Vincent
D. Blondel
Professor of Applied Mathematics
Department
of
Mathematical Engineering
Research
group on large graphs and
networks
Louvain
School of Engineering
Université
catholique de Louvain
Avenue Georges Lemaître, 4
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Phone: +32 10 47 23 81, Assistant: +32 10 47 25 97, Fax: +32 10 47 21 80
E-mail: firstname (dot) lastname (at) uclouvain (dot) be
http://www.inma.ucl.ac.be/~blondel
Informations
for visitors
(university history, travel, hotel, how to reach my office, etc.)
Sabbatical
2010-2011
Publications
Research
2005-2006 Visiting Professor and Fulbright Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
1995-1999 Professor, Institut de Mathématiques, Université de Liège, Belgium
1994-1995 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, INRIA, Paris
1993-1994 Gustafsson Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
1992 PhD in Applied Mathematics, UCL, Belgium
1991 Baccalauréat en Philosophie, UCL, Belgium
1990-1991 Master of Science in Mathematics, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK
1988 Ingénieur civil en mathématiques appliquées (La plus grande distinction), UCL, Belgium
Short biography
INMA 1702. Modèles et méthodes d'optimisation
INMA 1691. Théorie et algorithmique des graphes
FSAB 1103. Mathématiques 3 (partie Mathématiques Discrètes)
INMA 2111. Mathématiques discrètes II : Algorithmes et complexité
6-251/15-081/16.321 Introduction to mathematical programming (Fall 2005 and Fall 2010 at MIT)
6-977 Networks and dynamics seminar (Spring 2006 at MIT)
Recent
Advances in Learning and Control
(with S. Boyd, H. Kimura),
Springer Verlag, London, 2008.
Unsolved
problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory
(with A.
Megretski), Princeton University Press, 2004.
Mathématiques
pour les Sciences, Dunod,
Paris, 2000.
Open
Problems in Mathematical Systems and Control Theory
(with E.
D. Sontag, M. Vidyasagar and J.C. Willems), Springer Verlag, 1999.
Simultaneous
stabilization of linear systems,
Springer Verlag,
1994.
Associate Editor, Mathematics of Control, Signals, and Systems (Springer Verlag)
Research
groups
Research
group on large
graphs and
networks
Belgian Interuniversity Attraction Poles on dynamical
systems and control
European Union
Network of Excellence Hycon
on hybrid systems
European Science
Foundation project on dynamic
communication networks (Dynamo).
Center
for Systems Engineering and Applied Mechanics (CESAME)
Center
for
Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
Past
postdocs and
long-term
visitors
Manuel López Martinez (2009-2010), Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
Sophie Hautphenne (2009-2010), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Balázs Csanád Csáji (2008-2009), Hungarian Academy of Science, Hungary.
Jari Saramaki (2008), Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.
Paul Bell (2007-2008), University of Liverpool, UK.
Renaud Lambiotte (2007-2008), Imperial College, London, UK.
Emmanuel Hainry (2006-2007), Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, France.
Jean-Loup Guillaume (2006-2007), University of Paris 7, France.
Fabien Mathieu (2005), Université de Montpellier, France.
Vladimir Protasov (2005), University of Moscow, Russia.
Fabian Wirth (2004), Universität Würzburg, Germany.
Petr Kurka (2003), Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
Pascal Koiran (2001 and 2002), Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
Alexander Vladimirov (2001 and 2002), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.
Anahi Gajardo (2001-2002), Universidad de Concepción, Chile.
Vincent Canterini (2000-2002), Université de Marseille, Fance.
Eugene Asarin (2000), Université Paris 7, France.
Codrin Nichitiu (1999-2000), Université de Saint Etienne, France.
Leonid Gurvits (1999), Los Alamos National Laboratories, USA.
Julien Cassaigne (1999 and 2008), Institut de Mathématiques de Luminy, Marseille, France.
Natacha Portier (1998-1999), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Lyon, France.
Current
and past
PhD
students
Gautier Krings (Research assistant, 2007-). Time evolving graphs and networks.
Cristobald de Kerchove (Research assistant, 2004-2009), Ranking large networks: Leadership, optimization and distrust.
Raphaël Jungers (FNRS, 2005-2008), Applications of the joint spectral radius. IBM PhD thesis prize 2009.
Julien Hendrickx (FNRS, 2004-2008), Graphs and networks for the analysis of autonomous agent systems, EECI european PhD thesis prize 2008, Alcatel-Bell PhD thesis prize 2009.
Laure Ninove (FNRS, 2003-2008), Dominant vectors of nonnegative matrices. Applications to information extraction.
Ho Ngoc Diep (FRIA, 2003-2008), Nonnegative matrix factorization. Algorithms and applications.
Jean-Charles Delvenne (FNRS, 2002-2005), Dynamics, Information and computation, IBM PhD thesis prize 2005.
Jacques Theys (FNRS, 2001-2005), Joint spectral radius: Theory and approximations, Benelux meeting prizes 2004 and 2005.