Calendar Past events
- 2016-10-01T10:00:00+02:00
- 2016-11-25T15:00:00+01:00
CWI Book 'Geheugentrommels': the early years of the Dutch computer
In 2016, CWI celebrates the 100thanniversary of Adriaan van Wijngaarden (1916-1987) with the publication of a book (Geheugentrommels) and an exhibition (now closed) about Van Wijngaarden
- 2016-09-27T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-09-27T14:00:00+02:00
MAC Seminar with Luis Ortiz Gracia
Speaker: Luis Ortiz Gracia (Department of Econometrics, Statistics and Applied Economics, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain) Title: A dimension reduction method for option pricing (in collaboration with Duy-Minh Dang)
- 2016-09-12T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-09-12T15:00:00+02:00
Vossius Seminar: Jos Baeten on Adriaan van Wijngaarden
CWI director Jos Baeten will speak at the Vossius Seminar on Adriaan van Wijngaarden and the history of the first computers in the Netherlands. Van Wijngaarden (1916 - 1987), former director of CWI, is considered the founding father of computer science in the Netherlands and was responsible for developing the first computer in the Netherlands in 1952.
- 2016-09-08T12:30:00+02:00
- 2016-09-08T13:30:00+02:00
PhD Defence Jesse Dorrestijn (Scientific Computing)
Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Jesse Dorrestijn of his thesis 'Stochastic Convection Parameterization' Promotors: prof.dr. A.P. Siebesma en prof.dr. D.T. Crommelin
- 2016-09-06T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-09-06T14:00:00+02:00
MAC Seminar with Benjamin Sanderse
Speaker: Benjamin Sanderse Title and abstract to be announced.
- 2016-09-01T14:00:00+02:00
- 2016-09-01T15:00:00+02:00
PhD Defence Anna Dubinova (Multiscale Dynamics)
Everyone is cordially invited to attend the public defence of Anna Dubinova. Dissertation title: "Modeling of streamer discharges near dielectrics". Promotor: prof.dr. U.M. Ebert (CWI / TU/e)copromotor: dr.ir. S. Nijdam (TU/e)
- 2016-06-30T08:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-30T16:00:00+02:00
5th SDP Day: Workshop Day on Applications of Semidefinite Optimization
Everyone is welcome to attend this workshop day on Applications of Semidefinite Optimization. The speakers are: Etienne de Klerk (Tilburg University), Frank Permenter (MIT), Bart Litjens and Sven Polak (University of Amsterdam), Roy Schwartz ( Technion) and Shashwat Garg (Technical University Eindhoven. Please visit our website for all abstracts
- 2016-06-28T09:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-28T10:00:00+02:00
N&O lecture: Frank Permenter (MIT)
Everyone is very welcome to attend the CWI lecture of Frank Permenter (MIT) with the title: Dimension Reduction For SDPs Via Jordan Algebras.Abstract:We propose a new method for simplifying semidefinite programs inspired by symmetry reduction.
- 2016-06-17T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-17T14:00:00+02:00
N&O Lecture: Joe Halpern, Cornell University
Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend the CWI Lecture of Joe Halpern, Cornell University. The title of his lecture is: Decision theory with resource-bounded agents. Abstract:There have been two major lines of research aimed at capturingresource-bounded players in game theory.
- 2016-06-14T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-14T14:00:00+02:00
MAC Seminar
Speaker: Dirk Roose (KU Leuven) Title: Multi-scale simulation of forming processes with polycrystalline materials
- 2016-06-14T12:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-14T13:00:00+02:00
N&O Lecture: Bodo Manthey (University of Twente)
Everyone is invited to attend the CWI Lecture from Bodo Manthey with the title: Smoothed Analysis of the 2-Opt Heuristic for the TSPAbstract: The 2-opt heuristic is a very simple local search heuristic for the traveling salesman problem.
- 2016-06-09T11:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-09T12:00:00+02:00
N&O Lecture: Dion Gijswijt (Delft)
Everyons who is interested is welcome to attend the lecture of Dion Gijswijt, with the title 'Asymptotic upper bounds on progression-free sets in Z_p^n'.
- 2016-06-08T09:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-08T10:00:00+02:00
N&O Lecture: Gustavo Angulo (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend the lecture of Gustavo Angulo, entitled 'On a class of Stochastic Programs with Exponentially many Scenarios'.
- 2016-06-06T12:30:00+02:00
- 2016-06-06T14:00:00+02:00
PhD Defence Pieter van den Berg (Stochastics)
Everyone is welcome to attend the public defense of Pieter van de Berg of his thesis 'Logistics of emergency response vehicles: facility location, routing, and shift scheduling' Promotors: Prof. dr. ir. K.I. Aardal en prof. dr. R.D. van der Mei
- 2016-06-06T08:00:00+02:00
- 2016-06-06T16:00:00+02:00
Workshop on the mathematics of future energy systems
Dear colleagues and friends, Please consider to participate in a workshop on the mathematics of future energy systems. We found 6 excellent speakers who will show us some beautiful research problems inspired by energy systems.
- 2016-05-31T11:30:00+02:00
- 2016-05-31T11:30:00+02:00
ACG Talk
Speaker: Kasper Dokter (CWI) Title: Scheduling of Parallel Applications
- 2016-05-27T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-27T14:00:00+02:00
Talk by Darius Blasband, CEO of Raincode
Everybody is invited to attend the PEM talk by Darius Blasband, CEO of Raincode(www.raincode.com) where he will present his book "The Rise and Fallof Software Recipes". Abstract:Software recipes are meant to implement transitive intellig
- 2016-05-27T10:30:00+02:00
- 2016-05-27T13:30:00+02:00
PhD Defence Nicolas Höning (IS)
Everyone is welcome to attend the defence of Nicolas Höning of his thesis 'Markets and Prices for Flexible Planning'. Promotor: Prof.dr. J.A. La Poutré
- 2016-05-25T11:45:00+02:00
- 2016-05-25T14:00:00+02:00
PhD Defence Sihan Ding (Stochastics)
We cordially invite you to attend the public defence of Sihan Ding of his dissertation: 'Workflow Management in Call Centers: Forecasting, Staffing and Empirical Studies.' Promoters: prof.dr. Rob van der Mei and prof.dr. Ger Koole
- 2016-05-24T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-24T14:00:00+02:00
MAC Seminar
Speaker: Chris Stolk (UvA) Title: Recent results on the discretization and solution of time harmonic wave equations
- 2016-05-18T12:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-18T13:00:00+02:00
Combinatorics and Optimization seminar: Bernd Sturmfels (Berkeley)
Open seminar for anyone who is interested, speaker: Bernd Sturmfels (Berkeley)Title: Tensors and Their EigenvectorsAbstract: Eigenvectors of square matrices are central to linear algebra. Eigenvectors of tensors are a natural generalization. The spectral theory of tensors was pioneered by Lim and Qi a decade ago, and it has found numerous applications.
- 2016-05-13T12:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-13T13:00:00+02:00
PhD Defence Halldora Thorsdottir (Life Sciences)
Everybody is invited to attend the public defence of Halldora Thorsdottir of her dissertation entitled: Limit theorems for Markov-modulated queues. The location is UvA's Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229-231, in the heart of Amsterdam. Promotor: prof.dr. Michel Mandjes, UvA
- 2016-05-13T11:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-13T12:00:00+02:00
CWI Scientific Meeting
This scientific meeting is a PhD meeting with 5 talks delivered by PhD students. Program Kasper Dokter (Formal Methods)Scheduling of Parallel Applications
- 2016-05-13T07:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-13T16:00:00+02:00
WSC Springmeeting 2016
Friday May 13, 2016, the Werkgemeenschap Scientific Computing is organizing, together with the Mathematical Institute of the Utrecht University its yearly spring meeting in Utrecht. A mixture of ten young and senior researchers have been selected to give a presentation on their research.
- 2016-05-11T09:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-11T10:00:00+02:00
N&O lecture: Aleksandar Nikolov (Toronto)
If you are interested you are most welcome to attend this N&O lecture.
- 2016-05-03T14:15:00+02:00
- 2016-05-03T15:15:00+02:00
PhD Defence Daniël Pelt (Computational Imaging)
Everybody is cordially invited to attend the public defence of the PhD thesis of Daniël Pelt. The dissertation title is: "Filter-based reconstruction methods for tomography". Promotor: Prof. dr. Joost Batenburg (CWI, CI / Leiden University).
- 2016-05-03T13:00:00+02:00
- 2016-05-03T14:00:00+02:00
MAC Seminar
Speaker: Martina Chirilus-Bruckner, Leiden UniversityTitle: Dynamics and inverse spectral theory
- 2016-04-29T18:00:00+02:00
- 2016-04-29T18:00:00+02:00
Jazz Concert Experiment
What does the audience feel? What? Researchers at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) are running an experiment with wearable sensors at the Goethe-Institut Amsterdam. The goal is to understand if sensor technology can be used to measure audience engagement during a jazz concert.
- 2016-04-26T12:00:00+02:00
- 2016-04-26T13:00:00+02:00
MAC Seminar
Speaker: Valerio Lucarini (Universität Hamburg, Meteorological Institute / University of Reading, UK) Title: Response and Fluctuations in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
- 2016-04-26T08:00:00+02:00
- 2016-04-26T10:00:00+02:00
Lectures by prof. Yuying Li, A Data Driven Approach to Pricing and Risk Management
Announcement In de second half of April, Professor Yuying Li from the Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, Canada will give an 8 hours teaching course at CWI.
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