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Tackling messy blood vessels to fight cancer 04 May 2018With a Vici grant of 1.5 million euros, Professor of Mathematical biology Roeland Merks will look for ways to fix messy and leaky blood vessels in tum...
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Netherlands win golden medal at annivesary edition Benelux Mathematics Olympiad 03 May 2018In the last weekend of April, the tenth edition of the Benelux Mathematics Olympiad took place. The Dutch delegation won a total of 8 medals. The 17-y...
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Djordjo Milovic wins Stieltjes prize 05 April 2018On 4 April 2018 the Stieltjes prize 2016 was awarded to Djordjo Milovic for his PhD thesis 'On the 16-rank of class groups of quadratic number fields'.
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Stéphanie van der Pas receives Willem R. van Zwet Award 29 March 2018On 29 March Stéphanie van der Pas receives the Willem R. van Zwet Award during the Annual Meeting of the Netherlands Society of Statistics and Operati...
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Mentor Gonny Hauwert: ‘Your first job doesn’t have to be an instant hit!' 28 March 2018Mathematician Gonny Hauwert (33) is one of the mentors in the Leiden University Mentor Network. Through multiple jobs she found out what she really en...
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Mathematics, medicine and teaching 08 March 2018Mathematician Stéphanie van der Pas, winner of the C.J. Kok Jury Award for her PhD thesis in 2017, divides her time between research and education, an...
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Female talent in the spotlight 07 March 2018The representation of women in science is improving, also at the Faculty of Science. On 8 March – International Women's Day – we highlight the work of...
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Wessel Kraaij director of Data Science Research Programme 27 February 2018Prof.dr.ir. Wessel Kraaij is appointed director of the Data Science Research Programme (DSRP) at Leiden University, starting March 1st. He is the succ...
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Three VICI grants for Leiden researchers 22 February 2018Three Leiden researchers have been awarded a prestigious Vici grant by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). They each receive 1...
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Personalised sarcoma care: Leiden mathematicians develop a prediction app 17 January 2018The DASPO-group for data analysis and survival in personalized sarcoma at the Mathematical Institute has developed an app that provides personalised p...
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Stéphanie van der Pas wins C.J. Kok Jury Award for the best doctoral thesis of 2017 11 January 2018
The jury of the C.J. Kok Award selected Stéphanie van der Pas' dissertation as the Faculty of Science's best dissertation of 2017. This was announced ...
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Alireza Mashaghi Tabari is Discoverer of the Year 2017 09 January 2018With a large majority of votes, drug researcher Alireza Mashaghi Tabari was chosen Discoverer of the Year 2017 of the Faculty of Science. This was ann...
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Roland van der Veen to receive MAA Beckenbach Book Prize 04 January 2018The book ‘The Riemann Hypothesis: A Million Dollar Problem’ has been elected by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) as one of the best books...
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Joost Batenburg awarded ICT prize 19 December 2017Joost Batenburg, full professor at the Mathematical Institute and group leader Computational Imaging at the Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica in Am...
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Vote for Discoverer of the Year 14 December 2017Who will be our Discoverer of the year 2017? Which one of these brilliant researchers deserves this prize for their efforts according to you? As of no...