Events 2019

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Apart from a scientific semester programme CWI organizes mini-symposia, masterclasses, lectures with renowned speakers (like the Abel prize winners from 2022), hackathons and data challenges. Additionally, we organize and host other regular scientific meetings like reading groups, seminars, collaboration sessions and open-problem sessions. The format is flexible to meet the preferences of the participants.

PhD defence Bohan Chen (ST)

11 Dec 2019 from 4 p.m. to 11 Dec 2019 5:30 p.m. | TU Eindhoven, room 0.710 of building Atlas

Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Bohan of this thesis entitled 'Heavy tails: asymptotics, algorithms, applications'.

PhD defence Keyvan Azadbakht (FM)

11 Dec 2019 from 11:15 a.m. to 11 Dec 2019 12:45 p.m. | Senate Chamber of the Academy building, Rapenburg 73, 2311GJ Leiden

Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Keyvan of his thesis 'Asynchronous Programming in the Abstract Behavioural Specification Language'.

PhD defence Andrea Fontanari (Scientific Computing)

10 Dec 2019 from 3 p.m. to 10 Dec 2019 4 p.m. | TU Delft, Senaatszaal of the Auditorium, Mekelweg 5, Delft

Lorenz-based quantitative risk management, 10 December, 15:00hrs

3rd QSC General Assembly

4 Dec 2019 from 10 a.m. to 4 Dec 2019 4:45 p.m. | the public library OBA (Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam), Oosterdokskade 143, Amsterdam

Everyone is welcome to attend the 3rd General Assembly of the Quantum Software Consortium (QSC). Registration is free but required; please visit the website to apply.

N&O seminar: Yair Shenfeld (Princeton University)

3 Dec 2019 from 2 p.m. to 3 Dec 2019 3 p.m. | Room L016 at CWI, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam

Everyone is welcome to attend the N&O Lecture of Yair Shenfeld entitled 'Quantum graphs, convex bodies, and a century-old problem of Minkowski'.

Scientific Meeting 29 November 2019

29 Nov 2019 from 1 p.m. to 29 Nov 2019 2 p.m. |

ML Seminar: Marten van Dijk (University of Connecticut, on sabbatical at CWI)

28 Nov 2019 from 11 a.m. to 28 Nov 2019 noon | Room L120 at CWI, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam

Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture of Marten van Dijk with the title 'New Convergence Aspects of Stochastic Gradient Descend with Diminishing Learning Rate'.

EWM-NL Annual meeting 2019: Understanding and fixing the leaky pipeline

27 Nov 2019 from 1 p.m. to 27 Nov 2019 7 p.m. | Room L017 at CWI, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam

This annual event aims to bring together all members of EWM-NL and of the general mathematics community in the country. This year, the focus is on 'Understanding and Fixing the Leaky Pipeline', a metaphor for the lack of women at senior levels of academia. Registration is open to all interested participants.