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Science Park New Ideas Competition has started

The subscription for the Science Park New Ideas Competition 2010 is open. You are invited to submit your original, innovative and applicable invention or idea until April 9, 2010.

Two FNWI-scientists recieve Investment Subsidies NWO Medium

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has granted an ‘Investment Subsidy NWO Medium' to two researchers at the Faculty of Science (UvA): Dr Maarten Marx and Prof. Cyriel Pennartz.

From April till June 2010 professor Savdeep Sethi on Van der Waals Chair

Professor Savdeep Sethi (University of Chicago) has been awarded the Van der Waals Chair at the University of Amsterdam. He will occupy this position as visiting professor from April 1-June 30.

Focus on research: AI-scientist Bert Bredeweg

The scudding of the clouds across the sky, the pouring of a cup of coffee; one may be more complicated to describe than the other, but they are both examples of systems that change according to set rules. Bert Bredeweg, a scientist specialising in artificial intelligence developed an interactive computer program for describing these types of systems conceptually.

Dr M. Sjerps

Dr M. Sjerps has been named professor by special appointment of Forensic Statistics at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science (FNWI).

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