WONDER - Wiskunde Onderzoekschool Nederland - The Dutch Research School in Mathematics

What's in a name?

The name “WONDER” is an abbreviation for the Dutch word “wiskunde onderzoekschool”. “Wiskunde” (“the art of knowing”) is the word that Simon Stevin coined in the 16th century as a dutch equivalent of “Mathematics”. But of course, “WONDER” is also a word in its own, a “feeling of surprise mingled with admiration, caused by something beautiful, unexpected, unfamiliar, or inexplicable.” WONDER is about experiencing this wonder everyday, in doing, and learning to do, mathematical research.

Our logo is a superposition of a parabola and a hyperbolic cosine; the great Dutch mathematician Christiaan Huygens discovered that the latter is the correct curve followed by a freely hanging rope, not the former.

Activities

2012

May 11-13, 2012 PhDays in Vielsalm in de Ardennen.

25 mei, 2012: LIMO  (Landelijke Interuniversitaire Mathematische Olympiade). Jaarlijkse wiskunde wedstrijd voor wiskundestudenten aan Universiteit Utrecht.

18-22 June, 2012: Summer School "Macroscopic and Large Scale Phenomena: coarse graining, mean field limits and ergodicity", University Twente. For more information click here.

2011

• Feb-May 2011 Masterclass on moduli spaces
• Feb-Mar 2011 Tom Ward (UEA) teaches a graduate course on "Ergodic 
• theory with applications to number theory" at Utrecht
• 20 april 2011 First WONDER research afternoon programme at
• Tilburg University. Abstracts. Map Tilburg University
• 21 May-19 June 2011 Constantin Teleman (Berkeley) lectures at 
• Utrecht
• 23-25 May 2011 PhD Spring meeting Stochastics, lectures by Geoff
• Grimmett (Cambridge) and Ernst Wit (RuG)
• 19+21 Oct 2011 Regina Liu (Rutgers) teaches a crash course on
• statistics at Tilburg
• October 7th, WONDER Ph.D. student colloquium, Utrecht Universiteit.
• October 7th, WONDER afteroon  (Prize ceremony and talks about the
• work of John Milnor), Utrecht University.
• Programme