Vakgroep Wiskunde en Data Science
DE WONDERE WERELD VAN WISKUNDE

... in volle evolutie

20/12/2017 - 17:00

School children are taught the commutativity property in the negative form of what is written in the title. For example 4x5=5x4=20.
This is valid for the standard multiplication of numbers but fails for many other kinds of product, such as for example the product of matrices or the rotation of solids. 

06/10/2017 - 09:00

The contact forum is organized by The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and The Arts, and the research groups Incidence Geometry (Ghent University), COSIC (KU LEUVEN), and DIMA (VUB).

08/09/2017 - 15:00

On September 8th 2017 Jacques Masuret obtained the academic degree of Doctor of Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Generalised Sequences and Compactness Notions in Point-free Topology
Joint PhD with Stellenbosch University
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Mark Sioen & Prof. Dr. David Holgate

19/06/2017 - 15:45

De vereniging IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement geeft jaarlijks een beurs -IEEE graduate fellowship award- van 15 000$ aan drie doctoraatsonderzoeken. Doctoraatvorser Gilles Inghelbrecht is 1 van de 3 winnaars dit jaar met zijn project "Parallelizing Least Squares Methods Under the Multisplitting Theory".

19/05/2017 - 16:00

On May 19 2017 Geoffrey Janssens obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Identities of Affine Algebras and Their Asymptotic Behaviour
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Eric Jespers

16/05/2017 - 14:30

On May 12th 2017 Theo Raedschelders obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Sciences with the following doctoral thesis:
Manin’s universal Hopf algebras and highest weight categories
Promotor: Prof. Dr. Michel Van den Bergh

19/04/2017 - 10:00

On April 19 2017 Felix Ulombe Kaputu obtained the academic degree of Doctor in Interdisciplinary Studies with the following docotral thesis:
“Chilima” and the Remaking of Chokwe Identity: An Exploratory Interdisciplinary Study on Globalization, Material Traditions and Gendered Cosmo-Polity.
Joint PhD with Universiteit Gent
Promotors: Prof. Dr. Jan Broekaert, Prof. Dr. Koenraad Stroeken (Univ. Gent) & Prof. Dr. Sandro Sozzo (Univ. Leicester)

30/01/2017 - 20:00

Vrouwelijke wetenschappers bepalen mee de geschiedenis. Ook nu. Maar te vaak blijven ze onopgemerkt. Het is hoog tijd ze een podium te geven. Met die boodschap nodigden Caroline Pauwels, rector van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Yvon Englert, rector van de Université Libre de Bruxelles, en het Brussels Institute of Mathematics (BIMS) maar liefst 400 gasten uit op maandag 30 januari voor een exclusieve avant-première van de film Hidden Figures.

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