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WORLDCOMP award for Peter Sloot.
During the 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing July 13 - 16 in Las Vegas USA, Prof. Peter Sloot was awarded the WORLDCOMP 2009 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD "In Recognition and Appreciation of His Outstanding
Service to The Profession of Computer Science and Applied Computing".
About the event:
WORLDCOMP'09 is the largest annual gathering of researchers in computer science, computer engineering and applied computing. The last Joint Conferences (WORLDCOMP'08) attracted over 2,000 computer science and Engineering researchers from 82 countries. It is anticipated that The WORLDCOMP'09 attracted about 2500 participants.
An international team of researchers lead by Prof. Peter Sloot describes
in the June 1 issue of the
Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society A how a new computational approach allows them to
understand the resistance of the HIV virus. Through a unique combination
of detailed multi-scale computer simulations and context sensitive text mining
the researchers open new ways to improve the medication for complex viral
diseases.
For more information, please refer to:
http://rsta.royalsocietypublishing.org/ and
www.virolab.org
Interviews on Dutch radio and television:
Friday June 26th: Radio 5 (747AM) from 21.00 tot 22.00 in Hoe?Zo! Radio of Teleac/NOT
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Tuesday June 16th at 17:30 hrs: Radio AmsterdamFM
Also see (in Dutch):
UvA persbericht: Effect hiv-medicijn voortaan nauwkeurig per patiënt te voorspellen
http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/2022737/computermodel-biedt-kansen-tegen-hiv.html
http://frontpage.fok.nl/nieuws/112603/-Computermodel-helpt-bij-behandeling-hiv.html
http://www.telegraaf.nl/digitaal/4166371/__Computermodel_biedt_kansen_tegen_hiv__.html
http://www.techzine.nl/nieuws/20526/HIV-voorspellen-met-computermodel-mogelijk.html
http://www.folia.nl/nieuws/computermodel-biedt-kans-tegen-hiv-812.html
http://www.scienceguide.nl/article.asp?articleid=107419
http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/4/AMSTERDAM/article/detail/248276/2009/06/15/Computermodel-biedt-kansen-tegen-hiv.dhtml
May 2009: Interview with Peter Sloot and Sander van Noort on "De grote griepmeting" (the flu monitor) in I/O ICT-onderzoek - Magazine of the ICT-research platform in the Netherlands (IPN) (in Dutch).
March 25, 2009: The ViroLab project
is the Monthly Focus of the European IST
December 10, 2008: Simon Portegies Zwart was awarded a NWO VICI grant for his work on multi-scale computational models and their applications in astronomy.
December 4, 2008: Peter Sloot and Jaap Kaandorp were awarded a 5 year NIH (National Institute of Health) grant on 'A systems Biology Approach to Emerging Viral Diseases' together with 6 institutes in the USA.
December 4, 2008: Within the EU Future Emerging Technology program SCS was granted a 3 year
STREP on 'Computing Real-World Phenomena with Dynamically Changing Complex Networks'. PI and project coordinator is Peter Sloot.
Interviews and such
May 23, 2008: Public lecture on Understanding and Fighting HIV/AIDS with Computational Science for The Netherlands Institute in Saint-Petersburg by Peter Sloot.
December 10, 2007: NWO, the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research reports on Lilit Axner's work on HemoSolve in their newspages.
Simon Portegies Zwart and Ed van den Heuvel published an explanation for the extreme supernova SN2006gy in Nature. Here you find a brief report in VPRO's Noorderlicht (in Dutch).
Simon Portegies Zwart and Robert Belleman published on the used of a PC's graphical processor to perform astronomical model calculations.
Besides their publication in the professional literature, their results are reported on in various places (all in Dutch, so far):
I/O InformaticaOnderzoek,
4(2), April 2007 (in Dutch) has interviews with Peter Sloot and two of our Computer Science students about Computer Science education in the Netherlands
Lilit Axner (Lilit Abrahamyan) tells about her research in "uitgelicht" on the website of IPN (Informaticaonderzoek Platform Nederland)
Interview with Jaap Kaandorp in "Computable" about "Het wonder van de fruitvlieg" (The miracle of the fruit fly, in Dutch).
(January 16, 2007).
A report on the Virolab project in the bi-monthly journal: NIP News September - November 2006, page 2 (In Dutch)
Interview with Peter Sloot in "Transfer - Vakblad over Internationalisering in het Hoger Onderwijs" vol. 13, July 2006 (In Dutch)
Interview in the "Hoe? Zo!" magazine on Dutch Radio with Peter Sloot on Virolab.(June 20, 2006)
An interview the magazine of the UvA with Peter Sloot
Folia 59, 35(May 19 2006, in Dutch).
An interview in the
staff magazine of the UvA with Peter Sloot (February 2006, in Dutch).
Dagstuhl Seminar 06071, Feb. 12-17, 2006
Architectures and Algorithms for Petascale Computing
- Press release of Feb. 6, 2006:
"Supercomputer simulieren virtuelle Welten" (German only)
- Video by Saarländischer Rundfunk Aktueller Bericht:
"Computer-Tagung im Nordsaarland"
DiVX [14.9 MB], WMV [13.8 MB]
(Author: Jürgen Rinner; February 16, 2006)
- Radio broadcast by Radio Berlin-Brandenburg:
"Supercomputer - wozu sind sie gut?"
MP3,
rbb-online
(Author: Thomas Prinzler; February 21, 2006)
Honorary doctorate for Grid-inventor Kesselman
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Carl Kesselman - co-inventor of grid technology - and art historian and Mondriaan-scholar Joop Joosten were awarded honorary doctorates by the UvA at the "dies natalis" - the celebration of the university foundation year on 9 January 2006.
Click here for the laudation for Carl Kesselman by Peter Sloot
Interview with Peter Sloot in a documentary on science in Amsterdam: Cellular Automata (in Dutch). Aired on local television (Salto A1, every Sunday in April 2005 at 22:30).
Interview, NRC Handelsblad, 26 februari 2005 (Dutch)
Interview with Prof. Sloot for "SurfWEBcahier" (March 2005, in Dutch)
Report in Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends (November 15, 2004)
Interview, NRC Handelsblad, 25 september 2004 (Dutch)
Announcement of new Grid Master programme
Quotes, Management Team nr. 2, Feb. 2004 (Dutch)
Quotes, Time, Jan 11, 2004
"How To Plug Europe's Brain Drain"
On our new Grid Master programme (In Dutch)
Vara: "Nieuwslicht", populair scientific program. Friday December 10th 2004(In Dutch; 22 minutes into the program)
Special report
At Supercomputing 2004 we presented an ICT approach to a long-standing problem in physics.
Reporting on our research
Colliding Stars May Form Intermediate Black Holes
(Scientific American, April 2004)
Vermiste Zwarte Gaten terecht (VPRO Noorderlicht, April 14, 2004, in Dutch)
New support for black hole theory (BBC News, April 15, 2004)
Computational Bio-Medicine on the Grid
Virtual Vascular Surgery on the Grid (ERCIM News)
Assessment of Computer Science Research in the Netherlands
In 2003/2004 an international committee of renowned scientists gave an
assessment of the Computer Science research in the Netherlands.
Follow this link for their report (revised Dec. 2004).
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