Fourteen Groningen science and engineering students win national Young Talent Awards

On Monday November 24, ten students of the Faculty of Science and Engineering (UG) were presented with a Young Talent Incentive Award by the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities ( KHMW ) in the Hodshon house in Haarlem. They are the best first-year students of the Netherlands in their field, with the highest average score of their year. In addition, there were four graduation awards for Groningen master's students in Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, Computer Science, and Information Science.

The Young Talent Awards are are made available by businesses, foundations, and funds in the respective fields for the advancement of higher scientific education in the fields of science and engineering. The KHMW hosts the judging and awards ceremony each year. 

These ten Groningen students received the Young Talent Incentive Award of 500 euros for their achievements in the first year of study:

Graduation prizes

In the Astronomy category, Sten Sipma received the first prize of EUR 3000 for his thesis An Evolutionary Model for the Milky Way. Daniel Cortild won first prize in the Mathematics category for his thesis New Tight Bounds for SGD without Variance Assumption: A Computer-Aided Lyapunov Analysis. Ruben Hendriks won second prize in the Physics category for his thesis Stochastic State Switching in Attractor Neural Networks, and Remco Leijenaar was awarded second prize in the Computer Science and Information Science category for his thesis Self-Supervised 3D Representation Learning with Asymmetric Dual Self-Distillation for Point Clouds, receiving EUR 1,000.

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