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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.

Bert Zwart appointed professor at TU/e

Bert Zwart has been appointed professor of Stochastic Operations Research at the Eindhoven University of Technology's (TU/e) department of Mathematics and Computer Science

Marie-Colette van Lieshout appointed professor in Spatial Stochastics

Starting 1 February 2015, Marie-Colette van Lieshout of CWI has been appointed Professor of Spatial Stochastics at the University of Twente, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

Arnoud den Boer wins Gijs de Leve prize

Arnoud den Boer, former PhD student of CWI, has been awarded the Gijs de Leve Prize. The prize was awarded last week at the annual congress of the LNMB, the Dutch Network …

Arnoud den Boer wins Gijs de Leve prize

The week of quantum computing

Starting 12 January 2015, the Universiteit van Nederland publishes five public lectures by Harry Buhrman, head of the research group quantum computing at CWI. The series of lectures features the do's and …

The week of quantum computing

ERCIM News 100 - Simulations Show how Lightning Creates Antimatter

ERCIM News 100 features the article 'Simulations Show how Lightning Creates Antimatter' written by Ute Ebert and Christoph Köhn from CWI.

ERCIM News 100 - Simulations Show how Lightning Creates Antimatter

CWI joins two large-scale energy projects

Researchers of CWI will participate in the projects ‘Smart Energy Systems in the Built Environment’ and ‘Excellence in Uncertainty Reduction of Offshore Wind Systems (EUROS)’ of the STW Perspective research programmes that …

CWI joins two large-scale energy projects

Jos Baeten appointed professor at the UvA

Jos Baeten has been appointed professor of Theory of Computing at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. It is a part-time appointment that Baeten will combine with his directorship of …

Jos Baeten appointed professor at the UvA

Lynda Hardman appointed Distinguished Scientist ACM

Lynda Hardman, senior researcher and scientific staff member at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been named Distinguished Scientists by ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery.

Lynda Hardman appointed Distinguished Scientist ACM