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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.

Mathematician Lex Schrijver receives honorary doctorate

Lex Schrijver, prominent researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and Professor of Discrete Mathematics and Optimization at the University of Amsterdam, received an honorary doctorate from the Eötvös Loránd University …

Rubicon for Fernando de Oliveira Filho

VIDI grant for Frank Vallentin

Frank Vallentin has been awarded an NWO VIDI grant at the end of 2009 for his research project 'Semidefinite programming and harmonic analysis: Foundations and applications'.