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CWI publishes news item about its research, education and the social impact of this research on a regular basis. In addition to news items, we also publish more extensive stories about high-profile research or about CWI contributing to tackling social issues.
MINO project on business decisions starts at CWI in October 2013
The Networks & Optimization research group at CWI in Amsterdam participates in the recently funded EU Initial Training Network MINO for Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization. It has eleven academic partners(such as CWI …
SIGMM Award for Dick Bulterman
Movies Colours of Math and Steve Jobs the lost interview shown at CWI during SPAFF film festival
From 12-15 September 2013 the SPAFF film festival takes place at Science Park Amsterdam. Movies shown at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) are:
Matteo Mio wins Ackermann Award
Researcher Matteo Mio, who is currently hosted at CWI in the Formal Methods group as an ERCIM postdoctoral fellow, received the 2013 Ackermann Award for his PhD thesis 'Game Semantics for Probabilistic …
Kees Oosterlee new editor-in-chief of Journal of Computational Finance
Kees Oosterlee is the new Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Computational Finance. This international refereed journal focuses on the advances in numerical and computational techniques in pricing, hedging and risk management of …
Two EU projects for Formal Methods group at CWI
At the end of August, the Formal Methods research group at CWI acquired two EU projects: Envisage and Upscale. At CWI, both FP7 projects each comprise two PhD students for three years. …
Streamers in lightning better understood by new mathematical model
Streamers - electrically conducting channels in gases like air - occur in the early stages of lightning, and in industrial applications.
Two CWI cryptographers honoured at CRYPTO 2013
During CRYPTO – one of the two leading crypto conferences in the world – two researchers from Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam were honoured: Ronald Cramer and Marc Stevens. The …
