Math4NL Community Event 2024

Math4NL Community Event - 2024

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The 2024 Math4NL Community Event took place on Friday October 11 at the CBS. The theme for this event was “simulation techniques and synthetic data”.

Statistics Netherlands (CBS)

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Keynote speaker: Klaas-Jan van Heeringen

Numbers in Water – Real-time Mathematics in Water Management

Klaas-Jan van Heeringen is an operational water management engineer at Deltares, specialized in real-time Flood Early Warning Systems, with personal focus on flash-flood conditions, real-time control or transboundary river basins. His currently 28 years of experience includes projects all over the world, besides the Netherlands.

In the last 5-10 years, his role shifted more and more towards complex projects. Examples of these are the Sava Flood Forecasting system (for the 5 riparian countries of the Sava River Basin, in South-eastern Europe, where the implemented system focused on being much more than an expert tool only: it facilitated the international cooperation between the 10 forecasting organizations. Besides many other projects, he is currently leading the implementation of the combined Sudan and Egypt Nile Forecasting system.

Having broad international expertise on hydrological forecasiting Klaas-Jan is frequently asked to have supporting and advising roles in various other flood forecasting systems.

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Pitch & Discuss

How does it work?

Five speakers from the industry or academia will pitch their case and/or question. In an open space set up you can connect with the speakers and other participants to discuss the case and share ideas to solve the question. You will be able to move around to join other discussions or start a new one.