DIAMANT Symposium November 2012


On 29 and 30 November 2012 the DIAMANT Symposium will be held at Kaap Doorn Conferentiecentrum, the Netherlands.

This DIAMANT symposium will include a special afternoon on algebra and number theory in cryptography.

Invited speakers include Craig Gentry (IBM), Gunnar Klau (CWI), Hugues Randriambololona (ENST Paris), Gilles Zémor (Université Bordeaux 1) and Sander Zwegers (Universitat Köln).

How to contribute a talk
 
In the registration form (see below) Ph.D. students and postdocs can propose to give a talk (submit title and abstract). 

Programme

A list with abstracts can be found here. The programme is now available. The special afternoon will take place on Friday. The programme starts Thursday at 11:00 AM.

Conference fee + accommodation

There is partial DIAMANT support for DIAMANT members---provided that they register early enough. DIAMANT members are full and associate professors listed here, as well as their research group members. 

Registration

The registration form can be found here.

Travel information

The symposium venue is Kaap Doorn Conferentiecentrum in Doorn. The venue can easily be reached by bus from NS train station Driebergen-Zeist. One takes bus 50 in the direction of Wageningen and gets off at bus stop Sandenburg, near the village of Doorn.


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Stieltjes Prize for Jop Briet
31-10-2012

On October 31st, Jop Briët (CWI) was awarded the Stieltesprijs 2011, the prize for the best PhD thesis in Dutch mathematics. In 2011 Briët defended his thesis `Grothendieck Inequalities, nonlocal games and optimization’ at UvA under the supervision of Prof. H. M. Buhrman. He introduced new variants of the famous inequality of Grothendieck and applied them to computer science, physics and mathematics. The prize amounts to 2,500 euros. Read more.



Turing Centenary Research Scholarship for Rutger Kuyper
20-6-2012
Rutger Kuyper, a PhD candidate funded by DIAMANT, has received one of three Turing Centenary Research Scholarships for his research on probability and logic. This scholarship, in honour of the centennial celebration of Alan Turing, has been awarded on 23 June (the birthday of Turing) in Manchester. The £ 45000 will allow him to spend significant time abroad to work with international experts in the field. Read more.


Best Paper award at STOC for Ronald de Wolf et al.
30-5-2012
A 26 year old claim for a solution of the P=NP problem has finally been fully refuted by a group of researcher, incl. Ronald de Wolf (CWI). The researchers presented their findings on the Symposium on Theory of Computing 2012 (STOC ’12), this week in New York. They shared the symposium’s Best Paper Award for their work.

6 DIAMANT postdoc positions offered
13-12-2011
The DIAMANT board has decided to offer 6 one-year postdoc positions, to be filled in in the context of the new DIAMANT round that started this summer. The candidates are: Eric Delaygue (Grenoble/UU), Andrew Drucker (MIT/CWI), Rachel Newton (Cambridge/UL), Jungyook Park (POSTECH, Korea/TU/e and TiU), Kieran Roberts (Birmingham/TU/e) and Marco Streng (Warwick/VU).