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Lex Schrijver elected AMS Fellow

The American Mathematical Society (AMS) chose its first AMS Fellows, and among them is Lex Schrijver from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and the University of Amsterdam. Other Dutch members of …

Lex Schrijver speaker at Nemo Wakker Worden Kinderlezing

On 13 Januari 2013 CWI researcher Lex Schrijver spoke at the Nemo Wakker Worden Kinderlezing 'What is the shortest way home?' (Wat is de kortste weg naar huis?) on optimal combinations in …

CWI researcher Floor Sietsma (20) youngest PhD in the Netherlands

Researcher Floor Sietsma of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam is the youngest PhD in the recent academic history of the Netherlands.

Floor Sietsma awarded 'Nerd van het Jaar 2012'

Researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam Floor Sietsma is awarded by Quest readers as Nerd of the Year 2012. In the race she left her main competitors Diederik …

Movie Lowlands Lecture Lex Schrijver Online

During the Lowlands Pop Festival, on 17 August 2012, five guest professors gave a lecture. One of them was CWI's Lex Schrijver. You can see a movie of his lecture (in Dutch) …

Veni awarded to Ross Kang for revealing network information

Gyula Farkas Memorial Award 2011 for Marianna Nagy

SIAG/Optimization Prize for kissing number research

The prestigious SIAG/Optimization Prize has been awarded to Frank Vallentin (Delft University of Technology and Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) and Christine Bachoc (University of Bordeaux) for their research on the kissing number.