De vakantiecursus voor leraren wiskunde 2024 zal plaatsvinden in Amsterdam (CWI): vrij 23 en za 24 augustus. En in Antwerpen (Universiteit Antwerpen, Campus Groenenborger): vrij 6 en za 7 september. De organisatie is in handen van PWN (Platform Wiskunde Nederland) en PWV (Platform Wiskunde Vlaanderen). Het thema is: “Banach-Tarski: hoe…
Onzichtbaar, abstract, maar overal om ons heen: wiskunde. Voor veel scholieren horrorvak nummer één, maar in het dagelijks leven onmisbaar. Wiskunde kan levens redden, maar ook een dagje uit een stuk plezieriger maken. Samen met zijn collega’s Joris Slootweg en Jesse Nagel ontwikkelde Rob van der Mei van het Centrum…
Bath, VERENIGD KONINKRIJK – Het Nederlandse team heeft deze week vijf medailles gewonnen bij de Internationale Wiskunde Olympiade. Met 28 punten sleepte Ryan Staal een zilveren medaille in de wacht. Ook vier andere teamleden gaan met eremetaal naar huis: Tobias Kristiansen, Bas Capel, Felix Hamoen en Naïm Hofstede hebben een…
The European Research Council Executive Agency (ERCEA), located in Brussels, Belgium, supports the work of the European Research Council, the first pan-European funder of excellent frontier research in Europe. The ERCEA is dedicated to selecting and funding the excellent ideas that have not happened yet, and the scientists that are…
It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Dr. Alessandro Di Bucchianico on Monday, July 8, 2024. Alessandro dedicated over 31 years to the community at TU Eindhoven, working with great distinction as Associate Professor in the SPOR cluster and serving as Program Director within the Department…
Dr. Lucas Slot, ETH Zürich, is one of the 2024 recipients of the SIAM Student Paper Prize. He received the prize for his paper, “Sum-of-Squares Hierarchies for Polynomial Optimization and the Christoffel–Darboux Kernel,” written while he was a PhD student at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam. The paper was published…
Dr. Perfect Yayra Gidisu, Eindhoven University of Technology, is one of the 2023 recipients of the SIAM Student Paper Prize. She received the prize for her paper, “A Generalized CUR Decomposition for Matrix Pairs,” co-authored with Michiel E. Hochstenbach of Eindhoven University of Technology. The paper was published in SIAM…
An international evaluation committee concludes that CWI shows scientific top leadership in many ways: CWI’s research is of exceptionally high quality with strong societal relevance.Furthermore, the committee stated that the institute is “well connected through collaborations with national and international institutions, societal partners and industry.” The evaluation covered the institute’s…
Yesterday, May 21, Crown Prince Haakon of Norway presented the 2024 Abel Prize to Michel Talagrand in the University Aula in Oslo. Talagrand is from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, France. He received the prize for his groundbreaking contributions to probability theory and functional analysis,…
We warmly invite all young researchers in mathematics in the Netherlands to join our first annual Young KWG day on Friday the 24th of May in Utrecht! Young KWG is the newest addition to the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG), and aims to foster a community of young mathematicians in…