Candidate Board 2026-2027 Placed on 30 April 2026

We are proud that we can announce the candidates for the 59th board of Wiskundig Studiegenootschap Abacus! Last week, on the 22nd of April, they were announced in the following order:

Chair: Fleur ter Braak
Secretary & Officer of External Affairs: Pepijn Schreurs
Treasurer: Lenka Troiakova
Officer of Internal Affairs: Tycho Borm
Officer of Educational Affairs: Robert-Jan Nijhuis
General Adjunct: Eyal Castiel

We would like to wish them good luck for the coming months as candidate board members and have good faith that they will be officially constituted at the first of September.

Bibbidi Babbidi Boo - the 58th board of W.S.G. Abacus

Q3 flowers from the Education Committee Placed on 30 April 2026

With quartile 3 having come to an end, the Education Committee has awarded a bouquet of flowers to a teacher in recognition of their efforts throughout the quartile. In this case, the bouquet was awarded to Ruben Hoeksma for his involvement in Module 7, where he is responsible for a project course on Graph Isomorphism.

Many students spoke highly of Ruben, showcasing great appreciation for his patience and ability to make the material accessible to two different groups of students simultaneously. Students were also thankful for Ruben's willingness to discuss the topics over with them, and often mentioned his obvious care towards their understanding well-being overall (not just in his course).

The Education Committee would like to thank Ruben Hoeksma for all of his efforts and care in what he does as a teacher, and hopes that students will continue to appreciate his work in the future.

Winner Applied Mathematics Education Prize Placed on 26 March 2026

On Tuesday 10 March, the three nominees for the Applied Mathematics Education Prize (AMEP), Maria Christina van der Weele, Felix Schwenninger, and Frederic Schuller, all gave a talk on the theme 'History of Mathematics'.

With a wonderful presentation on the topic of the history behind solving cubic equations, Maria Christina has been voted winner of the AMEP 2026!

We thank all three finalists for their participation and for their wonderful talks, but, most importantly, we thank them for their efforts in educating the next generation of mathematicians here at the UT.