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  • Johan van Leeuwaarden gives lectures for 'Universiteit van Nederland'

    Since the public recordings of the first lecture for the 'Universiteit van Nederland' on 18 November 2015, Johan van Leeuwaarden has given several other lectures.

     

  • First interactive PhD colloquium big succes

    With a total of 27 participants, the first edition of the NETWORKS interactive PhD colloquium was a big succes.

  • Johan van Leeuwaarden in NRC

    Optimizing use of infrastructure preferable to extension of the road network.

    5 January 2016

     

  • Back-to-School day Lunteren

    Jointly with Gregor Brandt (ORTEC), Michel Mandjes has organized the "Back to school day", which is part of the annual Dutch operations research conference.

     

  • NETWORKS launches new website

    As part of the NETWORKS project a “the Network Pages” has been launched.

     

  • NETWORKS forges new international relationships

    In the past year, NETWORKS has forged connections with the University of Bath (United Kingdom) and with ACEMS (Australia) in the interest of advancing international collaboration. Last Tuesday representatives of  NETWORKS and the University of Bath met each other to explore the possibilities for collaboration.

     

  • First NETWORKS Training Week a big success

    From August 24—28 the first Networks Training Week took place in Woudschoten, a beautiful conference center in the center of the Netherlands, near Zeist. In total 41 PhD students, postdocs and faculty members gathered to hear Mark de Berg and Remco van der Hofstad lecture on computational geometry and on random graphs.

     

  • Michel Mandjes and Johan van Leeuwaarden guest editors of Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde

    The September edition of 'Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde' with the theme of 'Netwerken' (Networks) was realized by guest editors Michel Mandjes (UvA and project leader of the NETWORKS programme) and Johan van Leeuwaarden (TU/e).

  • Johan van Leeuwaarden Lecturer at 'Universiteit van Nederland'

    In the footsteps of Harry Buhrman, Johan van Leeuwaarden will shortly be giving lectures at the 'Universiteit van Nederland', a broadcasted platform where leading full professors bring their discipline to a wide public.

     

  • New book by Michel Mandjes

    After quite a few years of hard work, the book "Queues and Lévy Fluctuation Theory" by NETWORKS' main applicant Michel Mandjes (co-authored by K. Debicki) appeared (Springer Verlag).

    The book gives a broad overview on the theory of queues with Lévy input, with emphasis on fluctuation-theoretic quantities, asymptotic techniques and the analysis of feedforward networks.