Basic Research in Informatics for Creating the Knowledge Society ABOUT BRICKS Background Consortium Organization Boards Funding RESEARCH Projects Publications Phd Theses Posters NEWS & AGENDA News Agenda CONTACT Contact RESEARCH: NEWS & HIGHLIGHTS 2010     • February 12   PhD defence Domokos Sármány (MSV1) 2009     • December 15   PhD defence Jilles Vreeken (IS2)     • December 10   PhD defence John van den Broek (IS3)     • November 24   Best Paper Award for Peter Bosman (IS3)     • November 12   PhD defence Denis Miretskiy (PDC2)     • September 21   PhD defence Taolue Chen (PDC1)     • September 02   PhD defence Gerwin de Haan (MSV2)     • August 25   PhD defence Hugo Jonker (PDC1)     • June 30   BRICKS Workshop on Game Theory and Multiagent Systems     • June 22   BRICKS closing symposium "From BRICKS to Buildings"     • June 16   PhD defence Erik Jan van Leeuwen (IS3) (see also this press release)     • June 10   PhD defence Fabian Groffen (IS2) (see also this press release)     • June 9   Research Fabian Groffen (IS2) in Computable (Dutch only)     • June 9   Research Fabian Groffen (IS2) on Dutch radio (BNR Nieuwsradio)     • May 7   Research Wemke van der Weij (PDC2-1) on regional (Amsterdam) television (AT5)     • April 24   PhD defence Yana Volkovich (PDC2)     • April 23   PhD defence Wemke van der Weij (PDC2-1) (see also this press release)     • March 11   PhD defence Robbert de Haan (PDC1-2) (see also this press release)     • March 5   Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (PDC2)     • February 04   PhD defence Li Chao (MSV1-4) (see also this press release)     • January 29   PhD defence Leo van Iersel (AFM2-1)     • January 22   PhD defence Jacob Jan Paulus (IS3)     • January 22   BRICKS VIRSI 2009 Workshop (IS6) 2008     • December 12   CWI Researcher Leen Stougie appointed professor of Operations Research (AFM2)     • December 02   CWI Researchers Improve Multimedia Language SMIL (PDC3)     • November 01   Research Jok Tang (MSV1-1) in Fluids Processing Benelux magazine (Dutch only)     • October 30   IS6 Organizes MIR 2008 - ACM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval     • October 02   PhD defence Jasen Markovski (AFM3-2)     • September 26   Best Student Paper Award for Denis Miretskiy (PDC2)     • September 22   Best Paper Award for SMIL State research (PDC3)     • September 16   New spin-off MonetDB B.V. (IS1)     • September 09   Research Jok Tang (MSV1-1) in national newspaper (de Telegraaf)     • September 08   PhD defence Jok Tang (MSV1-1)     • September 05   Honorary Doctorate for Jan van Leeuwen (IS3 & Management Board) and Reinhard Wilhelm     • September 05   Best Paper Award for Interactive Television Research (PDC3)     • September 05   PhD defence Pascal Lieshout (PDC2-2)     • September 04   PhD defence Jens R. Calamé (PDC1-3)     • July 17   Erik Jan van Leeuwen (IS3) wins Philips mathematics prize for PhD students (Dutch only)     • July 3   Yana Volkovich (PDC2) is finalist in Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship     • June 20   PhD talks at CWI: Stratos Idreos (IS4/5) and Erik Jan van Leeuwen (IS3)     • May 23   Game Theory Day (IS7) at CWI     • May 17   Franz Edelman Award for Gábor Maróti, Lex Schrijver en Adri Steenbeek     • May 15   Jeroen Wackers (MSV1) wins Best PhD Thesis 2007     • April 10   Jaco van de Pol will give his inaugural speech "Multi-core Computing meets Formal Methods" in the Amphitheatre of De Vrijthof building, Universiteit Twente     • March 1   Barry Koren (MSV1) appointed professor of Numerical Mathematics     • March 1   Dick Bulterman (PDC3) appointed professor of Distributed Multimedia Languages and Infrastructures     • February 15   Frank de Boer (AFM3) appointed professor of Software Correctness at Leiden University     • February 13   Seminar on Property based testing with Quviq QuickCheck by Thomas Arts, Universiteit Twente, Room C-238 of the Cubicus building. Organization: Jaco van de Pol and Marielle Stoelinga (AFM7) 2007     • December 7   BRICKS Scientific Computing Meeting (MSV1) at CWI, Amsterdam     • November 15   PhD defence Aad Mathijssen(AFM6)     • November 5   Jeroen Wackers (BRICKS MSV1) is awarded a PhD with honors (cum laude) for his thesis "Surface capturing and multigrid for steady free-surface water flows"     • October 30   Harry Buhrman (BRICKS AFM1) presents Quantum Computing research at SIREN 2007     • October 30   BRICKS has been designated special poster platform at SIREN 2007     • October 20   IS6 Organizes HCI 2007 - IEEE International Workshop on Human Computer Interaction     • September 18   The Second Dutch Workshop on Formal Testing Techniques     • July 18   Fifth BRICKS newsletter     • June 25   Joost Rommes (MSV1) defends his thesis "Methods for eigenvalue problems with applications in model order reduction"     • June 7   Interview met Prof.dr. Karen Aardal: BRICKS-project brengt kenniseconomie op hoger plan     • May 29 - 31   6th Cologne-Twente Workshop on Graphs and Combinatorial Optimization     • May 23   Rob van der Mei (BRICKS PDC2) talks about Performance Engineering at ICTDelta     • May 22   Barry Koren (BRICKS MSV1) introduces speakers Computational Science at ICTDelta     • May 7   Puzzling cards     • April 13   Limits of quantum computing: Harry Buhrman (AFM1) in Nature Physics     • April 3   Krzysztof Apt in Computable on Distributed Implementations of Adaptive Collective Decision Making (Dutch only)     • March 13   Erik Jan van Leeuwen wins BRICKS 2007 Dissemination Award     • March 13   BRICKS Midterm Symposium     • March 9   Inaugural Speech AFM4 Project Leader Herman Geuvers     • March 6   Inaugural Speech PDC1 Project Leader Wan Fokkink     • February 23   Rudi Cilibrasi (AFM2) defends thesis on statistical inference     • February 19   Tim Willemse in Computable on A Common Framework for the Analysis of Reactive and Timed Systems (Dutch only)     • February 9   Peter Lucas in Computable on BRICKS Bayesian Decision Support in Medical Screening (Dutch only)     • February 2   Inaugural Speech PDC2 Project Member Michel Mandjes     • February 2   Michael Lew in Computable on BRICKS Visual Information Retrieval Based on Synthetic Imagery (Dutch only)     • January 26   Martin Kersten in Computable on BRICKS LOFAR research (Dutch only)     • January 1   Boudewijn Haverkort appointed IEEE Fellow 2006     • December 18   BRICKS/IS3 organizes workshop on logistics     • December 7   BRICKS wins Best of Bsik: the Battle Award     • December 6-8   1st International Workshop on Computational Social Choice, Amsterdam     • November 20   BRICKS nominated for Best of Bsik: the Battle Award     • November 8   BRICKS projectleader Leen Stougie (AFM2) receives Kuhn Award for earlier work     • October 12   BRICKS presents 15 out of 90 poster at SIREN 2006     • October 3   Joint meeting of the BRICKS Advisory and Project Boards     • September 1   Gödel Prize winner Nitin Saxena joins BRICKS     • August 27   BRICKS Researcher wins EASST Best Paper Award     • August 24   BRICKS PDC1 and Innovista Securities start collaboration on intelligent camera management (press release Dutch only)     • August 1   Martine Roeleveld has been appointed as the new PR Officer BRICKS     • July 7   NWO Review board awards five BRICKS/FOCUS project proposals     • June 30   Pascal Lieshout (BRICKS/PDC2) wins Best Student Paper Award at Sigmetrics/Performance 06     • June 14   BRICKS/AFM2 seminar by Mike Steel (University of Canterbury, New Zealand     • April 12   Press release (Dutch only): Betere spoorwegplanning met wiskundige modellen (IS3)     • April 10   The CWI research group involved in BRICKS/MSV2 launches their spin-off company 'Personal Space Technologies'     • April 3   International meeting on parallel and distributed verification marks official kickoff for BRICKS VeriGEM project     • March 21-22   BRICKS AFM5 organizes INFINITY symposium     • March 10   BRICKS PDC1 Projectleader Wan Fokkink presents at NVTI Theory Day     • February 16   BRICKS Scientific Computing Meeting at Shell Global Solutions in Amsterdam (Program available/Registration open)     • February 2   Deadline BRICKS/FOCUS proposals     • January 19   BRICKS scientists in Nature: Global warming could destabilize plankton 2005     • December 13   BRICKS/PDC3 contributes to new W3C Recommendation for multimedia on the Mobile Web     • December 9   BRICKS/IS3 project leader Karen Aardal gives her inaugural speech at the TU Eindhoven     • November 29   BRICKS Seminar on Algorithms and Processes in Life Sciences (organized by AFM2)     • November 11   Advisory Board meeting at CWI (13:30hr)     • November 1-4   FMCO 2005 at CWI (co-organized by BRICKS/AFM3)     • October 28   Inaugural speech of Prof.dr. Farhad Arbab (BRICKS/AFM3) at 16:15 hr in Leiden     • October 6   BRICKS will present a poster at SIREN     • September 29   BRICKS/PDC1 present at Sentinels Security event (Dutch)     • September 21   BRICKS at 'Enlightening Science' congres     • September 19   BRICKS mathematician prof.dr. A. Schrijver has been appointed 'Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw' (press release in Dutch)     • July 7   BRICKS and LOFAR set up joint research project     • June 22   NWO Review Board rewards 5 (out of 19) BRICKS/FOCUS project proposals     • June 6   BRICKS Researcher Lex Schrijver awarded Spinoza Prize 2005     • April 29   The slides of Prof. dr. ir. P.M.B. Vitanyi's talk for the Advisory Board are available     • April 22   Advisory Board meeting at CWI (14:00hr)     • April 20   BRICKS Scientific Computing Meeting at CWI     • March 17   Preprints reporting about BRICKS research in Quality of Service in Communication Networks are now available from the publication section     • February 15   Prof. dr. W.H.A. Schilders, Philips Research, joins the BRICKS Advisory Board     • February 10   BRICKS project board meeting     • February 2   First results from the IS3 project are available online from the publications section     • January 29   Research carried out by BRICKS researchers Cilibrasi and Vitanyi has been slashdotted 2004     • December 10   Second BRICKS Day at CWI     • November 1   NWO publishes call for proposals for BRICKS/FOCUS     • October 28   First BRICKS publications by IS2 (the BRICKS project on Petabyte Datamining)     • October 10   First BRICKS Newsletter published     • September 24   BRICKS Advisory Board meets (CWI room Z009 at 14:00) © 2004-2009 BRICKS Consortium