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Conditions for optimal solutions to semidefinite problems found

Most optimization problems in real-life are hard to solve optimally. However, for practical purposes it is usually sufficient to settle for near-optimal solutions that can be found quickly. Fast and more accurate …

Jop Briët awarded Andreas Bonn medal

Jop Briët, former researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, was awarded the Andreas Bonn medal for his thesis `Grothendieck Inequalities, nonlocal games and optimization’.

Connection between graph theory and algebra deepened

PhD student Guus Regts from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) investigated mathematical connections between graph theory and algebra.

Nikhil Bansal receives ERC Consolidator Grant for research on algorithms

Mathematician Nikhil Bansal received an ERC consolidator grant in November. The researcher is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology and part-time seconded at CWI, in the Networks & Optimization research group.

CWI celebrates 25 years of open Internet in Europe in November

On Sunday, 17 November at 2.28 PM (UTC+1) it is exactly twenty-five years ago that the Netherlands was connected to the Internet, as the first country in Europe.

CWI team wins recommendation challenge

Researchers Arjen de Vries, Alan Said and Alejandro Bellogin from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, scored the highest ranking in the news recommendation challenge that is part of the ACM Recommender …

NAW publication on Mathematics and Planet Earth

Daan Crommelin (CWI) and Henk Schuttelaars (TU Delft) were guest editors of a special issue of Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (NAW) on Mathematics and Planet Earth that was recently published. Daan Crommelin …

Human Brain Project started

The Human Brain Project, the world’s most ambitious neuroscience project, is underway. Scientists from the 135 partner institutions, co-funded by the EU with an estimated budget of €1.2 billion, are meeting in …