SIAM Student Chapter Delft - News

It has gone under the radar, but there is a new board since March 2023!
President: Buu-Van Nguyen (B.Nguyen@tudelft.nl)
Vice President and Treasurer: Hasti Garjani (H.Garjani@tudelft.nl)
Secretary: Haris Shahzad (H.Shahzad@tudelft.nl)
A short bio of the board members can be found here.

The board is organising a Data Science workshop on the 22nd of September 2023. Furthermore, a board game evening will be held on the 14th of July 2023. More details on both of these events will follow later.

Members receive updates by email. If you aren’t a member yet, then you can fill in this application form.

We are glad to announce that the new board is ready to take you to a new adventure with SIAM-SC! Here comes the information about our new board for the year 2021:

President: Hugo Verhelst (H.M.Verhelst@tudelft.nl)

Vice President and Treasurer: Elisa Atza (E.Atza@tudelft.nl)

Secretary and Webmaster: Kishan Ramesh Kumar (K.RameshKumar-2@tudelft.n)

More information about them has been updated here.

As the previous board, it is time to say goodbye. We would like to thank all of you for your kind support this unexpected year. We hope we still brought you some brightness and fun.

Hereafter, all the activities and events will be organized by the new board, so stay tuned to our news and emails!

Wish you a happy and prosperous new year! The year was indeed a roller coaster ride for everyone. Unfortunately, we could meet only once for our usual Movie Night last year. However, as the new tradition, we would like to recommend you another movie to start a new year with some dramatic film of a genius mathematician. As quoted in the movie, ‘‘You’ll have bad times, But it’ll always wake you up to the good stuff you weren’t paying attention to.’’

We would like to recommend a movie named Good Will Hunting that quotes this life lesson. This movie was released in 1997 and states a story of high school dropout that scribbles down the answers to questions of a great mathematician. With the natural gift of intellect, the protagonist (Will Hunting) of the movie struggles throughout the movie due to child abuse. As a part of deferred prosecution for insulting police officer, Will studies advanced mathematics with the renowned professor that discovers the Will’s talent. He also undergoes therapy in which he reshapes his life by confronting his past life and keeping a futuristic view.

We hope you enjoy the movie. Thank you Dr Kristof Cools for recommending this movie. Please reach out to us if you come across movies/books that are related to science that you would like to recommend to your colleagues.

2020 has been an unusual year for everyone. However, we continued to keep few traditions alive. On Thursday, December 10th, 2020, we organized online chess tournament via zoom. We are gald to announce that our faculty advisor Dr. ir. Martin van Gijzen is the chess champion this year with winning every single match. Congratualtions! We thank all the participants for joining us and having a fun evening!

Haven’t joined us? Send an email to us: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl

Today, the movie we want to recommend was played before at our usual movie night. Personally, we still think, it is worth to watch again. Since without Alan Turing, I am afraid we would suffer much more during this “new normal life”.

The Imitation Game (2014) is based on the 1983 biography Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. The movie title is taken from the name of the game Alan Turing proposed for answering the question “Can machines think?”, in his 1950 seminal paper “Computing Machinery and Intelligence”. In 1939, newly created British intelligence agency MI6 recruits Cambridge mathematics alumnus Alan Turing to crack Nazi codes, including Enigma – which cryptanalysts had thought unbreakable. Turing’s team, including Joan Clarke, analyze Enigma messages while he builds a machine to decipher them. Turing and team finally succeed and become heroes, but in 1952, the quiet genius encounters disgrace when authorities reveal he is gay and send him to prison.

We hope you will enjoy this movie. If you have any movie or book you want to share with us, please don’t hesitate to send us an email.

We have happy to announce that there are only 10 days to go for our online workshop day: Non-Linear Equations. All the information can be found here. If you haven’t signed up yet, please scan the QR code in the poster or fill in the google form. We are looking forward to seeing you virtually at our event!

Haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

Today, the movie we want to recommend is 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).

This movie was released in 1968 and turns out to be way ahead of time. The movie is based on the science fiction novel written by Arthur C. Clarke and is directed by Mr. Stanley Kubrick.

HAL 9000, a supercomputer on a spacecraft heading to Jupiter is in charge of most operations, which leads to terrifying events when it glitches and decides to destroy the world. As HAL kills off the crew one by one, we are reminded of the dangers of letting AI take control of our world and be mindful of the consequences. With the exponential growth in the development of AI, it is interesting to see the thoughts around AI that were established in 1960s.

“Let the Awe and Mystery of a Journey Unlike Any Other Begin”.

We hope you enjoy the movie. Please reach out to us if you come across movies/books that are related to science that you would like to recommend to your colleagues.

Any movie you want to share with us or haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

After the first tryout of online Pictionary and receiving a lot of positive feedback, we have been encouraged to organize it again!

We have found an online platform where 12 people can be accommodated at one time. Each person will be given options of 3 words out which he/she can choose 1 word. The chosen word will be described through pictures to the rest of the 11 participants. The person guessing the word will be given points. If the word is guessed by any of the participants then the person describing the word will also be given points. The person with maximum points wins.

We will have the event on Wednesday, 16/09/2020 starting from 1900. Due to the time limitation of the Pictionary website, please join the following zoom meeting first:

Time: Sep 16, 2020 07:00 PM Amsterdam

Join Zoom Meeting https://tudelft.zoom.us/j/99090837601?pwd=UkU1bDJ3K1JUL0YxdUZTcXd3aCtlUT09

Meeting ID: 990 9083 7601 Passcode: 3YJ10L

In the zoom chat, we will share the Pictionary link. Therefore, please make sure that you are in the zoom meeting to join the event!

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the event, please don’t hesitate to contact us by replying to this email.

Haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

Do you have any worries or concerns? Do you want to consult someone to get advice but you only want to do it anonymously? Then I guess you are looking for the Namiya General Store :P

Today, the book we want to recommend is a Japanese novel: The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino。

In 2012, three delinquents, Atsuya, Shota & Kohei, take shelter in the abandoned Namiya General Store after committing some wrongdoings. Staying until the morning, the boys’ pillaging is mysteriously interrupted by an advice letter being posted, although nobody is outside. The letter is addressed to the General Store and traditionally was written by someone to consult about worries. Upon reading, the boys realise it was written in 1980, 32 years ago. When Kohei decides to reply, the mysteries and secrets of the old General Store come to light, as their letters transcend time and space to touch a variety of characters, revealing the pasts of Namiya, and follows the many miracles that intertwine the lives of the seemingly unrelated cast.

“The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.” (Neal Boortz)

We hope you will enjoy the book and all stay healthy.

Any movie or book you want to share with us or haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

We hope you all are healthy, safe, and doing well.

It seems like we have to continue organizing our fun activities virtually before we can see each other in our beloved university.

How fast can you still do high school mathematics? Are you up for the challenge? Here is the invitation for the Online Mathematical Pub Quiz :).

Four groups of 4-5 members will be competing against each other. Therefore, we have only 20 positions, which are given on the basis of first come first serve! The quiz is scheduled on Thursday, 25/06/2020. Two groups will start at 19.00 and the other two groups will start at 20.00. Each group will have a skype call with one of the board members.

We give you the choice to make your own team. Please coordinate with each other for making teams. Please fill the following google form to register. If you do not manage to form a team, that’s okay, mention it in the form and we will accommodate you in some team.

The winning team will be rewarded once we are back to the office :)

So are you interested in testing your mathematics skills? We are looking forward to meeting you virtually. 😊

Haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

We are sure that most of you are engaging yourself in reading more. Here is a recommendation of a book that will put you in thoughts about our Universe: A Brief History of Time by Stephan Hawking.

Stephan Hawking, a theoretical physicist, explains highly complex aspects of our physical universe in terms that can be understood by the most layman. The book was first published in 1988 and is a classic science book since then. Hawkings tries to touch upon several topics such as space and time, uncertainty principle, black holes, and many such concepts. The book also makes you think philosophically with its uncertainty principle. You would also experience Stephan hawking’s scientific sense of humor along the way.

If binge-watching ‘Big Bang Theory’ ever generated curiosity in you about understanding Sheldon, Here is a great chance for you 😎

We hope you will enjoy the book and all stay healthy.

Any movie or book you want to share with us or haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

I hope you all are safe and healthy.

After the rocking evening with participants of the Online pub quiz, we have been encouraged to organize another fun event. This time with “Online Pictionary” 😊

We will have the event on Wednesday, 27/05/2020 starting from 1900. Please fill the following doodle form if you wish to participate.

Here comes the link to register: https://doodle.com/poll/i34r2emqe8nqaczd

If most of you agree, we can also have a video call in parallel.

So are you interested in joining this another experiment? We are looking forward to meeting you there :D

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the event, please don’t hesitate to contact us by replying to this email.

Haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

Today, the movie we want to recommend is A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001).

Based on the 1969 short story “Super-Toys Last All Summer Long” by Brian Aldiss, this science fiction fantasy bears similarities to Pinocchio (1940) and originated as a long-gestating project of director Stanley Kubrick that passed to his friend Steven Spielberg after Kubrick’s death. Haley Joel Osment stars as David Swinton, a young boy of the future, living in a time when the polar ice caps have melted and submerged many coastal cities. It’s also a time when humans live side by side with “mechas,” or sentient robots. When David, a highly advanced robotic boy, discovers that he is not the biological son of his parents, he sets out to learn what he can of his true nature. He soon embarks on a journey to make his dreams come true.

Do you think that the robot can have emotions as human beings or it is simply the result of an advanced program?

Any movie you want to share with us or haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

We had our first time online pub quiz ever due to the COVID-19 situation. There were 2 teams of 8 people joining us to have fun together.

The score of the two teams were very close. The team of Amey Vasulkar, Mike Zoutendijk, Jenny Tjan, and Frida Viset won the game with a full score of the last section. Congratulations guys!

The prize will be distributed once we are allowed to work in the office again. Before that, we will try to organize other events online. Hope to see you there!

Haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

We hope you are all doing well!

Start getting bored with working from home? Miss the time you hang out with others? Let’s have some fun during this circumstances :D

We will organize an online pub quiz via Skype. Three groups of 4-5 members will be competing against each other. Therefore, only 15 positions, who comes first who gets it!

Every group will have a skype call with one of the board members. The quiz will be the same for all three groups and will be held in parallel.

Time: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 1900 Location: Your own place Equipment: Your phone or your laptop

Please fill in the google form to let us know if you are joining! Hope to see you there!

Haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

Stay too long alone and miss the time you spend with your friends? Perhaps you can invite your friends to watch this movie together via skype, then “tag” each other when we are out of this circumstance.

Today, the movie we want to recommend is Tag (2018).

A small group of former classmates organize an elaborate, annual game of tag that requires some to travel all over the country. The film is based on a true story that was published in The Wall Street Journal about a group of grown men, played by Ed Helms, Jake Johnson, Hannibal Buress, Jon Hamm, and Jeremy Renner, who spend one month a year playing the game of tag. “It (The game) is not about trying to get away from each other. It’s actually about having a reason to be around each other. “

Any friend pops up in your mind now? Then call them and find a time to watch this together :)

Any movie you want to share with us or haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

Due to the circumstance of corona virus, unfortunately, we are not able to organize the usual movie night. However, to keep the spirit up, we will recommend movies regularly.

Today we want to recommend The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz (2014).

Aaron Swartz had several roles like a computer programmer, entrepreneur, writer, political organizer, and Internet hacktivist. One of the most significant roles is a “free culture activist”. He campaigned for open access to academic research, which also got him in the most trouble in the end. Two days after the prosecution rejected a counter-offer by Swartz, he was found dead in his Brooklyn apartment, where he had hanged himself in 2013.

Any movie you want to share with us or haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

The next movie night will be on Wednesday 11 March, which is the first movie night of this year arranged by the new board members of this year!

We are going to watch the film “Sneakers (1992)”. Let’s enjoy the computer hacking strategy that was used back in the 1990s after a busy day at work. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

Time: Wednesday, March 11th, 2020 at 1800 Location: Will be conveyed in the subsequent E-mail.

Please fill in the doodle form to let us know if you are joining! Hope to see you there!

Haven’t joined us yet? Send us an email now: SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

The new board for the year 2020 was announced in February 2020. The details of the board members can be found here. Besides regular annual events, we are looking forward to more fun activities during this year. So stay tuned to our news! As always, we are open to new suggestions and ideas, and of course, new members too! Just drop us an email to SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

We had our annual chess tournament on 11 December 2019 at the Senaatzaal in EWI. The tournament was won by Drs. Peter Van Nieuwenhuizen who was also the winner of the previous edition of this tournament. The first runner-up position went to a new SIAM SC member, Jeremy Budd. And the second runner-up position went to our beloved Dr. Martin Van Gizen. The standings can be seen in the attached photos. We hope to see more of the SIAM student chapter members in our next edition of the tournament.

We held our annual workshop day on May 29th. This time the topic was Numerical Optimization. We had speakers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Serbia who gave talks on various numerical optimization techniques they use in the day to day work. The applications varied from reservoir modelling, additive manufacturing, image retrievals from telescope to even the modern autonomous driving. Along with applied talks, there were quite a few interesting talks on theoretical aspects of optimization. The workshop’s affinity amongst its attendees was due the fact that it had something for everyone.

We would like to thank all our speakers for the wonderful and interesting talks.

The further details and agenda of the workshop can be found here.

So we will have our first event for this year- THE MOVIE NIGHT. We will be watching a British drama film, X+Y. It was released in the US as A brilliant young mind. The streaming will be in Building 28, room 2W.950 at 6pm. There will be snacks and drinks and a possibility to order pizza depending on the number of people. Do come!!!

The new board for the year 2019 was announced in February 2019. The details of the board members can be found on the left side panel of this page. We look forward to another year of enthusing movie nights, exciting chess tournaments, interesting BaNaNa talks, etc. This time around we will have some new fun-filled activities. So stay tuned to our news! Meanwhile, we are always open to new suggestions and ideas, and of course, new members too! Just drop us an email to SIAMSC-EWI@tudelft.nl.

We are happy to announce that Gabriela Diaz Cortes has received this year’s SIAM certificate of recognition. She has received this award in appreciation of her invaluable work for as the former secretary of the SIAM student chapter.

On May 30th, we held our annual workshop day. This year it was on multigrid and multilevel methods. During this day, eight people from TU Delft and other institutes in the Netherlands and Belgium gave short presentations on their research. The workshop was followed by a barbecue at freezone B with live music. We would like to thank our six speakers Mousa, Roe, Prashant, Pieter, Marc and Frits, as well as our keynote speakers Kees and Hadi for their interesting presentations. The book of abstracts as well as the slides of the presentations can be found here.

On Thursday 7th December, we are having our annual Chess Tournament. Our winner of previous year, Reinaldo, will be there defending his title. Everyone is welcome to join and fight for the title (and the price) this year!! The winner will have the opportunity to play against Prof. Martin! Drinks and snacks will be provided.

If you want to join, please add your name to the chess doodle. The location is Timmanzaal (LB01.170), and it will start at 17:30 hrs. If you are not sure if you want to join or if you want to practice or even to learn how to play, Reinaldo also prepared a baNaNa talk/practice on chess, on Thursday 30th November. The talk will take place in the Sneijderszaal (LB1.010), 17 hrs. We hope to see you all in the lecture and in the tournament!!

PS. Don’t forget our NEW BOARD interest lunch meeting on Wednesday November 29th at 12.00 in meetingroom 1.4 of EWI (LB 01.210). Please let us know if you’re coming by filling in the board interest doodle

We would like to thank the Delftsche SchaakClub for lending us the chess boards.

Dear SIAM Student Chapter members,

In the previous years the SIAM Student Chapter Delft has organised a multitude of activities, such as workshop days, BBQs, movie nights, company visits, baNaNa talks and chess tournaments. To make such activities happen next year as well, we are looking for a new board for 2018!

As a board member, you will be able to choose and organize these activities (and others) yourself with your fellow board members. This is a great opportunity to get some non-scientific experience during you PhD.

If you might be interested and want some more information about being a board member of the SIAM Student Chapter Delft, join our interest lunch on Wednesday November 29th at 12.00 in meetingroom 1.4 of EWI (LB 01.210). Lunch will be provided. Please let us know if you’re coming by filling in the doodle:

Anne Markensteijn, SIAM SC Delft

On the 3rd of November the SIAM Student Chapter visited Optiver where we learnt all about making big money in high frequency trading ;-). It was great fun to see how much value theoretic maths still has in an application that seems so far removed from the theory.

Dear SIAM Student Chapter members,

Friday the 3rd of November in the afternoon we shall visit the Amsterdam `Zuid-as’ to visit the options trading company Optiver. After our last excursion to Deltares, we felt it would be interesting to go from large-scale long-term modelling done there to the very fast paced micro-transactions in the financial sector. The excursion will leave from Delft station at 13:15, will including some lectures by (former) mathematics PhD students, a visit to the trading floor, and will be closed off (of course) by drinks where there will be time for some Q&A as well.

A little bit about Optiver, in their own words:

Optiver started a business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange back in 1986. Today they’re at the forefront of trading and technology employing over 1000 people; 400 in Amsterdam alone. Working at Optiver is a challenge that requires high-level mathematics and data science with a generous dose of creative thinking to ensure they have an edge in increasingly competitive markets.

We hope to see you at this excursion, to get a feeling for mathematics in the industry! As our last excursion filled up very fast please make sure you sign up quickly if you want to participate, as we only have limited room. Please note that participating in this excursion we ask for a small contribution of 5E per person to cover the travel expenses to Amsterdam for the group. This needs to be paid one week in advance (so before the 27th of Oktober) otherwise, your spot will go to the next person on the waiting list. The payment can be done in cash at the office of the SIAM student chapter president Anne on the 3rd floor (HB 3.250). If you are unable to pay in cash please contact the SIAM student chapter to arrange for alternative payment methods (bank transfer).

You can enroll for the visit using the doodle, and if you want a train ticket (retour), please fill in this form.

The next movie night is at Thursday September 21 at 6.00 PM at the Van Katwijkzaal. We will watch the movie ‘Hidden Figures’ which is based on the non-fiction book with the same name, about African American female mathematicians working at NASA during the space race. Free drinks and popcorn will be provided and there is a possibility to order food. If you want to join, please add your name to the doodle and see the flyer for more information. Hope to see you there!

Last Wednesday the SIAM student chapter organized a one-day workshop on Mathematical Modelling in Medicine. During this day 8 enthusiastic PhD candidates and 2 keynote speakers shared their research in short presentations. During the morning session, the focus was on mathematics in imaging, especially imaging using MRI. The afternoon session was on modelling in medicine, specifically on modelling cell migration and growth for different types of cells. For the book of abstracts, the presentations and some photos of the day, please see the website.

We are happy to announce that Manuel Baumann received the SIAM certificate of recognition. He received this certificate for his contributions to the SIAM student chapter over the last couple of years, specifically for his involvement with setting up the SIAM student chapter and for organizing the BaNaNa talks.

Last Wednesday the SIAM student chapter organized a barbecue for all members and for all participants of the one-day workshop. It was a great evening with a lot sun, fun and of course food.

Untangling nonlinearity in inverse scattering with data-driven reduced order models

Siam Fellow Vladimir Druskin is visiting TU Delft and giving a talk on his most recent work: Untangling the nonlinearity of inverse scattering problems, on Wednesday 24th of May at 11:00 in the Lipkenszaal of the EEMCS faculty.

For a full abstract please see the Poster. Or you can read the paper here.

Dear all,

The SIAM Student Chapter is organising its third workshop day in a row! This year the theme is mathematics in medicine with a morning session on imaging in the medical sciences and the afternoon dedicated to modelling biological functionality in medicine.

For an overview please see the flyer, and for more information on the speakers and venue please visit the website.

The next movie night is at Thursday May 11 at 6.00 PM at the Snijderszaal. We will watch the movie ‘The man who knew infinity’ about the life and academic career of the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan. Free drinks and popcorn will be provided and there is a possibility to order food. If you want to join, please add your name to doodle and see the flyer for more information. Hope to see you there!

For more information and the program of the visit please read the flyer.

Dear SIAM member,

On the 23rd of February, Deltares opens its doors for the SIAM Student Chapter Delft, you are all welcome to join the visit. However, only 15 places are available, so, registration via doodle is required.

UPDATE: Unfortunately, all the places are taken, so registration is closed!

For more information and the program of the visit please read the flyer.

Dear SIAM member,

The SIAM board has been mutated, and four fresh faces are ready to organise the best activities this year! The board is now constituted in the following way:

President: Anne Markensteijn
Secretary: Gaby Diaz Cortes
Treasurer: Jiao Chen
External Relations officer: Patrick Fuchs
Vice-President: Jörn Zimmerling

Check out the board page if you want to know more about the new board members.

Dear SIAM member,

How many digits of Pi do you know? Can you name all the countries of Europe? Or can you solve a nasty integral?

The SIAM student chapter will organize a pub quiz on the evening of November 24th. Everyone is welcome to join! Drinks and snacks will be provided and the winning team will get a price!

Please, let us know at doodle if you’ll join. For more info see the flyer.

Dear all,

We have a new baNaNa talk posted on Paperhive - the coworking hub for researchers.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Dear all,

Hard day at work and in the mood to lay back? Please join us at this returning event showing that mathematics can also be relaxing:

The M2 nights (Movie and Mathematics) are organised multiple times a year to allow colleagues to gather for a drink (and popcorn) while enjoying the beauty of mathematics after a hard day of scientific work. The next M2 night is at Thursday July 7 at 6:30 PM at EWI, Snijderszaal. Free drinks and popcorn will be provided. Also, it is possible to order food.

Please, let us know if you’ll join at: doodle. For more info visit our homepage or see the flyer.

Dear members,

Boost your mathematical creativity and join us on our excursion! During the afternoon on Friday, July 1, the SIAM Student Chapter invites you to the Escher museum in The Hague. During this excursion we will explore Escher’s paintings and the math behind them. We will leave the faculty building at 14.00 and go to the museum with public transport. Entry to the museum will be free of charge for the first 18 participants. You can sign up via the doodle.

Here is a link discussing some of the mathematical background of Escher’s work with a focus on Hyperbolic Geometry.

Today Thea Vuik, former secretary and treasurer of the chapter, received the annual SIAM Certificate of Recognition for her great contributions to the chapter.

Dear all,

The SIAM Student Chapter Delft is organizing a Student Computational Finance Day 2016, which is a one-day workshop for PhD students and will take place on May 23rd 2016 at the TU Delft, Delft, the Netherlands. We are happy to announce the participation of Dr. Fang Fang, Dr. Drona Kandhai and Prof. Kees Oosterlee as keynote speakers. For more information see the activity page.

We hope that you will join us for this workshop. In the interest of planning, please let us know if you will attend the Computational Finance Day and a subsequent barbeque before May 6 in the following Doodle.

Or you can register by replying to the following email. Deadlines for registration:

April 11 for speaker.
May 6 for participant.

Dear all,

The SIAM student chapter will organize a chess tournament on the evening of March 31st. Everyone is welcome to play: whether you’re a beginner or an advanced player, as long as you know the chess rules(!). This is your chance to learn to play in competition, remove the rust, or just kick some chess! The winner gets a price and will compete against dr.ir. Martin van Gijzen!

Please add your name to the doodle list or reply to this email if you would like to join the tournament.

Dear all,

This week’s baNaNa talk will lead to a more controversial discussion than all republican presidential debates together: More information see this.

Dear all,

The SIAM activity group on linear algebra included the report about our chapter in their monthly DIGEST. More information see this website.

The next M2 (Movie and Mathematics) night is at Thursday March 3 at 6:00 PM EWI, Snijderzaal. Free drinks and popcorn will be provided.

If you want to join, please add your name to doodle and see the flyer for more information. Hope to see you there!

After an amazing year with a lot of nice activities organized by the old board, we would like to say Hello and introduce the new board consisting of: Jörn, Lisa, Zaza, Menel, Baljinnyam, Manuel and Mohamed.

Manuel, Reinaldo and Thea, many thanks for your effort, time and enthusiasm. Special thanks for Joost who created this website.

The SIAM Student Chapter Christmas Coffee & Cake (S2C4) will take place on December 14th at 16:00 in the meeting room on the 3rd floor of EWI.

Hope to see you there!

We start the new academic year with a baNaNa talk. See you there!

We’ve changed the date of the annual Student Chapter BBQ to July 10, 2015, so update your agenda. If you want to join, please add your name to this list. See you there!

We are able to visit TATA Steel in IJmuiden on June 8th, 2015. For more information see the activity page.

The annual Student Chapter BBQ is scheduled for June 5, 2015.

Today Joost van Zwieten, webmaster of the chapter and one of the founding fathers of project baNaNa, received the annual SIAM Certificate of Recognition for his great contributions to the chapter.

Dear all,

This is to let you know that we wrote a news item to SIAM about the Krylov Day.

Dear all,

We will have our movie night on March 13th starting at 18:00. We will use the Katwijkzaal on the third floor of our EWI building.

There is more reason to come: Guido will give a historic introduction to the movie and we will order pizza and eat the left-overs of the Krylov Day ;) …

On February 2nd, the SIAM Student Chapter at TU Delft organized a one-day workshop on Krylov subspace methods. During the day, twelve PhD students in numerical linear algebra gave an overview of their current work and its relation to Krylov subspaces. The participants came from different universities of The Netherlands and other European countries, among which representatives of the SIAM Student Chapters in Magdeburg, Manchester, and Prague.

Although Krylov methods are usually associated with the iterative solution of large-scale linear systems, the workshop showed a huge variety of fields where Krylov subspaces are currently applied. The topics of the workshop covered (generalized) eigenvalue problems, matrix condition number estimation as well as the approximation of matrix functions and applications in seismic wave propagation and flow control.

As a main speaker, Peter Sonneveld from TU Delft gave a historical talk about the development of the IDR(s) method which is a short-recurrence Krylov method for the efficient iterative solution of linear systems with general system matrix.

More information and an overview of the talks can be found here.

In the second semester of the academic year 2014/2015 we organise a seminar on ‘Numerical Methods for Quantum Computers’. Quantum computing is one of the big topics of the future. This seminar will help you in getting familiar with this completely new and unexplored field. A detailed description of this seminar can be found here. For PhD students, active attendance will be valued by GS points.

The kickoff will take place on Tuesday February 10 from 1 to 3 pm in the Lipkenszaal, LB01.150. Regular sessions are announced at the seminar website.

On January 22, Nicole Potters (library TU Delft) presented a baNaNa talk about ‘Many ways to find your reference’. She explained which databases can be used to find references: for Applied Mathematics this can be found at sources-am. Furthermore, she explained how journals and papers can be found using the ‘Search in collection’ box. Old papers (in print) can be read or copied at the library, newer papers are available online. Finally, she explained how books could be purchased or borrowed from other libraries.

The final baNaNa lecture of 2014 was given at December 18. Xiaozhou and Joost discussed the combination of Python, a flexible but not particularly fast scripting language, with Fortran and C, programming languages suitable for high performance computing. For more information and examples, see this site.

Hi all,

We are planning a movie night using one of the EWI beamers! The date will most probably be 06-03-15 starting from 18:30.

Keep you updated…

On November 27th, 2014, the second baNaNa lecture of this academic year took place. Reinaldo gave a presentation about the numerical linear algebra libraries BLAS and LAPACK.
Twenty two people from different departments attended the lecture, and many examples were given.

Dear all,

We will most probably be able to visit Tata Steel’s research facilities at IJmuiden in spring 2015. You can find more details here.

Great news! Two of our friends from the SIAM Student Chapter in Magdeburg will join the KD15.

On October 30, 2014, the first baNaNa lecture of this academic year took place. Manuel gave a presentation about git, a version control system, and Bitbucket, a web-based hosting service for git repositories. Twenty people from different departments attended the lecture, and many examples were given.

Hi all,

We are very happy to announce two more speakers at the Student Krylov Day at February 2nd, 2015 at TU Delft:

Yue Qiu, PhD student in Numerical Analysis, TU Delft,
Peter Sonneveld, Researcher at TU Delft and founding father of IDR.

We are still open for further applications!

On September 19, the Kickoff Meeting of our Student Chapter took place. During this meeting, the Chapter Board presented some of the current activities of the Chapter. Furthermore, two substantive presentations were given. 27 people were present (among PhD students, post docs and professors), from different departments like Numerical Analysis, Mathematical Physics, Statistics, Circuits and Systems and Maritime Transport Technology.

Hi all,

We would like to invite to all reseachers in applied mathematics to the seminar: Isogeometric Finite Elements. The seminar will take place every second Tuesday between 13:00 and 15:00 and it will start on September 9th.

For more information see this website.

Organizers: M. Möller and T. Vuik.

Dear all,

We would like to announce the SIAM Student Krylov Day 2015 that is organized by the Student Chapter at TU Delft.

The meeting will be a one-day workshop of PhD students that are working on Krylov methods. As all chapter activities, the Krylov Day will also by organized “for and by” PhD students. Tentative speakers are:

Reinaldo Astudillo, TU Delft
Manuel Baumann, TU Delft
Mario Berljafa, Manchester U
Carlos Echeverria, TU Berlin
Sarah Gaaf, TU Eindhoven
Tomas Gergelits, Prague U
Jing Zhao, TU Delft
Jörn Zimmerling, TU Delft
Ian Zwaan, TU Eindhoven

More participants are welcome to get in touch with us. A detailed programm will be uploaded in due time.

Hi all,

We would like to announce our official Chapter Kick-off Meeting on September 19th, at 16:00 in the Dijkstrazaal (HB09.150). During the kick-off we will:

have two talks by Kees Vuik and Alex Sangers,
discuss future activities of the chapter and
get-together and eat cake!

We hope to see you there!