by Mark Wijzenbroek | Oct 6, 2010 | News
The MAPPER project starts with a kickoff meeting in Amsterdam. MAPPER aims to deliver a Computational Science infrastructure for Distributed Multiscale Computing. Driven by seven challenging applications from 5 domains (Biomedicine, Fusion, Nanomaterials Science,...
by Mark Wijzenbroek | Jun 28, 2010 | News
Alfons Hoekstra, Jiri Kroc and Peter Sloot have published “Simulating Complex Systems by Cellular Automata”. For more information, visit this link.
by Mark Wijzenbroek | Jun 14, 2010 | News
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. ICCS 2010 in Amsterdam was organized by Peter Sloot, Dick van...
by Mark Wijzenbroek | Feb 8, 2010 | News
A research team led by Louis Vermeulen from the AMC and Prof. Peter Sloot from the Science Faculty of the UvA revealed how recently discovered Cancer Stem Cells play a crucial role in fundamental properties of tumors. In the latest issue of the renowned Cancer...
by Mark Wijzenbroek | Jan 26, 2010 | News
A five year NWO VIDI grant of about € 800,000 was awarded to Marten Postma on November 2009. A five year NWO VIDI grant of about € 800,000 was awarded to Marten Postma on November 2009. The personal grant allows Marten Postma -who will be the project leader- to...
by Mark Wijzenbroek | Dec 2, 2009 | News
The University of Amsterdam will receive a 4-CPU vector supercomputer (SX-8) from NEC to stimulate computational research and education at the UvA. This machine will be specifically used for computer simulations to improve our understanding of two major diseases:...
