by Rick Quax | Nov 10, 2017 | Hot News, News
The annual WBS Fixed Income Conference was held in Florence on 18-20th October. Held for the first time in 2005, the Fixed Income Conference has become a major event in the quantitative community and it attracts between 150-200 delegates from top financial...
by Rick Quax | Nov 8, 2017 | Hot News, News
On November 3 2017, Maarten Scholl has won the Best Quantitative Finance MSc Thesis Award for his thesis entitled “The Role of Central Clearing Parties in Over-the-Counter Derivatives Markets”. This country-wide annual award is established by Top Quants, Quants@VU and...
by Rick Quax | Oct 17, 2017 | Hot News, News
In the H2020 Health call on In-Silico Clinical Trials, Prof. Alfons Hoekstra has received a grant as partner in the INSIST project: IN Silico trials for treatment of acute Ischemic STroke. The main goal of INSIST is to realize in silico clinical stroke trials for...
by Rick Quax | Oct 13, 2017 | Hot News, News
Anna Nikishova, Debraj Roy, and Philip Rutten were present at the symposium Science in a Digital World where they presented their poster. This symposium is organized by the Netherlands eScience Center: “This annual symposium is an opportunity for anyone working...
by Rick Quax | Oct 5, 2017 | Hot News, News
Peter Sloot is featured in an article by The Correspondent about education in primary schools. There is a growing voice towards teaching children how to program as early as possible, driven by the industry. Peter Sloot sees it differently however. Peter:...
by Gabor Zavodszky | Aug 15, 2017 | Hot News, News
The research article on “Multiscale Computing in the Exascale Era” by Saad Alowayyed, Derek Groen, Peter V. Coveney, and Alfons G. Hoekstra was recently published in Journal of Computational Science. “We expect that multiscale simulations will be one of the main...
