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Mathematician Lex Schrijver receives honorary doctorate

Rubicon for Fernando de Oliveira Filho

VIDI grant for Frank Vallentin

Frank Vallentin has been awarded an NWO VIDI grant at the end of 2009 for his research project 'Semidefinite programming and harmonic analysis: Foundations and applications'.

Monique Laurent appointed professor at Tilburg University

Monique Laurent of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been appointed professor of Combinatorial Optimization at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Tilburg University.

Improved lower bounds for chromatic number

Researcher Fernando de Oliveira Filho of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam improved the lower bounds on the chromatic number. He received his PhD degree on December 1 for his …

D. Wojtczak receives Best paper award at ICALP 2009

Following the decision of the programme committee of ICALP 2009 Track B, Dominik Wojtczak (a former PhD student at University of Edinburgh, currently a postdoc at CWI) together with Michael Ummels (PhD …

Mathematics makes wireless networks more efficient

How many cellphone masts should be placed in order to reach everyone? If there are ten additional stations eligible for grants, where can these be placed best? PhD student Erik Jan van …

Innovative CWI research wins Free Competition

Two CWI research proposals have received money in the Free Competition 2008 of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) division for Exact Sciences. From 58 entries the research of Bert Gerards …