BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Jens R. Calamé DTSTART:20080904T100000Z DTEND:20080904T100000Z UID:9505dafa-2226-4d57-9307-cdcdb21b0bd7 DESCRIPTION:Errors in software can be catastrophic\, for example in ATMs. Jens Calamé researched how the process of avoiding these errors can be au tomated. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Pascal Lieshout DTSTART:20080905T090000Z DTEND:20080905T090000Z UID:9a81c26f-e272-449a-8940-ae6062ff79d7 DESCRIPTION:Bandwidth of internet data can be used more effective with que ueing models. Mathematician Pascal Lieshout will be promoted on this topic on 5 September at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Steven de Rooij DTSTART:20080910T090000Z DTEND:20080910T090000Z UID:6bbe0ffb-7693-4ee7-b896-3c7833151c71 DESCRIPTION:Title: 'Minimum Description Length Model Selection - Problems and Extensions'. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Falk Unger DTSTART:20080918T070000Z DTEND:20080918T070000Z UID:0d5591e8-a143-4ced-8b65-ddfc8b11b717 DESCRIPTION:Title: "Noise in Quantum and Classical Computation & Non-local ity". END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jarek Byrka (PNA1) DTSTART:20081013T130000Z DTEND:20081013T140000Z UID:5af5b1b1-645a-42e4-be56-a9b59d21dc5e DESCRIPTION:About Randomized Approximation Algorithms. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Joost Jacob DTSTART:20081113T130000Z DTEND:20081113T153000Z UID:c6775292-00cc-486c-844c-0cd52cbb8926 DESCRIPTION:Joost Jacob (CWI) will defend his PhD thesis on Domain Specifi c Modeling and Analysis. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Li Chao DTSTART:20090204T140000Z DTEND:20090204T140000Z UID:acaa298f-1927-4589-95d3-ab8d44d8ff83 DESCRIPTION:Title of the thesis: 'Joining particle and fluid aspects in s treamer simulation'. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Regina Egorova DTSTART:20090205T140000Z DTEND:20090205T140000Z UID:8c4b55e8-06e2-409d-b4a0-09b193edcbc3 DESCRIPTION:Thesis title: 'Sojourn time tails in processor-sharing systems '. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Frank Roijers DTSTART:20090211T100000Z DTEND:20090211T110000Z UID:a62962ab-359b-4855-bcbc-4890ed469dcb DESCRIPTION:Thesis title: 'Fluid models for QoS provisioning in communicat ion networks'. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Alexander Broersen DTSTART:20090303T140000Z DTEND:20090303T150000Z UID:762d5853-5e4b-46e6-a9a8-1026d0c51495 DESCRIPTION:Thesis title: 'Feature Visualization in Large Scale Imaging Ma ss Spectrometry Data". Supervisors:  prof. dr. ir. R. van Liere (CWI / TU /e) and prof. dr. R.M.A. Heeren (AMOLF / UU). Location: Eindhoven Universi ty of TechnologyStart: 16.00h More information (in Dutch): Snellere biomed ische beeldverwerking door CWI-onderzoek. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Robbert de Haan DTSTART:20090311T130000Z DTEND:20090311T140000Z UID:d05dcbc5-d9d8-4591-9180-a1439b82cbf3 DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Algebraic Techniques for Low Communication Secure Protocols END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Wemke van der Weij DTSTART:20090423T074500Z DTEND:20090423T084500Z UID:408b89ac-ed79-4e2b-a0f7-20b24fd089ca DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Queueing Networks with Shared ResourcesSupervisor: prof. dr. R.D. van der Mei (CWI and VU University)Location: Aula\, VU Uni versity\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Helle Hvid Hansen DTSTART:20090514T104500Z DTEND:20090514T114500Z UID:a864ef3f-b684-4405-86a5-59c7ce0dfcec DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Coalgebraic Modelling: Applications in Automata Th eory and Modal Logic END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Peter van Heijster DTSTART:20090526T110000Z DTEND:20090526T120000Z UID:a9d28a27-29f1-4d40-9aa8-658a19afdba6 DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Front interactions in a three-component system END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Fabian Groffen DTSTART:20090610T070000Z DTEND:20090610T080000Z UID:7511f087-d202-4ea5-aabd-a097ebbfa99b DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Armada\, an Evolving Database System END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Erik Jan van Leeuwen DTSTART:20090616T070000Z DTEND:20090616T080000Z UID:d802e203-4663-42f1-af5a-57e771667ae3 DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Optimization and Approximation on Systems of Geome tric Objects END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Andreas Witzel DTSTART:20090903T090000Z DTEND:20090903T100000Z UID:19d0da69-00d1-47a8-ba6f-b9e8a8f361a3 DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Knowledge and Games: Theory and Implementation END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Marcin Zukowski DTSTART:20090911T070000Z DTEND:20090911T080000Z UID:fbbdb4f3-0697-424d-bd3f-5eb61ad5143d DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Balancing Vectorized Query Execution with Bandwid th-Optimized Storage Supervisor: Prof. dr. M.L. Kersten (CWI and UvA) Co-s upervisor: dr. P.A. Boncz (CWI) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Alex van Ballegooij DTSTART:20090917T110000Z DTEND:20090917T120000Z UID:cf995ed0-41a4-4e7a-af1f-ae9051972826 DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: RAM: Array Database Management through Relational Mapping Supervisor: Prof. dr. M.L. Kersten (CWI and UvA) Co-supervisor: Pr of. dr. ir. A.P. de Vries (CWI and TU Delft) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Taolue Chen DTSTART:20090923T104500Z DTEND:20090923T114500Z UID:49306068-4d3b-4123-a368-b99978769496 DESCRIPTION:Title PhD thesis: Clocks\, Dice and ProcessesSupervisors: Prof . dr. W.J. Fokkink\,  Prof. dr. J.C. van de Pol END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Maksat Ashyraliyev DTSTART:20091020T090000Z DTEND:20091020T100000Z UID:133ffaca-0a57-4395-be2c-8e11401daf12 DESCRIPTION:PhD thesis: Modelling\, Simulation\, and Inferring Regulatory Networks Supervisor: Prof. dr. J.G. Verwer (CWI and UvA) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Ferdi Smit DTSTART:20091112T140000Z DTEND:20091112T150000Z UID:63a3f493-e6c0-4a56-b51f-0becca43d0b1 DESCRIPTION:Title: A Programmable Display-Layer Architecture for Virtual-R eality Applications. Supervisor: Prof. dr. ir. Robert van Liere. Location: Eindhoven University of Technology. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Maaike Verloop DTSTART:20091126T140000Z DTEND:20091126T153000Z UID:a14eb118-95d7-49d7-af4d-abe254a19c1b DESCRIPTION:Thesis title: Scheduling in Stochastic Resource-Sharing System s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Fernando de Oliveira Filho DTSTART:20091201T080000Z DTEND:20091201T090000Z UID:5b8b8334-f91e-4581-935e-ca35156e6d37 DESCRIPTION:Title: New Bounds for Geometric Packing and Coloring via Harmo nic Analysis and Optimization END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Lorenzo Sella DTSTART:20091201T084500Z DTEND:20091201T100000Z UID:ddbe1ce6-ade8-4265-a848-e79c908052d4 DESCRIPTION:Title: Computation of symbolic dynamics of low-dimensional map s END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Jana Nemcova DTSTART:20091202T114500Z DTEND:20091202T124500Z UID:2d2d5fb8-c4ab-44fd-ad6d-1ae23f742c3b DESCRIPTION:Title: Rational Systems in Control and System Theory. Supervis or: Prof. dr. ir. J.H. van Schuppen. Location: Vrije Universiteit\, Aula\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Alia Amin (Interactive Information Access) DTSTART:20101208T080000Z DTEND:20101208T080000Z UID:a7254221-2332-4529-8948-702c83538ef5 DESCRIPTION:Public defence of Alia Amin's Ph.D. thesis 'Understanding and Supporting Information Seeking Tasks among Multiple Sources'.\n\nLocation: \nLocation: Agnietenkapel - UVA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam. LOCATION:Location: Agnietenkapel - UVA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amste rdam. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence David Costa (SEN3) DTSTART:20101213T094500Z DTEND:20101213T110000Z UID:ede3f50a-d0be-40b1-93ab-64db6345917d DESCRIPTION:PhD defence of David de Oliveira Costa (SEN3)Thesis: Formal Mo dels for Component Connectors Promotor: prof. dr. J.J.M.M. Rutten (CWI\, RUN)\, prof. dr. F. Arbab (CWI\, UL) Co-promotores: dr. D.G. Clarke\, dr. M. Niqui (CWI)\n\nLocation:\nVrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1 105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence MohammadMahdi Jaghouri (SEN3) DTSTART:20101220T114500Z DTEND:20101220T130000Z UID:3ba1c38d-7ca3-4934-af46-f451fe37647e DESCRIPTION:Thesis: Time At Your Service: Schedulability Analysis of Real- Time and Distributed ServicesPromotor: Prof. dr. F.S. de Boer (CWI\, UL)Na me: MohammadMahdi Jaghouri is also spelled as Mohammad Mahdi Jaghoori.\n\n Location:\nLeiden University (Senaatskamer\, Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73 ) LOCATION:Leiden University (Senaatskamer\, Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Alexandra Silva (SEN3) DTSTART:20101221T083000Z DTEND:20101221T093000Z UID:123806c3-a385-4605-8693-923c2d5357a2 DESCRIPTION:PhD defence Alexandra Silva On the occasion of the PhD defens e of Alexandra Silva\, there will be a workshop around the theme "Kleene Coalgebra"\, which is the subject of Alexandra's thesis. For more info p lease check: http://homepages.cwi.nl/~ams/kc/\n\nLocation:\nRadboud Unive rsiteit Nijmegen LOCATION:Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Maciej Dobrzyński DTSTART:20110113T080000Z DTEND:20110113T100000Z UID:c860e341-ac96-4a7e-bff6-bb11c6a44155 DESCRIPTION:Title: Molecules in MotionSubtitle: a theoretical study of noi se in gene expression and cell signallingPromotores: Prof.dr. J.G. Verwer and Prof.dr. H.V. Westerhoff ABSTRACT.\n\nLocation:\nDe Agnietenkapel - U VA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:De Agnietenkapel - UVA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Hado van Hasselt (SEN4) DTSTART:20110117T141500Z DTEND:20110117T153000Z UID:fd98a65e-92e0-4c19-b1cb-292211d6bb94 DESCRIPTION:Herewith we invite you to attend the public defence of the dis sertation of Hado van Hasselt\, entitled: Insights in Reinforcement Learni ng.Promotoren: Prof.dr. J.-J.Ch. Meyer en Prof.dr. L.R.B. Schomaker. Ever ybody is welcome.\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw\, Domplein 29\, Utrecht LOCATION:Academiegebouw\, Domplein 29\, Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Lăcrămioara Aştefănoaei (SEN3) DTSTART:20110119T114500Z DTEND:20110119T130000Z UID:81f20844-a969-4ef0-89f7-c997065dd849 DESCRIPTION:Hereby we invite you to attend the public defence of the disse rtation of Lăcrămioara Aştefănoaei\, entitled: An Executable Theory of Multi-Agent Systems Refinement. Promotores: Prof.dr. F.S. de Boer\, Prof.dr. J.J.Ch. MeyerEverybody is welcome.\n\nLocation:\nUniversiteit Le iden. In de Senaatskamer van het Academiegebouw. Rapenburg 73\, Leiden. LOCATION:Universiteit Leiden. In de Senaatskamer van het Academiegebouw. Rapenburg 73\, Leiden. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Wouter M. Koolen (PNA6) DTSTART:20110127T120000Z DTEND:20110127T133000Z UID:a3c0cc38-6888-49c6-a213-5b39c31a1cdd DESCRIPTION:Title: Combining Strategies Efficiently: High-Quality Decision s from Conflicting Advice Promotores: Paul M.B. Vitányi and Peter D. Grü nwald. followed by reception\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel - UVA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel - UVA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Sander Nijdam (MAC 3) PhD defense DTSTART:20110203T140000Z DTEND:20110203T140000Z UID:0b54cb0f-5455-44a7-b202-0dbe67df139a DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday\, Feb. 3\, 16:00\, Sander Nijdam will defend his PhD. Ute Ebert is first promotor\, Gerrit Kroesen is second\, Eddie van Ve ldhuizen is co-promotor. Here is a piece in Cursor about Sander's PhD wo rk:\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium\, Collegezaal 4\, Technical University Eindho ven LOCATION:Auditorium\, Collegezaal 4\, Technical University Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence José Proença (SEN3) DTSTART:20110511T094500Z DTEND:20110511T113000Z UID:9cfbb34f-52f0-400d-b793-385ce84ef61a DESCRIPTION:Everyone is cordially invited to attend the public defence of the Ph.D. thesis entitled: 'Synchronous Coordination of Distributed Compon ents' by José Proença.\n\nLocation:\nAcademy Building\, Rapenburg 67-73\ , Leiden LOCATION:Academy Building\, Rapenburg 67-73\, Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Christian Krause (SEN3) DTSTART:20110621T110000Z DTEND:20110621T123000Z UID:67f94c48-c7d3-4ae2-a1c3-9d3aff18c3e4 DESCRIPTION:Invitation to the public defence of Christian Krause (SEN3) of his dissertation entitled 'Reconfigurable Component Connectors' Promotor: Prof.dr. F. Arbab Copromotor: Dr. E.P. de Vink\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebo uw\, Rapenburg 67-73\, Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 67-73\, Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Ishan Vaishnavi (SEN5) DTSTART:20110624T053000Z DTEND:20110624T073000Z UID:eef6e70d-6db5-4212-ac66-95aeb6bcbf78 DESCRIPTION:Openbare verdediging van Ishan Vaishnavi's proefschrift: 'Cohe rence in Synchronous Shared Experiences' Promotor: Prof.dr. D.C.A. Bulterm an Copromotor: Prof.dr. ir. M.R. van Steen\n\nLocation:\nAula Vrije Univer siteit\, Boelelaan 1105 te Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula Vrije Universiteit\, Boelelaan 1105 te Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Young-Joo Moon (SEN3) DTSTART:20111025T060000Z DTEND:20111025T080000Z UID:86ab1631-f933-4456-86c6-54725d033faa DESCRIPTION:Invitation to the public defence of Young-Joo Moon (SEN3) of her dissertation entitled: 'Stochastic Models for Quality of Service of Co mponent Connectors' Promotor: Prof. Dr. F. Arbab (CWI and Leiden Universit y) Co-promotor: Dr. A. Silva (Radboud University Nijmegen)\n\nLocation:\nU niversiteit Leiden LOCATION:Universiteit Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jop Briët (PNA6) DTSTART:20111027T080000Z DTEND:20111027T100000Z UID:099e8e01-1972-4ebe-a773-b93c5cb62b47 DESCRIPTION:Invitation to the public defence of Jop Briët (PNA6) of his d issertation entitled: 'Grothendieck inequalities\, Nonlocal games and O ptimization' Promotor: Prof.dr. H.M. Buhrman\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel i n Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Bas Basten (SEN1) DTSTART:20111215T120000Z DTEND:20111215T140000Z UID:c7fbc768-f66b-45f7-bc7c-934ffa0f8001 DESCRIPTION:Hierbij nodigen wij u uit voor de openbare verdediging van B as Basten (SEN1) van zijn proefschrift met de titel: Ambiguity Detection f or Programming Language Grammars Promotor    : Prof.dr. Paul Klint (CWI en UvA) Copromotor: Dr. Jurgen Vinju (CWI)\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sjors van der Stelt (CWI/UvA) DTSTART:20120127T110000Z DTEND:20120127T130000Z UID:ec2baa3f-9a09-498f-b1b4-fce2568d2070 DESCRIPTION:Invitation to the public defence of Sjors van der Stelt (MAC1/ UvA) of his dissertation entitled: Rise and Fall of Periodic Patterns fo r a generalized Klausmeier-Gray-Scott model\, promotor: Prof. dr. A. Doel man\, copromotores: Dr. G.M. Hek\, Dr. J.D.M. Rademacher.\n\nLocation:\nAu la van de UvA\, Singel 411\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula van de UvA\, Singel 411\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Gerard Hoekstra (PNA2) DTSTART:20120309T094500Z DTEND:20120309T110000Z UID:28729c25-6959-4658-ad63-1db3e15e97ce DESCRIPTION:Hierbij nodigen wij u uit tot het bijwonen van de openbare ver dediging van Gerard Hoekstra van zijn proefschift 'Concurrent Access and T raffic Control Methods in Wireless Communication Networks'. Promotor: Prof .dr. R.D. van der Mei\n\nLocation:\nVrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105 \, Amsterdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence David Garcia Soriano DTSTART:20120425T060000Z DTEND:20120425T083000Z UID:8ce66908-76c4-40c0-be27-e05ea6328df5 DESCRIPTION:You are very welcome tot attend the public defence of David Ga rcia Soriano of his thesis: "Query-Efficient Computation in Property Testi ng and Learning Theory" Promotor: Prof.dr. H.M. Buhrman Overige leden: Pro f.dr. A. Schrijver\, Prof.dr. R.M. de Wolf\, Dr. A. Matsliah\, Prof.dr. E. Fischer\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterd am LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Marc Stevens (PNA5) DTSTART:20120619T110000Z DTEND:20120619T130000Z UID:1fc8d643-0e44-49fe-a048-3a1583a80775 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging voor het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging va n Marc Stevens (groep PNA5 Cryptologie) van zijn proefschrift getiteld 'At tacks on Hash Functions and Applications'. Promotor: Prof.dr. R. Cramer (C WI & Universiteit Leiden) en Prof.dr. A.K. Lenstra (Ecole Polytechnique F ederale de Lausanne) Copromotor: dr. B.M.M.\n\nLocation:\nAcademie gebouw Universiteit Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 te Leiden LOCATION:Academie gebouw Universiteit Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 te Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Bin Chen (MAC2) DTSTART:20120925T110000Z DTEND:20120925T130000Z UID:92a35ef9-1fe4-4e7d-8d13-7ca5d095886f DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging voor het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging va n Bin Chen (groep MAC2) van zijn proefschrift getiteld 'Interest rate deri vative pricing with stochastic volatility'. Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. C.W. Oos terlee (CWI & Universiteit Delft)\n\nLocation:\nAula of Delft University o f Technology\, Mekelweg 5 te Delft LOCATION:Aula of Delft University of Technology\, Mekelweg 5 te Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Pia Kempker (MAC2) DTSTART:20121123T134500Z DTEND:20121123T150000Z UID:c1ac82d6-c0d3-4fcb-894f-eca10a589570 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging voor het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging va n Pia Kempker (groep MAC2) van haar proefschrift getiteld 'Coordination co ntrol of linear systems'. Promotoren: Prof.dr. A.C.M. Ran (VU)                  Prof.dr.ir. J.H.van Schuppen (CWI/TUD/VU)\n\nLocation :\nVU Aula LOCATION:VU Aula END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Anna Motsartova DTSTART:20121126T133000Z DTEND:20121126T150000Z UID:74a29e3a-2206-41b8-bfbb-1219208b8f10 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging voor het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging va n Anna Motsartova (groep MAC3) van haar proefschrift getiteld 'Boundedness and Monotonicity Properties in Numerical Initial Value Problems'. Promoto ren: Prof.dr. W.H. Hundsdorfer (CWI en Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)\n\nL ocation:\nRadboud Universiteit Nijmegen LOCATION:Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Janis Bajars DTSTART:20121207T120000Z DTEND:20121207T140000Z UID:524e2f60-9363-4b00-a95c-c7327c2ee2f4 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging tot het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Janis Bajars (groep MAC1) van zijn proefschrift getiteld: "Geometric Integ ration and Thermostat Methods for Hamiltonian Systems". Promotor: prof.dr. ir. Jason E. Frank (CWI and UvA). See also:\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Inken Wohlers DTSTART:20121211T114500Z DTEND:20121211T130000Z UID:4abad1a2-59b8-46b0-b25b-35cb39775b93 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging tot het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Inken Wohlers (groep MAC4 Life Sciences) van haar proefschrift getiteld 'E xact algorithms for pairwise protein structure alignment'. Promotor: Prof. dr. Gunnar Klau (CWI and VU)   Zie ook:\n\nLocation:\nVU Aula LOCATION:VU Aula END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Floor Sietsma DTSTART:20121213T100000Z DTEND:20121213T120000Z UID:6960472e-8334-405b-b8f4-6545bb561ad0 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging voor het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Floor Sietsma (PNA1/SEN1) van haar proefschrift getiteld 'Logics of Commun ication and Knowledge'. Promotoren: Prof.Dr. J. van Eijck en Prof.Dr. K.R. Apt\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231 te Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231 te Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Niek Bouman (PNA5) DTSTART:20121218T080000Z DTEND:20121218T100000Z UID:df3ea8d5-9884-4951-9d8a-67d583133281 DESCRIPTION:Iedereen is van harte welkom bij de publieke verdediging van Niek Bouman van zijn proefschrift 'Cryptography from Quantum Uncertainty\, in the Presence of Quantum Side Information' Promotor: Prof.dr. Ronald Cr amer (CWI & Universiteit Leiden) Co-promotor: Dr. Serge Fehr (CWI)\n\nLoca tion:\nUniversiteit Leiden\, Senaatskamer Academiegebouw LOCATION:Universiteit Leiden\, Senaatskamer Academiegebouw END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Immo Grabe DTSTART:20121219T080000Z DTEND:20121219T100000Z UID:694f41c2-5be7-474f-9a15-f3aa45b4e8fe DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of Immo Gr abe (SEN3) of his thesis: Static Analysis of Unbounded Structures in Objec t-Oriented Programs Promotor: Prof. dr. F.S. de Boer (CWI en UL) and Prof . dr. M. Steffen (University Oslo)\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw Universite it Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw Universiteit Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Erietta Liarou DTSTART:20130122T120000Z DTEND:20130122T140000Z UID:deca7bcf-eb59-48b9-ac7f-0aa59c4de9c0 DESCRIPTION:You are welcome at the public defence of the PhD thesis of Eri etta Liarou (CWI)\, entitled: 'MonetDB/DataCell: Leveraging the Column-sto re Database Technology for Efficient and Scalable Stream Processing'The de fence takes place on Tuesday 22nd of January 2013\, at 14:00\n\nLocation:\ nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231 Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231 Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Arnoud den Boer DTSTART:20130207T134500Z DTEND:20130207T150000Z UID:d31f3372-3fa7-4930-b2d2-08df6cee3b45 DESCRIPTION:Iedereen is van harte welkom bij de publieke verdediging van  Arnoud den Boer (Stochastics groep) van zijn proefschrift 'Dynamic Pricing and Learning' Promotoren: Prof.dr. Rob van der Mei en Prof.dr. Bert Zwart \n\nLocation:\nAula Vrije Universiteit\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula Vrije Universiteit\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Benjamin Sanderse DTSTART:20130319T140000Z DTEND:20130319T160000Z UID:802031ff-36f4-4351-b269-e067c8517746 DESCRIPTION:U bent van harte welkom bij de publieke verdediging van Benja min Sanderse van zijn proefschrift 'Energy-conserving discretization metho ds for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations'. Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. Barry Koren (TU Eindhoven\, CWI).\n\nLocation:\nTU Eindhoven LOCATION:TU Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Willem Haverkort DTSTART:20130321T140000Z DTEND:20130321T160000Z UID:4f8f0134-6836-4658-87d1-c9d7ad7690b4 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging tot het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Willem Haverkort (groep Scientific Computing) van zijn proefschrift getite ld: "Magnetohydrodynamic waves and instabilities in rotating tokamak plasm as". Promotor: prof.dr.ir. Barry Koren (TU Eindhoven) Copromotor: dr. Hugo de Blank (FOM Institute DIFFER) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Romulo Goncalves DTSTART:20130322T090000Z DTEND:20130322T110000Z UID:243ccf46-b866-4c7a-8078-bbe72cb6e41c DESCRIPTION:You are welcome at the public defence of the PhD thesis of Rom ulo Goncalves (CWI)\, entitled:The Data Cyclotron: Juggling Data and Queri es for a Data Warehouse Audience The defence takes place on Friday 22nd of March 2013\, at 11:00 in the Aula\, Spui 111 in Amsterdam\, The Netherlan dsPromotor: prof. dr. M.L. Kersten (CWI en UvA)\n\nLocation:\nAula\, Spui 111 Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula\, Spui 111 Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Demeter Kiss (Stochastics) DTSTART:20130703T094500Z DTEND:20130703T123000Z UID:a44f9e1a-eaca-48df-aea9-e1a8acba181b DESCRIPTION:Iedereen is van harte welkom tot het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Demeter's proefschrift 'Topics in percolation theory'. P romotor: Prof.dr. Rob van den Berg\n\nLocation:\nAula Vrije Universiteit\ , Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula Vrije Universiteit\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Gideon Wormeester DTSTART:20130829T120000Z DTEND:20130829T130000Z UID:4a204756-2e5f-404e-a817-0c8fcb3f17a1 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging tot het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Gideon Wormeester (groep MD) van zijn proefschrift getiteld: "Propagation mechanisms of positive streamers in different gases". Promotor: prof.dr. U te Ebert (CWI and TU/e).\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium van de Technische Univer siteit Eindhoven LOCATION:Auditorium van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Wagner Fortes DTSTART:20130918T094500Z DTEND:20130918T104500Z UID:b7ddd6f7-788e-47e0-a843-d693f0c504b2 DESCRIPTION:Uitnodiging tot het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Wagner Fortes (groep SC) van zijn proefschrift getiteld: "Error Bounds for Discrete Tomography". Promotoren: prof.dr. Joost Batenburg (CWI en Univer siteit Antwerpen) en prof.dr.ir. Barry Koren (TU/e).\n\nLocation:\nSenaat skamer van het Academiegebouw van de Universiteit Leiden LOCATION:Senaatskamer van het Academiegebouw van de Universiteit Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Guus Regts (N&O) DTSTART:20131122T120000Z DTEND:20131122T140000Z UID:90239b72-7d20-4598-b7c0-8392c45d6a84 DESCRIPTION:Iedereen is welkom op de promotie van Guus Regts.  De titel v an zijn proefschrift is 'Graph parameters and invariants of the orthogonal group' Promotor: Prof.dr. Lex Schrijver\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oud ezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Antonios Varvitsiotis (N&O) DTSTART:20131125T141500Z DTEND:20131125T160000Z UID:b28e2070-2e48-4fb0-a6e4-7bacf7774fbf DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the defence of Antonios Varvits iotis. Title of his thesis 'Combinatorial Conditions for Low Rank Solutio ns in Semidefinite Programming' Promotor: Prof.dr. Monique Laurent\n\nLoca tion:\nTilburg University\, Auditorium Cobbenhagen building LOCATION:Tilburg University\, Auditorium Cobbenhagen building END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Giannicola Scarpa (A&C) DTSTART:20131127T080000Z DTEND:20131127T110000Z UID:63f02a09-814a-4144-afdf-d10ad5a73c7e DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Giannicola Scarpa of his thesis 'Quantum Entanglement in Non-local Games\, Graph Par ameters and Zero-error Information Theory'. Promotor: Prof.dr. Ronald de W olf   See also:\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-2 31\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Stijn de Gouw (FM) DTSTART:20131218T080000Z DTEND:20131218T103000Z UID:174c4aef-fcde-42cc-8099-dcd5caba0203 DESCRIPTION:Wij nodigen u uit tot het bijwonen van de openbare verdediging van Stijn de Gouw. De titel van zijn proefschrift is "Combining Monitorin g with Run-time Assertion Checking"   Promotor: Prof.dr. Frank de Boer Co -promotor: dr. Marcello Bonsanque   More information:\n\nLocation:\nAcade miegebouw Rapenburg 73 in Leiden. LOCATION:Academiegebouw Rapenburg 73 in Leiden. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jeroen van den Bos (SWAT) DTSTART:20140109T080000Z DTEND:20140109T103000Z UID:39bed7e0-71db-431a-970d-89df70c02a17 DESCRIPTION:We invite you to attend the public defence of Jeroen van den B os of his dissertation "Gathering Evidence: Model-Driven Software Engineer ing in Automated Digital Forensics".\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezij ds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Bruno Loff (A&C) DTSTART:20140121T080000Z DTEND:20140121T103000Z UID:7b49f625-1ec6-458b-801b-5174d7a70655 DESCRIPTION:We invite you to attend the public defence of Bruno Loff of hi s dissertation entitled " A Medley for Computational Complexity" Promotor : Prof.dr. Harry Buhrman   More information: Bruno Loff defends thesis on computational complexity\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburg wal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Rodrigo Laiola Guimarães DTSTART:20140128T114500Z DTEND:20140128T143000Z UID:008b0ea4-ad1e-455b-a078-7df70c68def0 DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of Rodrigo Laiola Guimaraes of his thesis entitled "Socially-Aware Multimedia Author ing" Promotor: Prof.dr. Dick Bulterman Co-promotor: Dr. Pablo César Garci a\n\nLocation:\nAula VU\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula VU\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Shashi Jain DTSTART:20140210T080000Z DTEND:20140210T093000Z UID:bcec8423-0288-46f3-bb6f-ea8609715a6c DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of Shashi Jain of his thesis entitled "Investment Decisions Under Uncertainties: A C ase of Nuclear Power Plants". Promotor: Prof.dr. Kees Oosterlee.\n\nLocati on:\nTU Delft LOCATION:TU Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Joost Bosman DTSTART:20140212T094500Z DTEND:20140212T123000Z UID:e195ef3b-19e4-44fe-8616-8cf1f0ae00c0 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to the public defence of Joost Bosman of his thesis 'Optimal Quality of Service Control in Communication Systems' P romotor: Prof.dr. Rob van der Mei en Prof.dr. Sindo Núñez-Queija\n\nLoc ation:\nAula Vrije Universiteit\, De Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula Vrije Universiteit\, De Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Jan Pieter Dorsman (ST) DTSTART:20140217T120000Z DTEND:20140217T150000Z UID:f8cdeb94-0fbd-4b0b-9489-7185ecad3b60 DESCRIPTION:All are invited to attend the PhD Defence of Jan Pieter Dorsma n of his thesis\, entitled:  Layered queueing networks Performance modell ing\, analysis ans optimization   Promotor:       Prof.dr. Onno Boxma                      Prof.dr. Rob van der Mei\n\nLocation:\nTUE Auditorium zaal 4 LOCATION:TUE Auditorium zaal 4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jan Pieter Dorsman (ST) DTSTART:20140217T120000Z DTEND:20140217T150000Z UID:b5ef7715-3759-4fdc-88d8-1f4b55eb9e2b DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the PhD Defence of Jan Pieter D orsman of his thesis\, entitled:  Layered queueing networks Performance m odelling\, analysis ans optimization   Promotor:       Prof.dr. Onno B oxma                      Prof.dr. Rob van der Mei\n\nLocation: \nTUE Auditorium zaal 4 LOCATION:TUE Auditorium zaal 4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Lefteris Sidirourgos DTSTART:20140514T090000Z DTEND:20140514T110000Z UID:8e405fa0-00d8-456b-bc9d-e2ab1f04463a DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the PhD Defence of Lefteris Sidi rourgos.    Title: Space Efficient Indexes for the Big Data Era   Promo tor: Prof.dr. Martin Kersten Co-Promotor: Prof.dr. Peter Boncz     Aula\ , Universiteit van Amsterdam Oude Lutherse kerk Singel 411 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Aram Markosyan (MD) DTSTART:20140519T120000Z DTEND:20140519T140000Z UID:fd36cbe5-22ee-401d-a2e5-458e5c021c6a DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Aram Marko syan of his thesis 'Modeling multiple time scales in streamer discharges'. Promotor: Prof.dr. Ute Ebert (CWI and TU/e)\n\nLocation:\nEindhoven Unive rsity of Technology LOCATION:Eindhoven University of Technology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Maria Remerova (Stochastics) DTSTART:20140520T094500Z DTEND:20140520T123000Z UID:7df29198-b44b-46f0-99b1-9455b7cce68d DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of Maria Remerova (Masha) of her thesis entitled\n\nLocation:\nAula VU\, De Boelel aan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula VU\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Willem Jan Palenstijn (SC) DTSTART:20140522T110000Z DTEND:20140522T130000Z UID:ce5f3d18-f65b-46f2-83b8-247448c67bc9 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Willem Jan Palenstijn of his thesis 'Radicals in Arithmetic'. Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen Co-promotor: Dr. B. de Smit\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw of th e Universiteit Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw of the Universiteit Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Bart de Keijzer (N&O) DTSTART:20140616T114500Z DTEND:20140616T133000Z UID:3e5cbb93-c952-43b3-8829-5cf3b6ee07df DESCRIPTION:Graag nodigen wij u uit tot het bijwonen van de openbare verd ediging van Bart de Keijzer. De titel van zijn proefschrift luidt 'Extern alities and Cooperation in Algorithmic Game Theory'. Promotor: Prof.Dr. Gu ido Schäfer (CWI\, VU)\n\nLocation:\nAula Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105 LOCATION:Aula Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Joost Winter (FM) DTSTART:20140701T103000Z DTEND:20140701T123000Z UID:4a87c902-ab15-4a90-8a76-f527e604bbfd DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited for the public defence of Joost Winter of this dissertation\, titled 'Coalgebraic Characterizations of Automata-The oretic Classes'. Promotor: Prof.dr. J.J.M.M. Rutten Co-promotor: Dr. M.M. Bonsangue\n\nLocation:\nAula Radboud Universiteit\, Comeniuslaan 2\, Nijme gen LOCATION:Aula Radboud Universiteit\, Comeniuslaan 2\, Nijmegen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Margriet Palm (LS) DTSTART:20140930T110000Z DTEND:20140930T130000Z UID:0a859718-3d98-44f6-82ba-57077455be04 DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of Margrie t Palm of her thesis entitled "High-throughput simulation studies of angio genesis: Reverse engineering the role of tip cells and pericytes in vascul ar development".\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw of the Universiteit Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw of the Universiteit Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Christoph Köhn (MD) DTSTART:20141028T120000Z DTEND:20141028T140000Z UID:d68fd314-7d16-4386-96b0-5a1d08454a5f DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of Christ oph Köhn of his thesis entitled 'High-energy phenomena in thunderstorm an d laboratory discharges'. Promotor: Prof.dr. Ute Ebert (CWI\, TU/e) Co-pro motor: Dr. Lex van Deursen (TU/e)\n\nLocation:\nEindhoven University of Te chnology LOCATION:Eindhoven University of Technology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Michiel Helvensteijn DTSTART:20141112T081500Z DTEND:20141112T111500Z UID:3a519a34-01d7-4f75-9076-05da552f0c28 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the defence of Michiel Helvenst eijn of his thesis entitled "Abstract Delta Modeling: Software Product Lin es and Beyond" Promotor: Frank de Boer\n\nLocation:\n Academiegebouw\, Rap enburg 73 te Leiden LOCATION: Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73 te Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Marjon Ruijter (SC) DTSTART:20150206T103000Z DTEND:20150206T123000Z UID:ff30a328-da22-4f43-85da-11c3bff27df2 DESCRIPTION:The public defence of Marjon Ruijter of her dissertation entit led Fourier Methods for Multidimensional Problems and Backward SDEs in Fin ance and Economics. Promotor: Prof.dr. Kees Oosterlee.\n\nLocation:\nAula of the Delft University of Technology LOCATION:Aula of the Delft University of Technology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jan-Pieter Dorsman (ST) DTSTART:20150217T120000Z DTEND:20150217T150000Z UID:af1bf09e-1974-4451-bde8-be0490ea8d60 DESCRIPTION:The defence of Jan-Pieter Dorsman of his thesis: Layered Queue ing Networks - Performance Modelling\, Analysis and Optimization   Promot or: Prof.dr. Onno Boxma and Prof.dr. Rob van der Mei Co-Promotor: Prof.dr . Maria Vlasiou\n\nLocation:\nTUE - Auditorium\, zaal 4 LOCATION:TUE - Auditorium\, zaal 4 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Atze van der Ploeg (SWAT) DTSTART:20150408T100000Z DTEND:20150408T123000Z UID:825760bf-709f-4cf2-acca-287eaaeb583a DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defence of Atze Joha nnes van der Ploeg of his thesis 'Efficient Abstractions for Visualization and Interaction' Promotor: Prof.dr. Paul Klint (CWI) Copromotor: Dr. Tijs van der Storm (CWI)\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 2 29-231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Bram van Es (SC) DTSTART:20150422T120000Z DTEND:20150422T140000Z UID:b8b9ca53-1ce5-40b4-b451-83b5695a6162 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the defence of Bram van Es of h is dissertation entitled "Numerical methods for anisotropic diffusion". Pr omotor: Prof.dr.ir. Barry Koren (TU Eindhoven)Co-promotor: dr. H.J. de Bla nk (FOM-DIFFER)\n\nLocation:\nTechnische Universiteit Eindhoven LOCATION:Technische Universiteit Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Holger Pirk (DA) DTSTART:20150501T080000Z DTEND:20150501T100000Z UID:1dd2b190-7f51-47ca-bedc-3e5d25e06540 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the defence of Holger Pirk\, T itle: "Waste Not\, Want Not! - Managing Relational Data in Asymmetric Memo ries".   Promotor: Prof. dr. M.L. Kersten (CWI)\n\nLocation:\nAgnieten ka pel\, Oudezijdsvoorburgwal 229-231 Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnieten kapel\, Oudezijdsvoorburgwal 229-231 Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Thijs van Ommen (A&C) DTSTART:20150610T111500Z DTEND:20150610T140000Z UID:c4d6ab3d-bfc9-4703-8342-e3bf5653f0cb DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the PhD Defence of Thijs van Om men. The dissertation is entitled 'Better Predictions when Models are Wron g or Underspecified'. The informal talk about the thesis will start at 15: 15. De defense itself starts at 16:15.  Promotor: Prof. Dr. Peter Grunwal d (CWI\, A&C/Universiteit Leiden).\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw of Leiden University\, Rapenburg 73\, Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw of Leiden University\, Rapenburg 73\, Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Wander Wadman (SC) DTSTART:20150618T060000Z DTEND:20150618T073000Z UID:7b95b33e-cd3f-4a7f-bc50-eb5e040c1d91 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the PhD Defence of Wander Wadma n. The dissertation is entitled 'Assessing power grid reliability using ra re event simulation'.   Promotor: Prof. Dr. D.T. Crommelin (CWI\, UvA) C opromotor: Prof. Dr. J.E. Frank (UU)\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezij ds Voorburgwal 229-231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Keith Myerscough (SC) DTSTART:20150824T121500Z DTEND:20150824T131500Z UID:a139241c-58d1-443e-baca-26ce1f368688 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the PhD Defence of Keith Myersc ough of his dissertation entitled Correcting Numerical Simulations for Kno wn Expectations. Promotor: prof.dr.ir. J.E. Frank\, Universiteit Utrecht.\ n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw van de Universiteit Utrecht LOCATION:Academiegebouw van de Universiteit Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jaldert Rombouts (LS) DTSTART:20150904T074500Z DTEND:20150904T090000Z UID:e391ac8c-f631-49b8-880a-b0b4b6153501 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the PhD Defence of Jaldert Romb outs of his dissertation entitled Biologically Plausible Reinforcement Le arning. Promotor: Prof.dr. Pieter Roelfsema (VU/NIN/UvA)\n\nLocation:\nVU\ , Amsterdam LOCATION:VU\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence René Conijn (Stochastics) DTSTART:20151015T114500Z DTEND:20151015T131500Z UID:24a6e67d-1fbe-4b9e-8e70-93705af49645 DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of René C onijn\, of his thesis: "Planar critical percolation: large clusters and sc aling limits" Promotor: Prof.dr. Rob van den Berg\n\nLocation:\nVrije Univ ersiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Mohammed El-Kebir (LS) DTSTART:20151027T114500Z DTEND:20151027T124500Z UID:296a7398-32fb-4881-8d7e-2e68d1f9fdcd DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the defence of Mohammed El-Kebi r of his dissertation entitled Applications of Combinatorial Optimization to Computational Biology. Promotoren: prof.dr. J. Heringa (VU)                       prof.dr. G.W. Klau (CWI\, VU)\n\nLocation:\nA ula\, VU Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula\, VU Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sándor Héman (DA) DTSTART:20151028T134500Z DTEND:20151028T150000Z UID:013c9793-e5c0-4f83-858a-57a21dcf8864 DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the public defense of Sándor Héman on hi s PhD thesis entitled: Updating Compressed Column-Stores   Location is at VU Auditorium\, De Boelelaan 1105\, 1081 HV Amsterdam   Promotor: Prof.d r. P.A. Boncz (CWI\, VU)\n\nLocation:\nVU Auditorium LOCATION:VU Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Folkert Bleichrodt (SC) DTSTART:20151110T130000Z DTEND:20151110T140000Z UID:67038b35-9434-4f6c-9ac8-b32a1fcf95ae DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the defence of Folkert Bleichro dt. The dissertation is entitled "Improving Robustness of Tomographic Reco nstruction Methods". Promotor:     Prof.dr. K.J. Batenburg (CWI\, Univer siteit Leiden)\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 LOCATION:Academiegebouw Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jannis Teunissen (MD) DTSTART:20151112T140000Z DTEND:20151112T150000Z UID:92ad1493-377b-4ddb-b608-efbf98afbd10 DESCRIPTION:We herewith invite you to attend the public defence of Jannis Teunissen of his thesis entitled "3D Simulations and Analysis of Pulsed Di scharges". Promotor: prof.dr. U.M. Ebert (CWI\, TU/e)Copromotor: dr.ir. S. Nijdam (TU/e)\n\nLocation:\nTU Eindhoven LOCATION:TU Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Timo Maarleveld DTSTART:20151217T074500Z DTEND:20151217T084500Z UID:9abd205c-a4fd-44fc-b33c-a1a65b0fb838 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the PhD Defence of Timo Maarlev eld. The dissertation is entitled 'Fluxes and Fluctuations in Biochemical Models'. Promotors:Prof. dr. B. Teusink  (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)Pr of. dr. F.J. Bruggeman  (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Co-promotor: dr. Brett. G. Olivier (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)\n\nLocation:\nAula\, VU A msterdam LOCATION:Aula\, VU Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sonja Boas (LS) DTSTART:20151222T141500Z DTEND:20151222T151500Z UID:a07479a6-6ae4-4854-a612-bc8a6b5cd35e DESCRIPTION:You are all cordially invited to the public defense of Sonja B oas on her PhD thesis defence entitled: "Computational modeling of angioge nesis\, from matrix invasion to lumen formation". Promotor: Prof.dr. Roela nd Merks\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 LOCATION:Academiegebouw Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Martijn Onderwater (Stochastics) DTSTART:20160208T134500Z DTEND:20160208T153000Z UID:12cc14a4-150c-43af-bd5a-1412916a221b DESCRIPTION:Everybody is cordially invited to attend the public defence of Martijn Onderwater of his thesis ‘Network of Sensors\, operations and c ontrol ’. Promotor: prof. dr. R.D. van der Mei and copromotor: dr. S. Bh ulai   More information\n\nLocation:\nAula van de Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula van de Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sung-Shik T.Q. Jongmans (FM) DTSTART:20160303T130000Z DTEND:20160303T150000Z UID:c98a470b-3dfc-4995-b24c-ac8ea00fae4e DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defense of Sung-Shik Jongmans of his thesis 'Automata-Theoretic Protocol Programming'. Promoto r: Prof.dr. Farhad Arbab\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw\, Rapenburg 67-73 te Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 67-73 te Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Daniël Pelt (Computational Imaging) DTSTART:20160503T121500Z DTEND:20160503T131500Z UID:6d5840b7-be1f-4d3d-820c-d22035213569 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is cordially invited to attend the public defence of the PhD thesis of Daniël Pelt. The dissertation title is: "Filter-based reconstruction methods for tomography". Promotor: Prof. dr. Joost Batenbur g (CWI\, CI / Leiden University).\n\nLocation:\nSenate Room of the Academy Building of the Leiden University\, Rapenburg 73 LOCATION:Senate Room of the Academy Building of the Leiden University\, Ra penburg 73 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Halldora Thorsdottir (Life Sciences) DTSTART:20160513T100000Z DTEND:20160513T110000Z UID:62974de1-645e-4344-906d-b575e54c02ed DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the public defence of Halldora Thorsdottir of her dissertation entitled: Limit theorems for Markov-modula ted queues. The location is UvA's Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 22 9-231\, in the heart of Amsterdam. Promotor: prof.dr. Michel Mandjes\, UvA \n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel LOCATION:Agnietenkapel END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sihan Ding (Stochastics) DTSTART:20160525T094500Z DTEND:20160525T120000Z UID:f0a794f4-2617-4940-81a0-cbdde5933ada DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite you to attend the public defence of Sihan Ding of his dissertation: 'Workflow Management in Call Centers: Forecastin g\, Staffing and Empirical Studies.'  Promoters: prof.dr. Rob van der Mei and prof.dr. Ger Koole\n\nLocation:\nAula Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelela an 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Nicolas Höning (IS) DTSTART:20160527T083000Z DTEND:20160527T113000Z UID:6331eb7b-2c0f-4ce4-8c3a-65a13e51cafd DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the defence of Nicolas Höning o f his thesis 'Markets and Prices for Flexible Planning'. Promotor: Prof.dr . J.A. La Poutré\n\nLocation:\nAula van de Technische Universiteit\, Meke lweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:Aula van de Technische Universiteit\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Pieter van den Berg (Stochastics) DTSTART:20160606T103000Z DTEND:20160606T120000Z UID:379eb9bd-75af-44b0-a434-6ad858816337 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Pieter van de Berg of his thesis                 'Logistics of emerge ncy response vehicles: facility location\, routing\, and shift scheduling' Promotors: Prof. dr. ir. K.I. Aardal en prof. dr. R.D. van der Mei\n\nLoc ation:\nSenaatszaal of the Auditorium of the TU Delft\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:Senaatszaal of the Auditorium of the TU Delft\, Mekelweg 5\, Delf t END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Anna Dubinova (Multiscale Dynamics) DTSTART:20160901T120000Z DTEND:20160901T130000Z UID:4eae7c94-18a4-4fb1-92b4-4a516a8fd03d DESCRIPTION:Everyone is cordially invited to attend the public defence of Anna Dubinova. Dissertation title: "Modeling of streamer discharges near d ielectrics". Promotor: prof.dr. U.M. Ebert (CWI / TU/e)copromotor: dr.ir. S. Nijdam (TU/e)\n\nLocation:\nTU/e LOCATION:TU/e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jesse Dorrestijn (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20160908T103000Z DTEND:20160908T113000Z UID:a513d070-df5e-4de5-8d77-c4c89141e7fd DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Jesse Dorr estijn of his thesis                 'Stochastic Convection Parameterization' Promotors: prof.dr. A.P. Siebesma en prof.dr. D.T. Crom melin\n\nLocation:\nTUD\, Senaatszaal\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:TUD\, Senaatszaal\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Teresa Piovesan (N&O/A&C) DTSTART:20161027T060000Z DTEND:20161027T090000Z UID:99b7979e-e22b-46f2-b19c-ee3b6bafbd0b DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Teresa Pio vesan\, of her thesis "Quantum entanglement: insights via graph parameters and conic optimization" Promotors:  Prof.dr. Harry Buhrman and Prof.dr. Monique Laurent\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Thibault Sellam (DA) DTSTART:20161103T080000Z DTEND:20161103T090000Z UID:166efd1f-9c45-48f7-a93b-9a1fc5815044 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Thibault S ellam\, for his thesis « Automatic Assistants for Database Exploration  » Promotor: Prof. M.L. Kersten (UvA & CWI)\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Florian Speelman (A&C) DTSTART:20161116T100000Z DTEND:20161116T123000Z UID:6c5dc034-c7f3-4687-b08c-64ccf2dabc40 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defence of Florian of his thesis "Position-based Quantum Cryptography and Catalytic Computation ". Promotor: Prof.dr. Harry Buhrman\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijd s Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Matteo Seminaroti (N&O) DTSTART:20161202T080000Z DTEND:20161202T103000Z UID:f8f4fa69-b800-4c5d-b41c-f8c56b2a1c38 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the defence of Matteo Seminaroti of his thesis "Combinatorial Algorithms for the Seriation Problem" Promot or: Prof.dr. Monique Laurent. Copromotor: Prof.dir.ir. Renata Sotirov\n\nL ocation:\nDe Aula van Universiteit Tilburg LOCATION:De Aula van Universiteit Tilburg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Rufael Mekuria (DIS) DTSTART:20170123T114500Z DTEND:20170123T140000Z UID:1d369db2-cc2d-4d6d-b5d5-7cc16b611b06 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defence of Rufael Mek uria\, of his thesis 'Network Streaming and Compression for Mixed Reality Tele-Immersion'. Promotor: Prof.dr. Dick Bulterman (CWI/VU)\n\nLocation: \nAula van de Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula van de Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Thije van Barneveld (Stochastics) DTSTART:20170125T094500Z DTEND:20170125T130000Z UID:73e4af12-c16b-4b45-8e0e-b4d1ab369ddf DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defence of Thije van Barneveld\, of his thesis 'Relocation Algorithms for Emergency Medical Ser vices'. Promotor: Prof.dr. Rob van der Mei (CWI/VU) and Prof.dr. Sandjai B hulai (VU)\n\nLocation:\nVrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterda m LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit\, de Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Mrunal Gawade (DA) DTSTART:20170215T090000Z DTEND:20170215T110000Z UID:63fa1b7a-45ee-4953-a490-2ef2fc74ab31 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defence of Mrunal Gaw ade\, of his thesis 'Multi-core parallellism in a column-store'. Promotor: Prof.dr. Martin Kersten (CWI)\n\nLocation:\nAula\, Spui 111 Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula\, Spui 111 Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Caroline Jagtenberg (Stochastics) DTSTART:20170228T114500Z DTEND:20170228T143000Z UID:8e40fb74-77ec-4cfe-a672-4d86e1c1e0b5 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to atttend the public defense of Caroline of her PhD thesis: Efficiency and Fairness in Ambulance Planning. Promotor en: prof.dr. R.D. van der Mei\, prof.dr. S. Bhulai\n\nLocation:\nAula of t he VU University\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula of the VU University\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Michael Steindorfer (SWAT) DTSTART:20170228T120000Z DTEND:20170228T143000Z UID:ed9c7035-6d84-4e7d-8bf0-8b51510108ae DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend he public defense of Michael of his thesis 'Efficient Immutable Collections'. Promotor: Prof.dr. Paul Kli nt en Prof.dr. Jurgen Vinju\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorbu rgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Dirk Sierag (ST) DTSTART:20170330T094500Z DTEND:20170330T120000Z UID:38014d53-dbf7-4e73-a9cc-5c234111e517 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Dirk Siera g of his thesis 'Revenue Management in the Hospitality Industry - from pra ctise to theory'. Promotor: prof.dr. Rob van der Mei (CWI/VU)\n\nContact :\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Qian Feng (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20170404T130000Z DTEND:20170404T140000Z UID:485d9383-c6e7-4f2f-ad67-2e8e04ac30ae DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defense of Qian Feng of her PhD thesis: Advanced Estimation of Credit Valuation Adjustment Pro motor: prof.dr. Kees Oosterlee\n\nLocation:\nSenaatszaal of the Auditorium \, Mekelweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:Senaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Linda Plantagie (Computational Imaging) DTSTART:20170413T114500Z DTEND:20170413T130000Z UID:51c9912c-ad1c-4e8c-896e-74e06f4e4934 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defense of Linda Plan tagie of her PhD thesis:Algebraic filters for Filtered BackprojectionPromo tor: Prof. dr. K. J. Batenburg\n\nLocation:\nLeiden (Academiegebouw\, Rape nburg 73) LOCATION:Leiden (Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Alvaro Leitao (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20170627T103000Z DTEND:20170627T120000Z UID:5f6d3c9c-e46a-410b-b491-6112ae931ab9 DESCRIPTION:You are all cordially invited to the public defense of Alvaro Leitao on his PhD thesis entitled: Hybrid Monte Carlo methods in computati onal finance. Promotor: Prof.dr. Kees Oosterlee\n\nLocation:\nSenaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:Senaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Petra Vis (ST) DTSTART:20170918T134500Z DTEND:20170918T150000Z UID:211082e8-ab70-4873-b2a5-12050fdd3ec5 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defense of Petra Vis. \n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nVrije Universi teit (Aula). De Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit (Aula). De Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Davy Landman (SWAT) DTSTART:20171005T080000Z DTEND:20171005T103000Z UID:0ef2a9a4-1c7e-41dc-8ac8-b1102250276f DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the public defence of Davy Land man of his thesis 'Reverse Engineering Source Code'\n\nLocation:\nAgnieten kapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Thaer Samar (Information Access) DTSTART:20171030T093000Z DTEND:20171030T103000Z UID:fef0ef58-a5a6-430f-b9ba-f3c6bf680b6c DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to the public defense of Thaer Samar on his PhD thesis titled: Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives Monday October 30th 10:30 at Radboud University Supervisor: Prof . dr. ir. A. P. de Vries\, Radboud University\n\nLocation:\nRadboud Univer sity\, Nijmegen LOCATION:Radboud University\, Nijmegen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Thaer Samar (Information Access) DTSTART:20171030T093000Z DTEND:20171030T103000Z UID:60fd5744-b93e-4ed3-9f00-b12098fab769 DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to the public defense of Thaer Samar on his PhD thesis titled: Access to and Retrievability of Content in Web Archives Monday October 30th 10:30 Location: Radboud University Promotor: Prof. dr. ir. A. P. de Vries\, Radboud University\n\nLocation:\nRadboud U niversity\, Nijmegen LOCATION:Radboud University\, Nijmegen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Gabriele Spini (CR) DTSTART:20171206T113000Z DTEND:20171206T140000Z UID:1800e0e7-1709-4fdc-8b66-35652595845e DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defence of Gabriele\ , of his thesis 'Unconditionally Secure Cryptographic Protocols from Codin g-Theoretic Primitives'. Promotor: Prof. Ronald Cramer (CWI Amsterdam & Un iversiteit Leiden) Promotor: Prof. Gilles Zémor (Université de Bordeaux) Copromotor: Dr. Serge Fehr (CWI Amsterdam)\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\n susanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nSenaatskamer Academiegebouw Universiteit Leid en\, Rapenburg 73 te Leiden LOCATION:Senaatskamer Academiegebouw Universiteit Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 te Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Diego Mirandola (CR) DTSTART:20171206T140000Z DTEND:20171206T153000Z UID:7f863366-80f9-48ef-b69f-5631e7dd89d7 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defence of Diego\, o f his thesis 'On Products of Linear Error Correcting Codes'.\n\nContact:\n Susanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nSenaatskamer Academiegebouw Universiteit Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 te Leiden LOCATION:Senaatskamer Academiegebouw Universiteit Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 te Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Tom Florian Sterkenburg (ML) DTSTART:20180118T133000Z DTEND:20180118T160000Z UID:3005e635-a6ab-4ac9-9c0b-ab042cb6be3e DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public lecture of Tom Flori an Sterkenburg of his thesis entitled 'Universal Prediction'.\n\nContact:\ nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nUniversiteit Groningen\, Ac ademiegebouw\, Broerstraat 5 Groningen LOCATION:Universiteit Groningen\, Academiegebouw\, Broerstraat 5 Groningen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Casper Rutjes (MD) DTSTART:20180315T123000Z DTEND:20180315T150000Z UID:5f839c58-4c05-4f6d-ab1c-9527d3b1b162 DESCRIPTION:Herewith we invite you to attend the public defence of Casper Rutjes of his thesis entitled 'Modeling high energy atmospheric physics an d lightning inception'.\n\nContact:\nNada Mitrovic\nNada.Mitrovic@cwi.nl\n \nLocation:\nSenaatszaal van het Auditorium TU Eindhoven\, Groene Loper 1\ , Eindhoven LOCATION:Senaatszaal van het Auditorium TU Eindhoven\, Groene Loper 1\, Ei ndhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Nikolaos Bezirgiannis (FM & SWAT) DTSTART:20180417T130000Z DTEND:20180417T150000Z UID:86382a7e-0aa2-46fe-b9fe-79951840ab43 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Nikolaos B ezirgiannis \, of his thesis 'Abstract Behavioral Specification: unifying modeling and programming'.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\ nLocation:\nUniversiteit Leiden\, Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73. LOCATION:Universiteit Leiden\, Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Julian Salamanca (FM) DTSTART:20180424T143000Z DTEND:20180424T160000Z UID:08bdf0c7-640e-43bb-bdec-1bf6441ea9c0 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Julian Sal amanca\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRadboud Universiteit\, Academiezaal\, Aula\, Comeniuslaan 2\, Nijmegen LOCATION:Radboud Universiteit\, Academiezaal\, Aula\, Comeniuslaan 2\, Nij megen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Srinivasan Arunachalam (A&C) DTSTART:20180425T120000Z DTEND:20180425T143000Z UID:1f6bfd87-86df-4389-8f71-7bc8a2c57260 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Srinivasan of his thesis 'Quantum Algorithms and Learning Theory'. April 25\, Agnie tenkapel\, Amsterdam.\n\nContact:\nSrinivasan Arunachalam\nS.Arunachalam@c wi.nl\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Martin van Buuren (ST) DTSTART:20180516T074500Z DTEND:20180516T110000Z UID:9ce84e34-c955-4833-aab8-402191cf411c DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Martin van Buuren\, Vrije Universiteit (Aula)\, 16 May 2018\, 9:45 am.\n\nContact:\n Susanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nVrije Universiteit (Aula). D e Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit (Aula). De Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Chen Wang (DIS) DTSTART:20180523T074500Z DTEND:20180523T094500Z UID:e2b9c435-f192-452a-ac11-9f7c76cb6a43 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Chen Wang\ , Auditorium VU\, 23 May 2018\, 09:45.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusan ne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Debarati Bhaumik (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20180530T080000Z DTEND:20180530T090000Z UID:04731cec-907d-4216-89c4-39f5d36106a7 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is invited to attend the public defence of Debarati Bhaumik\, Agnietenkapel\, 30 May 2018\, 10.00 am.\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenka pel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Bart Kamphorst (ST) DTSTART:20180531T140000Z DTEND:20180531T160000Z UID:44557f42-3ef1-4730-9dbc-9017ac6c3873 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Bart Kamph orst\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nSenaatszaa l van het Auditorium van de Technische Universiteit Eindhoven\, Den Dolech 2 in Eindhoven LOCATION:Senaatszaal van het Auditorium van de Technische Universiteit Ein dhoven\, Den Dolech 2 in Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Ashutosh Agnihotri (Multiscale Dynamics) DTSTART:20180625T113000Z DTEND:20180625T123000Z UID:7a48a7c8-b7ab-4825-92d4-0164c29a7bfd DESCRIPTION:Modeling heat dominated electrical breakdown\n\nLocation:\nTU/ e LOCATION:TU/e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Lisanne Rens (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20180627T091500Z DTEND:20180627T101500Z UID:67946556-10a9-40f4-b078-021dcf034c5b DESCRIPTION:Multiscale mathematical biology of cell-extracellular matrix i nteractions during morphogenesis\n\nLocation:\nRU Leiden LOCATION:RU Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Pham Minh Duc (DA) DTSTART:20180906T134500Z DTEND:20180906T150000Z UID:4141e829-c3da-41af-97a3-e374f41b7604 DESCRIPTION:It is my great pleasure to invite you to the public defence of the PhD thesis of Pham Minh Duc.\n\nContact:\nPham Minh Duc\nduc@cwi.nl\n \nLocation:\nAula at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105 LOCATION:Aula at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Asparuh Hristov (ST) DTSTART:20180918T074500Z DTEND:20180918T104500Z UID:64ac13fe-e096-4586-bab1-158a0509f855 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is cordially invited to attend the public defence of Asparuh Hristov\, of his thesis "Performance Models for Analysis and Contr ol of IT Systems".\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocatio n:\nAuditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Ngoc Hoang Luong (LSH) DTSTART:20181017T130000Z DTEND:20181017T140000Z UID:be3912e5-1a19-4e09-942e-b3b51df58018 DESCRIPTION:\n\nContact:\nNgoc Hoang Luong\nN.H.Luong@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\ nSenaatszaal of the Auditorium (Aula)\, Delft University of Technology\, M ekelweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:Senaatszaal of the Auditorium (Aula)\, Delft University of Techno logy\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Jeroen Zuiddam (CWI and ILLC\, UvA) DTSTART:20181023T100000Z DTEND:20181023T110000Z UID:81f6670d-7ffa-47a0-b110-2e1677ecb558 DESCRIPTION:\n\nContact:\nJeroen Zuiddam\nj.zuiddam@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nA gnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Pablo Inostroza Valdera (SWAT) DTSTART:20181129T090000Z DTEND:20181129T103000Z UID:3ad2404e-4ee0-4168-91e6-5730be70aeea DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Pablo\, of his thesis 'Structuring Languages as Object-Oriented Libraries'.\n\nLocat ion:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Zhichao Zhong DTSTART:20181210T100000Z DTEND:20181210T110000Z UID:5600c74d-58ef-4c76-acc3-9ad26d0e752f DESCRIPTION:Reconstruction Methods for Combined HAADF-STEM and EDS Tomogra phy\n\nContact:\nZhichao Zhong\nZhichao.Zhong@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nAcademi egebouw\, Rapenburg 70\, 2311 EZ Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 70\, 2311 EZ Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Ewan Cahen (ST) DTSTART:20190121T100000Z DTEND:20190121T113000Z UID:a2e96441-ca60-4de6-8158-58aa875663f6 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defence of Ewan Cahe n of his thesis 'Rare-Event Simulation for Multidimensional Stochastic Mod els'.\n\nLocation:\nCollege Room 4\, Auditorium Technische Universiteit Ei ndhoven LOCATION:College Room 4\, Auditorium Technische Universiteit Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Emma Beauxis-Aussalet DTSTART:20190128T093000Z DTEND:20190128T110000Z UID:5df09e34-dc34-4aac-a72d-68c1232117b4 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defense of Emma Beau xis-Aussalet of her thesis Statistics and Visualizations for Assessing Cla ss Size Uncertainty. Promotor: Prof.dr. Lynda Hardman\n\nLocation:\nAcade miegebouw Domplein 29 Utrecht LOCATION:Academiegebouw Domplein 29 Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Gauthier van den Hove d'Ertsenryck (SWAT) DTSTART:20190215T120000Z DTEND:20190215T140000Z UID:4ecb4a7c-260a-496f-ae09-eb6359bc1ddb DESCRIPTION:To understand what computer programming is\, and how it should be done\, Gauthier van den Hove proposes to study how it is actually done \, and induce elements of method fro factual observation. To this end\, he carries out a detailed analysis of the first ALGOL 60 system\, designed a nd implemented at the Mathematical Center (now CWI). Everybody is welcome to attend his public defence of his thesis 'New Insights from Old Program s - The Structure of The First ALGOL 60 System'.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nSusanne.van.Dam@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nUvA Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411\, 1012 WN Amsterdam LOCATION:UvA Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411\, 1012 WN Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Max Fillinger (CR) DTSTART:20190319T090000Z DTEND:20190319T100000Z UID:a3319f79-ec02-430e-ac3a-7106f3e3152d DESCRIPTION:\n\nContact:\nSilvia Benschop\nsilvia.benschop@cwi.nl\n\nLocat ion:\nAcademy Building\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Academy Building\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Anton van der Stoep (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20190326T113000Z DTEND:20190326T123000Z UID:bb8136ef-88a2-46f9-b9db-ae7eb4532f1f DESCRIPTION:Pricing and Calibration with Stochastic Local Volatility Model s in a Monte Carlo Setting\n\nContact:\nAnton van der Stoep\nAnton.van.der .Stoep@rabobank.com\n\nLocation:\nTU Delft LOCATION:TU Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PHD DEFENCE ANDRAS PAL GILYEN (A&C) DTSTART:20190529T120000Z DTEND:20190529T130000Z UID:39ecf2d6-1d29-49e7-b241-0a3a99c8d7d5 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defence of András G ilyén (CWI) of his thesis 'Quantum Singular Value Transformation and its Algorithmic Applications' on May 29.\n\nContact:\nSilvia Benschop\nsilvia. benschop@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, UvA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, UvA\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Anastasia Izmaylova and Ali Afroozeh (SWAT) DTSTART:20190611T080000Z DTEND:20190611T113000Z UID:81d908ff-df96-4f55-9eaf-4597287c628c DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the joint public defence of Anas tasia Izmaylova and Ali Afroozeh of their thesis 'Practical General Top-do wn Parsers'.\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Ams terdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Prashant Kumar (SC) DTSTART:20190716T080000Z DTEND:20190716T100000Z UID:baa9ec15-4493-4181-b408-aa768a727fc3 DESCRIPTION:Multilevel Solvers for Stochastic fluid flows\, Tuesday 16th J uly\, 10:00AM\, TU Delft\n\nContact:\nNada Mitrovic\nNada.Mitrovic@cwi.nl\ n\nLocation:\nSenaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5 in Delft LOCATION:Senaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5 in Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Pieter Kleer (N&O) DTSTART:20190909T134500Z DTEND:20190909T151500Z UID:0d4c71ae-bdcc-4acc-a05a-e67d1ee85910 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Pieter Kle er\, of his thesis 'When Nash met Markov: Novel results for pure Nash equi libria and the switch Markov chain'.\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium VU\, Boelela an 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Marwin Schmitt (DIS) DTSTART:20190910T074500Z DTEND:20190910T093000Z UID:e0a3a204-f8b9-4a57-825e-45cf5fcb041d DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Marwin Sch mitt of his thesis 'Personal Quality of Experience: Accurately modelling Q uality of Experience for multi-party desktop video-conferencing based on s ystems\, context and user factors'.\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium VU\, Boelelaa n 1105 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium VU\, Boelelaan 1105 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Sander Gribling (N&O) DTSTART:20190930T113000Z DTEND:20190930T130000Z UID:5232684f-2269-417b-b40d-dda3b5ccf1c4 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Sander Gri bling of his thesis 'Applications of optimization to factorization ranks a nd quantum information theory'.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nSusanne.van. Dam@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nPortrettenzaal\, Tilburg University\, Warandelaan 2\, Tilburg LOCATION:Portrettenzaal\, Tilburg University\, Warandelaan 2\, Tilburg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence of Paul Griffioen (SWAT) DTSTART:20191029T110000Z DTEND:20191029T123000Z UID:e9760d28-2d09-405a-9009-36a4fb86e471 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Paul Griff ioen of his thesis 'A Unit-Aware Matrix Language andits Application in Con trol and Auditing'.\n\nContact:\nPaul Klint\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Andrea Fontanari (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20191210T140000Z DTEND:20191210T150000Z UID:f3695bbd-4d21-4a9d-9b3a-0a84058d4b86 DESCRIPTION:Lorenz-based quantitative risk management\, 10 December\, 15:0 0hrs\n\nContact:\nAndrea Fontanari\nA.Fontanari@tudelft.nl\n\nLocation:\nT U Delft\, Senaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:TU Delft\, Senaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Ki Wai Chau (SC) DTSTART:20200116T090000Z DTEND:20200116T100000Z UID:5aa06831-69bd-423a-b15e-627742df71bd DESCRIPTION:Numerical Finance with Backward Stochastic Differential Equati ons\, Thursday 16th January\n\nContact:\nKi Wai Chua\nK.W.Chau@cwi.nl\n\nL ocation:\nSenaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5 in Delft LOCATION:Senaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5 in Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Koen Groenland (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20200117T090000Z DTEND:20200117T110000Z UID:e9375ca1-5dba-4c7c-9cc1-5111fe8ae07b DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Koen Groen land\, of his thesis 'Quantum protocols for few-qubit devices'.\n\nLocatio n:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sangeetika Ruchi (SC) DTSTART:20200120T114500Z DTEND:20200120T123000Z UID:8de2d449-eeb7-4c28-9a4d-a49dc5237ab1 DESCRIPTION:Parameter Estimation in Random Energy Systems using Data Assim ilation\, Monday 20th January 2020\, University Utrecht.\n\nContact:\nSang eetika Ruchi\nS.Ruchi@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nthe Senate hall of Academiegebo uw\, Domplein 29\, 3512 JE Utrecht LOCATION:the Senate hall of Academiegebouw\, Domplein 29\, 3512 JE Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Thomas Reint (Tom) Bannink (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20200130T090000Z DTEND:20200130T113000Z UID:f346742c-29d4-44be-9bcd-1d42d5b666bd DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Tom Bannin k\, of his thesis 'Quantum and Stochastic Processes'.\n\nContact:\nLaura M ulder en Jan-Willem Buurlage\nlacmulder@gmail.com\, janwillembuurlage@gmai l.com\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Laurent van den Bos (SC) DTSTART:20200204T110000Z DTEND:20200204T130000Z UID:e86a0781-80ae-4004-ba52-6d951a00e76b DESCRIPTION:Quadrature Methods for Wind Turbine Load Calculations\n\nConta ct:\nLaurent van den Bos\nl.m.m.van.den.bos@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nTUD\, Sen aatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5 in Delft LOCATION:TUD\, Senaatszaal of the Auditorium\, Mekelweg 5 in Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Joran van Apeldoorn (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20200206T130000Z DTEND:20200206T140000Z UID:dee965cc-6b58-4f57-b756-788293dc412e DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Joran van Apeldoorn\, of his thesis A Quantum View on Convex Optimization.\n\nLocati on:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Riemer van Rozen (SWAT) DTSTART:20200219T090000Z DTEND:20200219T110000Z UID:9229968d-4657-411f-a6f0-bd7e6717e343 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Riemer van Rozen\, of his thesis Languages of Game and Play.\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenk apel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:On-line: PhD defence Tommaso Nesti (ST) DTSTART:20200330T140000Z DTEND:20200330T160000Z UID:482aa465-dfbb-4a5f-abc4-29141c8df7cd DESCRIPTION:On Monday 30th of March 2020 Tommaso will defend his dissertat ion "Stochastic Analysis of Energy Networks" in an on-line fashion. The pu blic event is cancelled!\n\nLocation:\nOn-line LOCATION:On-line END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Myriam Traub Monday 11 May 2020 Utrecht DTSTART:20200511T083000Z DTEND:20200511T103000Z UID:c9a5a254-c795-483e-8821-b38b54aedbed DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defense of Myriam Tr aub of her thesis Measuring Tool Bias & Improving Data Quality for Digital Humanities Research Promotor: Prof.dr. Lynda Hardman Co-promotor: Dr. Ja cco R. van Ossenbruggen\n\nContact:\nMartine Anholt\nm.anholt.gunzeln@cwi. nl\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw Domplein 29 Utrecht LOCATION:Academiegebouw Domplein 29 Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Dmitrii Usanov - ST DTSTART:20200511T114500Z DTEND:20200511T130000Z UID:4ac6a968-4d94-487e-8be2-a6f62b6a1242 DESCRIPTION:On Monday 11th of May 2020 at 13.45 Dmitrii will defend his di ssertation "Emergency Response Networks: Dynamic Dispatching and Relocatio n of Resources" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.\n\nLocation:\nThe liv estream of the defense ceremony will be available here: https://www.youtub e.com/channel/UCnN8TaVYe83472ewz9CH9HA LOCATION:The livestream of the defense ceremony will be available here: ht tps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnN8TaVYe83472ewz9CH9HA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Marco Virgolin DTSTART:20200608T103000Z DTEND:20200608T120000Z UID:56d4149f-1a9f-4480-ad91-5e202d769944 DESCRIPTION:Design and Application of Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionar y Algorithms for Genetic Programming\n\nContact:\nMarco Virgolin\nmarco.vi rgolin@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\non-line https://www.twitch.tv/marcovirgolin LOCATION:on-line https://www.twitch.tv/marcovirgolin END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Mark Raasveldt (Database Architectures) DTSTART:20200609T091500Z DTEND:20200609T111500Z UID:f97258f5-0c3d-44ad-98da-8b5b68cc70ca DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public "online"defense of Ma rk Raasveld on 9 June 2020. Title: Integrating Analytics with Relational D atabases Promotor: Prof. dr. Stefan Manegold (CWI/UL) Copromotor: Dr. Hann es Mühleisen (CWI) University: Leiden University Link to attend the defen ce will be available as soon as possible\n\nContact:\nMark Raasveldt\nm.ra asveldt@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nLeiden University LOCATION:Leiden University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Jan-Willem Buurlage (CI) DTSTART:20200701T091500Z DTEND:20200701T101500Z UID:9c020f18-b9f3-4aa1-8fc7-c3f0bf32410a DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defense of Jan-Willem Buurlage of his PhD thesis: Real-time Tomographic Reconstruction\n\nConta ct:\nJan-Willem Buurlage\nJ.Buurlage@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nhttps://www.univ ersiteitleiden.nl/wetenschappers/livestream-promotie LOCATION:https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/wetenschappers/livestream-promo tie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Georgios Methenitis - IAS DTSTART:20200715T080000Z DTEND:20200715T100000Z UID:bafbb0c8-1578-4671-866d-267cd128766e DESCRIPTION:On Wednesday 15th of July 2020 at 10.00 am. Georgios Metheniti s will defend his dissertation "Agent Interactions & Mechanisms in Markets with Uncertainties: Electricity Markets in Renewable Energy Systems" at t he Technische Universiteit Delft\n\nLocation:\nTU Delft LOCATION:TU Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jan Willem Martin Kleinrouweler - DIS DTSTART:20201028T144500Z DTEND:20201028T164500Z UID:a7723cc5-01f4-434a-a72e-8e85c39ee783 DESCRIPTION:On 28th of October 2020 at 15.45 Jan Willem Martin Kleinrouwel er will defend his dissertation 'Modeling and Optimization of Network Assi sted Video Streaming' at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\n\nLocation:\nAu la of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Livestream LOCATION:Aula of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Livestream END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Yfke Dulek (QuSoft/A&C) DTSTART:20210115T090000Z DTEND:20210115T100000Z UID:252449d3-c627-428c-b511-bcf904aeb078 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online defence of Yfke Dulek of her thesis: Delegated and Distributed Quantum Computation Promotor: Pr of. dr. H.M. Buhrman and Dr. C. Schaffner For watching the defence please check the promotion calender The URL for the live-stream will become available in due course. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Bernard Zweers - ST DTSTART:20210119T144500Z DTEND:20210119T161500Z UID:9b569b03-0d5e-447f-9dee-0d33e73eea29 DESCRIPTION:On Tuesday 19th of January 2021 at 15.45 Bernard will defend h is dissertation "Optimization of hinterland container transportation and t erminal operations" at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Although the defe nce will take place as an online meeting\, everybody is welcome to view th e ceremony via live stream: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnN8TaVYe8347 2ewz9CH9HA\n\nLocation:\nVia live stream LOCATION:Via live stream END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Rianne de Heide (ML) DTSTART:20210126T151500Z DTEND:20210126T161500Z UID:f5779180-7264-459a-803c-b49f3bb843e1 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online defence of Rianne de Heide of her thesis ' Bayesian learning: challenges\, limitations and prag matics'. Promotors: Prof.dr. P.D. Grünwald (CWI\, UL) and Prof.dr. J.J. Meulman (UL) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Stef Maree DTSTART:20210317T130000Z DTEND:20210317T140000Z UID:13061092-a04a-4f4e-86f2-f0ad3ccc795d DESCRIPTION:Model-based evolutionary algorithms for finding diverse high-q uality solutions - with an application in brachytherapy for prostate cance r\n\nContact:\nStef Maree\nS.C.Maree@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nUniversity of Am sterdam LOCATION:University of Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Mihail Bazhba - ST DTSTART:20210526T140000Z DTEND:20210526T153000Z UID:7389e896-0d6f-4467-89cf-f77a2880e6e7 DESCRIPTION:PhD Defence Mihail Bazhba- ST On 26 May 2021 at 4 PM Mihail B azhba will defend his dissertation "Large Deviations for Semi-exponential Distributions: Theory and Applications" at TU/e. Everybody is welcome to j oin the public ceremony in Lecture room 4 in the Auditorium at TU/e in Ein dhoven.\n\nLocation:\nLecture room 4 in the Auditorium at TU/e (Eindhoven) LOCATION:Lecture room 4 in the Auditorium at TU/e (Eindhoven) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Joris Kattemölle (QuSoft) DTSTART:20210630T090000Z DTEND:20210630T103000Z UID:a0b6b40c-c9df-42e5-8bc3-2b727709fa62 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Joris Katt emölle (QuSoft). Place and live stream of the ceremony t.b.a. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Pedro Holanda DTSTART:20210921T080000Z DTEND:20210921T090000Z UID:bc43a235-8789-4627-b0fe-0968eb8fe105 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public PhD defence of Pedro Holanda's PhD thesis 'Progressive Indexes' at Leiden University.\n\nContac t:\nPedro Holanda\nholanda@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nLeiden University LOCATION:Leiden University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Rien Lagerwerf DTSTART:20211005T080000Z DTEND:20211005T090000Z UID:1650c286-066b-4a81-9a5b-b2b3506ce2b1 DESCRIPTION:Automatic and Efficient Tomographic Reconstruction Algorithms\ n\nContact:\nRien Lagerwerf\nrienlagerwerf@gmail.com\n\nLocation:\nhttps:/ /www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/academic-staff/livestream-phd-defence LOCATION:https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/academic-staff/livestream-ph d-defence END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Bart de Leeuw (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20211222T111500Z DTEND:20211222T121500Z UID:5d67ea06-ea0a-4f52-8a1c-c69852bc6b1e DESCRIPTION:On shadowing methods for data assimilation\n\nContact:\nBart d e Leeuw\nB.M.de.Leeuw@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nonline LOCATION:online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Yous van Halder (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20220118T150000Z DTEND:20220118T160000Z UID:627d2d3d-7f96-4aa0-a574-44f4a4d09b5e DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defense of Yous van H alder of his PhD thesis: Efficient Sampling and Solver Enhancement for Un certainty Quantification\n\nLocation:\nonline TU/e\, Atlas\, room 0.710 LOCATION:online TU/e\, Atlas\, room 0.710 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Andy Martinez (Multiscale Dynamics) DTSTART:20220218T123000Z DTEND:20220218T133000Z UID:d6bbed46-26e6-4927-9dbd-e82aa40bf492 DESCRIPTION:Computational Investigations of Streamers: From Input Cross Se ctions to Evolution of Plasma Species\n\nContact:\nAndy Martinez\nandy.mar tinez@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nTU/e LOCATION:TU/e END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Allard Hendriksen (Computational Imaging) DTSTART:20220303T140000Z DTEND:20220303T150000Z UID:48b74672-a0de-4f78-983a-829e1e289c1e DESCRIPTION:Deep Learning for Tomographic Reconstruction with Limited Data \n\nContact:\nAllard Hendriksen\nallard@allardhendriksen.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Freek Witteveen (QuSoft) DTSTART:20220610T120000Z DTEND:20220610T130000Z UID:a9a77ddb-cce6-439e-ad18-6ebe6f733768 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defence of Freek Witt eveen\, of his thesis ' Quantum Information Theory in Many-Body Physics' . \n\nLocation:\nAula - Oude Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula - Oude Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Tim Soethout (Software Analysis and Transformation) DTSTART:20220627T090000Z DTEND:20220627T103000Z UID:7c77cf3b-f4b4-4f3a-a099-61529bd43fc2 DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend the defence of Tim Soethou t on his thesis 'Banking on Domain Knowledge for Faster Transactions'.\n\n Contact:\nTim Soethout\ntim.soethout@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nEindhoven Univer sity of Technology (TU/e)\, Atlas building\, Room 0.710 LOCATION:Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)\, Atlas building\, Room 0.710 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Ruben Brokkelkamp (N&O) DTSTART:20220921T090000Z DTEND:20220921T100000Z UID:5214c16e-25bc-49b5-beeb-c2b1818edfc1 DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public defense of Ruben\, o f his thesis ' how close does it get? From Near-Optimal Network Algorithms to Suboptimal Equilibrium Outcomes'\n\nContact:\nRuben Brokkelkamp\n\nLoc ation:\nAula - Oude Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula - Oude Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Koen de Boer (CR) DTSTART:20220922T091500Z DTEND:20220922T101500Z UID:7a496555-869e-4296-879f-b018f0537ba8 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Koen de Bo er (CR) of his thesis 'Random Walks on Arakelov Class Groups'.\n\nContact: \nKoen de Boer\nkboer.at.cwi@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Dean De Leo (Database Architectures) DTSTART:20220926T134500Z DTEND:20220926T144500Z UID:c87fb1d8-8b51-4c22-a0f7-a8832958516e DESCRIPTION:Everyone is invited to attend the public defence of Dean De Le o of his thesis entitled 'Analysing Dynamic Graphs on Sparse Arrays'.\n\nC ontact:\nDean De Leo\nD.De.Leo@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Lucas Slot (N&O) DTSTART:20220930T080000Z DTEND:20220930T093000Z UID:2cc17905-28f9-473a-ac4d-dd96641d4cb8 DESCRIPTION:Everyone was welcome to attend the public defense of Lucas Slo t\, of his thesis ' Asymptotic Analysis of Semidefinite Bounds for Polynom ial Optimization and Independent Sets in Geometric Hypergraphs'. He gradua ted with honours ('cum laude').\n\nContact:\nLucas Slot\nlucas@cwi.nl\n\nL ocation:\nAula in the Cobbenhagen building\, Warandelaan 2\, in Tilburg LOCATION:Aula in the Cobbenhagen building\, Warandelaan 2\, in Tilburg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Tianyi Zhang (Distributed and Interactive Systems) DTSTART:20221003T101500Z DTEND:20221003T111500Z UID:0f8cc8a7-c211-407c-a03f-1987a7197867 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is cordially invited to attend the public defence of Tianyi Zhang dissertation "On fine-grained temporal emotion recognition in video: How to trade off recognition accuracy with annotation complexity?" at TU Delft.\n\nContact:\nTianyi Zhang\ntianyi@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nDelft University of Technology LOCATION:Delft University of Technology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Poulami Ganguly (Computational Imaging) DTSTART:20221208T113000Z DTEND:20221208T123000Z UID:d7bacd00-8505-49e6-95ef-626364312b7e DESCRIPTION:Sparsity-Based Algorithms for Inverse Problems\n\nContact:\nPo ulami Ganguly\nPoulami.Ganguly@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nLeiden Academiegebouw (room TBA) LOCATION:Leiden Academiegebouw (room TBA) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Brinn Hekkelman (Intelligent & Autonomous Systems) DTSTART:20221212T113000Z DTEND:20221212T130000Z UID:3ddebff1-caaf-404f-acca-c5186f7f345c DESCRIPTION:Brinn Hekkelman defends his thesis 'Fair mechanisms for smart grid congestion management'.\n\nLocation:\nDelft University of Technology LOCATION:Delft University of Technology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Bojian Yin (Machine Learning) DTSTART:20221214T100000Z DTEND:20221214T110000Z UID:9a3580d9-ac23-40d8-aab2-30b682c8669e DESCRIPTION:Efficient Spiking Neural Networks\n\nContact:\nBojian Yin\nb.y in@tue.nl\n\nLocation:\nEindhoven University Atlas 0.710 LOCATION:Eindhoven University Atlas 0.710 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Nick Verheul (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20221219T130000Z DTEND:20221219T140000Z UID:fb1de146-8ec0-45a2-a184-f295ea4d5317 DESCRIPTION:Stochastic models for unresolved scales in ocean flows\n\nLoca tion:\nUvA Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:UvA Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Abdolrahman Khoshrou (Intelligent & Autonomous Systems ) DTSTART:20221219T140000Z DTEND:20221219T153000Z UID:8764f79f-fc21-437c-a744-57a0a0f8278b DESCRIPTION:Abdolrahman (Majid) Khoshrou defends his thesis titled 'Singul ar value decomposition for time series analysis with applications to smart energy systems'.\n\nLocation:\nDelft University of Technology LOCATION:Delft University of Technology END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Lynn Sörensen (Machine Learning) DTSTART:20230117T140000Z DTEND:20230117T150000Z UID:793fce57-ba64-41eb-abdb-223cbce31ec6 DESCRIPTION:Deep Neural Network Models of Visual Cognition\n\nContact:\nLy nn Sörensen\nl.k.a.sorensen@uva.nl\n\nLocation:\nUvA Agnietenkapel\, Oude zijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:UvA Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defense Anton Bouter (Evolutionary Intelligence) DTSTART:20230213T120000Z DTEND:20230213T130000Z UID:9ac8496b-76a1-4bea-b287-a99bf07ad7bd DESCRIPTION:Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithms for Large-Scale Real-Va lued Optimization - Including Real-World Medical Applications\n\nLocation: \nAula Conference Centre of the Delft University of Technology (Mekelweg 5 \, Delft) and online LOCATION:Aula Conference Centre of the Delft University of Technology (Mek elweg 5\, Delft) and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Subhasree Patro (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20230216T120000Z DTEND:20230216T140000Z UID:36bd409e-c2a5-4fc5-9e15-ad3637fabc85 DESCRIPTION:Quantum\, Fine-Grained Complexity\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\ , Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Arjen Cornelissen (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20230217T150000Z DTEND:20230217T170000Z UID:df180899-7d3a-408b-a34f-e26a537d2b41 DESCRIPTION:Quantum multivariate estimation and span program algorithms\n\ nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, 1012 EZ Amster dam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Wessel van Woerden (CR) DTSTART:20230223T120000Z DTEND:20230223T140000Z UID:2980c0f8-2c5e-4d89-8e95-7e353cc8d4e0 DESCRIPTION:Lattice Cryptography\, from Cryptanalysis to New Foundations\n \nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73 2311 GJ Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence T. Bogaard DTSTART:20230510T114500Z DTEND:20230510T131500Z UID:b6436382-b930-4782-af09-ab692cb21b34 DESCRIPTION:Using Metadata to Understand Search Behavior in Digital Librar ies\n\nLocation:\nVU Aula De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam LOCATION:VU Aula De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Mathé Zeegers (CI) DTSTART:20230531T130000Z DTEND:20230531T140000Z UID:2fb0417e-56dd-4484-97af-c685434cc044 DESCRIPTION:Spectral imaging and tomographic reconstruction methods for in dustrial applications\n\nLocation:\nLeiden University LOCATION:Leiden University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defense Thomas Attema (CR) DTSTART:20230601T114500Z DTEND:20230601T123000Z UID:f1eb6ce7-f552-45e9-9ec4-a7343635a4df DESCRIPTION:Thesis: Compressed Σ-Protocol Theory\n\nLocation:\nAcademy Bu ilding\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Academy Building\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Benjamin Lion DTSTART:20230601T141500Z DTEND:20230601T160000Z UID:8c012e2f-ab21-4651-809b-dd26fcf0726b DESCRIPTION:An Algebra for Interaction of Cyber-Physical Components\n\nCon tact:\nBenjamin Lion\nb.lion@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nThe Academy Building\, R apenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:The Academy Building\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Hani Francisco (MD) DTSTART:20230621T140000Z DTEND:20230621T150000Z UID:690c6e4e-2d26-4173-8b61-ead55bacf458 DESCRIPTION:Streamer discharges in air: steady propagation and interaction with trace gases\n\nLocation:\nTechnische Universiteit Eindhoven\, Atlas building\, room 0.710 LOCATION:Technische Universiteit Eindhoven\, Atlas building\, room 0.710 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Simona Etinski(CR) DTSTART:20230628T080000Z DTEND:20230628T150000Z UID:300535ea-8027-4184-815c-cc103f3c70c2 DESCRIPTION:Title: Generalized Syndrome Decoding Problem and its Applicati on to Post-Quantum Cryptography\n\nContact:\nSimona Etinsky\nSimona.Etinsk i@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nJacques Louis Lions 1 hall\, building C of INRIA Pa ris LOCATION:Jacques Louis Lions 1 hall\, building C of INRIA Paris END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Muriel Pérez (ML) DTSTART:20230706T130000Z DTEND:20230706T140000Z UID:799c1f4f-5093-4bf0-9273-7007b1c85c0e DESCRIPTION:Are we there yet? Advances in Anytime-Valid Methods for Hypoth esis Testing and Prediction\n\nLocation:\nLeiden University\, Academy Buil ding\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Leiden University\, Academy Building\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Lei den END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Arkadiy Dushatskiy (EI) DTSTART:20230906T150000Z DTEND:20230906T160000Z UID:7fd5ef07-b940-4871-a62f-db76659ec712 DESCRIPTION:Expensive Optimization with Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithm s applied to Medical Image Segmentation using Deep Learning\n\nContact:\nA rkadiy.Dushatskiy@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nDelft University of Technology\, Me kelweg 5\, 2628 CC Delft LOCATION:Delft University of Technology\, Mekelweg 5\, 2628 CC Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Phd Defence Guus Berkelmans (Stochastics) DTSTART:20231024T094500Z DTEND:20231024T111500Z UID:dc59178d-6e0a-4038-bd28-bdb3aa21041d DESCRIPTION:Guus Berkelmans developed a method to better understand the si gns that someone is prone to suicide.\n\nLocation:\nVU Aula De Boelelaan 1 105 1081 HV Amsterdam LOCATION:VU Aula De Boelelaan 1105 1081 HV Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Andries Steenkamp (N&O) DTSTART:20231027T080000Z DTEND:20231027T093000Z UID:91661918-bdb8-48c3-ad62-a0f2f0c8288d DESCRIPTION:Polynomial Optimization: Matrix Factorization Ranks\, Portfoli o Selection\, and Queueing Theory\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium\, Cobbenhagen B uilding\, Tilburg University LOCATION:Auditorium\, Cobbenhagen Building\, Tilburg University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Xiaoran Li (MD) DTSTART:20231030T100000Z DTEND:20231030T110000Z UID:7d4c5288-ed13-4557-a911-ce92adf88fbd DESCRIPTION:Streamer discharges and their interaction with dielectrics - a computational study\n\nLocation:\nroom 0.710 in building Atlas on the TU/ e campus\, Het Eeuwsel 53\, 5612 AZ Eindhoven LOCATION:room 0.710 in building Atlas on the TU/e campus\, Het Eeuwsel 53\ , 5612 AZ Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Luis Felipe Vargas Beltrán (N&O) DTSTART:20231103T123000Z DTEND:20231103T133000Z UID:07444a0a-6284-4a2e-b2df-719862987ad3 DESCRIPTION:PhD defence of Luis Felipe Vargas Beltrán on his thesis 'Sum- of-Squares Representations for Copositive Matrices and Independent Sets in Graphs'. He graduated with honours ('cum laude').\n\nLocation:\nAula Tilb urg University LOCATION:Aula Tilburg University END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Rosanne Turner (Machine Learning) DTSTART:20231114T101500Z DTEND:20231114T111500Z UID:da09cf0b-8734-454f-8441-39fcf7842349 DESCRIPTION:Safe Anytime-Valid Inference: from Theory to Implementation in Psychiatry Research\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw of Leiden University\, R apenburg 73\, Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw of Leiden University\, Rapenburg 73\, Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Dennis Bouwman (MD) DTSTART:20231129T150000Z DTEND:20231129T160000Z UID:3367e1c0-ffe4-45e4-a109-474edd3a3ac1 DESCRIPTION:Multiscale modelling of streamers\n\nLocation:\nAtlas 0.710\, Het Eeuwsel 53\, 5612 AZ Eindhoven LOCATION:Atlas 0.710\, Het Eeuwsel 53\, 5612 AZ Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Baohong Guo (MD) DTSTART:20231207T123000Z DTEND:20231207T133000Z UID:3cae5cc8-9e64-4af4-b36d-412ff4e42691 DESCRIPTION:Simulating Positive and Negative Streamer Discharges in Air an d in Strongly Attaching Gases\n\nLocation:\nroom 0.710 in building Atlas o n the TU/e campus\, Het Eeuwsel 53\, 5612 AZ Eindhoven LOCATION:room 0.710 in building Atlas on the TU/e campus\, Het Eeuwsel 53\ , 5612 AZ Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence of Zhen Wang (MD) DTSTART:20231221T123000Z DTEND:20231221T133000Z UID:d12d4a2c-467d-4dc8-b37d-d205be4a4bc7 DESCRIPTION:Simulating positive streamer discharges in air\n\nLocation:\nA tlas 0.710\, Het Eeuwsel 53\, 5612 AZ Eindhoven LOCATION:Atlas 0.710\, Het Eeuwsel 53\, 5612 AZ Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jelle Don (CR) DTSTART:20240123T140000Z DTEND:20240123T150000Z UID:123d36a1-ff32-41ad-94ff-e2d5f7242dca DESCRIPTION:Thesis: Proof techniques in the quantum random-oracle model\n\ nContact:\nJelle.Don@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw Rapenburg 73\, 23 11 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Harold Nieuwboer (A&C) DTSTART:20240131T150000Z DTEND:20240131T160000Z UID:ec49ada3-4b62-470c-a577-42c879944843 DESCRIPTION:Thesis: Classical and quantum algorithms for scaling problems\ n\nContact:\nharoldnieuwb@gmail.com\n\nLocation:\nUvA\, Agnietenkapel Amst erdam LOCATION:UvA\, Agnietenkapel Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Francien Bossema (CI) DTSTART:20240523T091500Z DTEND:20240523T101500Z UID:eb33420b-5377-40cf-91cb-670a915b1b13 DESCRIPTION:Tailoring X-ray tomography techniques for cultural heritage re search.\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw in Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 LOCATION:Academiegebouw in Leiden\, Rapenburg 73 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Hans Dieter Hiep (CSY) DTSTART:20240523T114500Z DTEND:20240523T123000Z UID:2e2a4636-13b6-4294-8d6c-fbbe441e50f5 DESCRIPTION:New Foundations for Separation Logic\n\nContact:\nHans Dieter Hiep\nhdh@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nAcademy Building Rapenburg 73 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Academy Building Rapenburg 73 2311 GJ Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Richard Schoonhoven (CI) DTSTART:20240611T114500Z DTEND:20240611T124500Z UID:d02459d3-f83f-45f1-ace9-9aa3d7ef6be6 DESCRIPTION:On the optimization of imaging pipelines\n\nLocation:\nGroot A uditorium\, Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73\, Leiden LOCATION:Groot Auditorium\, Academiegebouw\, Rapenburg 73\, Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Hemaditya Malla (MD) DTSTART:20240613T140000Z DTEND:20240613T150000Z UID:6945feff-3b35-42a2-b12c-198c2cde8703 DESCRIPTION:Streamer Discharges: Repetitive Pulses\, Reaction Sets\, and R adio Emissions\n\nLocation:\nroom 0.710 in building Atlas on the TU/e camp us\, Het Eeuwsel 53\, 5612 AZ Eindhoven LOCATION:room 0.710 in building Atlas on the TU/e campus\, Het Eeuwsel 53\ , 5612 AZ Eindhoven END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Nikolaj Mücke (SC) DTSTART:20240627T081500Z DTEND:20240627T091500Z UID:c055ddf1-5f1d-4299-ab20-38e47baf0095 DESCRIPTION:Deep Learning for Real-Time Inverse Problems and Data Assimila tion with Uncertainty Quantification for Digital Twins\n\nLocation:\nUnive rsity Utrecht\, Domplein 29\, 3512 JE Utrecht LOCATION:University Utrecht\, Domplein 29\, 3512 JE Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jana Sotáková (A&C) DTSTART:20240628T090000Z DTEND:20240628T110000Z UID:c0efae46-229c-4413-a3e0-1100b4a0d7f1 DESCRIPTION:Thesis "Isogenies and cryptography"\n\nLocation:\nOude Luthers e Kerk\, Singel 411\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Oude Lutherse Kerk\, Singel 411\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Manel Slokom 9 July 2024 at 14.30 DTSTART:20240709T123000Z DTEND:20240709T143000Z UID:dff0a144-4d8e-4ec9-a954-39a96241bf89 DESCRIPTION:Towards Purpose-aware Privacy-preserving Techniques for Predic tive Applications\n\nContact:\nManel Slokom\nmanel.slokom@live.fr\n\nLocat ion:\nSenaatszaal of Auditorium (Aula)\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft LOCATION:Senaatszaal of Auditorium (Aula)\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sander Borst (N&O) DTSTART:20240827T140000Z DTEND:20240827T160000Z UID:52dced5f-7b4f-44b0-9d5f-f46533a7c85b DESCRIPTION:Thesis: Branch-and-bound trees\, integrality gaps and online o ptimization\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht\, Domplein 2 9\, Utrecht LOCATION:Academiegebouw Universiteit Utrecht\, Domplein 29\, Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Jurriaan Buist (SC) DTSTART:20240903T123000Z DTEND:20240903T133000Z UID:251afebd-f484-44de-98e6-400366689663 DESCRIPTION:Energy-consistent formulations of the one-dimensional two-flui d model\n\nLocation:\nSenate Hall of the Aula of the TU Delft\, Mekelweg 5 \, Delft LOCATION:Senate Hall of the Aula of the TU Delft\, Mekelweg 5\, Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Patricia Bota (Distributed & Interactive Systems) DTSTART:20240925T090000Z DTEND:20240925T100000Z UID:d0e4549b-79c6-463d-9f50-42bccc11a213 DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Patricia Bota will be on Wednesday 25 Septe mber 2024 at Instituto Superior Técnico\, Lisbon on "Physiological-based Group Emotion Recognition: Novel Methods and Real-World Applications"\n\n Contact:\nPatricia Bota\n\nLocation:\nLisbon and online LOCATION:Lisbon and online END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Philip Verduyn Lunel (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20241004T080000Z DTEND:20241004T093000Z UID:a9a110af-0e0f-4034-a716-b3c0bdb6b1c5 DESCRIPTION:Philip Verduyn Lunel will defend the dissertation: 'Quantum Po sition Verification: Loss-tolerant Protocols and Fundamental Limits'. Prom otor is Prof. H.M. Buhrman. The co-promotor is Dr F. Speelman.\n\nLocation :\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Tim Gubner (DA) DTSTART:20241004T114500Z DTEND:20241004T130000Z UID:fab42e79-8eb8-4fbb-9fce-e7746833c750 DESCRIPTION:Adaptively Generating Heterogeneous Execution Strategies using the Voila Framework\n\nContact:\nTim Gubner\ntim.gubner@cwi.nl\n\nLocatio n:\nVrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105 LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence René Allerstorfer (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20241028T130000Z DTEND:20241028T143000Z UID:5611b585-0945-410a-a0d5-d73c3b4819a3 DESCRIPTION:René Allerstorfer will defend the dissertation 'Position-base d Quantum Cryptography: From Theory towards Practice'. Promotor is Prof. H .M. Buhrman. The co-promotor is Dr F. Speelman.\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkape l\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 - 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 - 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Yanlin Chen (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20241121T090000Z DTEND:20241121T103000Z UID:efb6be51-046e-4000-932d-5ea164f5d0f2 DESCRIPTION:Yanlin Chen will defend the dissertation 'On Quantum Algorithm s and Limitations for Convex Optimization and Lattice Problems'. Promotor is Prof. R.M. de Wolf. The co-promotor is Dr M. Ozols.\n\nLocation:\nAgni etenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Thomas Schoegje (HCDA) DTSTART:20241203T085500Z DTEND:20241203T095500Z UID:7cc08b61-3c5d-4960-a1a2-3806b00b1fcd DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Thomas Schoegje will be on Tuesday 3 Decemb er 2024 at Utrecht University on "Task-based search for municipal knowledg e workers: \nDesigning and implementing specialised search functionality"\ n\nContact:\nThomas Schoegje\n\nLocation:\nUniversity Utrecht\, Academiege bouw\, Domplein 29\, Utrecht LOCATION:University Utrecht\, Academiegebouw\, Domplein 29\, Utrecht END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Simon Gunkel (Distributed & Interactive Systems) DTSTART:20241203T124500Z DTEND:20241203T134500Z UID:df700a02-0bd4-4a92-8804-ff939cb901ef DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Simon Gunkel will be on Tuesday 3 December 2024 at Vrije Universiteit on "From 2D Video Conferencing to Photorealisti c Immersive 3D Communication"\n\nContact:\nSimon Gunkel\n\nLocation:\nHoof dgebouw VU\, Auditorium\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Hoofdgebouw VU\, Auditorium\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Salim Salmi (ST) DTSTART:20241204T124500Z DTEND:20241204T141500Z UID:78a50327-f060-4e66-be5c-22b55921ef97 DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Salim Salmi will be on Wednesday 4 December 2024 at Vrije Universiteit on "From Words to Action: AI-Supported Suicide Prevention Helpline"\n\nContact:\nSalim Salmi\n\nLocation:\nVrije Univers iteit\, Auditorium\, Main building (1st floor)\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amste rdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit\, Auditorium\, Main building (1st floor)\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Willem Feijen (CWI\, N&O) DTSTART:20241209T160000Z DTEND:20241209T170000Z UID:2231202f-7b45-41df-ad2c-f607408c5be6 DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Willem Feijen (CWI) takes place at the Univ ersity of Amsterdam on Monday 9 December 2024. His PhD thesis is entitled: 'Fast\, Right or Best: Algorithms for Practical Optimization Problems'.\n \nLocation:\nUvA\, Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, Amsterd am LOCATION:UvA\, Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Shishir Subramanyam (Distributed & Interactive Systems ) DTSTART:20241212T113000Z DTEND:20241212T123000Z UID:3ab78c94-a4f3-4ecc-b07a-82f66faa9ad4 DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Shishir Subramanyamon will be on Thursday 1 2 December 2024 at Delft Univeristy on "Adaptive Streaming of Dynamic Poin tClouds for Virtual Reality Remote Communication"\n\nContact:\nShishir Sub ramanyam\n\nLocation:\nTU Delft LOCATION:TU Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD thesis defence of Dmitry Grinko (A&C/QuSoft) DTSTART:20250203T130000Z DTEND:20250203T150000Z UID:398f1f6e-b2c2-46c6-8f72-2f550ed3c622 DESCRIPTION:Dmitry Grinko will defend the dissertation 'Mixed Schur-Weyl d uality in quantum information'. Promotor is Prof. H.M. Buhrman. The co-pro motor is Dr M. Ozols.\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal2 29 - 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Yunda Hao (ML) DTSTART:20250218T133000Z DTEND:20250218T143000Z UID:70d761b0-5c17-49f2-b73c-0389f3d56775 DESCRIPTION:E-Values for Anytime-Valid Inference with Exponential Families \n\nContact:\nYunda Hao\nYunda.Hao@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nLeiden University\ , Academy Building (Rapenburg 73\, Leiden) LOCATION:Leiden University\, Academy Building (Rapenburg 73\, Leiden) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Dyon van Vreumingen A&C / QuSoft DTSTART:20250220T090000Z DTEND:20250220T110000Z UID:5b9f01c5-08a2-42a1-a8a8-2fa1573c3149 DESCRIPTION:Dyon van Vreumingen will defend the dissertation 'Strategies f or adiabatic state preparation of quantum many-body systems'. Promotors ar e Prof. C.J.M. Schoutens and co-promotor Prof. L. Visscher.\n\nLocation:\ nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Changqing Lu (ST) DTSTART:20250227T113000Z DTEND:20250227T130000Z UID:68f321df-65d4-4643-b451-04cbc02262ce DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Changqing Lu will be on Thursday 27 Februar y 2025 at Twente University on "Statistical and machine learning contribut ions to spatial and spatio-temporal point process modelling\, with an appl ication to Dutch fire risk prediction"\n\nLocation:\nUniversity of Twente\ , Drienerlolaan 5\, Waaier 4\, Enschede LOCATION:University of Twente\, Drienerlolaan 5\, Waaier 4\, Enschede END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Zhuldyzay Baki (ST) DTSTART:20250311T114500Z DTEND:20250311T130000Z UID:71e87e81-7e93-49b6-9160-081021304d7b DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Zhuldyzay Baki will be on Tuesday 11 March 2025 at Twente University on "Comprehensive monitoring and prediction of s eismicity\nwithin the Groningen gas field using large-scale field observat ions"\n\nLocation:\nUniversity of Twente\, Drienerlolaan 5\, Waaier 4\, En schede LOCATION:University of Twente\, Drienerlolaan 5\, Waaier 4\, Enschede END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Monika Grewal (EI) DTSTART:20250411T103000Z DTEND:20250331T113000Z UID:d944a1de-3073-417f-9d96-631f5b5d6c06 DESCRIPTION:Deep Learning for Landmark Detection\, Segmentation\, and Mult i-Objective Deformable Registration in Medical Imaging\n\nLocation:\nDelft University of Technology\, Mekelweg 5\, 2628 CC Delft LOCATION:Delft University of Technology\, Mekelweg 5\, 2628 CC Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sebastian Zur A&C / QuSoft DTSTART:20250430T090000Z DTEND:20250430T103000Z UID:88a19057-d181-4405-b1bc-71b687aa6ed2 DESCRIPTION:Multidimensional Quantum Walks and the Multiplicative Ladder A dversary. \nPromotor is Prof. S.M. Jeffery. The co-promotor is Dr K. Guo.\ n\nLocation:\nAula - Lutherse kerk\, Singel 411\, 1012 WN Amsterdam LOCATION:Aula - Lutherse kerk\, Singel 411\, 1012 WN Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Niels Neumann A&C / QuSoft DTSTART:20250502T110000Z DTEND:20250502T123000Z UID:d5e50714-02df-499c-accf-5438630c9690 DESCRIPTION:Adaptive Quantum Computers. Decoding and state preparation.\nP romotors are Prof. H.M. Buhrman and Prof. F. Phillipson. The co-promotor i s Dr J. Briët.\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 2 31\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Vladyslav Andriiashen (CI) DTSTART:20250515T090000Z DTEND:20250515T120000Z UID:383a3641-503d-4aa2-a70f-1c0de93b42f8 DESCRIPTION:Data-driven X-ray image generation for industrial applications \n\nLocation:\nEindhoven University of Technology\, Atlas 0.710 LOCATION:Eindhoven University of Technology\, Atlas 0.710 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Estéban Gabory (N&O) DTSTART:20250521T134500Z DTEND:20250521T144500Z UID:d6239a30-e136-4b2c-aa95-700df343d8f0 DESCRIPTION:Variable strings for pan-genomes: matching\, comparison\, inde xing.\n\nLocation:\nAuditorium\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelel aan 1105\, 1081 HV Amsterdam LOCATION:Auditorium\, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, De Boelelaan 1105\, 1081 HV Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Tyron Lardy (ML) DTSTART:20250618T140000Z DTEND:20250618T150000Z UID:ce180617-8598-4e59-aa8d-10ae1a93b168 DESCRIPTION:Optimal Test Statistics for Anytime-Valid Hypothesis Tests\n\n Location:\nLeiden University\, Academy Building LOCATION:Leiden University\, Academy Building END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sanne van den Berg (ML) DTSTART:20250701T110000Z DTEND:20250701T120000Z UID:15d3b111-ad6f-4ac8-802e-77af0e078f7a DESCRIPTION:Biologically plausible reinforcement learning\n\nLocation:\nUv A Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 - 231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam LOCATION:UvA Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 - 231\, 1012 EZ Ams terdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Llorenç Escolà Farràs (QuSoft) DTSTART:20250912T110000Z DTEND:20250912T130000Z UID:7fb92fb3-b139-4706-9da4-480c89b7cd46 DESCRIPTION:On Quantum Position Verification: Security and Experimental Co nstraints\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel of the University of Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel of the University of Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Arwin Gansekoele (ST) DTSTART:20250917T074500Z DTEND:20250917T091500Z UID:3521f3b5-70ee-4778-a64e-c2e946a0a634 DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Arwin Gansekoele will be on Wednesday 17 Se ptember 2025 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on "Deep Learning for Nex-Gen eration Communication Technologies"\n\nLocation:\nVrije Universiteit Amste rdam\, Auditorium\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, Auditorium\, De Boelelaan 1105\, A msterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Robin Markwitz (ST) DTSTART:20250926T123000Z DTEND:20250926T134500Z UID:2e3483be-d551-4396-995b-67eda504cdcd DESCRIPTION:The PhD defence of Robin Markwitz will be on Friday 26 Septemb er 2025 at University of Twente on “Spatio-temporal point process models for interval-censored data”.\n\nLocation:\nUniversity of Twente\, Prof. dr. G. Berkhoff room\, Waaier (12 - WA) Hallenweg 25 7522 NH Enschede LOCATION:University of Twente\, Prof. dr. G. Berkhoff room\, Waaier (12 - WA) Hallenweg 25 7522 NH Enschede END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Etienne Pieter van de Bijl (ST) DTSTART:20251002T094500Z DTEND:20251002T120000Z UID:b9726145-9509-465d-b5e1-59948a5f4515 DESCRIPTION:The PhD Defence of Etienne Pieter van de Bijl will be on Thurs day 2 October 2025 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on "From Baselines to B reakthroughs: Fundamentals and Applications of Machine Learning in Cyberse curity"\n\nLocation:\nVrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, Aula\, De Boelelaan 1 105\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam\, Aula\, De Boelelaan 1105\, Amsterd am END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Garazi Muguruza Lasa (A&C / QuSoft) DTSTART:20251017T090000Z DTEND:20251017T110000Z UID:d2dd050b-444e-44ef-846e-9d33f7263f5e DESCRIPTION:Resource requirements for quantum cryptography\n\nLocation:\nL utherse kerk\, Singel 411\, 1012 WN Amsterdam LOCATION:Lutherse kerk\, Singel 411\, 1012 WN Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Sophie Klumper (Networks and Optimization) DTSTART:20251023T120000Z DTEND:20251023T133000Z UID:5936a7bf-c024-4431-94d5-691ed171cb1e DESCRIPTION:The GAP and the gain: Improving the approximate mechanism desi gn frontier in constrained environments\n\nLocation:\nDe Aula\, Universite it van Amsterdam\, Singel 411 LOCATION:De Aula\, Universiteit van Amsterdam\, Singel 411 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Max Kiss (Computational Imaging) DTSTART:20251107T115000Z DTEND:20251107T133000Z UID:e0d3ef90-67e8-47b9-bf9b-f9237f067d6a DESCRIPTION:Advancing Learned Algorithms for 2D X-ray Computed Tomography\ n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw of Leiden University (Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden) LOCATION:Academiegebouw of Leiden University (Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leide n) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Jordi Weggemans (A&C / QuSoft) DTSTART:20251113T150000Z DTEND:20251113T163000Z UID:96c55286-57d9-4b2f-9d86-dd84edf0914e DESCRIPTION:Quantum versus classical resources in computational complexity \n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel of the University of Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel of the University of Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Azim Afroozeh (Database Architectures) DTSTART:20260109T124500Z DTEND:20260109T141500Z UID:56caf986-c1ae-47c3-9437-62e594809665 DESCRIPTION:FastLanes: A Next-Gen File Format\n\nContact:\nazim.afroozeh@c wi.nl\n\nLocation:\nVU Main Building\, De Boelelaan 1105\, 1081 HV Amsterd am LOCATION:VU Main Building\, De Boelelaan 1105\, 1081 HV Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Boyu Xu (Human- Centered Data Analytics) + workshop DTSTART:20260114T130000Z DTEND:20260114T150000Z UID:537ee071-46c3-4384-bead-c1800beb0571 DESCRIPTION:Title of the dissertation is: "Exploring Indirect Relations Be tween Topics in Neuroscience Literature Using Augmented Reality to Inform Experimental Design".\n\nContact:\nBoyu Xu\nboyu.xu@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nU trecht University Hall LOCATION:Utrecht University Hall END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Marten Folkertsma (Algorithms and Complexity) DTSTART:20260119T120000Z DTEND:20260119T133000Z UID:3c1d5b3d-a2b2-4ba5-997c-19ba93103142 DESCRIPTION:Empowering quantum computation with three resources. Measureme nt and feedforward\, catalytic space\, and classical guiding states.\n\nLo cation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Xue Li (Database Architectures) DTSTART:20260204T090000Z DTEND:20260204T103000Z UID:b16eea27-9bc1-4585-a6d0-db36a3eaaf2f DESCRIPTION:The PhD defence of Xue Li will be on Wednesday 4 February 2026 at University of Amsterdam on "From Fine-tuning to Prompting: A Paradigm Shift in Knowledge Graph Construction"\n\nLocation:\nUniversity of Amsterd am\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Agnietenkapel\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam\, LOCATION:University of Amsterdam\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229\, Agnietenkap el\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam\, END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Adriaan Graas (Computational Imaging) DTSTART:20260204T131500Z DTEND:20260204T150000Z UID:293436ca-441c-43a2-86bc-bfa13698c0cc DESCRIPTION:Faster X-ray Tomography in Real-world Dynamic Applications\n\n Location:\nAcademiegebouw of Leiden University (Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Lei den) LOCATION:Academiegebouw of Leiden University (Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leide n) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Danish Kashaev (Networks and Optimization) DTSTART:20260210T150000Z DTEND:20260210T163000Z UID:176f404f-0114-433c-8e5e-e190e488311b DESCRIPTION:Approximation via Duality in Offline\, Online and Strategic Se ttings\n\nLocation:\nAgnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Francisco Escudero Gutiérrez (Algorithms and Compl exity) DTSTART:20260210T150000Z DTEND:20260210T160000Z UID:c49ba979-9569-4c68-b0c4-3c52a9a7e467 DESCRIPTION:Quantum computing\, norms and polynomials\n\nLocation:\nAcadem y Building of the Leiden University (Rapenburg 73\, Leiden\, South Holland \, 2311 GJ\, Netherlands). LOCATION:Academy Building of the Leiden University (Rapenburg 73\, Leiden\ , South Holland\, 2311 GJ\, Netherlands). END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Xuemei Zhou (Distributed and Interactive Systems) DTSTART:20260304T090000Z DTEND:20260304T103000Z UID:48935b19-f9f2-4c53-92a6-ea320cdc7b8e DESCRIPTION:The PhD defence of Xuemei Zhou will be on Wednesday 4 March 20 26 at Delft University of Technology on "Human-Centric Quality Assessment and Visual Attention Modeling for Point Clouds"\n\nLocation:\nDelft Univer sity\, Senate Hall\, Aula Conference Centre\, Mekelweg 5\, 2628 CD Delft LOCATION:Delft University\, Senate Hall\, Aula Conference Centre\, Mekelwe g 5\, 2628 CD Delft END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence of Yu-Hsuan Huang (Cryptology) DTSTART:20260401T080000Z DTEND:20260401T090000Z UID:63124592-1a77-4d00-af36-8230281bc0e1 DESCRIPTION:Post-Quantum Security of Cryptographic Transformations in the Random Oracle Model\n\nLocation:\nAcademy Building of Leiden University: R apenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Academy Building of Leiden University: Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Lei den END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Toby van Gastelen (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20260519T113000Z DTEND:20260519T123000Z UID:d6dbbbbc-630b-4f6d-a93d-265a933e0668 DESCRIPTION:Structure-Preserving Data-Driven Methods for Modeling Turbulen t Flows\n\nLocation:\nTU Eindhoven\, Atlas 0.710 LOCATION:TU Eindhoven\, Atlas 0.710 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Syver Agdestein (Scientific Computing) DTSTART:20260528T113000Z DTEND:20260528T123000Z UID:8932569b-7228-45b0-9b64-bd5d285409df DESCRIPTION:Data-driven discrete closure models for large-eddy simulation of incompressible turbulence\n\nLocation:\nUniversity of Eindhoven\, Atlas building LOCATION:University of Eindhoven\, Atlas building END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR