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Stadium wave in the nerves: a new mathematical model02 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 thesis16 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 society21 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 surfaces04 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 The10 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...
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Correcting each other’s mistakes - why cells stuck together in early evolution23 October 2020The transition from single cells to multicellular organisms was a key step in evolution. Researchers from Leiden and Amsterdam developed a mathematica...
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Robbin Bastiaansen on thesis award: ‘This proves you should never give up’06 October 2020Using mathematics as a weapon against desertification. With this subject, Robbin Bastiaansen managed to win the C.J. Kok Jury Prize 2019, the prize fo...
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Cells ‘walk’ to firm ground11 September 2020A new mathematical model may explain how body cells get their shapes and what makes them move within a tissue. The model provides fundamental knowledg...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely setting07 September 2020From a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Leiden scientists develop topological barcodes for folded molecules25 August 2020The team of Alireza Mashaghi at the Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research has found a way to determine and classify the shape of proteins. Their ne...
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A mathematical shoe-tying award18 August 2020Knots come in all shapes and sizes: mariners and scouts can vouch for this. Sjabbo Schaveling will obtain his PhD on 1 September for a mathematical me...
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New scanning method turns objects inside out at high speed29 June 2020What if you could watch a CT scan live, instead of analysing the images afterwards? If it is up to the Leiden mathematician Jan-Willem Buurlage, that ...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publication05 June 2020The leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by Escher30 April 2020Twenty years onwards, in a review of an Escher exhibition in Italy, Nature Physics writes about it again: Leiden mathematicians helping Escher out. A ...