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Second honorary doctorate for Onno Boxma
On Wednesday June 21, the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (Scotland) has
conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Science to Prof. Onno Boxma, full professor
of Stochastic Operations Research in the department of Mathematics and Computer
Science at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Prof. Sergey Foss, full
professor of Applied Probability, and current Editor-in-Chief of the Queuing
Systems journal, is Boxma’s honorary tutor.
Onno Boxma (1952) receives the honorary doctorate for his contributions to
advancements in probability theory and operations research in general, and
queueing theory in particular. Boxma: “As I see it, this honorary doctorate is
also a recognition of our Stochastics section. Thanks, in part, to the Eurandom
institute, Eindhoven stochastics now holds a very prominent position
internationally.” Boxma has been working with researchers from the Heriot-Watt
University for years: "They are conducting a lot of research into actuarial
mathematics and queueing theory, which are my main research areas."
In recent years, he has received several acknowledgements for his work,
including an honorary doctorate from Haifa University (2009), the ACM SIGMETRICS
Achievement Award (2011), and the Arne Jensen Lifetime Award (2014).
About Eurandom
The stochastics cluster, STAR, pushes Dutch stochastics further to the international forefront and allows the Dutch stochastics community to attract and train the most talented students and young researchers worldwide. It gives a much needed impulse to under-represented fields and strengthens the existing leading position in well-represented fields. The cluster leads to more critical mass in stochastics, and further stimulates the interaction of researchers from probability theory, statistics and stochastic operations research with researchers from other disciplines.
About NETWORKS
NETWORKS is a 10-year programme funded by the Dutch Ministry
of Education, Culture and Science through the Netherlands Organisation for
Scientific Research.
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Introducing the workshop centre Eurandom Eurandom, the workshop centre based at the Stochastics Section of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU/e, has an extensive workshop and visitor program. Each year workshops in the different areas of stochastics (statistics, probability theory and stochastic operations research) will be organized; visitors collaborate with Eindhoven and/or Dutch colleagues. Important assets are the series of workshops for and by young researchers: YESP (Young European Stochastic Professionals). The centre organizes 2 theme months per year, the so-called Stochastic Activity Months (SAM). These will mostly take place clustered around a workshop, such as one of the YESP(*) workshops. During a SAM, workshops will be organized as well as seminars and/or lecture days. The goal is to bring together a sizeable group of national and international researchers. We aim to devote one month per year to a multidisciplinary subject. For an overview of topics of past SAM's, please go to:STOCHASTIC ACTIVITY MONTHS (*)YESP = Young European Stochastics Professionals. A series of workshops in all three research programmes of Eurandom. They target especially at and facilitate young people. By choosing subjects that are high on the international agenda these workshops give the possibility to get more in-depth knowledge in recent developments, which can be more difficult at more specific workshops if the working level is too high. See overview of YEP, YEQT and YES
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27-06-17
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