Past activities

• NDNS+ annual meeting, June 20-21, 2022
• 20 years of Summer Schools on CalcVar in Rome, June 13-18, 2022
• Probability/PDE Interactions: Interface Models and Particle Systems / Interactions, Luminy, April 25-29, 2022
• SIAM PDE conference, March 14-18, 2022
• Older stuff
• Asymptotic behavior of systems of PDE arising in physics and biology: theoretical and numerical points of view, Lille, November 16-19, 2021
• Lorentz Center workshop Computational Mathematics and Machine Learning, November 1-5, 2021
• SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, May 24-29, 2021
• Oberwolfach workshop Applications of Optimal Transportation in the Natural Sciences, February 21-27, 2021
• Kick-off conference of the Thematic Einstein Semester on Energy-based mathematical methods for reactive multiphase flows, Berlin, October 26-November 6, 2020.
• Oberwolfach workshop Varational Methods for Evolution, 13 Sep - 19 Sep 2020
• Celebrating Chris Budd: A leader in mathematical innovation turns 60, Bath, March 4, 2020
• Conference in honor of the 60th birthday of Joost Hulshof, Problems in Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, November 14-15 2019, VU University, Amsterdam
• Hausdorff School on Modeling and analysis of evolutionary problems in materials science, September 23-27, 2019
• Oberwolfach workshop Interplay of Analysis and Probability in Physics, February 11-16, 2018
• GAMM Tagung 2018, March 19-23, in München
• European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, Eindhoven, January 29-February 2, 2018
• Nederlands Mathematisch Congres, April 3 and 4, 2018, in Veldhoven
• Visit to Maria Giovanna Mora at Pavia, January 15-19, 2018
• Oberwolfach workshop Variational Evolution, November 11-18, 2017
• GAMM Activity Group meeting on Analysis of PDEs, Eindhoven, September 27-29, 2017
• International Workshop on Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics, July 2-6 in Sint Michielsgestel
• Analysis of Dislocation Models for Crystal Defects, BIRS Mexico, June 25-30, 2017
• Scaling Cascades in Complex Systems 2017, Freie Universität Berlin, March 27-29, 2017
• ICMS Complexity Science Winter School, ICMS, Eindhoven, Febuary 13-17, 2017
• Applications of Optimal Transport in the Natural Sciences, Oberwolfach, Jan 29-Feb 3, 2017
• Optimal Transport Pisa, November 7-11, 2016
• SIAM Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science, Philadelphia, May 8-12, 2016
• Lorentz-Center Snellius workshop Microstructure Evolution in Materials: Defects, Cracks & Interfaces, Leiden, April 11-15, 2016
• BeNeLux Mathematics Congress, Amsterdam, March 22-23, 2016
• Stochastic Activity Month on Probability and Analysis, EURANDOM, Eindhoven, March 2016
• 15th GAMM-Seminar on Microstructures, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, January 22-23, 2016
• ICMS/KNAW Complexity Science Winter School, December 14-18, ICMS, Eindhoven
• Workshop Challenges in Statistical Mechanics: from Mathematics to Molecular Dynamics to Technological Applications, Imperial College, December 7-10, 2015
• Workshop on Gradient flows, Large deviations and Applications organized by Upanshu Sharma and Giovanni Bonaschi here in Eindhoven, November 23-24, 2015
• Dec 14-20,2014: Oberwolfach workshop Variational Methods for Evolution
• Sept 8-11, 2014: STAMM 2014 Poitiers
• July 7-11, 2014: 10th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications
• June 9-11, 2014: Visiting Adriana Garroni in Oxford
• May 12-16, 2014: Spring School "Microscopic descriptions and mean-field equations in physics and social sciences"
• March 3-14, 2014: Visiting Jin Feng in Kansas
• July 15 to August 2, 2013: SIAM Summer School on Flow, Geometric Motion, Deformation and Mass Transport in Physiological Processes, IMA Minneapolis
• June 24-26, 2013: Variational Views in Mechanics and Materials, Pavia
• Jun 9-12: SIAM Materials Science
• May 27-29, 2013: Aachen
• May 22-23, 2013: University of Edinburgh
• May 14, 2013: Colloquium Groningen
• April 25, 2013: Aachen-Dortmund-Eindhoven Three-city seminar, in Dortmund
• April 5, 2013: Mark Kac lecture, Utrecht
• March 20-22, 2013: Closing Workshop "Analysis and Stochastics in Complex Physical Systems", Leipzig
• October 24-26, 2012: Opening Symposium of the Eindhoven Multiscale Institute
• October 15-19, 2012: visiting Lucia Scardia in Glasgow
• October 4-5, 2012: Fifth Workshop on Random Dynamical Systems, Bielefeld
• July 10-16, 2010: Coherent structures in evolutionary equations, Lorentz Center workshop
• April 13-16, 2010, Eindhoven: NDNS+ five-year celebration workshop
• January 18-22, 2010: Visit to Heidelberg (Willi Jäger)
• December 13-19, 2009: Oberwolfach workshop 'Material Theories'
• September 2-4, 2009, Bruxelles: Conference in honor of Jean-Pierre Gossez
• July 6-10, 2009: PIMS Workshop on Asymptotic analysis in the calculus of variations and PDEs
• June 8-9, 2009, Bath: Conference in honor of Giles Hunt
• Bonn, April 20 to May 8, 2009: Lipschitz Lectures on Variational methods for the analysis of patterns; see my course information page for more details
• Fifth European Congress of Mathematics, July 14-18, 2008. With Matthias Röger I organized a minisymposium on Singular structures in variational pdes, and with Frank Bruggeman a NDNS+-themed minisymposium on Mathematical challenges in cellular systems.
• SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science (MS08), May 11-14, 2008. Rustum Choksi and I organized a minisymposium on Phase Separation in Block Copolymers and Related Topics
• September 8, 2006: My inaugural lecture
• January 30-February 3, 2006: 55th European Study Group with Industry in Eindhoven
• July 18-22, 2005: European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology in Dresden; Hans Westerhoff and I organized a Minisymposium on Live Cellular Patterns
• June 21-25, 2004: Thirteenth European Conference Conference on Mathematics for Industry, at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
• January 18-21, 2004: Systems Biology course and workshop in Schoorl, Noord-Holland, the Netherlands.
• March 18-27, 2003: Mathematical understanding of complex patterns in the life sciences, a workshop in the Lorentz Center in Leiden, organized in collaboration with Danielle Hilhorst, Hiroshi Matano, and Masayasu Mimura.
• Febuary 2002: 42nd European Study Group Mathematics with Industry, jointly organised by the University of Amsterdam (Geertje Hek, Misja Nuyens, Harmen van der Ploeg, and Guido Terra) and the CWI (Bob Planqué and myself).
• The Eurodiffusion project (old page | new page): measuring the mixing of the euro-coins. Joint project of ESGI and Scientific Magazine Natuur & Techniek.

• Started in November 2003, in the Grote GriepMeting (Dutch) we tried to get as many people as possible to help us capture the yearly influenza epidemic in the Netherlands and Belgium.
• ESGI and the Eurodiffusion project both created a fair amount of press coverage.
• Bouw het Beste Pakje 2001, 2002 (1) and 2002 (2) (build the best package, literally) where visitors are invited to build a construction out of paper that will hold as much weight as possible. The Rules are
  • you can use more than one sheet of paper, but the result is divided by the number of sheets you use
  • the minimal height is 17 cm
  • you can use scissors and staples
• Vouw het Beste Vliegtuig at the Open Dag 2003. Fold a paper airplane that flies as far as possible. Use as much paper as you wish, scissors, glue, paperclips, staples, anything - as long as it goes a long way. The only condition is that the airplane is launched mechanically, from a launch pad (to prevent the strongest thrower from winning). Great fun, many people tried; the winner: Wout, 12 years old, with 6 meters!