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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!
Applied Mathematics Education Award 2024 Monday 25 March 2024 08:50
This year we once again held our annual competition for the best teacher at Applied Mathematics! After a hard-fought battle, Frederic Schuller receives the AMEP, which until recently was held by last year’s winner, Matthias Walter.
For this event, the students could nominate their favourite teachers to give a short talk during the break, which would decide who they deem the best teacher of the year. The nominated teachers were Giorgio Micali, Hans Zwart and Frederic Schuller.
The event was held in a large room in the Technohal. Within no time, the flood of mathematicians became so large that the room was filled, and some of the latecomers had to find their chairs from outside. It seems the expectations were quite high this year!
And the expectations surely were met. Hans Zwart showed that the zeroes of a function can say something about the zeroes of its derivative. Giorgio Micali showed us some interesting mathematics that can be applied at any party. But the winning talk was that of Frederic Schuller, who convinced the entire audience to see matrices in a different light.
The education committee would once again like to thank all of the speakers, and in particular congratulate Frederic Schuller on winning the AMEP of 2024!
IDEEEM Gala Theme Revealed Thursday 7 March 2024 14:17
On the 26th of March, it is time for the IDEEEM Gala! Together with fellow students from Scintilla, Proto, and Daedalus, you can party all night long while enjoying unlimited beer, wine, soda, and more. With this year's theme 'Under the stars' it is ensured to be a magical night! Be sure to secure your ticket and dance the night away at Metropool Enschede.
Exams and summaries uploaded on the site! Wednesday 28 February 2024 15:44
A lot of exams and summaries are now uploaded on the site under 'Exams'! Sadly, we have not received every exam from this year, so some exams are missing on the site. If you have an exam or a nice summary that is not on the website yet, you can hand it to the officer educational affairs and he will upload it! You will even receive a cookie for it!
NEEMCS-Trip 2024 Interest List Friday 9 February 2024 13:43
On the 8th of May, it is finally time for the NEEMCS-Trip* to take place! From the 8th until the 12th Inter-Actief, Scintilla and Abacus will visit a European city together. Together we will be doing multiple activities, from taking in the city's culture to attending various parties. You are free to choose which activities you want to attend. Are you interested in joining the NEEMCS-Trip? Then you can already indicate your interest through the form below!
Forms Interest List NEEMCS-trip 2024: https://forms.gle/qWdaoWuxMaDa9R8x5
*NEEMCS-Trip: Nice Epic European Magical College Students Trip
Study trip Mαthεns Wednesday 1 November 2023 10:33
During the lunch break on the 31st of October, the destination of Studytour Mαthεns was revealed.
From the fourth until the eleventh of August 2024, around 17 Applied Mathematics students will travel to Athens, Greece!
Here, they will answer the research question "How do the ancient Greek mathematicians influence the world of today?" by visiting interesting companies and institutions, and by doing some research beforehand. To finance the study trip, the participants will do a mathematical case of roughly 30 hours at a company or university. Next to this, there will be a personal contribution of at most €400.
For the mathematical case, we expect students to have at least 120 ECs when the trip starts.
When people have at least 90 ECs at the time of application but do not expect 120 ECs when the trip starts, they can replace the case by doing roughly 30 hours of TA jobs.
For the application procedure, we expect all interested people to email studytrip-2024@abacus.utwente.nl between now and November 15 2023, 23:59. The email should include at least a short motivational letter.More information will follow afterwards, and if you have any questions you can send an email to the same email address.
We hope to receive your application!
The study trip committee of Stichting Reizende Studenten Abacus
New Board Wednesday 13 September 2023 14:10
On the 5th of September, the 56th board of W.S.G Abacus was constituted as follows:
- Chairman: Jonne Poels
- Secretary: Emile van der Veer
- Treasurer: Mark Tijhaar
- Officer of Educational Affairs and Officer of Internal Affairs: Quinten van Dongen
- Officer of External Affairs: Milo Wullink
- General Adjunct: Len Spek
We thank the previous board for their dedication.
Lost and Found Friday 8 September 2023 14:37
Dear all,
In front of the Abacus room, under the coat rack, the lost and found is located. This lost and found is extremely full with stuff that has been there for a long time. We will be cleaning this. Anything that is still on, under or near the coat rack on September 16th will be removed. Make sure to take your stuff and check whether there is anything that might be yours!