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Candidate Board 2026-2027 Placed on 30 April 2026
We are proud that we can announce the candidates for the 59th board of Wiskundig Studiegenootschap Abacus! Last week, on the 22nd of April, they were announced in the following order:
Chair: Fleur ter Braak
Secretary & Officer of External Affairs: Pepijn Schreurs
Treasurer: Lenka Troiakova
Officer of Internal Affairs: Tycho Borm
Officer of Educational Affairs: Robert-Jan Nijhuis
General Adjunct: Eyal Castiel
We would like to wish them good luck for the coming months as candidate board members and have good faith that they will be officially constituted at the first of September.
Bibbidi Babbidi Boo - the 58th board of W.S.G. Abacus
Q3 flowers from the Education Committee Placed on 30 April 2026
With quartile 3 having come to an end, the Education Committee has awarded a bouquet of flowers to a teacher in recognition of their efforts throughout the quartile. In this case, the bouquet was awarded to Ruben Hoeksma for his involvement in Module 7, where he is responsible for a project course on Graph Isomorphism.
Many students spoke highly of Ruben, showcasing great appreciation for his patience and ability to make the material accessible to two different groups of students simultaneously. Students were also thankful for Ruben's willingness to discuss the topics over with them, and often mentioned his obvious care towards their understanding well-being overall (not just in his course).
The Education Committee would like to thank Ruben Hoeksma for all of his efforts and care in what he does as a teacher, and hopes that students will continue to appreciate his work in the future.
Winner Applied Mathematics Education Prize Placed on 26 March 2026
On Tuesday 10 March, the three nominees for the Applied Mathematics Education Prize (AMEP), Maria Christina van der Weele, Felix Schwenninger, and Frederic Schuller, all gave a talk on the theme 'History of Mathematics'.
With a wonderful presentation on the topic of the history behind solving cubic equations, Maria Christina has been voted winner of the AMEP 2026!
We thank all three finalists for their participation and for their wonderful talks, but, most importantly, we thank them for their efforts in educating the next generation of mathematicians here at the UT.
Calendar Week overview | Month overview
Today 12:45 | Coffee break with employees @ Abacus RoomCome and enjoy a nice chat with some employees. The board will bring some nice snacks. |
Tomorrow 10:00 | Parents day @ Spiegel 7 6Are you a first years student and do you want to show your parents how your day as a student looks like? Then join the parents day organised by the Freshmen committee! The freshmen committee has organized a lecture, scavenger hunt and tutorial to show your parents how it is to follow mathematical lectures/tutorials and show them all beautifull places on the campus. Afterwards everyone is welcome to enjoy a drink at the Abscint to close out the day and chat some more with other students/parents. Hope to see you there! |
Tomorrow 16:00 | FriAD Inter-Actief @ HoogkamppleinCome enjoy a drink at this FriAD, tended by Inter-Actief! The FriAD will be a special Lustrum FriAD of IA, where the will also do the Beagle challange. The Beagle is an event where they will throw old computers from a great height as part of a competition. Each team receives a PC from the organisation to package in an original way. We then drop them from certain heights and check if they still work. The team that can keep its PC working the longest wins the competition. Be sure to watch this event. More information can be found via the Inter-Actief website. |
27/05 09:00 | All Energy Day @ DelftThis is the business days as we know but than in Delft. Are you still searching for a company? You can find one here! |
27/05 16:00 | PhDrink @ Abscint 2Come join this PhDrink with Denise Graafsma and perhaps a mystery speaker! You can find more about the topic below What's the problem? Finding interesting math topics within a PhD project. Doing a PhD is not just about solving problems, it is also about finding the right ones! Research projects often provide a great deal of freedom, but with that freedom comes the challenge of identifying worthwhile topics to work on. Questions that are relevant, mathematically interesting, and still unsolved can be few and far between. Drawing on examples from my project on algorithms for data centers, we explore the challenge of finding the "right" problem to tackle. |