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Jeroen Wackers wins Best PhD Thesis of 2007

CWI and BRICKS (Basic Research in Informatics for Creating the Knowledge Society) are proud to announce that Jeroen Wackers is a winner of the ECCOMAS Award for the Best PhD Thesis in …

CWI and Leiden University sign cooperation agreement

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Leiden University (UL) expand their cooperation.

CWI and Leiden University sign cooperation agreement

CWI coordinates project about control for coordination

What is the similarity between electronic signs on highways and pilotless planes? The answer is: coordination. The signs should communicate with each other and the planes should too. Five problems of this …

At CWI developed timetable awarded

The train timetable of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has won the prestigious Franz Edelman Award. Last monday this prize for operational research was awarded to a team of researchers from NS, Erasmus University …

CWI and Leiden University sign cooperation agreement

The Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica and Leiden University (UL) expand their cooperation. The Mathematical Institute (MI), Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and CWI signed an agreement that makes it possible …

Approximating the Stability Number and the Chromatic Number of a Graph via Semidefinite Programming

Nebojša Gvozdenović will receive his PhD degree for the research he carried out at CWI. He will defend his thesis entitled Approximating the Stability Number and the Chromatic Number of a Graph …

Opgelost nominated for best popular science book 2008

The book Opgelost (Solved!) is nominated for the Eurekaprijs for the best popular science book 2008. Opgelost is written by scientific journalist Bennie Mols.

Opgelost nominated for best popular science book 2008

Krzysztof R. Apt appointed CWI Fellow

We are happy to announce that Krzysztof R. Apt is appointed CWI Fellow on 1 April 2008. This title is given to outstanding members of CWI's research staff and offers them full …