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Preface
The year 1994 has been very important for the Euler Institute for Discrete
Mathematics and its Applications. Although EIDMA was already functioning
as a research school from September 1993, it was on May 4, 1994, that the
Executive Boards of the Universities of Technology of Eindhoven, Delft
and Twente established EIDMA as a joint research school. Roughly at the
same time the funds became available that the Netherlands Organization
for Scientific Research had awarded EIDMA in the from of a so-called STIMULANS
subsidy. This grant gave an important financial impulse to the participating
groups for the year 1994/95. It enabled them to attract postdocs and other
visitors, to obtain advanced equipment, to organize symposia and to let
their own people participate in other meetings. In a letter of July 18,
1994, the Executive Board of the Eindhoven University of Technology recognized
EIDMA as research school and gave her a healthy financial basis for the
first five years of its existence. Later in the year, groups at other universities
and industrial laboratoria joined EIDMA by signing Cooperation Agreements.
They are: Centre for Mathematics and Computing Science (CWI), Catholic
University Brabant, University of Ghent, Catholic University Leuven, Université
Libre de Bruxelles, Universität GHS Essen, Philips Crypto, and PTT
Research Laboratory. Further, EIDMA signed letters of intent of collaboration
with the research schools Stieltjes and MRI. A final noteworthy activity
is the creation by EIDMA of her own Preprint Series and Report Series.
It is our believe that members and visitors of EIDMA will find them useful
instruments. This Annual Report gives a detailed description of the activities
of EIDMA and its participating groups during the year 1994. We hope that
it will be a suitable tool to bring EIDMA's members closer together and
that others will find it an appropriate way to get to know EIDMA better.
Prof.dr.ir. H.C.A. van Tilborg
Scientific Director EIDMA
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