News 4TU.AMI

Just like in previous years, one of the parallel sessions during this year's Netherlands Mathematical Congress (NMC) will be devoted to 4TU.AMI. The session, held on 12 April, consists of five talks on state-of-the-art health-related mathematics.

Max Tinkelenberg (Rijnlands Lyceum, Oegstgeest) was the top-scoring Dutch high school student of the Mathekalender 2021.

The first 4TU.AMI networking event since the outbreak of the corona virus took place in Eindhoven on 5 July. The around 50 attendees enjoyed the opportunity to introduce themselves to their colleagues and initiate new contacts and collaborations.

The RECENTRE proposal, aiming to empower patients to play a leading role in their lifestyle and health within their own environment , has been selected as one of the four ‘High Tech for a Sustainable Future’ 4TU programmes.

Kevin van Dijk (Stedelijk Gymnasium Nijmegen) and Thian Tromp (Christelijk Gymnasium Beyers Naudé, Leeuwarden) were the top-scoring Dutch high school students of the Mathekalender 2020 and both received a €500 prize sponsored by 4TU.AMI.

Ellen van den Bos-Moodij recently started as the new 4TU.AMI program manager (0.2 fte), responsible for the daily management of 4TU.AMI together with scientific director Johann Hurink.

We're launching a newsletter to share successes, announce events, highlight research projects, introduce new staff members, invite collaboration, report on outreach activities, discuss developments in math education, et cetera.

Join us during our summer event on 5 July on the campus of TU Eindhoven. The main purpose of the event is to get to know new colleagues, explore common research or teaching interests, invite collaboration, and catch up with old friends.

After graduating with an MSc degree in Applied Mathematics from the UT in 2006, Pim did a PhD in the Algorithms & Complexity group at Durham University (England) followed by a 4-year postdoc in the Algorithms Research group at the University of Bergen (Norway). His research focused on algorithmic graph theory and parameterized complexity. During his time as an MSc and PhD student, Pim was involved in outreach activities and taught in secondary schools both in the Netherlands and England. In 2014, Pim took up a lecturer position at Hogeschool Rotterdam. He then joined ORTEC in 2017, where he worked as an Operations Research Engineer in the team responsible for the development of ORTEC’s vehicle routing software. As of September 2020, Pim is a lecturer at the Department of Applied Mathematics at the UT.

Johann Hurink (UT) is taking over from the current director Kees Vuik (TU Delft) as of 1 July. We talked to Hurink about his plans for 4TU.AMI, how he sees the future of mathematics and what the greatest strength is of the 4TU alliance.

Within the 4TU.AMI Blended Learning project, joined forces (TU/e, TUD, UT and WUR) came together to bring blended learning of mathematics to the next level. In this 4-year project, it became clear that collaboration is crucial. Successes and lessons learned are being shared among the math community.

Op 9 juli 2020 kreeg Marijn Adriaanse samen met nog zes andere klasgenoten van het Norbertus Gertrudis Lyceum zijn vwo-diploma uitgereikt door zijn klassenmentor Pelle Pauwels. Uit de toespraak van zijn mentor bleek de veelzijdigheid van Marijn: naast zijn talenten voor de β-vakken heeft hij ook aanleg voor geschiedenis en Latijn. De reden dat 4TU.AMI aanwezig was bij deze plechtigheid is dat Marijn samen met Kevin van Dijk van het Stedelijk Gymnasium in Nijmegen, winnaar is geworden van de Mathekalender-wedstrijd van afgelopen december en wij willen hen daarmee hartelijk feliciteren. Marijn gaat komend jaar elektrotechniek studeren in Delft en 4TU.AMI wenst hem een goede studietijd toe.

Plots ligt er een laagje bruingeel zand op je auto, en kleurt de lucht oranjerood. De buurvrouw, die met haar boodschappentrolley voorbijloopt, drukt een sjaal tegen d’r mond. En uit je telefoon ontsnapt een schelle, harde pieptoon: een berichtje van de overheid. Houd ramen en deuren gesloten. Het is een realiteit waar niemand in China meer van opkijkt. Het land gaat namelijk regelmatig gebukt onder grote, hevige zandstormen. De afgelopen jaren deed Jianbing Jin (TU Delft) onderzoek naar dit alles verlammende fenomeen. Hij zocht uit hoe en wáár zanddeeltjes de lucht instuiven.

Op 19 juni jl. vond de feestelijke prijsuitreiking plaats van de Mathekalender 2018. Dit jaar waren er twee leerlingen op de eerste plaats geëindigd:

In April 2019, a conference on Mathematics Education took place in Utrecht. The conference brought together mathematicians, lectures of Mathematics in higher education and educational experts. New trends and innovations in Mathematics education have been explored and discussed.