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Three VICI grants for Leiden researchers 22 February 2018
Three 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 2018
The 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 2018
With 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 2018
The 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 2017
Joost 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 2017
Who 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...
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Garth Dales appointed Kloosterman Professor 27 September 2017
Garth Dales from Lancaster University has been appointed Kloosterman Professor at the Mathematical Institute during the month of October 2017, as a gu...
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Leiden hosts seventh international Survival Analysis for Junior Researchers conference 06 September 2017
Leiden will host the seventh annual international Survival Analysis for Junior Researchers conference (SAfJR2018) on 24-26 April, 2018. This three-day...
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Gold for Leiden Maths team 09 August 2017
During the prestigious International Mathematics Competition in Blagoëvgrad, Burgary, the Leiden University team won one golden and four silver medals...
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Science Agenda Starting Incentive invests in Leiden research 07 July 2017
Eight major scientific consortia are to receive research investment funding from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO. Leiden Uni...
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‘Banks can improve the position of women in Africa’ 30 May 2017
Ineke Bussemaker studied Maths at Leiden University and now works as a banker in Tanzania. In an interview in alumni magazine Leidraad she brings thos...
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Dutch Cancer Society (KWF Kankerbestrijding) subsidises statistical research 17 May 2017
Marta Fiocco, professor at the Mathematical Institute, has received a grant for predicting survival outcome and improving the balance between prognosi...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing 08 May 2017
The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Lisanne Rens wins H.D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award 24 April 2017
Lisanne Rens has been awarded the 2017 H. D. Landahl Mathematical Biophysics Award. Rens is a PhD student at the CWI (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica) ...