2013 News
Researchers develop online fire monitoring service
In cooperation with European research partners, researchers of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam have developed the technical infrastructure of an online fire monitoring service.
Editie.NL reportage "Emoties, zo 2014"
RTL4 maakte voor Editie.NL de reportage "Emoties, zo 2014", over de emotieherkennings-demo die binnen het COMMIT/ onderzoeksprogramma SWEET is onwikkeld. Voor het SWEET project heeft de Database Architectures groep van CWI de database technologie geleverd. Alle data die door de verschillende sensors wordt gegenereerd, wordt verzameld in de door CWI ontwikkelde MonetDB database.
PhD research leads to innovation in digital forensics software
In forensics the analysis of digital data faces major challenges. The volume is growing exponentially and there is a wide variety of devices and formats. Jeroen van den Bos, PhD student at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam and software engineer at the Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI), developed a new approach to develop flexible, automated digital forensics software.
CWI researchers in research consortium Gravity programme
Six research consortia in which prominent scientists from various Dutch universities work together are receiving a combined sum of 153 million euros for long-term and large-scale research.
CWI awarded two NWO TOP Grants
CWI has been awarded two NWO TOP Grants in the Networks & Optimization group. Krzysztof Apt and Monique Laurent both received a grant in the module meant for experienced senior researchers in the field.
Overview CWI in Bedrijf 2013 (video)
A video report of our event CWI in Bedrijf 2013 is now available.
Conditions for optimal solutions to semidefinite problems found
Most optimization problems in real-life are hard to solve optimally. However, for practical purposes it is usually sufficient to settle for near-optimal solutions that can be found quickly. Fast and more accurate approximations can be computed using semidefinite programming, a novel powerful optimization tool
Jop Briët awarded Andreas Bonn medal
Jop Briët, former researcher at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, was awarded the Andreas Bonn medal for his thesis `Grothendieck Inequalities, nonlocal games and optimization’.
Connection between graph theory and algebra deepened
PhD student Guus Regts from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) investigated mathematical connections between graph theory and algebra.
Nikhil Bansal receives ERC Consolidator Grant for research on algorithms
Mathematician Nikhil Bansal received an ERC consolidator grant in November. The researcher is affiliated with Eindhoven University of Technology and part-time seconded at CWI, in the Networks & Optimization research group.
CWI celebrates 25 years of open Internet in Europe in November
On Sunday, 17 November at 2.28 PM (UTC+1) it is exactly twenty-five years ago that the Netherlands was connected to the Internet, as the first country in Europe.
CWI team wins recommendation challenge
Researchers Arjen de Vries, Alan Said and Alejandro Bellogin from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica in Amsterdam, scored the highest ranking in the news recommendation challenge that is part of the ACM Recommender System Conference.
NAW publication on Mathematics and Planet Earth
Daan Crommelin (CWI) and Henk Schuttelaars (TU Delft) were guest editors of a special issue of Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (NAW) on Mathematics and Planet Earth that was recently published. Daan Crommelin also wrote a blog post for the Daily Blog of the 'Mathematics of Planet Earth 2013' (MPE) website on this special publication. A summary follows below.
Human Brain Project started
The Human Brain Project, the world’s most ambitious neuroscience project, is underway. Scientists from the 135 partner institutions, co-funded by the EU with an estimated budget of €1.2 billion, are meeting in Switzerland for the official launch. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is one of the partners from the Netherlands and will work on management and analysis of big data streams.
Peter Boncz Special Professor at VU University Amsterdam
Peter Boncz of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been appointed Special Professor of Large-Scale Analytical Data Management at the Faculty of Sciences of VU University Amsterdam as of 1 October 2013.
Arnold Smeulders will join the Academia Europaea
Arnold Smeulders (COMMIT/, UvA and CWI) recently received an invitation to join the prestigious Academia Europaea.
Ronald Cramer inaugurated as KNAW Member
On 30 September 2013 Ronald Cramer, head of the Cryptology group of Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and a professor of cryptology at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden Universi
MINO project on business decisions starts at CWI in October 2013
The Networks & Optimization research group at CWI in Amsterdam participates in the recently funded EU Initial Training Network MINO for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization. It has eleven academic partners(such as CWI and project coordinator Bologna University) and three commercial partners (IBM, MAIOR and ORTEC).
SIGMM Award for Dick Bulterman
Movies Colours of Math and Steve Jobs the lost interview shown at CWI during SPAFF film festival
From 12-15 September 2013 the SPAFF film festival takes place at Science Park Amsterdam. Movies shown at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) are:
Matteo Mio wins Ackermann Award
Researcher Matteo Mio, who is currently hosted at CWI in the Formal Methods group as an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow, received the 2013 Ackermann Award for his PhD thesis 'Game Semantics for Probabilistic mu-Calculi'.
Kees Oosterlee new editor-in-chief of Journal of Computational Finance
Kees Oosterlee is the new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Computational Finance. This international refereed journal focuses on the advances in numerical and computational techniques in pricing, hedging and risk management of financial instruments. Oosterlee will be taking responsibility of selecting papers for the journal from the Fall 2013 issue and onwards.
Two EU projects for Formal Methods group at CWI
At the end of August, the Formal Methods research group at CWI acquired two EU projects: Envisage and Upscale. At CWI, both FP7 projects each comprise two PhD students for three years. Envisage, starting on 1 October, investigates the development of new software techniques for cloud applications, in a consortium together with innovative industries.
Streamers in lightning better understood by new mathematical model
Streamers - electrically conducting channels in gases like air - occur in the early stages of lightning, and in industrial applications.
Two CWI cryptographers honoured at CRYPTO 2013
During CRYPTO – one of the two leading crypto conferences in the world – two researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam were honoured: Ronald Cramer and Marc Stevens. The 33rd CRYPTO conference took place in Santa Barbara, Ca., USA in August 2013.
CWI releases software for detection of forged digital signatures
Cryptanalyst Marc Stevens from the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam published on 15 August open source software that can detect and block forged digital signatures: CWI's hash collision detection library.
ERC Advanced Grant for CWI Fellow Lex Schrijver
CWI researchers Pemberton, Stevens and De Haan lecture at OHM 2013
CWI researchers Steven Pemberton, Marc Stevens and Robbert de Haan will give four lectures at the OHM conference, which takes place from 31 July to 4 August 2013 in Geestmerambacht, the Netherlands.
Scientific Computing group nominated for Huibregtsen Prize
CWI’s research group Scientific Computing, led by mathematician Kees Oosterlee, is nominated for the Huibregtsen Prize 2013. The Huibregtsen Prize is granted for the best scientific research in the Netherlands that is remarkably innovative and has a valuable social impact.
CWI research nominated for Huibregtsen Prize
Research from CWI’s research group Scientific Computing, led by mathematician Kees Oosterlee, is nominated for the Huibregtsen Prize 2013.