In the media
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Reality or coincidence? We need to move from probability to evidence. 19 April 2024In studies, it is an old acquaintance, the p-value. But mathematician Peter Grünwald wants to get rid of it. The p-value is too susceptible to fraud a...
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‘In a normal murder case, you actually have a body’ statistician Richard Gill says in Science 02 February 2023After diving into the murder trial of nurse Lucia de Berk, statistician Richard Gill became a leading expert on the statistics of medical murder cases...
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Mathematics student Lars Pos wins Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize: 'Discoveries find their application in the most unexpected places' 25 November 2022With his essay 'Why science?', mathematics prodigy Lars Pos (18) won the Robbert Dijkgraaf Essay Prize. Within the theme 'The fascinating workings of ...
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Random walks: wandering the streets like a group of drunk students 01 June 2021Mathematician Oliver Nagy still vividly remembers the first time he learned about a random walk. ‘The lecturer told us to imagine a company of drunken...
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Dr. Charlene Kalle and Dr. Tim van Erven awarded TOP-grants 30 March 2016Dr. Charlene Kalle and dr. Tim van Erven, both assistant professors at the Mathematical Institute of Leiden University have received a TOP grant for P...
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Prof. dr. Joost Batenburg awarded with Vici grant 2015 30 March 2016The NWO (The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research) awarded prof. Joost van Batenburg with the Vici grant 2015 for his research project ‘Re...
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Prof. dr. Ronald Cramer interviewed about data security by Volkskrant 15 March 2016Saturday 13 February 2016 the daily newspaper Volkskrant published an article based on interviews with Professor Ronald Cramer and Harry Buhrman.
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Deltaplan for Dutch Mathematics presented 07 January 2016A week before Christmas, the Deltaplan for Dutch Mathematics was presented to Hans de Groene (director NWO) and Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel (chairman Platfor...
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Elsevier: Mathematics in Leiden best education according to researchers 07 October 2015Research from weekly magazine Elsevier shows that both the Leiden bachelor Wiskunde as the master Mathematics are rated as the best educational progra...
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Frank den Hollander fears exodus Dutch top talents 30 September 2015Prof. dr. Frank den Hollander, professor at the Mathematical Intitute, has expressed his concerns about the departure abroad of Dutch academic talents...
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Cryptanalysis research of prof. Ronald Cramer in WIRED 19 September 2015The American magazine WIRED recently published an article on ‘quantum-safe public key encryption’.
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Interview Richard Gill about quantum experiment 16 September 2015In the weekly magazine “Mare” from Leiden University, an interview with the Leiden statistics prof. dr. Richard Gill has been published recently about...
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Ionica Smeets in Dutch television show ‘Zomergasten’ 17 August 2014As from 20 July, six people are being interviewed for over three hours for the Dutch television show ‘Zomergasten’ at the VPRO.
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Frank den Hollander interviewed by CIRM 19 June 2014From 2 to 6 June 2014, Prof. dr. Frank den Hollander has provided 2 lectures during the workshop ‘Recent Models in Random Media’ at the Centre Interna...
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Professor Richard Gill at TEDxFlanders “Statistical Errors in Court” 22 April 2014In a recent TEDx Flanders event “Statistical Errors in Court”, Statistical Scientist Richard Gill speaks about the case of Lucia de Berk, a nurse foun...