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Honourable mention for Rosa Schwarz at Christiaan Huygens Prize 2024 01 November 2024During the award ceremony of the Christiaan Huygens Prize on 16 October, mathematician Rosa Schwarz received an honourable mention. Schwarz, former Ph...
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Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
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Outbreak of an infectious disease? Mathematics helps in making quick, informed decisions 15 October 2024A job thanks to COVID—something not many people can claim. But PhD candidate Vera Arntzen can. Over the past four years, she has mapped two crucial ch...
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In Memoriam - Bente Hilde Bakker 01 October 2024Recently, our respected and talented former colleague Bente Hilde Bakker passed away after a long and brave fight with illness. She received her mathe...
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New e-value even more flexible: significance level adjustable at a later stage 23 September 2024Recently, a paper by Peter Grünwald was published in the prestigious scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Grünwald is f...
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Maths + match = medals! Leiden students win five medals at international math competition 23 August 2024Two Second Prizes, two First Prizes and even a Grand Grand First Prize. Five Leiden mathematics students and their team leader have performed exceptio...
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Three quantum-safe cryptography methods standardised for global use 19 August 2024Three quantum-safe cryptography methods have been standardised for worldwide use since this week. Léo Ducas co-designed the two primary PQC methods se...
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Twenty years of international mathematics master at Leiden 02 August 2024Mathematicians from Bordeaux, Leiden and Padua have been working together for 20 years. In 2004, they started a two-year mathematics master's degree i...
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KiKa grant for mathematician: how statistics helps fight bone cancer 12 July 2024Using mathematics to help children with bone cancer. It sounds a little strange, but for statistician Marta Fiocco, it's just her job. She gets a subs...
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Losing count: the mathematical magic of counting curves 04 July 2024How can you figure out which points lie on a certain curve? And how many possible curves do you count by a given number of points? These are the kinds...
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No experiments but equations: how Daoyi Wang uses math to understand the world 21 June 2024How do you study the growth of microorganisms, the spread of epidemic diseases or the healing of wounds, without actually performing experiments? Daoy...
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What do maths and blood clots have to do with each other? 17 June 2024Mathematics can help predict thrombosis. Mathematician Mark Alber has developed models that even aid in suggesting treatments. In the Kloosterman lect...
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Peter Grünwald develops a revolutionary statistical theory with an ERC Advanced Grant 11 April 2024Using mathematics to determine whether scientific results are significant or not. Peter Grünwald, full professor of Statistical Learning at the Mathem...
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Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants 04 April 2024Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants d...
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Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers 25 March 2024The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on imp...