De Schutter)
16:15 Bioreactor optimization (Jan Van Impe)
16:30 Kite Power (Moritz Diehl)
16:45 Assessment of the Response of a Footbridge to Pedestrian Excitation (Geert Lombaert)
17:00-18:00 Group and Plenary Discussion on OPTEC Future
17:00 Group Discussions (15 random groups of 4 people)
Three questions:
"What do we want OPTEC to be over the next 3 years?
What do we like so far?
What are our ideas for further improvement (communication, internal organization, external visibility, ...)?"
17:30 All groups write their results down on a big sheet of paper
17:45 A few self chosen sentences from the OPTEC group discussions
are read aloud to the public by 6 selected OPTEC members
18:00 Conclusions and outlook on next day (Moritz Diehl)
18:15 End
18:15-19.00: Free time / joint walk / ...
19:20 Reception
19:40 Dinner
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Friday, September 24, 2010
9:00-10:30 Scientific Overview Lectures
9:00 Convex Optimization Micro Course (Moritz Diehl)
9:20 Support Vector Machines Mini Course (Johan Suykens)
10:05 ACADO for MPC (Hans Joachim Ferreau)
10:30 Break
11:00 Parallel Working Group Meetings (WG3, WG5)
12:30 Lunch
14:00-15:20 Parallel Brainstorm Sessions on Integrated Application Projects
14:00 Parallel Brainstorm Sessions on Integrated Application Projects
14:25 Collect and choose within each project the most relevant results of the discussion.
15:00 Present brainstorm results in plenary (each 5 minutes, by project leaders Joris De Schutter, Jan Van Impe, Geert Lombaert, Moritz Diehl)
15:20 Break
15:45 Concluding Short Panel Discussion with six workgroup representatives (Moderator: Joos Vandewalle)
16:15 Final conclusions (Moritz Diehl)
16:30 End
17:30 For all without a car: Joint train travel from Spa to Leuven, arrival 19:34 in Leuven Main Station
