Networks and Optimization group news

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 …

Royal honour for Lex Schrijver

Mathematician prof.dr. A. Schrijver has been appointed 'Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw'. On Monday, 19 September 2005 Lex Schrijver received the honour from dr. S.J. Noorda, President of the …

Aardal appointed professor of Combinatorial Algorithmics

CWI researcher Karen Aardal has been appointed part-time professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology. As of April 1, 2005, she holds the chair of Combinatorial Algorithmics at the Department of Mathematics …

Prestigious prizes awarded to Lex Schrijver and Bert Gerards

On Monday, 18 August 2003, Lex Schrijver received the Dantzig prize for his complete work in optimization. Furthermore, he and Bert Gerards both received the Fulkerson prize during ISMP 2003 in Copenhagen. …

Lecture Edsger Dijkstra at CWI

Lecture Edsger Dijkstra On Tuesday, October 10, 2000, the famous Edsger Dijkstra will give a lecture at CWI, entitled: 'On avoiding avoidable case analyses'. Prof.dr. Dijkstra is Professor Emeritus of the University …

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