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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

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'.

Monique Laurent appointed professor at Tilburg University

Monique Laurent of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has been appointed professor of Combinatorial Optimization at the Faculty of Economics and Business of Tilburg University.

Improved lower bounds for chromatic number

Researcher Fernando de Oliveira Filho of the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam improved the lower bounds on the chromatic number. He received his PhD degree on December 1 for his …