Past activities

• 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!