Interviews and opinion articles

May 12 – International Women in Maths Day

It was August 2014 when Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal.

As mentioned in previous posts, on the 7th of April the Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts (KMAW) organizes the…

If there is such a thing as mathematical talent, then it clearly has to be found everywhere.

The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has a great deal of in-house knowledge in the field of forensic products

The common narrative at the beginning of the pandemic last year, prompted by the global scale of the crisis, was…

Prof. dr. ir. Hans Heesterbeek, one of the leading infectious disease epidemiologists in the Netherlands, is a busy man.

In the past few years, I have been involved in several projects concerning mathematical education in Africa.

One of the major challenges NETWORKS is facing concerns bridging the gap between our mathematical results and their use in…

On October 6th 2020 Sir Roger Penrose was awarded, jointly with Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez, the nobel prize for physics for…

Birgit Sollie is a PhD student at the VU Amsterdam, where she does research in stochastic processes and mathematical biology.