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Prestigious European grant to improve calculations of turbulent flows
Senior researcher Benjamin Sanderse has received a major European grant to tackle a problem that defeats even supercomputers: reliably predicting turbulent flows. Turbulent flows are critical not only in the energy transition, …
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NWO grant for UNIQUE project: enhancing wave-based imaging
A joint research project of CWI and the University of Amsterdam called UNIQUE (Unified framework for wave-based Inversion, Quantification of Uncertainties, and Experimental design) was awarded a grant from NWO’s Open Technology …
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Blending physical and digital worlds: CWI develops a PhysioDrum
How can physical objects be enhanced by digital features to create new experiences in areas like cultural heritage and the performing arts? In his PhD thesis Rômulo Vieira provides a theoretical framework …
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Exploring the limits of quantum computation
How do quantum and classical computational resources compare? PhD student Jordi Weggemans (CWI, QuSoft) hopes to answer this question in his thesis ‘Quantum versus Classical Resources in Computational Complexity’, which he defended …
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How can we make AI explainable and trustworthy for healthcare?
Imagine getting health advice or therapy from an Artificial Intelligence (AI). While Large Language Models (LLMs) —the powerful AI behind tools — are becoming incredibly smart, would you trust them with your …
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CWI develops new learned algorithms for better scans of complex objects
How can we develop learned algorithms that enable us to obtain sharper computed tomography (CT) scans of complex objects such as works of art? Maximilian B. Kiss explored this question in his …
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Winners of the 2025 CWI Best Thesis in Applied Math Award
On October 30th, the six finalists for the 2025 CWI Best Thesis in Applied Math Award pitched their research. After careful deliberation, the jury awarded the prize in the BSc category to …
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Major NWO grant to build world’s largest digital twin for energy-system studies
A cutting-edge consortium project called ‘Understanding Large and cOmplex Power sYstems’ (UTOPYS) will enable researchers to build the world’s largest research cluster for real-time energy system studies. The initiative, led by TU …
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