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Grote STW-subsidie voor ontladingsonderzoek CWI

Onderzoeker Ute Ebert van het Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam heeft in november een grote STW-subsidie gekregen voor drie projecten over ...

Hoera! Een nieuwe nationale supercomputer: Snellius

Op donderdag 16 september verrichtte Koningin Máxima de officiële opening van de nieuwe nationale supercomputer Snellius. CWI-onderzoekers rekenen al sinds ...

In Memoriam Willem Hundsdorfer

With sadness, we let you know that our colleague Prof. Willem Hundsdorfer passed away on Friday 10 November, at the age of 63. Since 1984 Willem had been ...

Jannis Teunissen wins GEC15 Student Award of Excellence

Jannis Teunissen from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, won the Student Award of Excellence of the GEC for his talk 'Advances ...

Large STW grant for CWI research on discharges

In November, Ute Ebert (CWI) received a large STW grant for three research projects on discharges. These projects are about X-rays and gamma radiation from ...

Lightning produces afterglow of gamma radiation

Ionizing radiation due to lightning shines for much longer than presumed before: up to 10,000 times longer. This was demonstrated for the first time by ...

LOFAR brengt groei bliksemflitsen in beeld

De Nederlandse radiotelescoop LOFAR kan voor het eerst het ontstaan en de ontwikkeling van bliksemflitsen tot op details van ongeveer een meter volgen, wat ...

Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather book published

Recently, the book 'Machine Learning Techniques for Space Weather', edited by CWI researcher Enrico Camporeale and others, was published by Elsevier. The book ...

Nature: AI for understanding extreme physics

Researchers of the University of Oxford, CWI and other organizations published a paper in Nature reviewing the use of artificial intelligence and machine ...

New electricity grids possible with computer simulations

Renewable energy requires new electricity grids, sometimes over entire continents, because 'green energy' is often generated in remote locations.