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Abel Laureates Lectures at CWI with László Lovász and Avi Wigderson
On 8 April 2022 the two 2021 Abel Prize Laureates - László Lovász and Avi Wigderson - gave lectures at CWI during a festive afternoon programme for the Dutch science community. Below …
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Monique Laurent appointed CWI Fellow
Monique Laurent, researcher and former MT member at CWI and a professor at Tilburg University, has been appointed as CWI Fellow for her contributions to science and management.
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Veni grant for Simon Telen
NWO awarded a Veni grant to Simon Telen, who will develop new strategies for solving complicated mathematical equations and apply them to real-world problems.
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CWI co-organizes international trimester program at Bonn University
CWI is co-organizing an international trimester program on Discrete Optimization at the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. Goal of this community service is to collaborate and make progress on long-standing …
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Monique Laurent elected as EUROPT Fellow 2021
Monique Laurent (CWI and Tilburg University) was elected EUROPT Fellow 2021 for being an outstanding researcher in continuous optimization.
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Strong Contribution of Networks and Optimization at IPCO 2021
Research carried out by CWI's Networks and Optimization (N&O) group has resulted in several contributions to the 22nd Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization, IPCO 2021: three presentations of research papers …
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NETWORKS consortium awarded €1M from EU COFUND for postdoc programme
After receiving the COFUND grant from the Horizon 2020 programme for 14 PhD positions, NETWORKS has been granted a COFUND grant of €1.0 million to appoint 14 postdoctoral researchers for 2 years.
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Guido Schäfer named professor by special appointment at UvA
Guido Schäfer has been named professor by special appointment of Algorithms, Optimization and Game Theory at the University of Amsterdam.
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