Let me tell you a story from my teaching
On Wednesday I was teaching an exercise class on graph theory. There was this one exercise that was troubling me for a couple of days, I couldn't solve it and it was frustrating.
Finance, Networks and Statistics come together
One of the lessons learned after the financial crisis of 2008, with Lehman Brothers collapsing, causing instability in the global economy, was that there is a strong need to better model the underlying financial network in an economy as a whole.
Writing with Analytic Storytelling
Together with Arnaud Bom from Analytic Storytelling, we decided to promote some of the articles on the Network Pages because of the creative writing techniques the authors used. We want to share these writing tips with you so that you can apply them in your writings!
Her Maths Story
There are so many interesting and inspiring initiatives trying to show how rich and beautiful the world of science is!
Martijn Gösgens as one of the Faces of Science
Martijn Gösgens, PhD student at the Eindhoven University of Technology and member of NETWORKS, is since March one of the 12 new Faces of Science.
Reading mathematics in Braille
Have you ever wondered how people with a severe visual impairment practice and understand mathematics?
Four young mathematicians win the Fields medal!
On the 5th of July, the Fields medals 2022 were awarded to four mathematicians. The four mathematicians that won the Fields medals this year are: Hugo Duminil-Copin, June Huh, James Maynard. and Maryna Viazovska.
Getting back together
One of the crucial aspects of working together in a big consortium like NETWORKS is actually meeting each other now and then.
May 12 – International Women in Maths Day
It was August 2014 when Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to win the Fields Medal. I was in a cafe in Rome and I remember when the Italian radio announced it in the news. I was a maths PhD student in a male-dominated research area and I got very excited.
Poster Women in Mathematics
EWM-NL has prepared a poster about women in mathematics, inspired by a poster on Notable Women in Computing. In this article you can find the beautiful poster, prepared by a joint Dutch and UK team comprising Maria Vlasiou and Silvy Hendriks (NL), and Houry Melkonian.