UvA Computational Science News
UvA lowers tuition fee for Russian students Computational Science
Because of the Leading Scientist research grant awarded by the Russian Federation to prof. Peter Sloot, the University of Amsterdam has decided to allow students from the Russian Federation to enroll in our Computational Science master programme for the reduced tuition fee of 1,713 Euro.
Press attention for the opening of Peter Sloot's Laboratory for Advanced Computing, in Russia
This month Peter Sloot opened the Advanced Computing Lab in Sint-Petersburg, a laboratory within ITMO, the National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics.
"Jonge Russische wetenschapper wurmt zich los"
Floris Akkerman, a Dutch news correspondent in Moscow, blogs about the Leading Scientist Award won by Peter Sloot.
Peter Sloot chairs the Elsevier Grand Challenge on Executable Papers
Last week, Elsevier conducted the Executable Paper Grand Challenge at the International Conference on Computational Science in Singapore.
Meeting of Leading Scientists with President Medvedev
The Russian Leading Scientist Mega Grant winners were invited to meet with President Medvedev. Prof. Sloot was among them.
Opening Advanced Computing Laboratorium of Peter Sloot in St. Petersburg
On Wednesday 25th of May the lab of Peter Sloot in Russia was officially opened.
Interview in "Folia" with Peter Sloot
Folia, the weekly magazine of the UvA published an interview with Peter Sloot on his research on May 13, 2011 (Volume 64, issue 30, page 16, in Dutch)
Effective HIV therapy outweighed by an increase in risk behavior
New computational methods show that lowering risk behavior is the prominent control mechanism of HIV incidence even in the presence of effective therapy.
Interview in "NRC Handelsblad" with Peter Sloot
The Dutch quality newspaper "NRC Handelsblad" published an interview with Peter Sloot concerning his work in and with Russia on May 5, 2011 (In Dutch)
Seminar "The Computational Beauty of Life" in Moscow
On April 7 a seminar on the Computational Beauty of Life was organised in Moscow
Russia awards 3.3 million euros to UvA professor Peter Sloot
The Russian Federation has awarded an individual research grant of 3.3 million euros to Peter Sloot, professor of Computational Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), as part of the Leading Scientist programme.
Unconventional computing - slime mold designs Dutch road system
Andy Adamatzky repeated his experiment with a slime-mould designed road system for Great Britain for the Netherlands.
Game of Life and Death
Lecture by Peter Sloot at the "dag van de zelforganizatie", November 10 in De Doelen in Rotterdam
Interview with Peter Sloot on Amsterdam FM (in Dutch)
Swammerdam: Wetenschap te Amsterdam: Zondag 19 September
Peter Sloot talks research
In this item, we link to two documentaries (in Dutch) where Peter Sloot talks about his fascinations and his research.
Book on "Simulating Complex Systems by Cellular Automata"
Alfons Hoekstra, Jiri Kroc and Peter Sloot have published "Simulating Complex Systems by Cellular Automata".
ICCS 2010 a major success
ICCS 2010 was held in the Royal Institute for the Tropics from May 31 to June 2, 2010. The conference, which was organised by Peter Sloot, Dick van Albada and Jack Dongarra, welcomed over 400 delegates.
SCS colloquium: N. Javaheri
De rekenregels van de natuur
