A research team led by the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam will investigate using robots to provide emotional support for children with cancer. The robots should be a personal, ...

How we can model the quality of 3D content from a user viewpoint, so it can be compressed and streamed without noticeable impact? This question is at the core of Xuemei Zhou PhD thesis which she will ...

On 30 March 2026 a 1-day workshop will be organized at CWI by AIMET-NL, the newly initiated Dutch research network on AI for Weather & Climate. The topic of this meeting is Scientific Machine Learning ...

This workshop is part of the Research Semester Programme 'PhaseCAP: Phase Transitions in Combinatorics, Algorithms and ...

The Sum-of-Squares (SoS) hierarchy is a powerful framework for polynomial optimization and proof complexity, providing tight semidefinite relaxations that capture many classical algorithms. Despite ...

Juliette Dubois: Uncertainty quantification for hyperbolic PDEs with many uncertain parameters Abstract: We are interested in the uncertainty quantification of nonlinear hyperbolic equations. The aim ...

Stage IX aims to transform the fragmented Dutch Immersive Experiences (IX) sector by building an artist-centered infrastructure unifying creation, production, exhibition, and education. The project ...

La Poutré volgt Björn Levin (RISE, Zweden) op, die sinds 2020 ERCIM President was. “ERCIM is vandaag de dag zeer relevant, omdat we bijdragen aan de technologische autonomie van Europa,” zegt La ...

He succeeds Björn Levin (RISE, Sweden), who had served as ERCIM President since 2020. “ERCIM is very relevant today, as we contribute to European technological autonomy,” La Poutré says. “I am ...

Anyone who has ever searched for a book in a library knows the value of a good catalogue. Databases have a similar “catalogue” too: an index, a tool that helps you find what you need faster. But ...

Many widely used analytics formats, such as Parquet, were designed when computer processors worked in a more sequential way. Today’s machines can do much more work at the same time. A CPU (the main ...

When the A7 near Purmerend was closed to heavy traffic for many months, freight transport came to a standstill. The Province of North Holland wanted to know whether transport by water could be a ...