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Cum laude PhD defence: natural seed bank drives diversity 22 November 2021Each year, poppies disperse seeds that grow into a new generation of flowers. Sometimes, some of the seeds postpone their germination for a few years,...
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Young mathematicians uphold Leiden's honour at international programming contest 12 October 2021Three young MI students have upheld Leiden's honour in the finals of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). PhD candidate Ludo Pulle...
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Earth is more resilient than was thought 07 October 2021We have to do all we can to stop climate change. But: the Earth is more resilient than we thought. That is the surprising conclusion of an internation...
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Change manager Frans de Haas is working on the future of the MI 02 September 2021Frans de Haas started his work at the MI with a clear mandate. Listening and talking are what he will mainly be doing ‘My role is to make sure that ev...
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Probability words: everybody interprets them differently 05 August 2021What exactly does it mean when your doctor says you have a ‘good chance’ of survival? Leiden researchers discovered that there is a big difference in ...
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Floske Spieksma appointed professor of Stochastic Decision Theory 20 July 2021As of 1 June, Floske Spieksma has been appointed Professor at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. Her field of study is Stochastic Decision-Making. ...
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Statistics for the benefit of the patient 17 June 2021Marta Fiocco has been appointed as of 1 April as professor of applied mathematics, in particular medical statistics. Fiocco's appointment is at the Fa...
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Alumnus Robert Ietswaart: ‘Machine learning is revolutionising drug discovery’ 15 June 2021Robert Ietswaart does research into gene regulation at the famous Harvard Medical School in Boston. He developed an algorithm to better predict whethe...
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Random walks: wandering the streets like a group of drunk students 01 June 2021Mathematician Oliver Nagy still vividly remembers the first time he learned about a random walk. ‘The lecturer told us to imagine a company of drunken...
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Stadium wave in the nerves: a new mathematical model 02 March 2021Electrical signals travel like a wave through our neural pathways. The mathematical models for these movements could not yet properly describe all the...
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Anja Rüten-Budde wins the C.J. Kok Jury Award for best thesis 16 February 2021Statistician Anja Rüten-Budde has won the C.J. Kok Jury Award 2020. Her PhD thesis resulted in an app which helps patients with soft tissue sarcoma an...
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Francesca Arici wants to raise maths awareness in society 21 January 2021Mathematician Francesca Arici has joined the Raising Public Awareness Committee of the European Mathematical Society. She aims to coordinate and unite...
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Studying abstract mathematical equations using tangible surfaces 04 January 2021On January 5, Rosa Winter will obtain her doctorate in arithmetic geometry. She researched solutions of equations that define so-called ‘del Pezzo sur...
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ASML Graduation Prize for mathematics student Pim Spelier – Incentive Prize for first-year student Jorre The 10 December 2020Alumnus Pim Spelier is one of the two winners of the ASML Graduation prizes for mathematics students. He used a new method to solve single polynomial ...
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‘A week feels like a month at the National Think Tank’ 06 November 2020In the National Think Tank (NDT) 20 young academics spend four months reflecting on how to solve a societal problem. Four participants from Leiden tol...