My experience of teaching math in Africa
In the past few years, I have been involved in several projects concerning mathematical education in Africa.
I was advised that a good place to start, if I wanted to explore the African mathematical landscape, was AIMS. That’s the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, or the African Institute for Minimising Sleep, as the students I met liked to call it when they were overwhelmed by assignments.
Making interdisciplinary connections
One of the major challenges NETWORKS is facing concerns bridging the gap between our mathematical results and their use in the world around us.
Hubs and communities in networks
In this category we collect all articles that concern the topic of scale-free networks.
Six degrees of Coronavirus
In this article we discuss how, during a pandemic, actions and interactions can have a huge impact on a big part of a population in a very short time.
Music Building Eindhoven: a theatre filled with math
Measures to halt the spread of Covid-19 are having an enormous impact on the cultural sector. In some cases mathematics turns out to be very helpful.
No winner without a second place
When you browse the internet a lot of websites show you banners with advertisements. And if you reload the page some new flashy advertisement pops up in the same place. Did you know that while your web page is loading an auction takes place?
The two community Kuramoto model - Animation
In the interactive simulation in this article, developed by Martijn Gosgens, you can see how the two-community Kuramoto model works.
From the ateliers of great masters to the labs of the Rijksmuseum
As watching actual paint dry is not the most exciting activity for a scientist, we took the safest and the fastest method: computer modeling of chemical processes happening in paint. The method does not damage any paintings, and good models can predict years of paint drying in an hour or two.
Academic life in a lockdown
I did a thought experiment: what would have happened to the world if corona would have hit us in 1990? Or in 2000? So my thoughts went back to my early years as an academic, wondering how we would have coped with the pandemic a few decades ago.
Stopping network bottlenecks before they stop you
Detection of bottlenecks is a topic that mathematicians have been working on for decades and which they continue to work on.