During a meeting on wednesday 25 November 2009 in Haarlem of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) 9 undergraduate student mathematics, received the Young Talent Encouragement Award 2009 (Aanmoedigingsprijs) of the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics. They received their prize for achieving the highest average grade at his first year diploma of all mathematics students in their university.


Chris Klaassen (l) en Gerrit van Dijk (m) present certificate + prize

The winners were:

• F.P. van Doorn (UU)
• C.A. Douma (RUG)
• G.J. Hebbink (UT)
• B.P.A. Jordans (RUN)
• R.B.O. Kerkkamp (TUD)
• A.Y. Kiliç (UL)
• J.M. Portegies (TUE)
• T.P. Veltman (UvA)
• J.C. van Vliet (VU)