Prototype Einstein Telescope wordt gebouwd in Randwyck
ET Pathfinder, de testfaciliteit voor de Einstein Telescope, wordt gehuisvest in het universiteitsgebouw aan het Duboisdomein 30 in Maastricht.

ET Pathfinder, de testfaciliteit voor de Einstein Telescope, wordt gehuisvest in het universiteitsgebouw aan het Duboisdomein 30 in Maastricht.
Following the graduation ceremonies on July 11 and 12, we asked four brand new graduates about their next steps in life. We also asked them to reflect – perhaps for the last time – on their time at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences.
During this ceremony the Menno Knetsch Master Thesis Award has been handed out to Julian Engelhardt.
During the ceremony, Dr. Mike Gerards handed out the MaCSBio Thesis Award to graduate Felix Taschbach for his research.
Students of the Biobased Materials master’s programme took third prize in the Biobased Innovation Student Challenge Europe with their idea to convert waste cooking oil into vinyl ester resins.
Together with artist Marie van Vollenhoven, Dr. Jerry Spanakis and Prof. Dr. Gerhard Weiss were nominated for the Klokhuis Wetenschapsprijs 2017 with their project The Infinity Games. The popular Dutch children’s tv show gives out the award annually (web page in Dutch).
Regional newspaper De Limburger talks about The Infinity Games, a collaboration between DKE researchers and an artist exploring whether computers can create ‘beautiful’ art (article in Dutch).
MIT Technology Review discusses the Digital Ludeme Project and the founding of a new research field combining AI and the study of ancient games.
Jacco de Vries wins prize for best thesis at the Large Hadron Collider from CERN.
A group of bachelor’s students of the Maastricht Science Programme (MSP) and Data Science and Knowledge Engineering (DKE) won the Eramet challenge at the VivaTechnology Hackathon in Paris during the weekend of 18 May.