Amsterdam Science Park

Amsterdam Science Park is a science park in the Oost city district of Amsterdam, Netherlands with foci on physics, mathematics, information technology and the life sciences. The 70 hectare (175 acre) park provides accommodations for science, business and housing. Resident groups include institutes of the natural science faculties of the University of Amsterdam, several research institutes, and related companies. Three of the colocations of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange are at the institutes SURFsara, NIKHEF, and Equinix-AM3 at the science park.

Amsterdam Science Park railway station

In 2009, the Amsterdam Science Park railway station was opened then-mayor Job Cohen.

Science and business

AMOLF at the Science Park

FOM Institute AMOLF (Physics of Biomolecular systems and Nanophotonics)
Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL)
National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI)
Faculty of Science (FNWI) of the University of Amsterdam offering education programmes in biology, chemistry, computer science, earth science, physics, mathematics etc. and comprising eight research institutes, including:
- Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED)
- Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Netherlands eScience Center (NLeSC)
National Institute for Subatomic Physics (NIKHEF)
SURFsara (computer centre)
EGI.eu, the coordinating organisation for the European Grid Infrastructure
More than 90 companies in the fields of ICT, life sciences, and related fields (e.g. BioDetection Systems)

Housing

At the science park, 314 residences and 721 student units have been completed. An additional 423 residences and 617 student units are planned. [1]

Leisure

Café-restaurant 'Polder' (temporary location adjacent to the historical Anna Hoeve farm)
University Sports Centre 'Universum' (official opening October 8, 2010)[2]
Sports Café 'Oerknal'
Meet & Eat Restaurant
Café Maslow
Ann's Farm

gollark: There's no literal Cartesian theatre going on where it has to rotate the image again to project it onto our consciousness.

gollark: I don't think that particularly matters. We define our perceptual up and down and such based on vision.

gollark: Also merging together information from saccades (rapid eye movements to look at more of a scene with the fovea) and correcting for orientation/vibrations/movement.

gollark: And the brain does a lot of fancy stuff to pretend to have a coherent visual field despite the blind spot and the fact that only a small region (the fovea) can actually sense color well.

gollark: I read that somewhere, I forgot where.

References

Living at Science Park Amsterdam Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine ; retrieved November 30, 2006 &
http://www.usc.uva.nl/ June 2010

External links

Amsterdam Science Park (in English)

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[1] Living at Science Park Amsterdam Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine ; retrieved November 30, 2006 &

[2] ttp://www.usc.uva.nl/ June 2010