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Kloosterman chair 2011 - published on (2-3-2011) The Kloosterman chair 2011 is occupied by Prof. Jean-Louis Colliot-Thélène, working at the Université Paris Sud-Orsay in Paris, France. Colliot-Thélène's research area is arithmetic algebraic geometry. The Kloosterman lecture, entitled 'From sums of squares in fields to motivic cohomology and higher class field theory', will be held on Thursday April 21, from 4-5 PM, in room 312 of the Snellius building.
Read more about the Kloosterman chair.
Lecture by Jerome Friedman - published on (28-2-2011)
The Institute of Mathematics, Leiden University, and the Dept. of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, LUMC, announce a talk by Jerome Friedman in the Statistical Science Seminar on Wednesday afternoon, March 2, at 15:30 pm, at the LUMC Building 1, Lecture Room 3, Albinusdreef 2, Leiden. Title: Predictive learning via rule ensembles. Drinks afterwards at 17:00. More information can be obtained via Jacqueline Meulman.
Abel in Holland - published on (14-2-2011)
On Thursday, February 24 starting at 10:45 AM the 'Abel in Holland' day will take place in the De Sitterzaal of the Oort building. On this day, organised by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Mathematical Institute, several lectures will be given, intended for a broad mathematical audience, by members of the committee of the Abel Prize 2011.
Programme and registration.
Stieltjes afternoon October 8, 2010 - published on (7-9-2010)
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Kloosterman chair 2010 - published on (19-5-2010)
The Kloosterman chair 2010 is occupied by Prof. Keith Promislow, working at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA. Promislow's research area is applied analysis. The Kloosterman lecture will be held on Thursday May 20, from 4-5 PM, in lecture room 312 of the Snellius building. The title of Promislow's talk is `Higher order geometric flows: models of nanoscale network formation.'
Read more about the Kloosterman chair.
Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship for Richard Gill - published on (8-3-2010)
On 22 March 2010, the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2010 will be awarded to Richard Gill, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Leiden University. Richard Gill will work to improve the knowledge and application of statistics in justice. A word of welcome will be given by Arjen Doelman, Director of the Lorentz Center, and Wim Blockmans, Rector of NIAS. An introduction will follow by Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Chair of the Advisory Board Award ceremony for the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship. After that Richard Gill will give his 'inaugural' lecture 'Science Meets Justice: Forensic Statistics at the Interface'.
Read more about NIAS.
Richard Gill's homepage.
Visit of Manjul Bhargava - published on (20-1-2010)
Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University) is visiting Hendrik Lenstra from 22 to 27 January. On Friday, 22 January, he will give a lecture titled "Binary quartic forms and ranks of elliptic curves" in room 405 from 14:15 to 16:00.
ALGANT graduation ceremony in Leiden this year - published on (3-7-2009)
After Padova (2007) and Brussels (2008) the graduation ceremony of the ALGANT programme took place this year in Leiden. ALGANT is a two-year international master program in pure mathematics, with a strong emphasis on Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory. At this moment four universities participate: Padova, Bordeaux, Paris (Orsay), and Leiden. On Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 July ALGANT graduates from all four cities gave their public master thesis defenses. On Wednesday 8 July the graduation ceremony took place, in the Academy Building.
Read the news item about the ceremony of Leiden University.
Read more about ALGANT.
Guests - published on (23-6-2009)
This summer the Mathematical Institute will have several guests. For example, from June 24- July 3rd Jean Rene Chazottes (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) will visit Frank Redig. Stefan Grossinsky (Warwick University) will visit Frank Redig from 13-15 July. In July we have Prof. Florian Breuer (University of Stellenbosch) as our guest within the ALGANT exchange programme.
Hendrik Lenstra honored Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw - published on (25-4-2009)
On Friday April 24th, after a day of festivities in honor of his 60th birthday, Hendrik Lenstra was awarded the distinction of `Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw' by the mayor of the city of Leiden. Hendrik Lenstra obtained this distinction for his many significant contributions to mathematics - like the LLL-algorithm and his method for factoring numbers with elliptic curves - and for his contributions to the popularisation of mathematics. In this respect the mayor mentioned the Pi-in-de-Pieterskerk project, and Lenstra's work around Escher's Prentententoonstelling.
Read more (in Dutch).
Kloosterman chair 2009 - published on (15-4-2009)
The Kloosterman chair 2009 is occupied by Prof. Ted Chinburg, working at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. Chinburg's research area is arithmetic algebraic geometry. The Kloosterman lecture will be held on Thursday May 14, from 4-5 PM, in lecture room 312 of the Snellius building. The title of Chinburg's talk is `Two note number theory.'
Read more about the Kloosterman chair.
New Master track 'Statistical Science for the Life and Behavioural Sciences' - published on (7-4-2009)
As of September 2009 a new master track will be issued, entitled 'Statistical Science for the Life and Behavioural Sciences'. The track is coordinated jointly by groups at different institutes at Leiden University, VU University Amsterdam, and Wageningen University. The master in Statistical Science provides students with a thorough introduction to the general philosophy and methodology of statistical modelling and data analysis, and offers two specialisations: into the applications of statistical methods to the life sciences and to the behavioural sciences, respectively.
Read more.
Two PhD defenses - published on (5-3-2009)
In March, two of our PhD studens will defend their thesis:
Time: Wednesday March 11, 15.00 h
Defense: Robbert de Haan
Title: Algebraic techniques for low communication secure protocols
Promotor: prof.dr. R.J.F. Cramer
Time: Wednesday March 25, 16.15 h
Defense: Christian Svensson
Title: Crossed product algebras associated with topological dynamical systems
Promotor: prof.dr. S.M. Verduyn Lunel
Copromotor: dr. M.F.E. de Jeu
Copromotor: Doc. dr. S.D. Silvestrov (Lund University)
On the occasion of Robbert de Haan's PhD defense there will be a special RISC seminar at the Mathematical Institute. More information can be found on the webpage of the RISC seminar.
Marc Stevens and colleagues reveal weak spot in internet security - published on (2-1-2009)
Marc Stevens, PhD student of Ronald Cramer, and colleagues have found a weak spot in internet security. As a consequence of this weak spot in the infrastructure of digital certificates forged certificates can be issued that can be fully trusted by the usual web browsers. The results have been presented during the 25C3 Security Congress in Berlin, on December 30, 2008. With their results Marc Stevens and his colleagues aim at better security standards for the internet.
An interview (in Dutch) can be found in the NRC Handelsblad of 30 December 2008.
The complete press release (pdf).
Peter Grünwald professor statistical learning - published on (17-12-2008)
As of November 1st, Peter Grünwald has been appointed professor Statistical learning on a new chair hosted by both the Mathematical Institute and the Leiden Institute for Advanced Computer Science (LIACS). Statistical learning is about finding patterns in data without making too much assumptions about `reality'. Until recently pattern recognition was largely a subject for computer scientists. With the new input from statistics, a new field is emerging on the cutting edge of statistics and computer science. Grünwald will develop several new education products, among which a course Statistical Learning as well as possibly a course on forensic statistics/statistics and law. Read more (in Dutch).
Mathematics in Leiden best in Netherlands according to Elsevier survey - published on (14-10-2008)
Last week Elsevier published the results of a survey among academy professors and teachers, asking what according to them was the best place to study in their profession. As for Mathematics, Leiden turned out to rank highest.
Math girls receive Mr. K.J. Cath prize - published on (2-9-2008)
Math girls Jeanine Daems and Ionica Smeets have received the Mr. K.J. Cath prize during the opening of the academic year in Leiden. The prize has been installed in 1988 to mark the farewell of Mr. K.J. Cath as chairmain of the board of the university. The prize is worth 2,500 euro and is awarded each two years to a group or person that has been successful in bringing the university in the news in a positive way. A nice account of the event can be found at the math girls' own blog, www.wiskundemeisjes.nl.
Rob Tijdeman appointed Knight - published on (1-9-2008)
On August 29th Rob Tijdeman held his valedictory lecture in a full house Academy Building as a professor in Number Theory, entitled `My life as a mathematician'. After his lecture he was appointed, in name of the Queen, Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion by the maior of Leiderdorp. In his lecture Tijdeman looked back, among other things, on a number of highlights in his career so far, such as his results on differences of `higher powers', and his insight that a variant of the Chinese Remainder Theorem could lead to a breakthrough in the field of Discrete Tomography. In his speech the maior mentioned Tijdeman's great international reputation as well as the many worldwide collaborations he has set up. Read more.
Rinnooy Kan speaker at symposium Future of Mathematics - published on (22-8-2008)
SER chairman and former mathematics student in Leiden Alexander Rinnooy Kan is one of the speakers at the symposium Future of Mathematics, to be held on Friday August 29th in honor of Rob Tijdeman's 65th birthday. Rinnooy Kan, declared `most influential person' by Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant in 2007, was interviewed earlier this summer in Leiden's alumni magazine Leidraad. In the interview he mentioned Leiden professors Van Est and Murre, both `dedicated researchers and good teachers', as his most important sources of inspiration.
Bronze medal for Jinbi Jin at IMC - published on (13-8-2008)
The Dutch team that participated in the 15th International Mathematics Competition won one silver and two bronze medals. The competition took place from 25--31 July in Blaguvgrad, Bulgary. In total, 283 students participated out of 40 countries. The Netherlands were represented by five students. Best Dutch participant was Iris Smit (UvA, 103 points). She won a second prize. Our student Jinbi Jin won a third prize (with 89 points). Read more (in Dutch).
Eendracht expedition - published on (23-7-2008)
Fourteen students in geology, biology, astronomy and mathematics and seven staff members hade made a geological excursion to Australia. Expedition Eendracht, organized by the Faculty of Science's Bioscience Initiative had as its aim to bring the students into contact with the oldest pieces of the earth crust and the oldest remains of life. Our math student Oliver Lenz was there. Read more (in Dutch).
5th European Congress of Mathematics - published on (19-7-2008)
Last week the 5th Congress of Mathematicians (5ECM) took place in Congress Center RAI in Amsterdam. Many international mathematicians came to our capitol city to enjoy a palette of plenary lectures, prize winner lectures, and minisymposia. Leiden was represented by among others Bas Edixhoven who presented his lecture `On te computation of coefficients of a modular form', and Bart de Smit who organized the GTEM-minisymposium. The 6th European Congress of Mathematicians will take place in 2012 in Krakow, Poland.
ALGANT graduations - published on (16-7-2008)
On July 7, 8 and 9th a graduation ceremony took place in Brussels in order to award this year's ALGANT students their master diplom. Five of these students did their master thesis in Leiden. This is the third year Leiden takes part in this master program circulating over Leiden, Padova, Bordeaux and Paris-Sud. Its main aim is to attract foreign students and offer them a high level master programme with themes coming from algebra, number theory and geometry. Also next year Leiden will host a number of ALGANT students. For more about the programme, please visit the ALGANT website.
Guests - published on (3-7-2008)
From July 3--16 Frank Redig will have as a guest Jean Rene Chazottes of the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. From July 14--18 he will also have Leonil Levine (MIT, Boston) as a guest.
Summer school/Stieltjesweek non-commutative integration - published on (7-4-2008)
From June 9-13 at Snellius an international Summer school/Stieltjesweek is organised around the theme `non-commutative integration'. Organisers are: Marcel de Jeu, Erik Koelink, Ben de Pagter and Fedor Sukochev. More information can be found at the website of the summer school.
Cooperation UL and CWI - published on (1-4-2008)
UL and CWI will cooperate more intensively in the future. On Thursday, April 10 seven speakers related to UL and CWI will comment on their research under both headings. After that, a formal agreement will be signed which makes it possible for part-time researchers to travel more freely between the two institutes. Please visit the website of the event.
Kloosterman Chair 2008 - published on (11-3-2008)
The 2008 Kloosterman Chair will be taken by Prof. V.P. Belavkin, working in the research field of quantum statistics. Richard Gill will be his host during May and June.
LAPP-Top about to begin - published on (5-2-2008)
On February 6 the second edition of LAPP-Top Mathematics will begin. A number of high school students will get acquainted with the mathematics of encryption. The courses will be given by Peter Stevenhagen, Bart de Smit, Ronald Cramer and Lenny Taelman. For more information please visit the website of the program and the general website of Pre-University College.
Rubicon Grant for Hermen Jan Hupkes - published on (9-1-2008)
Hermen Jan Hupkes has been awarded a Rubicon grant by NWO. With this grant, he will be able to visit the University of Surrey (UK). He will be working on the prject "Understanding Waves and Patterns in Discrete Media".
Wiskundemeisjes on television - published on (15-11-2007)
Wiskundemeisjes Jeanine Daems and Ionica Smeets will be on television. From Thursday, November 15th on, on Nederland 2, from 9.30-9.45 AM, they will be part of a school-television series entitled `Math for Second Phase'. This programme focuses on the many applications of mathematics in our society. The wiskundemeisjes will have their own short column in each episode.
Lucia de B. - published on (12-11-2007)
The case of Lucia de B. has attracted much attention in the media last weeks. A Commission for the Evaluation of Closed Cases has issued a report claiming that there are `fundamental shortcomings' in the sentence against de B. Professor Richard Gill together with Peter Grunwald (CWI) has taken the initiative for a petition, brought to Minister of Justice Hirsch Ballin on November 2nd, demanding immediate reopening of the case. For more information please visit the online petition.
Peter Stevenhagen put forward for LSR Education Prize - published on (12-11-2007)
Since 2000 the Leiden Student Council (LSR) yearly awards a prize for the best teacher of the university at the Dies Natalis. Peter Stevenhagen has been put forward by Student Society De Leidsche Flesch as the candidate for the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. For more information (in Dutch) please visit the webpage of the LSR.
Wiskundemeisjes win NFTVM award - published on (2-10-2007)
On Saturday, September 29 the wiskundemeisjes have won the NFTVM award (issued by the society of Nieuwe Film- en Televisiemakers), in the category `interactive'. For pictures and reactions please visit the weblog of the wiskundemeisjes.
Seminars - published on (7-9-2007)
From September 10--13 Frank Redig will organise, together with Ronald Meester (VU, Amsterdam), a workshop at EURANDOM on "Sandpile models and related fields". In the master course "Topics in probability" (Tue 11-13, beginning at 18 sept) he will try, with a group of students, to read parts from Furstenberg's book "Recurrence in ergodic theory and combinatorial number theory". All interested are cordially invited.
Guests and new people - published on (5-9-2007)
From September 10 until the end of December Dr. Attila Berczes (Debrecen, Hungary) will be a guest of Jan-Hendrik Evertse. From September on Prof.dr. Roberto Fernandez (University of Rouen, France) will be hosted by our institute for a sabbatical leave. He will frequently visit Groningen and Eindhoven (as EURANDOM chair) and will give a number of talks on subjects from probability and mathematical physics. From September 17--21 Frank den Hollander will host Prof.dr. Andreas Greven (Erlangen) and Dr. Matthias Birkner (WIAS, Berlijn). From 11 September to 10 October Jaroslav Hancl (University of Ostrava) will be the guest of Rob Tijdeman to study jointly irrationality questions. Birgit van Dalen has become a Ph.D.-student at the Mathematical Institute by 1 September. She will do research in the area of Discrete Tomography. Her advisers are Rob Tijdeman and Joost Batenburg.
Course Introduction to manifolds - published on (30-8-2007)
The course will start on tuesday September 11 (not on September 4).
Guests and visits - published on (6-7-2007)
From August 13-224 Christian Svensson will participate in the "Summer School in operator algebras" organised by the Fields Institute. This school takes place at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
ALGANT graduations - published on (2-7-2007)
On June, Wednesday 27th nine of our ALGANT master students received their diploma. Herewith a very successful ALGANT year has come to an end. For more about ALGANT, please see the website of the programme. For a picture of all laureates together with two of our professors in Italian toga please visit this page.
Verduyn Lunel new Dean of the Faculty of Sciences - published on (27-6-2007)
Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel, at this moment scientific director of the Mathematical Institute, will be the new Dean of the Faculty of Sciences as of September 1st, 2007. Read more (in Dutch)...
Guests and visits - published on (30-5-2007)
In the week of June 25, Rein van der Hout will be visiting Tokyo as a guest of M. Mimura. From June 28 until July 28 Sergei Silvestrov (Lund) will visit Marcel de jeu and Christian Svensson. From July 1 until July 14 they will be visited by Jun Tomiyama (Tokyo). From June 18 until June 30 Frank Redig has Jean Rene Chazottes (Polytechnique, Paris) as a guest. From June 14 until June 16 Yann Brenier (Université de Nice-Sophia-Antipolis) will visit Philippe Clement and Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel.
43rd Dutch Mathematical Congress a success - published on (19-4-2007)
Leiden University and Technical University Delft look back on a successful Dutch Mathematical Congress organised by them on April 12th and 13th. The Ostrowkski Prize has been awarded to Ben Green and Terence Tao. The Dutch newspaper NRC will devote an article to Tao within short notice. The Philips Mathematics Prize has been awarded to Johan Bosman, and Derk Pik got the Chris Zaal award. Jan van de Craats, Dirk van Dalen and Ferdinand Verhulst have been appointed honorary members of the KWG. The Mathematical Institute congratulates the award winners as well as these new honorary members.
Guests and visits - published on (19-4-2007)
From April 23--27 Rein van der Hout will have as a guest Michiel Bertsch (Universita di Roma 2 and Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo "Mauro Picone", Rome). During the month of April Robin de Jong is staying at the Mittag-Leffler Institute in Djursholm, Sweden, joining the 'Moduli spaces' program.
Mike Bennett, Ben Green, Terence Tao and the Ostrowski Prize - published on (30-3-2007)
During April and May Professor Mike Bennett will stay at our institute as Kloosterman Chair. The Kloosterman Lecture will take place on May 24th. From April 11 until April 14 Professors Ben Green and Terence Tao (winner of the Fields Medal 2006) will be at our institute to receive the Ostrowski Prize. The ceremony is part of the Dutch Mathematical Congress, for which see this webpage. Before the ceremony Green will give a lecture on his joint work with Tao on long arithmetic progressions of prime numbers, for which the prize has been awarded.
Two awards for Wiskundemeisjes - published on (21-3-2007)
The Wiskundemeisjes have been awarded two prizes in the Dutch Bloggies competition: one for `Best written weblog', one for `Best thematic weblog'. Please check http://www.wiskundemeisjes.nl/ for more information.
Hendrik Lenstra appointed Academy Professor - published on (21-3-2007)
Today it was made public that Hendrik Lenstra has been appointed by the Dutch Royal Academy for Sciences (KNAW) as `Akademiehoogleraar' (Academy Professor). The Mathematical Institute congratulates him, and is very honored to have him as part of its staff. Please see the news page of the KNAW or the university's newsletter for more information (in Dutch).
Guests and new people - published on (12-3-2007)
As of March 1st resp. February 1st, Sonja Cox and Igor Stojkovic have started their PhD (Sonja works with Richard Gill, Igor with Onno van Gaans and Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel). Prof. Mathisca de Gunst (VU) is a guest for one day in a week in our NDNS-cluster.
Ellen Baake holds Kloosterman Chair 2006 - published on (31-1-2007)
The Kloosterman Chair 2007 will be held by Prof. Ellen Baake (Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany). She is working on the intersection of mathematics and biology. During February and March she will be hosted at the Mathematical Institute. Her Kloosterman talk, entitled Are mutations spontaneous or directed? (the Luria-Delbrueck experiment) will take place on February 27, at 4 pm, in room 412 of the Snellius building. On the occasion of the Kloosterman Chair Prof. Baake will also present four more specialist talks:
Lecture 1, Thursday, February 15: The Gordian DNA knot (enzymatic scissors and differential geometry) Time: 11.00-12.30 Location: Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, room 403.
Lecture 2, Thursday, February 22: Adam and Eve or our evolutionary history (the coalescent process) Time: 13.45-14.30 and 14.45-15.30. Location: Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, room 409
Lecture 3, Thursday, March 1: Genetic mixing (dynamics of recombination) Time: 13.45-14.30 and 14.45-15.30. Location: Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, room 409
Lecture 4, Thursday, March 8: BLAST and sequence similarity (random walks and the statistics of excursions) Time: 13.45-14.30 and 14.45-15.30. Location: Snellius, Niels Bohrweg 1, Leiden, room 409
ABC@home - published on (16-1-2007)
January 16 is the launch date of a computational project concerning the ABC-conjecture. Details are available in Dutch on the project website rekenmeemetabc.nl, and in the press release of Kennislink. See http://abcathome.com for the international distributed computation project. Everyone can participate.
C.J. Kok prize for Joost Batenburg - published on (9-1-2007)
During the New Year ceremony of the faculty it was announced that Joost Batenburg has won the C.J. Kok prize for `Discoverer of the year 2006'. More information can be found at webpage `What we are proud of'.
Guests and visits - published on (19-12-2006)
Rob Tijdeman will attend the memorial conference for Gelfond in Moscow, Russia, from 29 January to 3 February, 2007. From January 21 until May 5, 2007 Dr. Corentin Pontreau (Caen) will visit the Mathematical Institute to cooperate with Jan-Hendrik Evertse. His stay is financed by the Diamant-cluster.
VICI-grant for Ronald Cramer - published on (19-12-2006)
Ronald Cramer (CWI/Leiden) has been awarded a VICI-grant by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) for his research on the mathematical fundaments of secure computation. The grant amounts to 1.25 ME and will be used, among other things, for extension of Cramer's research group.
Weimar receives Young Talent Encouragement Award - published on (27-11-2006)
Thursday 23 November Joris Weimar, undergraduate student mathematics, received the Young Talent Encouragement Award 2006 (Aanmoedigingsprijs) of the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics. He received his prize for achieving the highest average grade at his first year diploma of all mathematics students in Leiden. More info
Theory of Cryptography Conference 2007 - published on (27-11-2006)
The Fourth Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC 2007) will be held from February 21 to February 24 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The venue is the Trippenhuis, the headquarters of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).
TCC 2004 and TCC 2005 were held at MIT (Cambridge, MA, USA) and TCC 2006 was held at Columbia University (New York, NY, USA).
TCC 2007 is organized by the International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR). This is done in cooperation with the Cryptology and Information Security Group at CWI, Amsterdam, and the Mathematical Institute, Leiden University, and DIAMANT, the Dutch national mathematics cluster for discrete interactive and algorithmic algebra and number theory.
General Chair is Ronald Cramer (CWI/Leiden) and Program Chair is Salil Vadhan (Harvard). For more information please refer to the webpage of the conference.
Guests and visits - published on (4-10-2006)
Rob Tijdeman is in Hungary from 17 to 29 October. First he is a week in Debrecen to work with Lajos Hajdu and to give some lectures. During the last part of his visit he participates into a conference in Szeged on Discrete Geometry. From 4--7 October Frank den Hollander will have as a guest Dr. Matthias Birkner (Berlin), and from 16--20 October Prof. dr. Andreas Greven (Erlangen). From 21--27 October Frank Redig will have as guest Christof Kuelske (Groningen), and from October 30--November 5th he will have as a guest Jean René Chazottes (Polytechnique, Paris). Christian Svensson and Marcel de Jeu will participate, from December 2--7, in the workshop "Operator methods in fractal analysis, wavelets and dynamical systems" in Banff.
GTEM Research Training Network - published on (2-10-2006)
A Marie Curie Research Training Networks with the name Galois Theory and Explicit Methods has started on October 1 2006. This project provides full funding for 12 PhD positions at 12 research institutes throughout Europe, and for 10 summer schools and meetings. The network is coordinated out of Leiden by Bart de Smit. The budget for 4 years is 2.5 million euros.
Guests - published on (31-8-2006)
From September 4--8 Everett Howe (CCR, San Diego) will visit Hendrik Lenstra. From September 11--15 Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) will be here and speak at the conference `Mathematical Patterns in Indian Poetry and Music' (for which see the news below and the agenda).
New personnel - published on (31-8-2006)
From September 1st on, the Mathematical Institute will acquire many new members. Marco Streng will start as a PhD student with Peter Stevenhagen, Arjen Stolk and Peter Bruin both as a PhD student with Bas Edixhoven, Erwin (Torraeo) Dassen as a PhD student with Hendrik Lenstra, Martin van der Schans as a PhD student with Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel and Vivi Rottschäfer, Jan Schepers and Oleg Karpenkov as postdocs with Bas Edixhoven (VICI and DIAMANT, respectively), and Arnout Jaspers for one day in a week as editor-in-chief of youth mathematics magazine Pythagoras. Bart Zevenhek has started as Leraar In Onderzoek with Hendrik Lenstra. As of October 1st, Daniël Worm will start as a PhD student with Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel and Vivi Rottschäfer. Finally Franck Doray will probably start at November 1st as a PhD student in Bas Edixhoven's VICI-project.
Symposium Image Reconstructie and Visualisation - published on (22-8-2006)
On Tuesday, September 19th starting at 10:30 a symposium will take place on various aspects of image reconstruction and volume visualisation. Place: the Mathematical Institute. After the symposium, at 16:15 hrs., Joost Batenburg will defend his PhD thesis `Network Flow Algortihms for Discrete Tomography' in the Lokhorstkerk, Leiden. For more information, please visit the webpage of the symposium.
Mathematical Patterns in Indian Poetry and Music - published on (22-8-2006)
On Thursday, September 14 a conference `Mathematical Patterns in Indian Poetry and Music' will take place, in the Lorentzzaal of the Kamerlingh Onnes building, featuring Manjul Bhargava, Emmie te Nijenhuis and Derk Pik as keynote speakers. The congress will take place under the auspices of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, the Faculty of Arts, and the Thomas Stieltjes Institute. For more information, please visit the website of the congress.
VIDI and VENI grants - published on (7-7-2006)
Vivi Rottschafer and Robin de Jong have been awarded a VIDI and a VENI grant, respectively, from NWO. For more information please see the newsletter of the university.
Richard Gill appointed professor - published on (6-7-2006)
As of July 1st, 2006 prof. dr. Richard D. Gill has been appointed professor in Mathematical Statistics at our institute, holding the position previously fulfilled by Prof. Sara van de Geer who went to Zurich. He has been at Leiden before, from 1986--1990 as extraordinary professor at a chair held by the Leiden Universiteits Fonds.
Prof. Gill, born in 1951, studied mathematics at Cambrdige. In 1974 he came to Holland and started working at the CWI. In 1979 he obtained his PhD degree at the VU with prof. Oosterhoff. In 1988 he was appointed professor in Stochastics at the University of Utrecht. Gill is advisor at EURANDOM in Eindhoven and has been member of the KNAW since 1999. For more information please see this website.
Guests and visits - published on (22-6-2006)
Sergei Silvestrov (Lund) will be visiting Marcel de Jeu from July 8 through August 19. From July 9-14 Jan-Hendrik Evertse will attend the CNTA IX-conference in Vancouver. He will give a lecture, titled "Pairs of binary forms with given resultant." From August 22-30 he will visit the university of Debrecen as a guest of Prof. Kalman Gyory. From September 4-8 he will attend the workshop "Diophantine approximation and transcendental numbers" in Luminy (France).
Concept study guide 2006-2007 - published on (6-6-2006)
A concept of the bachelor guide of the study year 2006-2007 is available.
A concept of the master guide of the study year 2006-2007 is also available.
The schedules are also seperated available.
And here are the course descriptions.
With comments you can go to Dr. M. Lübke.
Manjul Bhargava Stieltjes professor - published on (26-5-2006)
From May 30th until July 9th, Manjul Bhargava (Princeton) will be our institute's visiting Stieltjes professor.
Frank den Hollander gets NWO postdoc grant - published on (26-5-2006)
From the NWO Open Competition Frank den Hollander has been awarded a two year postdoc grant, entitled "Wulff shape of critical droplets under stochastic dynamics". Dr. R.-J. Messikh, who is now at EPFL in Lausanne, will take up this position after the summer, being also partly at EURANDOM.
Congresses - published on (26-5-2006)
From June 25--28 Rein van der Hout will visit the AIMS' Sixth International Conference on Dyn. Systems, Diff. Equations and Applications in Poitiers. From June 23--July 14 Rob Tijdeman will visit Canada, among other things for a visit to the CNTA in Vancouver. Furthermore, from August 1 -- 20 Rob Tijdeman will be visited by Prof. N. Saradha from Mumbai, India.
Visit by Prof. Tomiyama - published on (26-4-2006)
Prof. Jun Tomiyama (Tokyo) will visit Leiden from May 29 through June 2 as a guest of Marcel de Jeu.
Visits abroad - published on (26-4-2006)
From May 1st to May 12th Rob Tijdeman will be in Vienna to participate in a special program on diophantine goemetry at the Erwin Schrödinger Institute.
Guests - published on (25-4-2006)
From May on Jürgen Klüners from Kassel will visit our institute, with a Heisenberg stipend. From May 23rd to May 30th Kalman Gyory (Debrecen, Hungary) will visit our institute as a guest of Rob Tijdeman and Jan-Hendrik Evertse.
Appointment Prof. dr P. Clement - published on (7-4-2006)
As of March 1st, Prof. P. Clement has been appointed as professor in applied analysis at our Faculty. Clement was born in Billens (Switzerland) and has been professor in Functional Analysis at the Technical University of Delft since 1980. Clements expertise on functional analytic methods for partial differential equations will be an excellent added value for Leiden's analysis group. Clement will participate in the activities of the national NWO cluster NDNS.
Appointment Prof. dr J. Meulman - published on (7-4-2006)
As of March, 1st, Prof. dr. J. Meulman has been appointed as professor at the Mathematical Institute. Since 1998 she has been professor in applied data theory at the Faculty of Social Sciences of Leiden University. The appointment has been made possible due to a grant from the NWO cluster NDNS+. Prof. Meulman has been awarded an NWO Pioneer grant in 1994, and has been a member of the Dutch Royal Academy of Sciences since 2002. Please see Prof. Meulman's webpage for more information.
Philips Mathematics Prize for Joost Batenburg - published on (7-4-2006)
During the Dutch Mathematical Congress, Joost Batenburg has been awarded the Philips Mathematics Prize for PhD students. He delivered a presentation on new tomography techniques. Tomography is a variant of rontgen photography that is currently being used for example in the medical sciences. Please see Joost's research page for an introduction.
Guests - published on (28-3-2006)
From April 17th until April 22nd Dr. M. Pevzner (Reims, France) will be a guest of Prof. Gerrit van Dijk.
Visits abroad - published on (24-3-2006)
In march and april Prof. Ronald Cramer will be invited professor at the Ecole Normale et Superieure (Paris). He will present eight lectures. From April 2nd until April 5th Prof. Rein van der Hout will be a guest in Bath at the ESGI meeting.
Sabbatical Frank den Hollander - published on (20-2-2006)
Frank den Hollander stays at the University of Britisch Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, until August 15th, 2006. He will give a graduate course entitled `Large deviations', will do reserach with Prof. Gordon Slade, will be visited by four postdocs via EURANDOM, and will speak from March 21--25 at the yearly `Seminar on stochastic processes' at Princeton.
Visits abroad - published on (20-2-2006)
Jan-Hendrik Evertse will visit the Erwin Schroedinger Institut in Vienna from March 20-April 7. He will participate in a program 'Diophantine Approximation and Heights.'
Visits abroad - published on (19-1-2006)
L.A. Peletier will be visiting Pfizer, Sandwich, UK on February 1-3, AstraZeneca, Gotheborg, Sweden on February 7-10, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA on February 18-23.
Proefstuderen - published on (17-1-2006)
On Thursday, February 16th Hans Finkelnberg will once again give a course for high school students entitled `Is er meer dan oneindig'? During this course, he will explain some of the main concepts of set theory.
Lecture series Frank Redig - published on (10-1-2006)
From January 19th until February 2nd Frank Redig will be giving a minicourse on abelian sandpiles at IMPA in Rio de Janeiro.
Guests - published on (16-12-2005)
From January 23 - 27, 2006, Dr. Nils Byrial Andersen (Turino) will visit our institute as a guest of Marcel de Jeu. From January 17 - 29, Attila Bérczes, Kálmán Györy, Lajos Hajdu en Akos Pintér (Debrecen) will visit our institute as guests of Jan-Hendrik Evertse and Rob Tijdeman. From February 8 - 28 Jaroslav Hancel (Ostrava) will visit our institue as a guest of Rob Tijdeman.
Onno van Gaans gets VIDI grant - published on (5-12-2005)
Dr. ir. Onno van Gaans has been awarded a VIDI grant by NWO. Please refer to the university's newsletter for more information.
Replica of Snellius's quadrant ready - published on (5-12-2005)
The replica of Snellius's quadrant, which has been offered to Gerrit van Dijk as a present, is ready now. The quadrant will be unveiled on a festive ceremony, to be held on January 16th, at 16:00h. There will be talks on Snellius, on Snellius's use of the quadrant and on the process of manufacturing a replica of a 17th century instrument given by Dr. R.H. van Gent, drs. L. de Wreede and by Dr. J.M. van den Broek.
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