Students, staff and other interested parties can play chess against FIDE master Anna-Maja Kazarian at sports and culture centre X on Sunday 8 March, International Women’s Day. The Netherlands’ second-highest ranked female chess player will compete in a simultaneous exhibition against thirty opponents at once. A simultaneous exhibition, or ‘simul’, is an event in which
Visitors to the Delft Career Days have been surrounded by a pungent odour all day. The cause is an oily substance on the entrance doors to the Aula, which has soaked into the carpet. According to the Delft Career Days board, the substance was smeared on the doors upon their arrival at the Aula Monday
No data from end users of business accounts was leaked during the cyberattack on telecom provider Odido. This means that no staff data or user data belonging to TU Delft employees was affected, the university announced on its intranet. On Thursday, Odido announced that cybercriminals had gained access to a file containing the details of
The student council of VU University Amsterdam is in crisis due to the conflict surrounding the Vrijmoedige Studentenpartij (VSP). According to reports in newspaper Het Parool, VSP founder Marlon U. has been aggressive and intimidating on campus for years. Among other things, he knocked a student to the ground after the student confronted Marlon U.
Quantum computers use qubits, which can take on many values and can be zero and one at the same time. The promise is that this enables them to calculate much faster than a conventional computer. Although quantum computers currently often consist of only a handful of interconnected qubits, eventually there will need to be many
A group of employees at the student sports centre at TU Eindhoven have been underpaid for years. The university is going to rectify this and is allocating 750,000 euro for this purpose. Around fifteen permanent employees and ninety on-call workers at the Eindhoven student sports centre have been underpaid for years. This was revealed by
The new coalition has divided up the ministerial posts. As expected, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science will go to D66. The Undersecretary will remain a member of the VVD. D66 leader Rob Jetten will become Prime Minister and VVD member Eelco Heinen is the intended Minister of Finance. State Secretary Sandra Palmen (formerly
Study programmes are disappearing, lecturers are being laid off and small study groups are turning into massive lectures. This is due to cuts in education funding, says the Dutch National Union of Students (LSVb) in a ‘black book’ presented to the Dutch Parliament on Tuesday. The new minority coalition of D66, CDA, and VVD has
To celebrate mathematics, the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science (EEMCS) is organising a world record attempt on March 3 to form the world's largest human π symbol. The record attempt will not take place on Pi Day, which is on March 14 (3-14), but it will be at exactly 3:14 p.m. The
"We urge you to respond to this situation with the necessary decisiveness and urgency." This is what (former) Iranian TU employees and alumni wrote this week to Rianne Letschert, the informateur who led the coalition talks, and the three party leaders who were at the table. The open letter was supported by more than three
