Words of Women in Mathematics in times of Corona
The common narrative at the beginning of the pandemic last year, prompted by the global scale of the crisis, was that we were all on the same boat. Of course, we quickly realized that was not the case.
New, young researchers joining NETWORKS
Although the NETWORKS programme will continue till 2025, it somehow feels that we're entering the last phase.
Percolation game is online!
The networks game is online and ready to be used! The goal of the game? To show how percolation works on a network created by the people participating in the game!
Brouwer medal to David Aldous
On the 6th of April David Aldous received the Brouwer Medal 2020 for his contributions to probability theory.
How to Plan for a Pandemic? An interview with Hans Heesterbeek
Prof. dr. ir. Hans Heesterbeek, one of the leading infectious disease epidemiologists in the Netherlands, is a busy man. Fortunately for us, Hans Heesterbeek had a gap in his schedule to yet again answer some questions, this time not asked by professional journalists, but by us, four students from the Technical University in Eindhoven.
Online webinar: Mathematics and COVID-19
A webinar organized by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences on social network modelling and the spread of infectious diseases.
Secrets of numbers
Numbers are just amazing, as a child numbers are one the first things you learn. You try to count as far as possible, the first goal is to reach 10, then 20, then 50, finally you reach 100. Thanks to our computers you can find many cool things about large numbers!
My experience of teaching math in Africa
In the past few years, I have been involved in several projects concerning mathematical education in Africa.
I was advised that a good place to start, if I wanted to explore the African mathematical landscape, was AIMS. That’s the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, or the African Institute for Minimising Sleep, as the students I met liked to call it when they were overwhelmed by assignments.
Making interdisciplinary connections
One of the major challenges NETWORKS is facing concerns bridging the gap between our mathematical results and their use in the world around us.
Random encounters with Ramsey numbers
It is was the second time yesterday in a one week time and the fourth in a one month time that I came across Ramsey numbers. In the beginning I thought it was just a coincidence.