Activities

The subscription for study trip 2025 is now open!

In the summer of 2025, GEVAL (GEWIS'ers Exploring Various American Lands) is organising a study trip to the east coast of the USA and Canada. There we plan on visiting several beautiful cities, universities, companies and unique pieces of nature.  The trip will also entail a business case of 100 hours to pay for part of your trip. This business case will be related to your major and is a nice CV booster. 

Wish to learn more? Follow this link for the registration document: https://studytrip2025.gewis.nl/Static/InformationStudyTrip2025.pdf

Want to subscribe? Follow this link and fill in the form (do not forget the 50 euro registration fee to complete your subscription): https://forms.gle/gJqvGmp6EhWqcLDR9

The subscription closes at the 6th of May, so be sure to fill in the form on time. 

For any other questions you can send an email to geval@gewis.nl

During this general members meeting, the following will take place:

Relevant documents can be found on this page or will become available online as soon as possible. Agenda points can be digitally sent to the board via board@gewis.nl.

The GMM will take place in English. Authorizations can be done online here.

Starting a week before the GMM is held you can indicate whether you want to receive printed documents at this meeting. To indicate which documents you would like to receive please use the first subscription list, titled 'Printing documents'. The deadline for this is the 6th of May at 12:00.

If you want to have dinner at the before the GMM, please indicate so in the subscription list titled 'Dinner'. In the list you can choose between a meat and a vegetarian option. The dinner will start at 17:00. After subscription deadline, we will send out an email containing more infromation for the dinner.

Take note: Joining the dinner means joining the GMM afterwards.

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The topic of the lecture will follow soon!

Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory! There are 135 spots only with first come first serve, priority will be given to students that sign up with their GEWIS account.

BAC tapt!

Maiko dj's!

Are you tired of trying to explain the awesomeness of GEWIS borrels to your family members? Look no further, because on Wednesday the 8th of May, the BAC is organizing a GESCHWISTER borrrrel! Bring your brothers, sisters, cousins, and anyone in between to the borrel and let them experience the magic of cold tap beers, broodjes knak, and shots!

But why settle for a simple invitation when you can make it extra special? From Tuesday the 26th of March till Tuesday the 23rd of April, you can send a free paper-invitation in the form of a postcard to your siblings and let them know how much fun they're in for! Simply write and post them in the GEWIS room.

So mark your calendars and invite your GESCHWISTER to the party of the month. We can't wait to see you all on the 8th!

Huggles, The BAC

Only available to international students and first year students!

This day will be held in Dutch.

Would you like for your parents to experience your university life? Sign up for the Parent Days!

During the Parent days, parents (or friends and family) of first-year and/or international students can experience a day of lectures and getting to know TU/e. Professors,  Alumni and the Parent Day Committee will give talks and make your parents acquainted with your study. The day includes a campus tour, lectures, instructions, and a nice drink afterwards. Free lunch and drinks will be provided.  

Fill in this form to sign up:

https://forms.gle/H8JHEVt8hW2UfJVu6   

For more information and the day program, visit odc.gewis.nl or e-mail odc@gewis.nl

Two parent days will be organized, one on 17th of May and one on 31st of May. On the 17th the day will be held in Dutch, on the 31st the day will be held in English

Yarrrrr! Ahoy there maties,

Are you also afraid of being hit by the boom? Come to the GEZWEM Sailing weekend and conquer your fears!

In the weekend of the 17th until the 19th of May we will sail ⛵the tropical waters of the Snakermere in Fryslân. If you like a gezellie weekend full of sailing with more rum and beer🍻 than the largest man of war ship can hold, enlist yourself now for the GEZWEM sailing weekend!

For only 55 ducats or 45 for first years and 103 for non-members (we also accept euros💸), we will arange a polyvalk for you and your friends, a camping spot (bring your own tent⛺ or share with a friend), food and beverages! Join this amazing weekend and endanger the waters of Fryslân during the day and in the brownest pubs at night. Sailing exprience is not required!

So subscribe now with your best mates and learn how to keelhaul them! There are only 24 spots available so sign up now!

Pas op voor die giek!!!

TL;DR:  Heuristic programming competition, try to get as close to the solution as possible! ;) Sign up here: https://heurific.win.tue.nl/adhoc/

The CPPS track of the Honors Academy and GEHACK present to you – Heuristic Optimization Contest (Ad HOC), a brand-new exciting opportunity for you to show-off your coding and problem-solving skills. This unique challenge is organized for the first time, and we are very excited to see how you – our honored contenders will tackle it! Bring a few laptops, up to three of your most trusted advisors (teammates) and your sharp brains to the battlefield and face the competition! And in return we will provide FREE lunch and snacks during the contest and a small social drink after everything is over and the dust has settled. Then we will also reveal who proved to be the fiercest challenger and award them handsomely! We will of course also show off our own solutions and techniques.

Unlike other programming contests you are already familiar with like EAPC, BAPC, and FYPC, which reward contestants for their speedy implementation and clever tricks, Ad HOC rewards solutions which balance accuracy and running time. You will be presented with one (yes only one) problem, and you will have 4 hours to battle 5 instances of it. The problem is a real-life task that people (even within our department!) get to tackle every year (admittedly, on a smaller scale). However, something is not as it seems... The problem is unsolvable (in any reasonable time)! So, then the best you can do is try to get veeeery close to a solution! The closer you get, the more points you will score and at the end – the team with the most points wins! To put it simply, there isn’t just one “best” solution, instead you can score points with almost any solution you think of. However, some perform better than others and will bring more points!  

Finally, you are free to use ANY open-source software, tools, libraries, programming languages, etc. Just like in a war, anything goes. Well, our form of the Geneva convention applies, and you are not allowed to use paid services – like cloud computing or supercomputing power (basically no nukes).

Below, you can find the registration form to sign up and some extra information about the contest’s set-up and rules.

More information and registration form: https://heurific.win.tue.nl/adhoc/

Hey everyone,

Every year our sister association, W.S.G. Abacus, creates a puzzle booklet for their members. This year they want to expand to all of WISO and they have asked us if members are interested.

We, the board, see many of you enthousiastic members making the Sudoku or the Crossword puzzle each day. So, we know some of you are very excited for this. They do have one request, that we also send them a couple of puzzles for this booklet. 

If you are interested in receiving a WISO puzzle booklet please subcribe to the sign up list below. If you are interested in making a puzzle please send a mail to board@gewis.nl and we will send you the puzzle booklet (as pdf) from last year. The puzzles have to be send to the board on the 5th of May at the latest.

xoxoxo,

Your lovely board!

Please note: If you are interested in making a puzzle, be creative, Abacus would like to not only receive crosswords and sudokus

We all know what fire is. We have felt it up close and seen it in various sizes, from small to large. It can be nice and cozy when it's in a campfire, and we sit around it, but it can also be destructive, destroying everything in its path. Around 2 million years ago, humans started to use fire to our advantage. Over all these years, we have mastered the use of fire and controlled it to our benefit, leading us to where we are now. Even with the technology we have today, we still cannot control fire everywhere.

Almost everyone has seen fire breathers at festivals or in a circus, and it looks absolutely spectacular. Have you ever thought, 'I can do that?' Or maybe, 'I would like to learn that as well so I look super cool for my family and friends?' This is a unique chance to try it in a controlled environment. If you join us in this activity, it's your time to shine and breathe fire.

We have arranged for a professional trainer who is specialized in fire breathing. He will join us and explain everything you want to know about fire breathing. First, he will give an introductory course on all there is to know about fire breathing. After this, we will do some exercises to learn how to properly breathe fire. And finally, we will, of course, go outside and put into practice what we have learned. The entire instruction, including the fire breathing itself, will take between 3 to 4 hours. If you subscribe, you need to be present for the entire activity.

There are 30 spots excluding burgers! In case there are more subscriptions it is first come first serve.

Hugs,

B.O.O.M.

Wondering how logistic process automation works? Ever wonder how you can use your knowledge about Mathematics and Computer Science into practice in the logistics field? Join us to Vanderlande in Veghel, close to Den Bosch and enjoy a free afternoon of orientation from the leading logistics company at airports and warehouses! We will be traveling by bus.

Program:

Vanderlande is a market-leading, global partner for future-proof logistic process automation in the warehousing, airports and parcel sectors. Its extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.

Note: after subscribing, showing up is mandatory! There are 20 spots only, there will be a draw done. Priority will be given to students that sign up with their GEWIS account. Priority will be given to Master students. This activity also grants you 2 MyFuture points.

It is that time of the year again where the Christmas decorations are being put back up, that can only mean one thing. The Intro Theme Announcement Borrel!

Are you already hyped to find out what the intro theme will be this year? Then come to the borrel, where we will also provide you with some free drinks and you can buy a borrel card with a couple of lovely themed cocktails and shots!

See you all then!

With lots of love, Intro24

Dear (sportive) members,

Are you also looking forward to better and sunnier weather in coming spring? What better way to start off spring by running the most fun relay race of them all, the Batavierenrace! In the weekend of the 24th till the 26th of May, we from GEWIS will once again travel to Nijmegen to run together a distance of 175km to Enschede, divided into 25 parts, running during the night, in the morning and in the afternoon.

Like last year, we are running with two teams, so make sure to subscribe soon to not only run with us but enjoy the biggest student party in Europe on Saturday! If there are not enough subscriptions we will join with one team. In case of too many subscriptions, there will be a draw. We will sleep in our own tents on the campus of Twente University and every time a new team will go to their starting point to take over the responsibility of the prior team to run GEWIS to the finish. Hopefully, you're looking forward to this relay race just as much as we do (or even more of course)!

With sportive regards, GESPORT.

Only available to international students and first year students!

This day will be held in English.

Would you like for your parents to experience your university life? Sign up for the Parent Days!

During the Parent days, parents (or friends and family) of first-year and/or international students can experience a day of lectures and getting to know TU/e. Professors,  Alumni and the Parent Day Committee will give talks and make your parents acquainted with your study. The day includes a campus tour, lectures, instructions, and a nice drink afterwards. Free lunch and drinks will be provided.

Fill in this form to sign up:

https://forms.gle/H8JHEVt8hW2UfJVu6   

For more information and the day program, visit odc.gewis.nl or e-mail odc@gewis.nl

Two parent days will be organized, one on 17th of May and one on 31st of May. On the 17th the day will be held in Dutch, on the 31st the day will be held in English

C4 is organizing its biggest event of the year.

Enjoy a full day of lectures, business cases and panel discussions. Paired with a networking market, free lunch and a great outside social drink, you can enjoy speeddates with companies and get acquainted with EngD's and academic speakers.

Now, you're probably wondering who the superspeaker of this event will be, we're extremely glad to announce to you that we have Numberphile's own James Grime who will be talking about one of the most important break throughs in our fields, the Enigma Machine (https://www.youtube.com/@numberphile).

Want to learn more about this event? Check out https://symposium.gewis.nl.

You can sign up through on this activity and will receive a ticket to subscribe to the timeslots, speakers and more.

You will also receive 2 MyFuture points by attending this activity.

The capacity of this event is 200 students, if there are more sign-ups, there will be a draw.

Are you excited to spend your weekend in lovely nature and not afraid to engage in some adventurous activities, or just looking for a place to enjoy a cozy campfire all night long, or are you in for both? Then get ready for the B.O.O.M. Active Weekend of 2024!

This year, we will visit the Nonceveux in the Belgian Ardennes. Here we have arranged some great activities for you, both on the Saturday and Sunday. We won’t spoil them yet, but examples from previous years are climbing, traversing a trail between treetops and canoeing. Next to this, there is more to enjoy during the weekend, you can “stream” in the river at the campsite (ask B.O.O.M. members for details) and in the evening there will be a campfire to keep you warm. Since we are on a campsite, we will sleep in cozy tents.

You don’t have to bring/buy your own food or drinks as this is all inclusive during the weekend! On Friday you have the opportunity to taste Sako’s famous pasta salad, and on Saterday you can enjoy a nice BBQ. Next to that, we will arrange a sufficient supply of beers and soda (and coffee for the tough mornings, don’t worry).

The weekend will take place from 7th till 9th of June 2024. If you want to join please subscribe below. As we need enough cars to drive everyone to Belgium, people with a car available wil be given priority if necessary. If you have a car available, please indicate this and mention how many places (including yourself) you have in the car. We would also like to know if you have a tent and how many people could fit in it. We will not make tent groups but this might give other people some help in asking around to find a place to sleep :)

We are planning on taking 50 persons to our awesome weekend, so subscribe as soon as possible! When there is a lot of interest, we may be able to scale up, but we cannot promise anything yet!

Met takken!

After almost a year of studying and telling your parents how much you loved your time here, especially the BAC borrels, it is time to let your parents experience the same. On the 13th of June, the BAC will organize the 'Os pa en ma borrel', which is Brabants for 'Dad and mom borrel'. As the name explains, you can bring your parents to enjoy a nice cold Grolsch (or a cold soda!) together with your fellow studymates. So invite your parents and come have a beer with them!

Dear all,

We are the organisers of the DET day 2024. This is a day when mathematics and computer science students from Delft, Eindhoven and Twente spend the day together with all kinds of fun activities. This year the DET day will be held on the University of Twente. The DET day takes place on June 20 and starts at 11:00 on the UT campus with a delicious ‘kroketten’ lunch! The whole day is meant to get to know each other and the campus. Lunch and dinner are arranged by us. The day ends with a drink and, of course, a party! There is also an option to stay overnight, after which we will provide a delicious breakfast. 

The prices shown are an upper bound and will most likely be a bit lower. We think it would be amazing for you to be there. Hopefully, we will see you soon!

The DET-day committee.

P.S: Train tickets have to be bought by yourself if you have weekend-OV, but if enough people join, you can band together to buy group tickets.