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Joakim Blikstad wins 2025 EATCS Distinguished Dissertation Award
Can algorithms be both fast and simple? Joakim Blikstad has shown that they can. His PhD thesis from 2024 presented new combinatorial algorithms for solving some of the most fundamental problems in …
Honourable mention Christiaan Huygens Prize for Lucas Slot
The Christiaan Huygens Science Prize 2024 was awarded to Jan Willem van Ittersum for his PhD dissertation in mathematics. Lucas Slot and Rosa Schwarz both received an honourable mention. Slot (ETH Zürich) …
International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) in Amsterdam in 2027
CWI researchers Daniel Dadush and Monique Laurent will be co-chairs of the conference.
SIAM Student Paper Prize for Lucas Slot
Lucas Slot, former PhD student of CWI, received the SIAM Student Paper Prize 2024 for a paper that he wrote during his time at CWI.
Stieltjes Prize 2022-2023 for Lucas Slot
Former CWI PhD student Lucas Slot has been awarded the Stieltjes Prize for the best mathematical PhD thesis in the Netherlands. Slot did his PhD research at CWI, defended his thesis ‘cum …
Unlocking the mysteries of the Simplex-algorithm
The most popular optimization method is an algorithm, developed in 1947. Why is it still so successful? CWI researchers were able to shed some light on the matter.
Sophie Huiberts wins Gijs de Leve Prize
Sophie Huiberts won the Gijs de Leve Prize 2020-2023 for the best PhD thesis in Mathematics of Operations Research in that period. She is the first woman to get this prize.
Daniel Dadush appointed Professor of Geometry of Optimization
Daniel Dadush is appointed Professor of Geometry of Optimization at Utrecht University. This part-time position at UU is in close partnership with CWI, where Daniel is the group leader of the Networks …
