Think tank One thousand TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and University of Twente students will be spending the day on the University of Twente campus on 9 May to deliberate on the problems facing businesses and institutions.
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This ‘biggest think tank in the world’ is aiming to find innovative solutions to the cases submitted. The ‘Create Tomorrow’ event was held for the first time in 2005 at the University of Twente. The second event, on 9 May 2007, will again be held in Enschede. This time, University of Twente students will be joined in ‘Create Tomorrow’ by student teams from Delft and Eindhoven. Prize money of 8,000 euros is available for the teams with the best ideas. The main objectives of the event are innovation and to promote contact between industry and students. The companies submitting practical cases to ‘Create Tomorrow’ will assist the student teams with their practical knowledge during the intellectual contest. More than 10 teams of between six and eight students will work on each case. Students can participate in ‘Create Tomorrow’ by registering at the following website.
www.createtomorrow.nl
E8 structure
Eighteen top mathematicians and computer scientists from the United States and Europe have successfully mapped E8, one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics. Professor Jeffrey Adams, the project leader from the University of Maryland, said E8 was discovered over a century ago, but no one thought it could ever be understood. E8 belongs to so-called Lie groups that were invented by a 19th century Norwegian mathematician, Sophus Lie, to study symmetry. The theory holds that underlying any symmetrical object, such as a sphere, is a Lie group. Balls, cylinders or cones are examples of symmetric three-dimensional objects. E8 itself is 248-dimensional. Today string theorists search for a theory of the universe by looking at E8 X E8. The magnitude of the E8 calculation invited comparison with the Human Genome Project. While the human genome is less than a gigabyte in size, the result of the E8 calculation, which contains all the information about E8, is 60 gigabytes in size. If written out on paper, the answer would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
De Paepe Willems Award
TU student Alfred Roubos (Civil Engineering & Geosciences) has won this year’s De Paepe Willems Award, awarded annually by PIANC (the international organization for navigational infrastructure) to a young engineer for promising research on navigational infrastructure. Roubos will receive €5,000 and has been invited to present his research at the Annual General Assembly. Roubos won this year’s award for his MSc project on a probabilistic analysis of quay walls. In April he will present his work to PIANC’s Annual General Assembly in Cochem, Germany.
New study places
There are now 200 new study places available to students in Examination Hall 2, building 35, on the Drebbelweg. The study places can be used for private study outside the exam periods. Of the 200 available places, a quarter of them are grouped into six clusters of eight. No PCs are provided, but the room is suitable for laptops. Anti-RSI sets consisting of a stand, keyboard and mouse can be borrowed from the porter’s office upon production of a valid TU ID.
Delft Blauw II
Nine enthusiastic TU Delft students will go in search of answers to questions posed by prominent Dutch people in the second series of the reality show ‘Delft Blauw’ (Delft Blue), which will be broadcast on Saturdays at 16:00 on RTL5. The questions will focus on important social issues. The series is set in an actual student house in Delft center. The nine students study various subjects at TU Delft, including civil engineering, architecture and technology management. The prominent Dutch people appearing in the series include Fatima Moreira de Melo, a model and successful hockey player, who asked the students to find out how TU Delft can contribute to innovations in sports. Rein Willems, president of Royal Dutch Shell, wants to know how we can cut CO2 emissions without changing our lifestyles. The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ivo Opstelten, wants to know which technologies the university has developed to protect his city from flood waters. And Formula 1 race car driver Robert Doornbos also has a pertinent question: now that the world’s oil reserves are running out, how can he continue to practice his profession?
Think tank
One thousand TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and University of Twente students will be spending the day on the University of Twente campus on 9 May to deliberate on the problems facing businesses and institutions. This ‘biggest think tank in the world’ is aiming to find innovative solutions to the cases submitted. The ‘Create Tomorrow’ event was held for the first time in 2005 at the University of Twente. The second event, on 9 May 2007, will again be held in Enschede. This time, University of Twente students will be joined in ‘Create Tomorrow’ by student teams from Delft and Eindhoven. Prize money of 8,000 euros is available for the teams with the best ideas. The main objectives of the event are innovation and to promote contact between industry and students. The companies submitting practical cases to ‘Create Tomorrow’ will assist the student teams with their practical knowledge during the intellectual contest. More than 10 teams of between six and eight students will work on each case. Students can participate in ‘Create Tomorrow’ by registering at the following website.
www.createtomorrow.nl
E8 structure
Eighteen top mathematicians and computer scientists from the United States and Europe have successfully mapped E8, one of the largest and most complicated structures in mathematics. Professor Jeffrey Adams, the project leader from the University of Maryland, said E8 was discovered over a century ago, but no one thought it could ever be understood. E8 belongs to so-called Lie groups that were invented by a 19th century Norwegian mathematician, Sophus Lie, to study symmetry. The theory holds that underlying any symmetrical object, such as a sphere, is a Lie group. Balls, cylinders or cones are examples of symmetric three-dimensional objects. E8 itself is 248-dimensional. Today string theorists search for a theory of the universe by looking at E8 X E8. The magnitude of the E8 calculation invited comparison with the Human Genome Project. While the human genome is less than a gigabyte in size, the result of the E8 calculation, which contains all the information about E8, is 60 gigabytes in size. If written out on paper, the answer would cover an area the size of Manhattan.
De Paepe Willems Award
TU student Alfred Roubos (Civil Engineering & Geosciences) has won this year’s De Paepe Willems Award, awarded annually by PIANC (the international organization for navigational infrastructure) to a young engineer for promising research on navigational infrastructure. Roubos will receive €5,000 and has been invited to present his research at the Annual General Assembly. Roubos won this year’s award for his MSc project on a probabilistic analysis of quay walls. In April he will present his work to PIANC’s Annual General Assembly in Cochem, Germany.
New study places
There are now 200 new study places available to students in Examination Hall 2, building 35, on the Drebbelweg. The study places can be used for private study outside the exam periods. Of the 200 available places, a quarter of them are grouped into six clusters of eight. No PCs are provided, but the room is suitable for laptops. Anti-RSI sets consisting of a stand, keyboard and mouse can be borrowed from the porter’s office upon production of a valid TU ID.
Delft Blauw II
Nine enthusiastic TU Delft students will go in search of answers to questions posed by prominent Dutch people in the second series of the reality show ‘Delft Blauw’ (Delft Blue), which will be broadcast on Saturdays at 16:00 on RTL5. The questions will focus on important social issues. The series is set in an actual student house in Delft center. The nine students study various subjects at TU Delft, including civil engineering, architecture and technology management. The prominent Dutch people appearing in the series include Fatima Moreira de Melo, a model and successful hockey player, who asked the students to find out how TU Delft can contribute to innovations in sports. Rein Willems, president of Royal Dutch Shell, wants to know how we can cut CO2 emissions without changing our lifestyles. The Mayor of Rotterdam, Ivo Opstelten, wants to know which technologies the university has developed to protect his city from flood waters. And Formula 1 race car driver Robert Doornbos also has a pertinent question: now that the world’s oil reserves are running out, how can he continue to practice his profession?
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