Personal
Personale-mail address: p.groeneboom@tudelft.nl
Papers (since 1999)
Miscellanea:
In 2007 a Festschrift for me appeared, by which I feel very honored, edited by Eric A. Cator, Geurt Jongbloed, Cor Kraaikamp, Hendrik P. Lopuhaa and Jon A. Wellner:
Asymptotics: Particles, Processes and Inverse Problems.
It is published in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) Lecture Notes Monograph Series.
The papers in this IMS monograph correspond to lectures, given during the
meeting
at the Lorentz Center, Leiden, July 10 to 14, 2006, organized by the editors of the monograph.
Speech (Summa Cogitatio), delivered on September 8, 2006, Delft University (in Dutch), in:
Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde, June 2007.
Since September 2009 I have the privilege of being coached in my violin playing by Saskia Viersen.
She is winner of the Dutch National Violin Contest "Oskar Back", the Gyarfas Contest in Berlin and the Lipinsky-Wieniawski Contest in Poland, and is now one of the concert masters of
the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.
She also was the first violinist of the Athena quartett.
The members of this string quartet have been called empfindsame Göttinnen
in a German newspaper. One can hear the Athena quartett play on a wonderful CD, produced by the Südwestdeutscher Rundfunk (SWR),
containing the Mendelssohn string quartet opus 13, the Officium breve opus 28 by György Kurtág,
and the string quartet opus 50 by Sergej Prokoviev. Here are some samples (mp3 format) from this CD:
Mendelssohn string quartet opus 13, Adagio. Allegro vivace
Mendelssohn string quartet opus 13, Adagio non lento
Mendelssohn string quartet opus 13, Intermezzo
György Kurtág, Officium breve in memorian Andreae Szervánsky, opus 28 (1988/89)
I am playing on a violin, built by Annelies Steinhauer in 1993,
but also own an old violin, built by the well-known Dutch violin maker Johannes Cuypers in 1806 (a violin,
built by Johannes Cuypers in 1807 was played by the famous violinist -and friend of Brahms- Joseph Joachim,
and later by Fritz Kreisler in his Carnegie Hall concert in 1955, see
Joseph Joachim). A recording with my Cuypers violin
was made by Joe Puglia, February 2012, to send to
the Naumburg competition, where he was accepted with the help of this recording. Below are the mp3 files
of this recording, put on my web site with his permission (some, but not all, of these can also be found
on his own web site Joe Puglia).
The pianist on the recording is Ellen Corver,
who is a member of the Osiris trio.
Debussy violin sonata, first movement
Debussy violin sonata, third movement
Third Brahms violin sonata, second movement
Bach second solo partita, Sarabanda
Bartok solo sonata, Fuga
My son Tim Groeneboom (see also Timski) developed a new version of the old Maya ball game, where one has to hit the ball without using hands, feet or head. A bit similarly to basketball, the goal is to let the ball pass through a ring on a wall (at least, in one version of the game of which historians seem to be aware). A Dutch (incorrect) description of what the game is about can be found in the Dutch newspaper NRC-Handelsblad (which, unfortunately, is not known for its precise newsbringing): A life and death ballgame. The game is not a Wii game as is claimed in this article, because there is no Wii remote control via a stick: the action is in the body and the belt, which has a sensor which was especially developed for this game. The game itself was developed for an exposition on the Maya culture in the National Museum of Ethnology (Leiden, the Netherlands), where children can try to beat the old computer-Maya's.
In December 2008, during a holiday in Vienna, I received an e-mail from my schoolmate Wout(je) Klein, who apparently played with the idea of organizing a reunion of our schoolmates belonging to the 6th (final) grade of the gymnasium (which was a part of the "Huygens Lyceum" in Voorburg, a village close to the Hague). At the gymnasium one still had to learn both Greek and Latin, and there were also some subtle differences in the teaching of mathematics; for example the pupils of the gymnasium had to study analytic geometry, whereas the pupils of the HBS - a literal translation of what this means is: "higher citizen school"-, another part of the lyceum, had to study "descriptive geometry", probably judged more suitable for (future) engineers. I wrote something about this in school memories on my blog site (in Dutch), where I added two poems of the Dutch poets Judith Herzberg and Rutger Kopland. Apart from this perhaps the most interesting (or funny) part of this blog is the picture (which can be enlarged by clicking on it), showing in black and white the pupils, together with the teacher of ancient Greek. The teacher is top left; I am myself (as always those days) at the extreme opposite end of the teacher, with a strange hair cut which was fashionable those days. The organizer Wout Klein is two heads above me on the picture, and the author of books for both children and grown-ups Toon Tellegen is first left on the front row. The reunion took indeed place in 2009, attended by all but one person in the picture.