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[[FILE:michel_van_den_bergh_veniceVan den bergh michel 2010.jpg|border|right|thumb|link=https://hardy.uhasselt.be/personal/vdbergh/michel_van_den_bergh_venice.jpg| Michel Van den Bergh <ref>Michel Van den Bergh in , [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venice VeniceMathematical_Research_Institute_of_Oberwolfach Oberwolfach]2010, [https://hardyopc.uhasseltmfo.bede/personaldetail?photo_id=12542 source], [https:/vdbergh/michel_van_den_bergh_venicecommons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Van_den_bergh_michel_2010.jpg imageImage] via by [https://hardyopc.uhasseltmfo.bede/personalpictures_of_author?id=8288 Renate Schmid], [https:/vdbergh/Membersde.wikipedia.org/wiki/michel_id.html Homepage of Michel_Van_den_Bergh Michel Van den Berghfrom Wikipedia.de](German)</ref> ]]

a Belgian mathematician, Ph.D. in 1985 and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habilitation Habilitation] (Hoger Aggregaat) in 1990 from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Antwerp University of Antwerp], and director of research at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Fund_for_Scientific_Research Fund for Scientific Research], also affiliated with the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Hasselt University of Hasselt], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diepenbeek Diepenbeek], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vrije_Universiteit_Brussel Free University of Brussels]. He was visiting researcher and professor at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge,_Massachusetts Cambridge, Massachusetts], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur_University Louis Pasteur University] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg Strasbourg], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_Sciences_Research_Institute Mathematical Sciences Research Institute] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California Berkeley, California], and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittag-Leffler_Institute Mittag Leffler Institute] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockholm Stockholm] <ref>[http://hardy.uhasselt.be/personal/vdbergh/Members/curreng.pdf CV Michel Van den Bergh] (pdf)</ref>. His research interests include [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_topology algebraic topology] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic_geometry algebraic geometry], in particular [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncommutative_algebraic_geometry noncommutative algebraic geometry].

Michel Van den Bergh's professional interests in mathematics is supplemented by chess and computer chess programming. He worked on [[Toga|Toga II]] [[Posix]] ports <ref>[httphttps://hardyen.uhasseltwikipedia.beorg/Toga/posix_versionswiki/ POSIX Posix ] ports of some recent version of Toga II] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]]</ref>, on [[icsdrone]], an interface between an ICS ([[Chess Server|Internet Chess Server]]) and a chess engine supporting the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]] <ref>[http://hardy.uhasselt.be/Toga/icsdroneng-release/OVERVIEW.txt icsdroneng - Interface between an xboard chess engine and an ICS]</ref>, and made an attempt to transform [[GNU Chess]] into a modern Chess Engine Communication Protocol compliant engine. He is in the process to improve version 5 with various [[Static Exchange Evaluation|SEE]] based [[Pruning|pruning]] techniques and optimizations, where SEESign is faster to determine if the SEE value is below some threshold than computing its actual value <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=514587 Re: GNU Chess 5.07.175b released] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]], [[CCC]], April 14, 2013</ref>, and further applied [[Automated Tuning|parameter tuning]] using [[Rémi Coulom|Rémi Coulom's]] [[CLOP]], Confident Local Optimization for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Tuning <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=47776 GNU Chess 5.07.175b released] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]], [[CCC]], April 13, 2013</ref>. More recently, Michel Van den Bergh is engaged in [[Match Statistics|match statistics]] and [[Match Statistics#SPRT|sequential probability ratio test]].

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=25582 Polyglot now supports the UCI protocol:-)] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]], [[CCC]], December 22, 2008 » [[PolyglotPolyGlot]], [[UCI]]

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55893 Script for computing SPRT probabilities] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]], [[CCC]], April 05, 2015 » [[Match Statistics#SPRT|SPRT]]

* [httphttps://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=52121 The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Michel Van den Bergh]* [httphttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=DT8oL8AAAAAJ&hl=en Michel Van den Bergh - Google Scholar Citations]* [httphttps://owpdbopc.mfo.de/person_detail?id=6692 Details for Michel Van den Bergh], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oberwolfach Oberwolfach] Photo Collection

* [httphttps://hardygithub.uhasseltcom/vdbergh vdbergh · GitHub]* [https://github.becom/Togavdbergh/book_format.html Polyglot book format] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]] » [[Polyglot]pentanomial GitHub - vdbergh/pentanomial: SPRT for pentanomial frequencies and simulation tools]* [httphttps://hardygithub.uhasselt.becom/Togavdbergh/posix_versionssimul GitHub - vdbergh/ Posix ports of some recent version of Toga II] by [[Michel Van den Bergh]] » [[Toga]simul: A multi-threaded pentanomial simulator]