Thursday 23 November 2006 9 undergraduate student mathematics, received the Young Talent Encouragement Award 2006 (Aanmoedigingsprijs) of the Thomas Stieltjes Institute for Mathematics. They received ther prize for achieving the highest average grade at his first year diploma of all mathematics students in their university. The winners were:

• W.M. (Willem) Baartse, VU
• A. (Arnout) Boks, TUD
• A. (Albert) van den Broeke, UT
• A. (Anne) de Haan, UvA
• B. (Barbara) Harzevoort, UU
• W.M.J. (Werner) Lazeroms, TUE
• W. (Wouter) Lueks, RUG
• L.A. (Lorijn) van Rooijen, RU
• J.B. (Joris) Weimar, UL