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Deadline requests for workshop and visitor grants: September 15, 2010

NWO decided on December 10, 2009 to contribute 1,5 million euro to stochastics. From this money mainly positions (postdocs, PhD students and assistant professors) will be sponsored.

With this grant NWO supports the mathematics cluster ‘Stochastics - Theoretical and Applied Research’ (STAR), that was founded on May 15, 2009 as fourth member of the group of mathematics clusters.
The clusters were created  five years ago to compensate the reducing number of students and staff at academic math-departments.

More on: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOP_7YMCV2

Stochastics is important both as an enabling technology and as a scientific discipline. Over the years, the Dutch stochastics community has built up a broad spectrum of active working relations with researchers from physics, biology, medicine, economics and industry. In addition, it has begun to coordinate its MSc and PhD educational programs at the regional and national levels. It aims to contribute to society, while engaging in stochastics as an important and exciting field of scientific research.
The stochastics cluster, STAR, will push Dutch stochastics further to the international forefront and will allow the Dutch stochastics community to attract and train the most talented students and young researchers worldwide. It will give a much needed impulse to under-represented fields and strengthen the existing leading position in well-represented fields. The cluster will lead to more critical mass in stochastics, and will further stimulate the interaction of researchers from probability theory, statistics and stochastic operations research with researchers from other disciplines.

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