CWI at a glance,May 20, 2010

Mathematisch Centrum

1946 fundamental research transfer to society

birthplace of Dutch statistics and operations research computer science

Delta works aircraft aerodynamics ARRA, X1 ALGOL 60, ALGOL 68

1983 mission unchanged unique positioning

in between academia and applied labs

ABC, Python SMIL multimedia language optimization of railway timetables MonetDB database system electric discharges discrete tomography

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Research topics

life sciences nonlinear dynamics scientific computing stochastic networks combinatorics and optimization cryptology quantum computing machine learning computational intelligence software technology database architectures web science visualization

life sciences nonlinear dynamics scientific computing stochastic networks combinatorics and optimization cryptology quantum computing machine learning computational intelligence software technology database architectures web science visualization

earth and life sciences

societal logistics

service oriented computing

the data explosion

Research topics Motivation from

Cooperation about 90 national & international projects

academia research labs government trade and industry

Science Park Amsterdam Netherlands Institute for Systems Biology ERCOM ERCIM W3C EIT ICT Labs

50 senior researchers & tenure trackers40 postdocs70 PhD students50 support staff

Basic funding 10,5 M€= 5,0 M€ support & facilities+ 5,5 M€ research project funding 6,0 M€

Law of increasing returns

Staff

Expansion of premises

from 6,500 m2

to 10,500 m2

Fall 2009

Faculty of Science, University of Amsterdam Institutes of Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO)

AMOLF: atomic and molecular physics NIKHEF: sub-atomic physics CWI: mathematics and computer science

SARA: high performance computing & networking large-scale computing facilities national supercomputer international connections

AMS-IX: AMSterdam Internet eXchange NV ASP: accommodation for start-up companies

Science Park Amsterdam

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