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D. Wojtczak receives Best paper award at ICALP 2009
Following the decision of the programme committee of ICALP 2009 Track B, Dominik Wojtczak (a former PhD student at University of Edinburgh, currently a postdoc at CWI) together with Michael Ummels (PhD …
Mathematics makes wireless networks more efficient
How many cellphone masts should be placed in order to reach everyone? If there are ten additional stations eligible for grants, where can these be placed best? PhD student Erik Jan van …
Innovative CWI research wins Free Competition
Two CWI research proposals have received money in the Free Competition 2008 of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) division for Exact Sciences. From 58 entries the research of Bert Gerards …
Karen Aardal to TU Delft
As of 1 September Karen Aardal is full Professor Optimization at the Delft University of Technology and becomes head of the Optimization and Systems Theory group. The four preceding years Aardal was …
PhD defence Jarek Byrka
How could two banks be merged efficiently? Which offices should close and which not? Where should people build new energy plants? To answer these kinds of questions Jarek Byrka (CWI) studied mathematical …
SIGMA prize 2008 for DisWis
The education project DisWis won the SIGMA prize during the Lowlands festival on 16 August. After a presentation by Niels Oosterling and a short movie in which Lex Schrijver, interviewed by the …
Education project DisWis nominated for SIGMA award
The project DisWis, founded by CWI researcher Lex Schrijver and project agency De Praktijk, is nominated for the SIGMA award 2008. This annual award is meant to reward exceptional results in improving …
At CWI developed timetable awarded
The train timetable of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) has won the prestigious Franz Edelman Award. Last monday this prize for operational research was awarded to a team of researchers from NS, Erasmus University …
