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CWI at a glance, May 20, 2010

CWI at a glance, May 20, 2010. Mathematisch Centrum. 1946 fundamental research transfer to society birthplace of Dutch statistics and operations research computer science Delta works aircraft aerodynamics ARRA, X1 ALGOL 60, ALGOL 68. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica. 1983

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CWI at a glance, May 20, 2010

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  1. CWI at a glance,May 20, 2010

  2. Mathematisch Centrum 1946 • fundamental research • transfer to society birthplace of Dutch • statistics and operations research • computer science • Delta works • aircraft aerodynamics • ARRA, X1 • ALGOL 60, ALGOL 68

  3. Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica 1983 • mission unchanged • unique positioning in between academia and applied labs • ABC, Python • SMIL multimedia language • optimization of railway timetables • MonetDB database system • electric discharges • discrete tomography

  4. Research topics • life sciences • nonlinear dynamics • scientific computing • stochastic networks • combinatorics and optimization • cryptology • quantum computing • machine learning • computational intelligence • software technology • database architectures • web science • visualization

  5. Research topicsMotivation from • life sciences • nonlinear dynamics • scientific computing • stochastic networks • combinatorics and optimization • cryptology • quantum computing • machine learning • computational intelligence • software technology • database architectures • web science • visualization • earth and life sciences • societal logistics • service oriented computing • the data explosion

  6. Cooperation • about 90 national & international projects • academia • research labs • government • trade and industry • Science Park Amsterdam • Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology • ERCOM • ERCIM • W3C • EIT ICT Labs

  7. Staff 50 senior researchers & tenure trackers 40 postdocs 70 PhD students 50 support staff Basic funding 10,5 M€ = 5,0 M€ support & facilities + 5,5 M€ research  project funding 6,0 M€ Law of increasing returns

  8. Expansion of premises • from 6,500 m2 • to 10,500 m2 • Fall 2009

  9. Science Park Amsterdam • Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam • Institutes of Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) • AMOLF: atomic and molecular physics • NIKHEF: sub-atomic physics • CWI: mathematics and computer science • SARA: high performance computing & networking • large-scale computing facilities • national supercomputer • international connections • AMS-IX: AMSterdam Internet eXchange • NV ASP: accommodation for start-up companies

  10. Thank you for your attention

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