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2022-03-24 16:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)
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What's Cooking?
2022-01-31 11:30 - 12:30 | Online
On Monday 31 January 2022 from 11.30 – 12.30h another edition of What’s Cooking will take place. In this “What’s Cooking?” session we will inform you about the following topics in the Dutch mathematics community:

the upcoming Research Assessment Mathematics by Eric Opdam
developments at Platform Wiskunde Nederland by Wil Schilders and Richard Boucherie
developments at Koninklijk Wiskundig Genootschap by Barry Koren

You can register for this meeting from now! Several days before the meeting, the Zoom link will be provided.

KWG PhD Prize
2021-05-20 14:00 - 17:30
Every year, the Dutch Royal Mathematical Society (KWG) invites several PhD candidates to present their research at the Dutch Mathematical Congress (NMC). A jury of mathematicians from various fields chooses a winner who receives, besides the prestige attached to winning, a floating trophy and a monetary reward of 1000 euro. The jury, chaired by Prof. Frank Redig, selected 6 candidates.
So register for the KWG PhD Prize giving ceremony and listen to the talks of the top PhD researchers in the Netherlands!

14:00 – 14:20
Yfke Dulek (UvA), Delegated and distributed quantum computation

14:20 – 14:40
Allard Hendriksen (CWI,UL), Self-supervised deep convolutional denoising for tomography and
related inverse problems

14:40 – 15:00
Stijn Cambie (RU), Smiles from tiles

15:00 – 15:20
Break

15:20 – 15:40
Lotte Romijn (TU/e), Mathematics for the design of advanced freeform optical systems

15:40 – 16:00
Jan-Willem van Ittersum (UU), From partitions to modular forms

16:00 – 16:20
Rianne de Heide (CWI, UL), Testing by betting

16:20 – 16:50
Break (Jury deliberation)

16:50 – 17:10
Prize ceremony

What's cooking? Part 2
2021-05-11 16:00 - 17:00
Chair: Barry Koren
In this “What’s Cooking?” session we will inform you about the following topics in the Dutch mathematics community:

the upcoming Research Assessment Mathematics
developments at Platform Wiskunde Nederland
plans and activities of Mastermath
plans and activities of Indagationes

16:00 – 16:15
Update from PWN by Richard Boucherie

16:15 – 16:30
Research Assessment Mathematics by Eric Opdam

16:30 – 16.45
Mastermath by Lenny Taelman

16:45 – 17.00
Indagationes by Jan van Neerven

Pythagoras Prize Award session
2021-04-23 15:30 - 17:00
The Pythagoras prize for the best high school final project in mathematics is annually awarded by Pythagoras. On April 23rd the three nominated candidates will present their final project. Note that this event will be in Dutch!

Stem mee voor de Pythagoras Profielwerkstuk prijs!
Volg de ontknoping van de Pythagoras profielwerkstuk prijs en help de jury mee. De ontknoping van de Pythagoras PWS prijs vindt dit jaar plaats op vrijdagmiddag 23 april vanaf 15.30 uur. Tijdens een online bijeenkomst presenteert elke leerling in een video het onderzoek uit zijn/haar profielwerkstuk. Na de uitzending van elke presentatie is er kort een mogelijkheid voor kijkersvragen. Na de drie presentaties zal er een kleine pauze zijn zodat de jury kan overleggen over de winnaar. In de pauze kan ook gestemd worden door de kijkers voor de publieksprijs. De juryprijzen bedragen resp. 250, 125 en 75 euro en de publieksprijs levert een extra 50 euro op.

De drie beste inzendingen van een wiskundig profielwerkstuk van 2021 zijn:

Daan Hoogcarspel: Deze titel is onwaar
Casper Madlener: Getallen als sommen van kwadraten
Femke Voogt: Hoger-dimensionaal boter, kaas en eieren

De werkstukken zijn beschikbaar ter inzage op https://pyth.eu/ontknoping-pythagoras-profielwerkstukwedstrijd-2021 (helemaal onderaan).

NMC2021 Scientific Days
2021-04-06 - 2021-04-07
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International Day of Mathematics
2021-03-15 15:00 - 17:30
Organisers: EWM-NL, Olfa Jaïbi (Leiden University) and Francesca Arici (Leiden University)
UNESCO has declared 14 March, also known as Pi Day, as the International Day of Mathematics. In the second edition of the International Day of Mathematics on March 14, 2021, we will celebrate Mathematics for a Better World. We are happy to invite you to our official celebration, organised by EWM-NL taking place online in the afternoon of March 15th. Several captivating talks will be given by fellow mathematicians from different fields of research. Also the new website www.mathness.nl will be presented by Platform Wiskunde Nederland. From March 14th www.mathness.nl/pi-dag will show what applications $pi$ plays a role in.

15:00 – 15:10
Opening

15:10 – 15:40
Aida Abiad (TU/e, UGent, VUB), What does the spectrum reveal about a graph?

15:40 – 16:10
Pieter Kleer (MPI-Inf), Generation of random graphs with given degrees

16:10 – 16:20
Online coffee break

16:20 – 16:30
Presentation by Wil Schilders (PWN)

16:30 – 17:00
Katerina Stankova (MU),Games of life and death

17:00 – 17:30
Diletta Martinelli (UvA), Some thoughts about my mathematics experiences in Africa

17:30
Closing

Abstracts to the talks may be found here.

Speeddate with Industry
2021-03-11 16:00 - 18:00
Registration for this event is now closed.

What's Cooking?
2021-02-22 13:30 - 14:30
Chair: Barry Koren
In this “What’s Cooking?” session we will inform you about the following topics in the Dutch mathematics community:

the upcoming Research Assessment Mathematics
developments at Platform Wiskunde Nederland
plans and activities of the Dutch section of European Women in Mathematics

13:30 – 13:45
Update from PWN Commissie Onderzoek by Jan-Bouwe vd Berg

13:45 – 14:00
Update from PWN by Wil Schilders

14:00 – 14.15
European Women in Mathematics by Maria Vlasiou

14:15 – 14.30
Questions / discussion

Stieltjesprijs and NWO Impact Prize
2021-01-28 16:00 - 17:00
16:00 – 16:05
Welcome and Opening

16:05 – 16:35
Stieltjes prize award ceremony
Laudatio by prof.dr. Aernout van Enter, chair jury
Presentation by Bente Hilde Bakker

16:35 – 17.00
NWO Stairway to Impact prize award ceremony
Laudatio by prof.dr. Johann Hurink, chair jury
Presentation by Kateřina Staňková (MU)

Stieltjesprijs Winner
My name is Bente Hilde Bakker and to my big surprise and honour I’ve been granted this year’s Stieltjesprijs for my thesis titled “Nonlinear waves in local and nonlocal media: a topological approach“. I did my PhD studies at VU Amsterdam and I’m currently working as postdoc at Universiteit Leiden.
I did my studies in mathematics at the VU Amsterdam. When I decided to pursue a PhD I had a hard time choosing between topology/geometry or dynamics/partial differential equations (PDEs). Luckily I found a nice project blending the two fields, working with Jan Bouwe van den Berg and Rob van der Vorst as my promotors. I started working on developing topological invariants which capture travelling waves in reaction-diffusion PDEs. This turned out to be possible only by considering much more general equations which involve nonlocal terms. That’s how I rolled into the field of nonlocal equations, such as lattice differential equations (LDEs). Though formally these share a lot in common with their PDE counterparts, fairly little of the tools known for PDEs extend to the realm of LDEs. It’s all the more exciting that I’ve managed to develop my topological tools for LDEs and similar nonlocal equations.
At the award ceremony, I will give an overview of some of the key results from my thesis.

Kateřina Staňková winner first NWO Domain Science Stairway to Impact Award
With the Stairway to Impact Award NWO Domain Science rewards scientists who take effective steps to utilise their scientific findings to tackle a societal problem and/or to make an economic contribution. Kateřina Staňková (MU) wins the Stairway to Impact Award for her contributions to mathematics-based cancer therapies.
By winning the Stairway to Impact Award Kateřina Staňková receives €50.000 to spend on further steps promoting this impact and knowledge application. The Stairway to Impact Award is one of the five new special scientific awards of the NWO Domain Science.
Check out these links for more information about the award and a short film of Kateřina:
https://www.nwo.nl/en/stairway-impact-award
https://www.nwo.nl/en/news/winners-announced-five-new-nwo-science-awards
In this award ceremony, Kateřina will give a talk on
Title: Game theory to improve treatment of metastatic cancers
Abstract: In this talk, we will investigate cancer treatment as a game-theoretic contest between the physician’s therapy and the cancer cells’ resistance strategies. This game has two critical asymmetries: (1) Only the physician can play rationally. Cancer cells, like all evolving organisms, can only adapt to current conditions; they can neither anticipate nor evolve adaptations for treatments that the physician has not yet applied. (2) It has a distinctive Stackelberg (i.e. leader-follower) dynamics; the “leader” oncologist plays first and the “follower” cancer cells then respond and adapt to therapy. Current treatment protocols for metastatic cancer typically exploit neither asymmetry. By repeatedly administering the same drug(s) until disease progression, the physician “plays” a fixed strategy even as the opposing cancer cells continuously evolve successful adaptive responses. By changing treatment only when the tumor progresses, treatment failure becomes nearly inevitable.
Game theory helps us to utilize physicians’s advantages in the cancer treatment game, leading to treatment protocols that anticipate and steer cancer eco-evolutionary dynamics and improve treatment outcomes.
