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.
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.
Mathematician’s dream place (part 3)
Nelly Litvak is a participant of the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures (PSDS) program at the Simons-Laufer Mathematical Science Institute (SLMath), Spring 2025. This blog is part 3 in a trilogy of blogs. ‘So, what have you been doing 4 months in Berkeley?’ Accidentally, I bumped into an old friend on the last evening […]
Sharing lodgings in Berkeley (part 2)
Living in a "fraternity house" as a researcher? It is possible! Frank den Hollander writes about living together with Remco Van Der Hofstad and Shankar Bhamidi during the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures program at SLMath.
Organizing a semester at SLMath (part 1)
Remco van der Hofstad is the lead organizer of the Probability and Statistics of Discrete Structures program at the Simons-Laufer Mathematical Science Institute (SLMath), Spring 2025. This blog is part 1 in a trilogy of blogs. Yes, it’s happening! We have arrived at SLMath! How did we get here in the first place? We started […]
Martijn Gösgens wins Van Zwet Award for outstanding thesis
We are proud to share that Martijn Gösgens won the Van Zwet Award for his excellent research on community detection in random graphs. We had the pleasure of interviewing Martijn!
BeyondTheEdge Kicks Off
In November 2024, the Kick-Off meeting for BeyondTheEdge: Higher-Order Networks and Dynamics took place at Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam. The event marked the official start of the project, read an interview with Christian Bick, Principal Investigator and Project Coordinator of BeyondtheEdge.
Maximising efficiency is risky business (Part 3) - A view on interdisciplinary research
In the first article of this series I described how logistic chains work. In the second article, we went one step further and dived in the mathematics. In this third part I discuss some personal experiences and ideas regarding interdisciplinary research.
Prizes for outstanding mathematics (Part 2)
Two weeks ago I had the pleasure to attend two events where prizes for outstanding research in mathematics were awarded, one of them was the CWI Best Thesis in Applied Math 2024. It was a great pleasure to be there, to chat with (most of) the candidates, and to learn what they have done during their bachelor and master thesis'.