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New weblecture available of statician Bradley Efron09 April 2010
Bradley Efron is a statistician from Stanford University best known for proposing the bootstrap resampling technique, which has had a major impact in ...
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Symposium by Lorentz Fellow Richard Gill16 March 2010On 22 March, five days after his final attendance at the Lucia de B case, Professor of Statistics, Richard Gill, will be appointed Distinguished Loren...
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Festive meeting: Vision on Statistical Science & info on the new Masters track06 August 2009This September a new Masters Track "Statistical Science for the Life and Behavioral Sciences” starts at Leiden University.
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European master's in maths14 July 2009More than twenty international students have received an ALGANT diploma, the master's in Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory from the Mathematical In...
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Hendrik Lenstra honored Ridder in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw28 April 2009On Friday April 24th, after a day of festivities in honor of his 60th birthday, Hendrik Lenstra was awarded the distinction of `Ridder in de Orde van ...
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Marc Stevens and colleagues reveal weak spot in internet security02 January 2009
Marc Stevens, PhD student of Ronald Cramer, and colleagues have found a weak spot in internet security. As a consequence of this weak spot in the infr...
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Peter Grünwald professor statistical learning19 December 2008As of November 1st, Peter Grünwald has been appointed professor Statistical learning on a new chair hosted by both the Mathematical Institute and the ...
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Mathematics in Leiden best in Netherlands according to Elsevier survey14 October 2008
Last week Elsevier published the results of a survey among academy professors and teachers, asking what according to them was the best place to study ...
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Math girls receive Mr. K.J. Cath prize02 September 2008Math girls Jeanine Daems and Ionica Smeets have received the Mr. K.J. Cath prize during the opening of the academic year in Leiden.
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Rob Tijdeman appointed Knight29 August 2008On August 29th Rob Tijdeman held his valedictory lecture in a full house Academy Building as a professor in Number Theory, entitled 'My life as a math...
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Eendracht expedition22 July 2008Fourteen students in geology, biology, astronomy and mathematics and seven staff members have made a geological excursion to Australia.
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Rubicon Grant for Hermen Jan Hupkes09 January 2008Hermen Jan Hupkes has been awarded a Rubicon grant by NWO.
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Peter Stevenhagen put forward for LSR Education Prize12 November 2007
Since 2000 the Leiden Student Council (LSR) yearly awards a prize for the best teacher of the university at the Dies Natalis.
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Wiskundemeisjes win NFTVM award02 October 2007
On Saturday, September 29 the wiskundemeisjes have won the NFTVM award (issued by the society of Nieuwe Film- en Televisiemakers), in the category 'in...
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ALGANT graduations02 July 2007On June, Wednesday 27th nine of our ALGANT master students received their diploma. Herewith a very successful ALGANT year has come to an end.