The International Day of Mathematics (IDM) is a worldwide celebration. The International Day of Mathematics is a project led by the International Mathematical Union with the support of numerous international and regional organizations. Each year on March 14 all countries are invited to participate through activities for both students and the general public…
Are you a researcher looking to share your work with a broader audience? Do you want to strengthen your science communication skills and make your research more accessible? Then we have an interesting opportunity for you: a Summer School in Science Communication, jointly organized by the faculties of Science and…
LNMB was established in 1987 and stands for “the Dutch Network on the Mathematics of Operations Research (Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde)”. It is an interuniversity cooperation which has a central role in bringing the OR community in the Netherlands together and promoting close-ties and collaboration that has regularly led to…
Wetenschnapps XXL is organized by the Center for Science and Culture, the Science Communication Network of Utrecht University, and SciComNL. During the year, smaller sessions are also organized where knowledge exchange about public involvement and science communication forms the basis. The event took place on January 21 in Utrecht, with…
The Mathematics Outreach and Engagement Committee is a small group of busy mathematicians who are committed to making mathematics accessible and engaging across Europe. All members are actively engaged in communicating mathematics in their country and more widely. To maximize their impact as a committee they are focusing on: Throughout…
This Spring 2025 semester programme will bring together researchers in the control and reinforcement learning communities and familiarize students with methods across these inter-related fields. This CWI research semester programme will comprise a spring school and workshops on various sub-topics, orchestrated by a distinguished team including Aditya Gilra, Bert Kappen,…
(English follows) Het was een prachtige zonnige zaterdag in Utrecht. Rond kwart voor negen kon je de eerste deelnemers zien aankomen op het Domplein en lopen naar het Academiegebouw. Het was weer tijd voor het jaarlijkse Wintersymposium, en het was hartstikke leuk om, na alle lekker eten en rust van…
De Nederlandse Wiskundeprijs is bedoeld voor een nog volop actieve, in Nederland werkende wiskundige, in de leeftijdscategorie 45 tot en met 60 jaar op de nominatiedatum. De prijs wordt toegekend op basis van uitzonderlijke bijdragen aan wiskundeonderzoek met grote internationale zichtbaarheid, alsmede op basis van belangrijke bijdragen aan de ontwikkeling…
The 60th Netherlands Mathematical Congress (NMC) takes place on April 22-23, 2025 in Soesterberg. This landmark event, celebrating six decades of excellence in mathematics, is aimed at all mathematicians, from pure to applied, and from PhD student to chief technology officer, from high-school teacher to full professor. 4TU.AMI will organise…
A total of 87 dissertations were assessed. The jury was impressed by the high quality of the dissertations, the number of publications resulting from the PhD candidates’ research, and the independence demonstrated by many of the PhD candidates. The jury consisted of Erik van den Ban (UU), Odo Diekmann (UU),…