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TOP Grant NWO for Prof. Dr. Aad van der Vaart and Dr. Robin de Jong10 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 Posterprize12 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 Martínez22 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 battle13 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 Bhargava13 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 world18 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...
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NETWORKS is recruiting researchers and PhD students24 April 2014NETWORKS, a new consortium of 11 researchers from the University of Amsterdam, Technical University Eindhoven, Leiden University and CWI aims to addre...
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Stéphanie van der Pas wins the Leiden University Thesis Awards 201413 February 2014Stéphanie van der Pas won the Leiden University Thesis Awards 2014 with her thesis "Almost the Best of Three Worlds: The Switch Model Selection Criter...
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Appointment prof. dr. R.H.M. Merks27 January 2014Roeland Merks is appointed as professor Multiscale Mathematical Biology (0.2 FTE) at the Mathematical Institute as from 15 January 2014.
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NWO Gravitation Programme awarded 10-year grant to research consortia 'Networks'20 December 2013Professor Frank den Hollander has been awarded a 10-year grant through the NWO Gravitation program, jointly with colleagues from the University of Ams...
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Stéphanie van der Pas wins ASML Graduation Prize Mathematics for analysis new research method25 November 2013On November 29, Stéphanie van der Pas receives the ASML Graduation Prize for Mathematics at the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW) in Haarlem. S...
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Frank den Hollander named IMS Fellow12 November 2013Prof. dr. Frank den Hollander has been named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Professor den Hollander received the award for ...
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Leiden University wins Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest 201329 October 2013
The Leiden team "Geen Syntax" (no syntax), consisting of Bas Nieuwenhuizen, Mathijs van Nes and Raymond van Bommel, has won the Benelux Algorithm Prog...
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Two courses Dutch language at the MI11 October 2013
On 7 October the beginners course Dutch has successfully started with a pizza kick-off.
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Laurens Smit awarded for best PhD student in Operations Research/Management Science11 October 2013The New Jersey Chapter of the international Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences "INFORMS" organises an annual (Graduate) Stu...