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Goodbye to Jan Schut Tuesday 12 November 2024 17:38
With the arrival of a new MSc Coordinator comes, of course, having to say goodbye to our previous MSc Coordinator, Jan Schut.
Jan Schut joined the department of Mathematics in 1983, at a time when students and staff members were much closer together due to the central placement of the Abacus room in the Cubicus, near the canteen where staff members would come get their lunch and coffee. He quickly joined the board of Abacus as General Adjunct in three different occasions.
After leaving AM to join ATLAS, he rejoined AM as MSc Coordinator alongside the at the time Programme Director: Jan Willem Polderman. He has, since then, been the MSc Coordinator, helping many students work through their MSc degree.
With a little thank you package and the Ideaal! containing his goodbye piece, we say goodbye to Jan Schut.
Thank you, Jan, for all of your hard work throughout these years!
Bouquet from the Education Committee Monday 4 November 2024 11:01
Now that quartile 1 has almost ended, the Education Committee has awarded the first bouquet of the year to Mentzelos Melistas to thank him for his efforts and enthusiasm throughout the first quartile. Mentzelos has had an impact on students both as a colleague (in the Math Line to all TA's who have worked with him) as well as a teacher for LS1 to the freshmen, who have been able to appreciate his kindness, empathy and the passion he has for his work.
By awarding Mentzelos with this bouquet, the Education Committee thanks him once again for all of his hard work and the joy he portrays and spreads to the students.
New Programme Director and MSc Coordinator Monday 21 October 2024 17:33
The beginning of the academic year has brought a few changes and new faces to the Applied Mathematics programme.
In particular, we would like to introduce to you our new interim Programme Director as well as our new MSc coordinator:
Hil Meijer - Interim Programme Director
Hil Meijer started at the department in January 2007 and is currently an Associate Professor within the chair MIA (Mathematics of Imaging and AI). His research and teaching deals with Computational Neuroscience and Dynamical Systems. He has been chair of the Programme Committee AM during 2017-2023. You may reach him at his office, Zilverling room 2096, as well as through his e-mail address h.g.e.meijer@utwente.nl.
And once in a while he pops up at Abacus too.
Lisette van den Broek - MSc Coordinator
Lisette van den Broek has been working at the UT for about a year. She is 27 years old, Dutch, and has a background in Nutrition & Health, which she pursued as a degree at Wageningen University. She also assumed the position of MSc coordinator for the studies Electrical Engineering and Embedded Systems.
You may reach her at her office, Zilverling room A110, as well as through the new e-mail address master-am@utwente.nl.
Abacus celebrates eleventh lustrum! Friday 20 September 2024 11:44
On the 19th of November 2024, Abacus will turn 55 years old and we will thus celebrate the eleventh lustrum.
To celebrate this, we will have three weeks full of activities from 11 until 29 November.
But we already want to hype you up with a sports day on the 25th of September!
You will even be able to play some lasergaming at this activity!
For the other activities, you can already enrol on the website, where you can also find more information!
New Board Monday 9 September 2024 11:33
On the 3rd of September, the 57th board of W.S.G Abacus was constituted as follows:
Chairman & Officer External Affairs: Patrick Heuven
Secretary & Officer Educational Affairs: Erik Leering
Treasurer: Renske Idzenga
Officer Internal Affairs: Rick Hüther
Officer Internal Affairs: Jorg Gortemaker
General Adjunct: Maria Christina van der Weele
We thank the previous board for their dedication and the great year. We are looking forward to a great year with all of you.
Candidate board 2024-2025 Tuesday 9 July 2024 20:15
We are excited and more than proud to announce to you the candidate 57th board of Wiskundig Studiegenootschap Abacus! 🖤💛
Chairman & Officer External Affairs: Patrick Heuven
Secretary & Officer Educational Affairs: Erik Leering
Treasurer: Renske Idzenga
Officer Internal Affairs: Rick Hüther
Officer Internal Affairs: Jorg Gortemaker
General Adjunct: Maria Christina van der Weele
They will hopefully be charged during the change GMA on Tuesday 3 September 🫶🏼
Registration periods for education will close earlier: Bachelor Applied Mathematics Monday 1 July 2024 13:44
Starting the new academic year 2024-2025, the registration period for education will close the Wednesday before the block/quartile starts for the Bachelor of Applied Mathematics. This is earlier than this year, so please take this change into account.
For your information, the registration periods are as follows.
1st quartile: 1 August 2024 up to and including Wednesday 28 August 2024
2nd quartile: 14 October 2024 up to and including Wednesday 6 November 2024
3rd quartile: 6 January 2025 up to and including Wednesday 29 January 2025
4th quartile: 24 March 2025 up to and including Wednesday 16 April 2025
Congratulations Tracy Craig! Tuesday 11 June 2024 12:27
Tracy Craig has won the Brinksma Innovation Grant (BIG)!
This has been announced last Monday during the start of the Week of Education. The BIG is a price that is awarded every year to a staff member of the UT with an innovative educational concept. This year, our one and only Tracy Craig has won the BIG with her proposal called "Mathematics and Didactics Synthesis Creating teaching and learning resources for topics in mathematics for technical subjects". But this is just the start of the research that Tracy Craig will do with the new group in the department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente: Fundamental Educational Research in Mathematics at Twente (FERMAT)!
So congratulations, Tracy! You deserve it!
Flower from the Education committee Thursday 30 May 2024 16:47
In this quartile, the Education committee has awarded Pim van 't Hof with a bouquet of flowers! He received the most votes by the members of Abacus, who value his enthusiasm in the Graph Theory course, as well as the Mathline, where a lot of our members are involved as TA.
We want to thank Pim for his hard work, and we look forward to getting to know more about his daily life during the Researcher Researched of Monday 10 June!
BSA Update Wednesday 3 April 2024 11:32
After some discussions within the study programme, it has been decided to change the BSA requirements of the Bachelor of Applied Mathematics. The reason for this change was partly caused by the results of the Analysis tests being lower than expected. The BSA requirements changes are only relevant to the students who started their studies in the academic year 2023/2024. The following changes have been made:
-Students now need to get at least 40 EC (instead of 45 EC)
-Students now need to pass 5 out of 8 key courses in the first year (instead of 6 out of 8 key courses)
Besides this, an extra test opportunity for Analysis 2 will be given to all the freshmen. The date for this exam is Monday the 15th of July at 8:45. We from Abacus hope that this will help the freshmen pass their first year!