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Developing Improved Breast Cancer Imaging Techniques

Breast Cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in women worldwide. Felix Lucka from the Computational Imaging group at CWI is part of a European ...

Cycling & Mathematics: why Wilco Kelderman lost a minute or more to the early starters of the Giro 2020 prologue

Cycling pro Wilco Kelderman is a good individual time trialist and he said in his post-race interview that he felt he rode a great prologue at the Giro 2020. ...

CWI: 75 years of pioneering research

This year, CWI is celebrating! 75 years ago, the institute opened its doors. Its aim was to promote the use of pure and applied mathematics in the ...

Insight in Wood: dating wooden objects with 3D CT imaging

Together with the Rijksmuseum, researchers of CIW's Computational Imaging group investigate art objects with the help of our state of the art FleX-ray scanner. ...

Making the invisible visible

CT machines are becoming the standard tool for looking inside objects of all kinds in research and industry. The FleX-ray Lab at CWI is making this type of ...

HISTORISCH BEWIJS: IN WELKE KIST VLUCHTTE HUGO DE GROOT UIT SLOT LOEVESTEIN?

In het AVROTROS TV programma 'Historisch Bewijs' werd onderzocht in welke kist Hugo de Groot uit zijn gevangenschap ontsnapte. CT technieken van de ...

Pablo Cesar: The Outlook for Virtual Meetups

When Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica celebrated its 75th anniversary online due to a lockdown earlier this year, two colleagues immersed in a virtual world, did ...

Laat de computer voor je onderhandelen

Bij complexe onderhandelingen – van de verkoop van een huis tot het formeren van een kabinet – is het voor mensen vaak onmogelijk om alle aspecten te overzien. ...

Better Statistics Leads to Better Research

“The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone’s backyard.” This quote from the eminent mathematician, John Tukey, sums up ...

COMPUTER SCIENCE CLOSE TO REAL WORLD

Pablo Cesar, group leader of the Distributive and Interactive Systems group at CWI and Professor at TU Delft, is the recipient of the 2020 Netherlands Prize ...