Title: CWI joins two large-scale energy projects

Date: 2014-12-05 10:20

Slug: energy_project

Authors: M.A. Guravage

tags: energy

# CWI joins two large-scale energy projects

Researchers of CWI will participate in the projects ‘Smart Energy

Systems in the Built Environment’ and ‘Excellence in Uncertainty

Reduction of Offshore Wind Systems (EUROS)’ of the STW Perspective

research programmes that were recently awarded.

‘Smart Energy Systems in the Built Environment’ aims to develop new

technologies that make buildings handle supply and demand for energy

use in a more efficient manner. The main scientific challenges of the

programme are to identify and explore the synergies between the built

Title: Jos Baeten appointed professor at the UvA

Date: 2014-12-05 10:20

Slug: jos_baeten

Authors: M.A. Guravage

tags: uva, cwi, education

Jos Baeten has been appointed professor of Theory of Computing at the

University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Science. It is a part-time

appointment that Baeten will combine with his directorship of CWI.

In recent years, Jos Baeten’s research focuses on the notion of

computability in theoretical computer science. In previous research he

worked on formal methods, most prominently in process algebra. At the

Institute of Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) of the UvA, were

his position will be situated, he will mainly focus on teaching and

supervising students and PhDs. “I think it is important as director of

a research insitute to remain active as a scientist,” Baeten

Title: Lynda Hardman appointed Distinguished Scientist ACM

Date: 2014-12-05 10:20

Slug: lynda_Hardman

Authors: M.A. Guravage

tags: acm, cwi, education

Lynda Hardman, senior researcher and scientific staff member at

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) in Amsterdam has been named

Distinguished Scientists by ACM, the Association for Computing

Machinery. On Friday December 5, ACM officially announced the new

members as part of their ACM Distinguished Member program. New members

are selected for their individual contributions and singular impacts

on the vital field of computing. Among the new members in 2014 Hardman

is the only scientist from the Netherlands.

ACM President Alexander Wolf hailed the ACM members as "drivers of the

advances and inventions that are propelling the information revolution

CWI was the birthplace of the European internet and registered one of

the first country domains in the world, the NL top level domain

‘.nl’. CWI helped developing of the wing for the Fokker Friendship

aircraft and was home tot the invention of the popular programming

language Python. CWI also applied its research in combinatorial

algorithmics to improve the design of the Dutch train

timetables. Recent highlights include breaking the MD5 internet

security system and research into smart grids to secure our future

energy supply.

## Themes

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) is the national research

institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. We

conduct pioneering research in these fields and transfer our results

to society.

To give focus to our efforts, we concentrate on five broad,

societally-relevant themes:

* Software