In memoriam Willem van Zwet

On July 2, 2020 the initiator and first scientific director of Eurandom, Willem van Zwet, passed away, 86 years old. As a professor in mathematical statistics with a wide interest in probability and mathematics in general, he saw the possibilities of nondeterministic modelling for other sciences and societal applications. In…

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Award for PhD Thesis Fiona Sloothaak

Fiona Sloothaak received the 2020 Applied Probability Trust Prize in recognition of the superb quality of her PhD thesis entitled “Criticality in Power Networks: A Probabilistic Approach”, which she successfully defended on 16 January 2020.  The Trust Prize is a highly selective honor awarded to young researchers for excellent scientific…

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