On Monday September 28, Chris Broekema, a PhD candidate I supervised together with Henri Bal, successfully defended his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam ! The title of Chris’ thesis is Commodity compute- and data-transport system design in modern large-scale distributed radio telescopes. Below, the abstract of Chris’ thesis. In this thesis, we study… Continue reading Chris Broekema defended his PhD thesis
Category: astronomy
[Dutch] Oratie, 8 mei 2019
You can find my inaugural lecture here.
Inaugural lecture
Wednesday May 8 at 16.00, I will give my inaugural lecture. The title is “The e-scientist. Universal scientist or specialist?”. The location is the Aula of the University of Amsterdam. Note that the lecture will be in Dutch. Everyone who is interested in eScience and efficient computing is very welcome! Dutch Summary: Wetenschap wordt steeds… Continue reading Inaugural lecture
First Light! … Again! Shiny new receivers for the Westerbork telescope.
Great news! The new and improved Westerbork telescope in the northeast of the Netherlands has seen first light! If you are into radio astronomy, or if you have visited the second world war nazi camp and monument at Westerbork, you may be familiar with this instrument, which was built in 1970. The telescope is situated… Continue reading First Light! … Again! Shiny new receivers for the Westerbork telescope.