Projects
Turing and Wittgenstein: Opponent or Ally? A New Interpretation of Wittgenstein’s 1939 Cambridge Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics Vrije Universiteit Brussel
and of AI. Ludwig Wittgenstein is generally recognized as one of the
most influential philosophers of the 20th Century. The most intriguing
interaction between Turing and Wittgenstein was Turing’s attendance
at Wittgenstein’s lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics in
1939. Detailed notes of Wittgenstein’s 1939 lectures survive, and
...
Understanding heterogeneity in preschoolers at risk for struggling with mathematics learning: profile analyses and dynamic assessments KU Leuven
Study week Mathematics for Industry Vrije Universiteit Brussel
B+: destination reached for mathematics teachers in the B stream. University of Antwerp
The Beautiful Impact of Mathematics in Society Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Applied mathematics for proteomics KU Leuven
Mass Spectrometry Imaging (MSI) is an explorative scan technique to analyze chemical compounds within biological tissues. It uses laser beams at multiple (x,y)-coordinates to ionize the molecules at those grid points and measure their mass-to-charge (m/z) ratio. This results in very large data cubes with dimensions x, y, and m/z. Nowadays, the data occupies already tens of gigabytes of memory, and with increasing resolution of the scan ...
Mathematics of random complex systems: theory, computation and applications (UNA-Random) KU Leuven
This project creates an inter-athenaeum consortium bringing together a team of scholars, combining their strengths under the thematic umbrella of “meanfield and interacting particle systems” to shed light on certain complex dynamic systems and to develop new analytical and numerical models and tools to better understand specific problems in neuroscience, finance and economics, machine learning, electric batteries, and smart cities. In the ...
PhD positions in Pure Mathematics KU Leuven
Non-Hermitan linear operators describe a multitude of systems like open scattering systems in physics or the signal transmission in wireless telecommunications. Such operators can be characterised either by their eigenvalues or their singular values. The long-standing problem of their relation shall be addressed for a specific class of random matrices with the goal to revealing universal correlations between these two sets of quantities. We ...
Combining mathematics and physics beyond the introductory level: the case of partial differential equations KU Leuven
Using mathematics in physics requires more than straightforward application of mathematical procedures. But how do students give physical meaning to a mathematical structure? How do they associate mathematical understanding to a physical phenomenon especially at the advanced undergraduate level? It has been proven this is a challenge for learners at all levels of education. In this project we bring together expertise from physics and ...