Zoekresultaten
… and the photographs are on display at Brandweerkazerne, Capucijnenstraat 21 in Maastricht on Thursday 3 May from 20.00 (doors open at 19.30). Everyone is welcome. Namesake Back in Maastricht, she is busy looking for new sponsors and setting up the research programme. She is also looking to specialise in gynaecology, a choice in which Shirati played an important role. During her internship she was suddenly called to a village in the middle of nowhere, together with an older woman from the village …
The Road to Maastricht
28-03-2023
… book’s Dutch edition. “In The Road to Reality , Sir Roger Penrose takes us on an engaging journey to the ultimate laws of reality”, he writes. A podcast with Dr. Westra was also published for the occasion of the visit , in which he discusses physics research at UM among other topics (in Dutch). Photography: Philip Driessen … What would you ask someone who, in the words of the organizers, played a major role in the story of science in the last 70 years? Precisely that opportunity presented itself …
First graduates University College Venlo
28-03-2023
… my God, what’s happened to my little campus? There were all these faces I didn’t recognise; it was like a whole new world.” Mirte van den Boogaard (1997) studied Liberal Arts and Sciences at University College Venlo. She is conducting consumer research in Blerick, Venlo, for her bachelor’s thesis entitled ‘Developing recommendations to health promotors for organizing an intervention for people with a lower SES (Self-Esteem Scale)’. And Venlo? It can hardly be described as a student city, but …
Hello and welcome to this special episode of the DSMINDSETS Podcast!
Incorrigible optimist
28-03-2023
After her medical studies in Maastricht, Marijke Wijnroks went to work in poor countries, often in dangerous circumstances. Now, as a policymaker and manager at The Global Fund, she has joined the fight against the near-ineradicable diseases of tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS.
One plus one equals three
28-03-2023
… intelligence. “Some of the methods I use are related to what people in the field of machine learning are doing. I hope I can learn additional techniques from there, which are not yet applied to this field.” Cavill modestly calls it “rambling research”, something she has learned during her PhD where she was allowed to explore whatever topic she wanted. “I made the deliberate choice to go into biology once I found out that biologists were starting to measure all these things. I thought: I …
Bridge issues
12-05-2023
… shown as dots, and the lines between them mean that they know each other. There’s a vast amount of information in these graphs. You can ask all kinds of questions about them, and although I don’t work on social networks, this gives an idea of what my research is about.” …in biology Kelk currently studies ancestral trees, which are used in biology to visualize the relationships between various organisms. The trees are constructed based on analysis of DNA sequences, but different analyses produce …
A matter of balance
28-03-2023
… The importance of fairness and balance is not to be underestimated. It comes with unique challenges, both on a mathematical and on a personal level. Balanced planning and scheduling Luckily, he has plenty of examples from the realm of operations research: creating mathematical models of processes going on at companies. Those projects deal with balance, too. “A lot of my work lies in the area of planning and scheduling. Imagine you have a number of jobs that need to be done, and a limited …
A unique Dutch windmill
28-03-2023
… “It is usually difficult to prove that eigenvalues uniquely identify a graph, because you have to exclude every other graph you can imagine. You can ask: which graphs can be characterized by their eigenvalues? This question is the main focus of my research. The answer is still largely unknown.” Indeed: easy to grasp, hard to solve. And what about the longing for creativity that made Abiad switch to mathematics? “The proof is different for each graph family. There are no clear recipes for proofs. …