http://uva.computationalscience.nl daily 1 2009-06-30T14:17:07Z http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/glueing-together-a-multi-scale-world International Science Grid this week (iSGTW) has a feature on the MAPPER project. No publisher robbel 2012-05-10T12:01:31Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/better-hiv-treatment-through-computer-simulation In the latest issue of the PLoS One Journal Emiliano Manchini, Peter Sloot and an international team of medical doctors, show how the HIV virus escapes treatment and how well timed interruptions of drugs can optimize the patients response. Mancini E, Castiglione F, Bernaschi M, de Luca A, Sloot PMA (2012) HIV Reservoirs and Immune Surveillance Evasion Cause the Failure of Structured Treatment Interruptions: A Computational Study. PLoS ONE 7(4): e36108. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0036108 No publisher robbel 2012-05-05T11:15:54Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/bifurcations-in-corals-and-neurons-are-planar In an international research project Nol Chindapol and Jaap Kaandorp (Section Computational Science, University of Amsterdam) in collaboration with researchers from the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology have compared branching patterns in corals and neurons. No publisher robbel 2012-04-25T13:19:18Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/co2-is-messing-with-coral-skeletons For her master research project, Lotte Huisman (graduate Limnology and Oceanography, Section Computational Science, IvI), was part of an international scientific team that carried out the world’s first analysis of the impact of ocean acidification on every gene in the coral genome, throwing new light on the likely fate of corals under climate change. In the publication in Molecular Ecology that resulted from this work, the research team shows that acidification has a profound effect on coral gene expression, with surprising and disturbing expression changes as a result of elevated levels of seawater CO2. No publisher robbel 2012-04-12T12:34:45Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/de-rekenregels-van-de-natuur Radio interview with Peter Sloot on Dutch national radio (in dutch). No publisher robbel 2011-08-01T07:05:41Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/uva-reduces-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. No publisher robbel 2011-07-14T11:12:21Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/press-attention-for-the-opening-of-peter-sloots-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. No publisher robbel 2011-06-24T12:45:07Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/knaw-debat-over-modellen-in-de-wetenschap No publisher best 2011-06-24T12:31:37Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/jonge-russische-wetenschapper-wurmt-zich-los Floris Akkerman, a Dutch news correspondent in Moscow, blogs about the Leading Scientist Award won by Peter Sloot. No publisher robbel 2011-06-24T12:45:25Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/peter-sloot-chairs-the-elsevier-challenge-on-executable-papers Last week, Elsevier conducted the Executable Paper Grand Challenge at the International Conference on Computational Science in Singapore. No publisher Petra Best 2011-06-24T12:20:58Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/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. No publisher robbel 2011-05-30T11:13:10Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/de-icter-als-onderbetaalde-uitvinder Interview met Peter Sloot voor de Automatiseringsgids. No publisher robbel 2011-05-30T11:23:45Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/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. No publisher robbel 2011-05-30T11:21:23Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/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) No publisher gdalbada 2011-05-16T12:44:32Z News Item http://uva.computationalscience.nl/news/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. No publisher robbel 2011-05-13T07:02:07Z News Item