DIAMANT Symposium Fall 2017
On
30 November and 1 December 2017 the DIAMANT Symposium will be held at
Hotel Van der Valk, Breukelen.
The symposium will feature a special afternoon (on Friday afternoon) "Diophantine problems and the Hardy-Littlewood method" organised by Damaris Schindler (UU) and Efthymios Sofos (UL). Invited speakers: Timothy Browning (U Bristol), Roger Heath-Brown (Oxford) and Pankaj Vishe (U Durham).
Other invited speakers include Alexander May (U Bochum), Britta Peis (U Aachen) and Wadim Zudilin (RU Nijmegen).
How to contribute a talk
PhD students and postdocs are warmly welcomed to submit a contributed talk (25-30 mins.) to the symposium. In the registration form (see below) there is an option to submit title and abstract. Alternatively, after registration, a title+abstract can be sent to Robin de Jong at a later date.
Programme
A growing list with abstracts can be found
here. The programme starts Thursday at 11:00 AM and can be found
here.
Conference fee + accommodation
There is full DIAMANT support for DIAMANT members. DIAMANT members are full and associate professors listed
here, as well as their research group members.
Registration
The registration form can be found
here.
Mathematics cluster DIAMANT
Upcoming events
Diamant symposium29-11-2018 - 30-11-2018
Dutch Mathematical Congress 201923-4-2019 - 24-4-2019
ERC Starting grant for Daniel Dadush26-9-2018
Daniel Dadush (CWI) has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 ME for his proposal ‘Towards a Quantitative Theory of Integer Programming’. With this grant, Dadush aims to revolutionize the understanding of integer programming (IP), the most popular method used today for finding optimal solutions to real-world optimization problems.
Read more.
VICI grant for Nikhil Bansal26-9-2018
Nikhil Bansal has been awarded a Vici grant of 1.5 ME. He is one of the 35 academics to receive this grant from NWO in 2018. Bansal aims to use his grant to develop new algorithmic methods to make discrete decisions in a continuous way. He expects this to lead to applications in the fields of logistics, bio-informatics, chip design and machine learning.
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3 DIAMANT PhD positions awarded19-12-2017
NWO, following a shortlist provided by the DIAMANT board, has decided to award 3 PhD positions to young DIAMANT members: Dion Gijswijt (TU Delft), Jan Steffen Müller (RUG) and Arno Kret (UvA).
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DIAMANT funding continued 19-12-2017
The funding of all four mathematics clusters has been continued by NWO. For the coming two years 85 kE will be available in each cluster.
Read more.
