The Project Interuniversitaire Olympiade Natuurkunde (PION) is an annual interuniversity physics olympiad for bachelor and master students from all over the Netherlands. Every year one of the universities in the Netherlands PION and this year the honour is bestowed upon the NSA. PION is a physics olympiad for bachelor and master students from all over the Netherlands and is well supported by names like Robbert Dijkgraaf and Gerard ‘t Hooft.
We were thrilled to welcome James Maynard, Fields Medallist 2022 and Professor of Number Theory, at the Mathematical Institute in Oxford, on stage for the latest Distinguished Speaker Symposium last month. James’ talk on Patterns in prime numbers hones in on unanswered questions within mathematics and the recent developments that have brought the solutions to those problems closer to reality. Hear more in his exclusive interview with us.
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