Chris Broekema defended his PhD thesis

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

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