Foreign Grants

• Elsevier Science and SIAM Travel Grant to take part in the SIAM 50th Anniversary and 2002 Annual Meeting (SIAM50), July 8-12, 2002, Philadelphia, U.S.A., and present the paper Efficient algorithms for Wiener systems identification (co-author S. Van Huffel).
• Visiting Professor, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 2000 - 2001.
• Postdoctoral Scholarship, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 1999.
• Free Research Grants, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 1997, 1998.
• Research grant provided by the Belgian Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs, for a project entitled High-Performance Numerical Software for Subspace-Based System Identification, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, October 1, 1996 - March 31, 1997. Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Ir. Sabine Van Huffel and Prof. Dr. Ir. Bart De Moor.
• Research grant provided by the Commission of the European Communities for participation in a research activity entitled Evaluation of Structure Preserving Algorithms for Solving Linear-Quadratic Optimization Problems, at Technical University Chemnitz-Zwickau (Germany), April 1 - June 30, 1994. Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Doc. Volker Mehrmann.
• Research grant provided by The SOROS Foundation for an Open Society, to participate in the 12-th IFAC World Congress, July 18-23, 1993, Sydney, Australia, chair the Session We-E-3 Software, and present the paper Computational experience in solving algebraic Riccati equations using Gaussian symplectic transformations.
• Research grant from the International Research & Exchanges Board (IREX), with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the U.S. Department of State, to participate in the Fourth SIAM Conference on Optimization, May 11-13, 1992, Chicago IL, U.S.A., and present the paper Efficient and stable computation of quasi-Newton updates.

Partial external support for participation in international conferences

• IEEE:
  The Tenth IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design (CACSD'99), August 22-27, 1999, Hawai'i, USA;
  The 12th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'04), Kusadasi, Turkey, June 6-9, 2004 (IEEE Region 8, R8 IEEE VCF funds).
• NICONET International Society:
  The 13th IFAC Symposium on System Identification, SYSID 2003, August 27-29, 2003, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
  7th European Control Conference ECC'03, September 1-4, 2003, University of Cambridge, UK, 2003.
• European Community:
  IFIP TC7/WG7.2 International Working Conference on "Analysis and Optimization of Differential Systems", "Ovidius" University, Constanta, Romania, 10-14 September 2002;
  11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation MED'03, June 18-20, 2003, Rhodes, Greece.

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