Goodbye to Jan Schut Placed on 12 November 2024

With the arrival of a new MSc Coordinator comes, of course, having to say goodbye to our previous MSc Coordinator, Jan Schut.

Jan Schut joined the department of Mathematics in 1983, at a time when students and staff members were much closer together due to the central placement of the Abacus room in the Cubicus, near the canteen where staff members would come get their lunch and coffee. He quickly joined the board of Abacus as General Adjunct in three different occasions.

After leaving AM to join ATLAS, he rejoined AM as MSc Coordinator alongside the at the time Programme Director: Jan Willem Polderman. He has, since then, been the MSc Coordinator, helping many students work through their MSc degree.

With a little thank you package and the Ideaal! containing his goodbye piece, we say goodbye to Jan Schut.

Thank you, Jan, for all of your hard work throughout these years!

Bouquet from the Education Committee Placed on 4 November 2024

Now that quartile 1 has almost ended, the Education Committee has awarded the first bouquet of the year to Mentzelos Melistas to thank him for his efforts and enthusiasm throughout the first quartile. Mentzelos has had an impact on students both as a colleague (in the Math Line to all TA's who have worked with him) as well as a teacher for LS1 to the freshmen, who have been able to appreciate his kindness, empathy and the passion he has for his work.

By awarding Mentzelos with this bouquet, the Education Committee thanks him once again for all of his hard work and the joy he portrays and spreads to the students.

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.