Prof. Ming Cao, his postdocs, Mengbin Ye and Lorenzo Zino, and their collaborators in the marketing department of the Faculty of Economics and Business, have just published a paper in Nature Communications on how a committed minority may change social conventions. Both agent-based modeling and human behavioral experiments have been implemented to disclose the mechanism of the sudden establishment of new social norms. The university website’s front page has prominently featured this work and other news sources, e.g. phys.org and Science Daily, have also reported about it.
Author: Stephan Trenn
New group name: SCAA becomes SCO
In view of the current research activities within the group Systems, Control and Applied Analysis (SCAA) and the joining of Prof. Juan Peypouquet as full professor in optimization, the group requested a name change to “Systems, Control and Optimization (SCO)” which was now granted by the FSE Faculty Board.
Best in EU according to 2021 GRAS ranking
In the 2021 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects (GRAS) in the area of Automation and Control the University of Groningen is leading in the European Union and ranked 15th place internationally.
Jacquelien Scherpen elevated to IEEE fellow
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has elevated Prof. Jacquelien Scherpen of the Engineering and Technology institute Groningen (ENTEG) to the grade of IEEE Fellow for her contributions to nonlinear model reduction and passivity-based control.
Kanat Camlibel promoted to full professor
Kanat Camlibel from the SCAA group was recently promoted to Full Professor in recognition of his achievements in research, teaching and administration.
Prof. Juan Peypouquet joins Bernoulli Institute as new staff member
Prof. Juan Peypouquet (currently Associate Professor at the Mathematical Engineering Department, University of Chile, Santiago) has accepted the offer for full professor in Optimization from the University of Groningen (Bernoulli Institute, Department of Mathematics). He will join us early next year. Welcome Juan!
His main research interest is the study of the asymptotic behavior of dynamical systems in a broad sense, along with their applications in variational analysis and optimization. Especially, he studies algorithms for constrained variational inequalities and optimization problems, and evolution equations governed by non-autonomous monotone operators.
Again top results at ARWU Ranking
The “Automation and Control” field at the University of Groningen, primarily represented by the Jan C. Willems Center for Systems and Control, was again highly ranked by the ARWU World Ranking (Shanghai Ranking): 1st place in Netherlands, 3rd place in Europe and 16th place worldwide! The University of Groningen as a whole was ranked 69th worldwide.
Three tenure(-track) positions at Bernoulli Institute
In the mathematics department of the Bernoulli Institute, three staff positions are now open for application:
NDNS+ Twente workshop
Our colleagues at the University of Twente are organizing again a workshop within the NWO Cluster Nonlinear Dynamics of Natural Systems (NDNS+). The online workshop will take place on 22-23 June 2020. For more information see the workshop page.
Online seminar on Distributed Parameter Systems (DPS)
Jean Auriol (CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France), Federico Bribiesca (Université de Lyon, INSA Lyon, Laboratoire Ampére, France.), Rafael Vazquez (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain) organize an online seminar on DPSs. The first talk will be given today by Miroslav Krstic (University of California, San Diego). For future talks see the DPS Online Seminar website.