News

News about CWI research, education and the social impact of this research.

Share this page

In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
Questions about our research or our institute? Media can contact our Communication department.
Our CWI in the media page features a selection of CWI appearances in prominent media channels, both national and international.

New mathematical insights on popular optimization methods

The widely used simplex algorithm (1947) is one of the algorithms that work well in practice, while according to the theory, this should not always be possible. Sophie Huiberts (CWI) and her …

An inspiring masterclass on machine learning for inverse problems

CWI organised a 2-day masterclass, as part of the CWI Semester Program on Data-driven methods for Inverse Problems. Participants from Groningen to Paris attented the event.

Female science students wanted for CWI’s Constance van Eeden PhD Fellowship

CWI establishes the Constance van Eeden PhD Fellowship to boost the number of women in science. Constance van Eeden was the first woman to receive a PhD in statistics in the Netherlands …

Symposium on Human-Centered Multimedia to celebrate Pablo César’s Professorship Appointment

On 20 May 2022, Pablo César gives his inaugural lecture at TU Delft, Aula, to celebrate his appointment to Professorship. The lecture, titled “Human-Centered Multimedia: making remote togetherness possible”, will provide an …

DIS AT CHI 2022

Research carried out by the Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) has resulted in contributions to this year's ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing …

Léo Ducas appointed professor of Mathematical Cryptology

Léo Ducas is appointed as a part-time professor Mathematical Cryptology at Leiden University. At CWI, he designed several cryptosystems, some of which might soon be adopted as new international standards.

Learning better from data: Rianne de Heide wins prestigious award for her dissertation

How can humans and computers learn from data? In her dissertation Rianne de Heide describes some of these problems and introduces a new way of hypothesis testing. For this she received the …

Veni grant for Alexander Ly

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) awarded a Veni grant to Alexander Ly, who will start working at CWI in the run of 2022. Ly received the grant for his proposal “Increasing Scientific …