Human interest

The Turing Award of 2020 was awarded to Alfred Vaino Aho, from Columbia University, and Jeffrey David Ullman, from Stanford University, whose work has contributed greatly to the way computers are controlled.

The world is opening up again, but I think it's fair to say the organisation of workshops and conferences is not at all back to normal yet.

On Firday 24th of September Professor Ton Koonen received a royal distinction during the symposium Optical Networks preceding his valedictory lecture. 

In March 2021 the largest roadmap instance of the traveling salesman problem ever was solved. This is a new record for the Travelling Salesman!

Before the summer break we interviewed together with Raf Bocklandt mathematicians David Aldous and László Lovász.