Stieltjes Prize for Peter Bruin
Peter Bruin (PhD Leiden, September 2010) has been awarded the Stieltjes Prize for the best mathematics PhD thesis in the Netherlands. The Stieltjes Prize has been awarded each year since 1996.
The Stieltjes Prize was offered by the Stieltjes Institute until 2009; from 2010 on the prize will be awarded by WONDER, the new Dutch research school in Mathematics. The prize amounts to 2.500 E, and is made available by Foundation Compositio Mathematica. The official prize festivity will take place on Friday October 7th at the UU, on the WONDER afternoon.