Category Archives: Interviews and opinion articles
Interviews with László Lovász and Avi Wigderson

As mentioned in previous posts, on the 7th of April the Dutch Academy of Sciences and Arts (KMAW) organizes the…
Ramanujan
If there is such a thing as mathematical talent, then it clearly has to be found everywhere.
Interview with Marjan Sjerps: Mathematicians have a way of thinking that I really like

The Netherlands Forensic Institute (NFI) has a great deal of in-house knowledge in the field of forensic products
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…
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.
My experience of teaching math in Africa

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

One of the major challenges NETWORKS is facing concerns bridging the gap between our mathematical results and their use in…
Sir Roger Penrose - looking into black holes

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

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