Hendrik Speleers has been awarded a fellowship by
the Research Foundation Flanders to stay for 10 months at the Center for Constructive Approximation,
Vanderbilt University. From September 2009 until June 2010, he will collaborate with prof. Larry
Schumaker on the topic of shape preserving approximation.
Frederik Vercauteren, master thesis student 1998-99, established
the world record "counting points on an elliptic curve".
See the article in Campuskrant (In Dutch). Also available in
pdf;
and the article from Veto (In Dutch) or see also here.
Wim Sweldens, PhD student of our department (PhD 1994) is among the top
100 innovators of the 20th century.
See here for an
extract from the Technology Review article.