Catching plastic waste from canals
As soon as plastic waste ends up in water, it becomes increasingly difficult to clean up. That’s why it’s important to capture the waste closer to its source, in these canals and rivers. How can mathematical models be used to help clean plastic waste from canals and rivers?
Concluding NETWORKS Conference & Reunion: memories and mathematics
After more than ten incredible years, the NETWORKS programme will officially conclude at the end of 2025. In light of this approaching milestone, the final NETWORKS conference & reunion took place.
What if Set was even harder?
Most people are familiar with the game Set. A bunch of cards are laid out, and players race to spot a triple where each feature is either all the same or all different. What happens when we consider an expansion of this game?
Mathematics through storytelling: interview with Marieke Drost
Visualizing mathematics can be difficult. Especially for non-mathematicians, who may only remember confusing formulas, the shape of a parabola, or a right-angled triangle with sides 'a', 'b', and 'c'. Marieke Drost teaches mathematicians how to communicate using storytelling.
Fighting crime with math: the story of Rafael Prieto-Curiel
Rafael Prieto-Curiel is a mathematician and a faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna, Austria. His research focuses on crime, mobility, migration and urban dynamics. We interviewed Rafael to learn about his story.
Honesty is the best policy
How purposeful design can make school choice assignment strategy-proof
How to reconstruct a graph
If I give you a set of nodes, plus a way to find the distance between two nodes, how can you find all connections between these nodes as efficiently as possible?
The 17th-century statesman who quantified risk
How Johan de Witt calculated life expectancy before the formal birth of probability theory and inspired famous mathematicians Bernoulli and Leibniz.
No more detention: how to arrive on time with math
Getting to class on time isn't hard, if you leave on time and know the fastest route. But what’s the fastest route when the hallways are crowded? For their final high school project, Dylan and Tobias worked on finding the most efficient ways to navigate school during peak hours.
Brain under construction: what Inside Out gets right about your brain?
During our teenage years, everything changes. It’s no surprise that our brain does too. But how do we make sense of this transformation? Is there a way to quantify it? Networks might just be the answer.