Stieltjes Institute
Thomas Joannes Stieltjes (1856-1895)
Young Talent Encouragement Award 2008


During a meeting on wednesday 26 November 2008 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 2008 (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.


Thea Vuik (r) recives the certificate + prize from Hendrik Lenstra (m) en Fred Bakker (l)

The winners were:

  • I.F.C.(Irana) Denissen, UT
  • P.(Patrick) Hafkenscheid, VU
  • W.H.(Wouter) van Limbeek, UU
  • K.J.(Kyndylan) Nienhuis, UvA
  • S.L.(Stéphanie) van der Pas, UL
  • J.G.(Jorn) van der Pol, TUE
  • T.F.(Tim) Reijnders, RUN
  • G.F.E.(Guido) Senden, RUG
  • M.J.(Thea) Vuik, TUD
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all the winners mathematics with the mathematicians Rinnooy Kan (chairman Hollandsche Maatschappij), Van Dijk, Bakker en Lenstra
 
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