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BRICKS 2007 Dissemination Award
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Young researcher wins BRICKS 2007 Dissemination Award
Erik Jan van Leeuwen (left) receives the BRICKS 2007 Dissemination Award from
Prof.dr. Jan Karel Lenstra (BRICKS President).
Promoting your research in just one minute and capturing the attention
of an audience of 100 people can be challenging. On the BRICKS Midterm
Symposium on March 13 2007 in Amsterdam, Erik Jan van Leeuwen (CWI)
succeeded by winning the BRICKS 2007 Dissemination Award (an iPod nano
8G). Out of 48 entries he obtained the majority of votes from the public
jury for his research poster 'Algorithms for Wireless Networks'.
Van Leeuwen serves as a good example of a typical 'BRICKS researcher'.
In the BRICKS project, fundamental research is carried out in the field
of both mathematics and computer science. All research topics are
inspired by societal problems. BRICKS is funded out of the Dutch
national gasreserves and most of the subsidy is invested in training
young talented scientists.
At the symposium young researchers played a central role. Keynote
speaker prof.dr. Peter Sloot (Computational Science, University of
Amsterdam) stressed the importance of educating young talented people.
According to Sloot the Dutch schoolsystem should pay more attention to
science. BRICKS senior researchers presented their research highlights
and prof.dr. Emile Aarts (Scientific Program Director Philips Research)
discussed about the future of Ambient Intelligence: the vision of a
world in which technology, in the form of small but powerful silicon
chips, will be integrated into almost everything around us.
BRICKS is a research consortium of Centrum voor Wiskunde en
Informatica, NWO, TU Eindhoven, TU Delft, Universiteit Twente en
Universiteit Utrecht.
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