Four friends, Mark, Richa, Peter and Tom, play cards every evening. Peter is a probabilist while the other three work in algebra. On one evening they become bored of riffle shuffling.
Michel Mandjes is the main applicant and project leader of NETWORKS, the 10-year research program that gave birth to the Network Pages. Michel reflects on ten years of managing this large research project.
As soon as plastic waste ends up in water, it becomes increasingly difficult to clean up. That’s why it’s important to capture the waste closer to its source, in these canals and rivers. How can mathematical models be used to help clean plastic waste from canals and rivers?
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.
We are delighted to inform you that the book Random Graphs and Complex Networks Volume Two, written by Remco van der Hofstad, has won the INFORMS Applied Probability Society Best Publication Award, for 'its clarity, as well as for making significant strides to foster interdisciplinary connections between probability theory and a range of applications in […]