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NWO has awarded 8 experienced researchers from TU Delft with a VIDI grant worth 800,000 euros. The grant enables them to develop their own innovative line of research and set up their own research group.

The nation's largest research exhibition is held right here on our campus from 6-8 June. The goal of the event is to connect researchers with potential partners in the corporate world, at governments or at knowledge institutes. This edition hosts 28 projects by EEMCS researchers. Pavol Bauwer and his team will give a demo 'Solar-powered bidirectional electric vehicle charging station' on 6 and 7 June at 12.30

A team of six students, including four EEMCS students, have built a Selfie Robot, during their minor Robotics. It was an assignment for TOPDelft and BETA Balie. Their robot, MIKA, now travels to several festivals and even made an appearance, earlier this month, at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam during the annual Museum Night.

Daniel Vos of study association Christiaan Huygens is one of the ‘HackDelft’ organizers. The hackathon will take place on 13 May and he would like to place a call out to all EEMCS lecturers to encourage their students to participate. Sign-up is open until 20 April on www.hackdelft.com.

The Little Green Machine (LGMII) was built under the direction of Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden University) in collaboration with DCSE with funding of NWO. The LGMII is a super computer with a power that strives beyond 10.000 regular computers.

Delft Data Science would like to invite you to the Data Science Tour at the largest science expo of the Netherlands: the TU Delft Research Exhibition on the 6th of June. During the exhibition, Delft Data Science will give you a tour over the exhibition to show you all the Data Science done at the TU Delft.

The Little Green Machine II is a supercomputer with the computing power of 10,000 PCs, the size of four pizza boxes and electricity consumption just 1% of that of a comparable large supercomputer. At the kick-off event for the TU Delft Institute for Computational Science and Engineering (DCSE) on Tuesday 23 May, project manager Simon Portegies Zwart (Leiden University) will give a demonstration of this small-scale computing miracle.

Following a successful introduction of on campus and online education on solar energy, Delft University of Technology will launch an international Photovoltaic Systems Summer School from 2 to 9 July this year. By organizing the summer school, the university wants to serve participants who plan and desire taking a career step towards practical solar energy engineering and/or who already have a job in the field but wish to gain a deeper knowledge. Therefore, it is intended for PhD candidates, PostDocs, researchers and engineers. The summer school will offer theoretical knowledge and practical training in design, installation, understanding, and monitoring of PV systems.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has announced the distribution of funding within their Gravitation programme. Jet Bussemaker, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, has made a total of €112.8 million available for the Gravitation programme, with the aim of boosting world-leading Dutch research. TU Delft is participating in three programmes, involving total funding of nearly €60 million. The programmes are focused on the Synthetic Cell (coordinated by TU Delft), Organs-on-a-Chip and Quantum Software. The last two are EEMCS research projects.

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has announced the distribution of funding within their Gravitation programme. Jet Bussemaker, Minister of Education, Culture and Science, has made a total of €112.8 million available for the Gravitation programme, with the aim of boosting world-leading Dutch research. TU Delft is participating in three programmes, involving total funding of nearly €60 million. The programmes are focused on the Synthetic Cell (coordinated by TU Delft), Organs-on-a-Chip and Quantum Software.

Erwin de Haan, Renzo Plaisant van der Wal, Casper van Wezel and Roel Zwetsloot have won the 3 E-Royal SMIT BSc price. The price is granted to the best Electrical Engineering thesis. The team became first with their bachelor thesis ‘Solar Cell Balancing’ under supervision of Chris Verhoeven.

Royal honours for three TU Delft professors

The TU Delft professors Rob Fastenau, Jeroen van den Hoven and Sef Heijnen have been awarded royal honours this year.

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Prepare yourself for 3 days full of tech & fun on the 7th, 8th and 9th of June during the International Festival of Technology. The very first names are announced: Bright TV Bright Night, stand-up physics Lieven Scheire, David Lemereis - The Future is Now, Broederliefde and Chef‘Special! More coming soon, stay tuned…

New mathematical concepts and advanced models as a new way to discover the world.

On April 6 Chris Verhoeven was featured in the latest edition of the Dutch television series ‘De Kennis van Nu’. In this episode the hosts explored the world of social robots.

PhD candidate Dennis van der Born will obtain his doctorate on 11 April, with his thesis “Dielectric Coatings for High-Voltage Gas-Insulated Switchgear”. He did his research within the DC systems, Energy Conversion & Storage group and was supervised by Johan Smit.

PhD candidate Qian Feng obtained her doctorate on April 4th with her thesis “Advanced Estimation of Credit Valuation Adjustment”. She performed her research at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) under the supervision of Kees Oosterlee.

On 30 March, Henk Kamp, Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, took receipt of the action agenda of the National Blockchain Coalition. The agenda is a joint initiative by more than twenty organisations – including the TU Delft Blockchain Lab – from the logistics, energy and financial sectors, as well as knowledge institutions and government bodies. The Netherlands aims to use the agenda to be an international pioneer in the application of blockchain technology.

PhD candidate Alexey Gritsenko obtained his doctorate on March 22th with his thesis “Data-driven modelling of protein synthesis. A sequence perspective”. He did his research within the Multimedia Computing Group and was supervised by Dick de Ridder.

Msc. Student Beer van der Drift of study association Christiaan Huygens co-organizes the symposium The Key to your Privacy on Cyber Security - May 1st at theatre De Veste.

Msc. Student Beer van der Drift of study association Christiaan Huygens co-organizes the symposium The Key to your Privacy on Cyber Security - May 1st at theatre De Veste.

The Computer Engineering Laboratory is proud to host this year's edition of the International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing (ARC 2017) here at EWI on April 3 - 7. This conference brings together a worldwide research community to discuss the latest developments on FPGA acceleration and related subjects.

Delft Data Science organises its newest edition in the series of Delft Data Science seminars from the EEMCS faculty. These seminars address the challenges and opportunities emerging from large quantities of heterogeneous, complex, networked and dynamic data influencing virtually all socio-economic domains. The resulting knowledge from DDS research has a huge impact on all those aspects in society. One of the socio-economic domains DDS is involved in is Online Education. Massive Open Online Courses are an innovative way to make education available for everyone. But how can we guarantee the quality of Online Education with such a high demand. Three international speakers will share their insights together with Delft Data Science, other researchers, partners and with you at the international Open Education Week (27-31/03) on the 31st of March.

On Saturday 11 March our faculty hosted the finals of the Bever Contest. This is an annual computer science contest for pupils from 'groep 7 & 8' in primary school and 'klas 1 - 6' in secondary school. The contest has been developed to let pupils get acquainted with computer science.

PhD candidate Nelly Ng (QuTech // Stephanie Wehner) will obtain her doctorate on March, 29 with her thesis A Theory of Thermodynamics for Nanoscale Quantum Systems.

It is better if parents do not get too involved when their children are learning to programme. This is one of the results of the research into the TU Delft online course (MOOC) which teaches programming to children. The research on the MOOC will be presented at the prestigious ICSE Conference in Buenos Aires at the end of May.

EEMCS awards start-up vouchers and office space on the 20th floor to promising student start-ups. Three of our Embedded System students are working on a robot to play with your pet when you are not around.

On 21 & 22 March the annual ICT Open event will take place in theatre De Flint in Amersfoort. Cyber Security is one of the leading themes this year and our own Cyber Security Group has developed a session, with Zeki Erkin as chairman. He would like to place a call out to all students and researchers to sign up for the event and join the session, as cyber security has never been more important.

Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) launches a MicroMasters program Solar Energy Engineering via online platform edX on April 25. The program is developed to give (future) professionals an edge in the rapidly growing Solar Energy industry. By providing in-depth knowledge and engineering skills the program supports them to become an expert in photovoltaics, advance their career and contribute to the energy transition to renewable energy sources. The MicroMasters program offers four graduate-level online courses treating photovoltaic energy conversion, technologies, systems and the integration of photovoltaic systems in microgrids and a capstone project.

On February 15th a new world record has been set by ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization). It has successfully launched a rocket with 104 satellites on board and successfully deployed them. TU Delft Scientists were involved in this project, including EEMCS researchers Dr. Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad (Embedded Systems) and his PhD-student, Sujay Narayana.

PhD candidate Peiyao Luo (Numerical Analyses / Kees Oosterlee) is one of the winners of the 2017 Student Paper Competition at the Copper Mountain Conference on Multigrid Methods.

Moritz Beller and Andy Zaidman (Software Technology) are amazed by a group of five CS students. The students wrote a Tool Demo Paper based on their submission in the annual Context Project, in which students work on a piece of software. The paper has been admitted and is now one of the top two submissions at the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering, which is taking place this week in Klagenfurt, Austria. The can write a blog post about their paper that will be published on IEEE Software.

Nava Tintarev has joined the Web Information Systems group, as an assistant professor and Delft Technology Fellow. She studies how to best present and adapt the presentation of complex data (using both natural language generation, and visualizations) in artificial advice giving systems.

Rob Ross is now part-time professor in the DC systems, Energy Conversion & Storage group. He has a background in materials, high voltage and statistics and works in the Supernet NL project on the superconductive cable, which may replace the power pylons in the future.

Arnold Heemink (Mathematical Physics) is humble when he talks about his silver penny that he received in honor of the promotion of his 50th PhD candidate.

The 2017 Else Kooi Award has been granted to Dr Massoud Tohidian for his scientific research on high-performance super-heterodyne receivers that are implemented using a minimum of analog circuits. Massoud Tohidian obtained his PhD in September 2015 at the Electronics Research Laboratory group of the EEMCS Faculty, Delft University of Technology.