Interviews and opinion articles
This category contains interviews and opinion articles that have been written by the Network Pages team or by collaborating authors.
Bitcoins and queues
Everybody is talking about Bitcoin. But how does it actually work?
Who sits where in the Senate?
In this article we discuss the following question: what is the optimal way to allocate the seats in the senate?
Can flipping the queue spare you time?
How would you react if we would tell you that serving the last customer in the queue in beneficial?
Zooming in a chemical reaction!
Chemical reactions evolve in the same way as water flows through a network of rivers. When describing a chemical reaction you can imagine that the concentrations of the reactants are flowing through the reaction network in the same way as water flows through the network of rivers.
The quantum Internet - A glimpse into the future
QuTech at the Delft University of Technology and TNO, in collaboration with the European Quantum Internet Alliance, are leading the efforts to establish a quantum Internet and aims at having a proof of concept version, between the cities of Amsterdam, Leiden, Delft and the Hague.
How to plan Valentine’s day using a matching algorithm
Finding a dating schedule that matches pairs of potential lovers up into dating couples, is an example of an algorithmic problem. There is a clearly defined input, given by the lists of who is considered an acceptable dating partner to whom. It is also clear what we want as the output: a pairing of classmates into acceptable boy-girl pairs that has as many pairs (dates) as possible. How can you find the best dating schedule?
NETWORKS goes to school 2019
On 14 and 21 March 2019 a masterclass event on networks and their applications was organized by the NETWORKS program at the Technical University of Eindhoven and in Leiden University. This two day event was intended for secondary education students and teachers who want to broaden their scientific horizons by having a glimpse into state of the art […]
Drugs dumping in the Netherlands; a gentle introduction to uncertainty and statistics.
Most of you will agree with my girlfriend that when the number of drugs dumping increases for three years in a row, this points to an increase in the demand for drugs, the number of illegal producers, the amount of drugs produced etc. Doing some math you will see this may not be the case.
Quantum synchronization in complex networks
As many phenomena in the classical world have quantum counter part, it raises the question if this is also true for synchronization. As synchronization is a collective phenomenon, it may help gaining a better understanding of how collective phenomena in the classical and quantum world are connected.