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European consortium starts research on financial risk models
A European consortium of partners in academia and industry from the Netherlands, Italy and Spain has been granted 1,5 million euro for the Horizon 2020 research project WAKEUPCALL. The project, which is …
Inaugural lecture Roeland Merks at Leiden University
Java Bug Fixed with Formal Methods CWI
Researchers from CWI fixed a bug in the widely used object-oriented programming language Java in February 2015. They found an error in a broadly applied sorting algorithm, TimSort, which could crash programs.
Network analysis reveals new information on tax treaties
Mathematical analysis of a data set collected by Centraal Planbureau (CPB), the Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, revealed new information on how bilateral tax treaties can be exploited to form ‘tax …
Vici grant for Bert Zwart
Researcher Bert Zwart of CWI has been awarded a Vici grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) for his proposal ‘Rare Events: Asymptotics, Algorithms, Applications’. With the 1.5 million euro …
Cum laude for thesis on financial mathematics
Marjon Ruijter graduated with honours ('cum laude') on her thesis on Fourier methods for finance and economics. She defended her thesis on Friday 6 February 2015 at Delft University of Technology.
CWI spin-off MonetDB Solutions teams up with Numascale
CWI spin-off company MonetDB Solutions and the Norwegian appliance company Numascale have joined forces to develop database appliances that enable companies and organizations to perform easier and more affordable big data analytics.
CWI on Belgian TV
CWI could be seen on the national Belgian TV, in the programme 'Iedereen beroemd' - 'Everybody Famous'. The item was broadcasted on Tuesday 3 February 2015 on channel Eén at 19.40h - …
