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Netherlands eScience Center grants two projects at CWI

CWI develops new techniques for studying vascular growth

Blood vessels are essential for efficient transport of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body, and play a crucial role in tumor growth and wound healing. Sonja Boas, PhD student in CWI's Life …

TimoTimo computes the fastest biological routes

PhD student Timo Maarleveld of CWI has developed new computer algorithms that improve the speed and acurateness of biological computer simulations. He defends his thesis on Thursday 17 December at the VU …

Unique experiment during 'War Horse' play in Shanghai

The National Theatre of China, Chinese news agency Xinhuanet and CWI performed a unique sensor experiment during a series of theater performances of 'War Horse' in Shanghai. During the experiments, volunteers were …

QuSoft in the media

On 3 December 2015 the new QuSoft research center for quantum software was launched during the CWI Lectures 2015 event. It is a joint initiative of CWI, UvA and VU, and will …

Inaugural speech Marie-Colette van Lieshout

On Thursday 3 December 2015 dr. Marie-Colette van Lieshout (CWI and UT) held her inaugural lecture as a full professor of Spatial Stochastics at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer …

QuSoft research center for quantum software launched

Today, on 3 December 2015 QuSoft, the first research center dedicated to quantum software, is launched. It is a joint initiative of CWI, UvA and VU, and will be located at Amsterdam …

FACS Best Paper Award for Formal Methods researchers

During the FACS2015 conference three researchers associated with the CWI Formal Methods research group were awarded the Best Paper Award for their article ‘Composing Constraint Automata, State-by-State’. The conference was held in …