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Silver medal for Leiden mathematics student Onno Berrevoets 26 August 2015The Leiden mathematics student Onno Berrevoets won the silver medal during the last edition of the International Mathematics Competition in Blagoevgra...
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A mathematical model for a more diverse workforce 06 August 2015
Many organisations have a biased workforce, even though diversity has so many advantages. Australian and Dutch researchers, including Leiden psycholog...
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Richard Gill member of FQXi 18 June 2015Prof. Dr. Richard Gill has recently joined as a member of the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi). FQXi is an international association of scienti...
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Membership KHMW Jacqueline Meulman 18 June 2015The ‘Koninklijke Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen’, Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities, has nominated Prof. Dr. Jaqueline Meul...
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Spinoza Prize for Leiden statistician Aad van der Vaart 12 June 2015Aad van der Vaart, professor of stochastics at Leiden University, has been awarded the NWO Spinoza Prize for his groundbreaking research in statistics...
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Djordjo Milovic wins KWG award 13 May 2015Djordjo Milovic has won the KWG award for PhD students during the 51st Dutch Mathematical Congress, which took place on 14 and 15 April 2015 in Leiden...
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Death of Mathematics student Willem Obbens 06 May 2015
With dismay we took note of the sudden death of Willem Obbens, student and student assistant in Mathematics, Leiden University.
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‘Discoverer of the Year’, best dissertation and Education Award 2014 06 January 2015At the New Year’s reception of the Faculty of Science on 6 January, it was announced that Annelien Zweemer, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, ...
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Research Prof.Dr. Arjen Doelman selected within Mathematics of Planet Earth program NWO 10 December 2014The research project ‘Adaptive Semi-Strong Ecosystem Dynamics’ of Prof.Dr. Arjen Doelman is selected for funding as one of the 7 research projects wit...
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TOP Grant NWO for Prof. Dr. Aad van der Vaart and Dr. Robin de Jong 10 December 2014OP Grants NWO are awarded to 16 scientists in astronomy, computer science and mathematics, or a combination of these disciplines (multidisciplinary) b...
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Björn de Rijk wins SIAM Posterprize 12 November 2014
During the last SIAM / Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures / conference, PhD student Björn de Rijk, supervised by Prof.Dr. Arjen Doelman and Prof....
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Francisco Aranda Ordaz Award (Latin-American Prize) for Julián Facundo Martínez 22 October 2014
During the CLAPEM (The Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics by its initials in Spanish), held in Cartagena de Indias, Co...
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Roeland Merks wint IgNobel 24/7 battle 13 October 2014
The Ig Nobel prize is awarded annually to ten studies that first "let you laugh and then let you think about it." Scientists from around the world loo...
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Fields Medal for Leiden Professor of Number Theory Manjul Bhargava 13 August 2014Leiden Professor of Number Theory Manjul Bhargava has been awarded a Fields Medal, widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for Maths. Bhargava is a profess...
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Michelle Sweering (17) best math girl in the world 18 July 2014The Dutch Michelle Sweering became the best math girl in the world at the International Mathematical Olympiad in South Africa. She is the only girl wh...