| Mission |
EURANDOM is a European Research Institute for Statistics, Probability, Stochastic Operations Research and their Applications. The mission of EURANDOM is to foster research in Europe in the stochastic sciences and their applications. It achieves this mission: i) by recruiting and training talented young researchers and helping them to find their way to tenured positions in academia and industry; ii) by carrying out and facilitating research through postdoctoral and graduate appointments, visitor exchange and workshops; iii) by taking initiatives for collaborative research at the European level. EURANDOM was founded as an international institute on 30 June 1997 by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and has been operational since the summer of 1998. EURANDOM is embedded in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, TU/e. Stochastics (Statistics, Probability theory, and Stochastic Operations Research) is a mathematical discipline that plays an important role in our technological society. We are more and more faced with organisations, systems and processes so complex that a description and analysis in terms of random elements is more appropriate and effective than a fully deterministic approach. Accordingly, stochastics is becoming increasingly important in other disciplines, like physics, chemistry, biology, economics and telecommunication. Stochastics is internationally flourishing. Consequently, there is a great need to train a new generation of mathematicians with a strong knowledge of the foundations of stochastics, a good insight into the applicability of stochastics in diverse areas, and an open attitude toward newly developing theories and applications. EURANDOM aims to contribute to this. |
