New Programme Director and MSc Coordinator Placed on 21 October 2024

The beginning of the academic year has brought a few changes and new faces to the Applied Mathematics programme.
In particular, we would like to introduce to you our new interim Programme Director as well as our new MSc coordinator:

Hil Meijer - Interim Programme Director
Hil Meijer started at the department in January 2007 and is currently an Associate Professor within the chair MIA (Mathematics of Imaging and AI). His research and teaching deals with Computational Neuroscience and Dynamical Systems. He has been chair of the Programme Committee AM during 2017-2023. You may reach him at his office, Zilverling room 2096, as well as through his e-mail address h.g.e.meijer@utwente.nl.
And once in a while he pops up at Abacus too.

Lisette van den Broek - MSc Coordinator
Lisette van den Broek has been working at the UT for about a year. She is 27 years old, Dutch, and has a background in Nutrition & Health, which she pursued as a degree at Wageningen University. She also assumed the position of MSc coordinator for the studies Electrical Engineering and Embedded Systems.
You may reach her at her office, Zilverling room A110, as well as through the new e-mail address master-am@utwente.nl.

Abacus celebrates eleventh lustrum! Placed on 20 September 2024

On the 19th of November 2024, Abacus will turn 55 years old and we will thus celebrate the eleventh lustrum.
To celebrate this, we will have three weeks full of activities from 11 until 29 November.
But we already want to hype you up with a sports day on the 25th of September!
You will even be able to play some lasergaming at this activity!
For the other activities, you can already enrol on the website, where you can also find more information!

New Board Placed on 9 September 2024

On the 3rd of September, the 57th board of W.S.G Abacus was constituted as follows: 

Chairman & Officer External Affairs: Patrick Heuven
Secretary & Officer Educational Affairs: Erik Leering
Treasurer: Renske Idzenga
Officer Internal Affairs: Rick Hüther
Officer Internal Affairs: Jorg Gortemaker
General Adjunct: Maria Christina van der Weele

We thank the previous board for their dedication and the great year. We are looking forward to a great year with all of you.