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In August 2005 an international committee visited EURANDOM as part of a
procedure to come to an evaluation of the institute.
The evaluation committee was appointed by the Physical Sciences Board of NWO
(the Dutch science foundation). Its members were:
- Peter Glynn (chair), Stanford Univ.
- Jan Beirlant, Univ. of Leuven
- Don Dawson, Carleton Univ., Ottawa (chairman of the EURANDOM scientific
council)
- Kevin Glazebrook, Univ. of Edinburgh
- Alain-Sol Sznitman ETH, Zürich
- Srinivasa Varadhan New York Univ.
The committee was supported by NWO staff.
The report was published January 2006. EURANDOM came out of the evaluation with
excellent scores. In its report the panel states that ”In the seven year of its
existence, EURANDOM has become a pre-eminent centre for the study of
stochastics, playing a key role in the development of the discipline both
locally within the Netherlands and globally within Europe and beyond. The
international scientific community has come to view EURANDOM as a research
centre of the first rank, with a scientific programme that is of world class
quality. EURANDOM has also had career-changing impact on its post-doctoral
fellows and Ph.D. students. The Evaluation Committee was particularly struck by
the fact that virtually all of the stochastics faculty appointments made in The
Netherlands over the last five years were first recruited through EURANDOM,
indicating the ability of the institute to attract and retain first rate
scientists.”
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