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[PhD defense] Bernard Meulenbroek defended successfully his PhD thesis at TU Eindhoven on April 13, 2006 at 16:00. Bernard has written his thesis on "Streamer branching: conformal mapping and regularization" under the supervision of Ute Ebert at CWI. »Read more

[PhD defense] Khairul Saleh defended successfully his PhD thesis at the University of Groningen on December 9, 2005. Khairul has written his thesis on "Organising centres in the semi-global analysis of dynamical systems" under the supervision of Henk Broer.

[PhD defense] Carolynne Montijn defended successfully her PhD thesis at TU Eindhoven on December 20, 2005. Carolynne has written her thesis on "Evolution of Negative Streamers in Nitrogen: a Numerical Investigation on Adaptive Grids" under the supervision of Ute Ebert and Willem Hundsdorfer at CWI. »Read more

[Visit] Professor Mats Gyllenberg (Helsinki) visits the Mathematics Department at the University of Utrecht from January until March 2006. Professor Gyllenberg will also give in Utrecht a series of lectures on "Dynamics of Physiologically Structured Populations". »Read more

[Visit] Dr. Dmitrii Sadovskii from the Department of Physics of the Université du Littoral, France is visiting the Mathematics Department of the University of Groningen from November 4 until November 22, 2008. »Read more

[Visit] Professor David Siegmund (Stanford University, USA) visits the Mathematics Department at the Vrije Universiteit from mid March until mid July.

[Visit] Professor Carles Simó from the Universitat de Barcelona holds momentarily the Johann Bernoulli Chair at the University of Groningen. This means that Professor Simó will visit Groningen University for three months, spread over 2006 and 2007. The first visit will be from January 22 until February 18, 2006.

[Grants obtained] The research project "Data-driven multi-level models of infectious diseases" at Utrecht University is part of the Computational Life Sciences Program of NWO. A PhD position is open. »Read more

[Grants obtained] The research project "Atmospheric variability and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation" at the Universities of Groningen and Utrecht is part of the "Earth and Life Sciences" program of NWO. A PhD position in Utrecht is still open. For more information contact Henk Dijkstra at dijkstra@phys.uu.nl. »Read more

[Other] In the frame of the NWO-theme Dynamics of Complex Systems the research programme Complexity has been launched. From 1 October until 1 December 2009 researchers are invited to submit their pre-proposals for the first subsidy round within the Complexity programme. »Read more

[Other] At the upcoming yearly Dutch Mathematics Conference NMC in Groningen (April 14-15, 2009), the Philips Mathematics Award will be awarded for the fourth time to a PhD student for the best presentation. The deadline for submissions of abstracts is Monday, March 16 2009. »Read more

[Other] Microsoft Research provides research grants for work on "modelling and predicting in biology and earth sciences". From the call for proposals: "We are inviting proposals which are aimed at creating prototypes of new kinds of conceptual and technological tools - tools that are motivated by a specific need in scientific research and with the potential to significantly advance science". The deadline for applications is June 7, 2006. »Read more