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New Dutch train timetable made more robust with help of CWI
The 2007 Dutch train timetable, which started on 10 December 2006, has been made more robust with help of CWI researcher Lex Schrijver and programmer Adri Steenbeek. This was pointed out by …
New upper bounds for kissing in higher dimensions
Christine Bachoc (Université Bordeaux) and Frank Vallentin (Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica, Amsterdam), have found new upper bounds for 'kissing' in higher dimensions. In geometry the kissing number is the maximum number …
Dion Gijswijt nominated for prestigious Tucker Prize
Dion Gijswijt, former PhD student of Lex Schrijver, was nominated for the A.W. Tucker Prize by the Mathematical Programming Society. The jury announced this during the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP) …
Invited lecture Bert Gerards at ICM 2006
Bert Gerards will give an invited lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) 2006 on 28 August in Madrid. It is a great honour to speak at ICM, the most important …
FOCUS and GLANCE subsidy for CWI
NWO granted two FOCUS subsidies to CWI researchers. FOCUS is the open part of the Bsik programme BRICKS, which has been developed by CWI and NWO Physical Sciences to stimulate fundamental computer …
Krzysztof Apt elected as Member of the Academia Europaea
Prof. dr. Krzysztof Apt (CWI and Universiteit van Amsterdam) has been elected as Member of the Academia Europaea in the Informatics Section on April 26, 2006. This section has 66 members of …
Better train planning with mathematical models
Better planning for trains with mathematical models - this is the subject of the dissertation of Gabor Maroti of the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI). Maroti studied several optimization models for …
NWO Spinoza Prize 2005 for Alexander Schrijver
Mathematician prof.dr. Alexander Schrijver is awarded the Spinoza Prize 2005. This was announced by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research in The Hague on June 6. Lex Schrijver (1948) is researcher at …
