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31 October 2012, WONDER Afternoon & Stieltjes Prize award ceremony
Date: Wednesday 31 October 2012
Time: 12:30-17:00
Location: Room Z.009, CWI, Science Park 123, Amsterdam
Programme
| 12.30 | Coffee/tea |
| 13.00-13.30 | Award ceremony of the Stieltjes Prize for the best
Mathematics PhD thesis in the Netherlands in 2011, on behalf
of the Foundation Compositio Mathematica. The prize winner is
dr. Jop Briët (CWI) for his thesis Grothendieck
inequalities, non-local games and optimization, defended
at UvA, promotor prof. dr. Harry Buhrman (CWI and
UvA/ILLC). • laudatio by Aernout van Enter (RUG) • award by Prof dr Dymph van den Boom, rector of the UvA |
| 13.30-14.00 | Lecture by Stieltjes Prize winner |
| Coffee/tea | |
| 14.30-16.15 | Lectures on the work of Abel prize winner 2011 Endre Szemeredi |
| 14.30-15.15 | Irregular thoughts on regular partitions by Jozef Skokan (London School of Economics) |
| 15.30-16.15 | A computer science perspective by Harry Buhrman (CWI and UvA/ILLC) |
| Drinks |
For more information on the Stieltjes prize awarded to Job Briët, see http://www.cwi.nl/news/2012/ or http://www.uva.nl/en/news-events/news/uva-news/item/. The thesis itself may be found at http://dare.uva.nl/en/record/395592.
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