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Measuring sulfur with satellites 15 January 2020Seagoing vessels may emit fewer and fewer harmful substances, but how do you measure whether they comply with the standards? The Dutch Environment and...
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Jacqueline Meulman receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime Achievement 10 January 2020Recognition for an unprecedented career of more than forty years: Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman of the Mathematical Institute rec...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talents 07 January 2020Mathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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Mathematical model predicts drug concentration in the brain 17 December 2019Do medicines arrive in the right amount at the right spot in our brain? By making a model that depicts our brain in small 'brain blocks', Esmée Vendel...
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Connect four: bachelor mathematics labelled excellent for the fourth time 06 December 2019For the fourth time in a row, the Dutch University Selection Guide labelled the Leiden bachelor’s programme Mathematics as ‘Excellent’. Director of ed...
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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholars 01 October 2019The Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of Science 26 September 2019Professor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Peter Stevenhagen scientific director Mathematical Institute 25 September 2019Professor of number theory Peter Stevenhagen has been appointed to up the position of scientific director of the Mathematical Institute of Leiden Uni...
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The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technology 17 September 2019State secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
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On the road with an International Credit Mobility grant 09 September 2019Over the next three years, 92 students and researchers from Leiden University and its partner universities will be strengthening their research and te...
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Dialogue, collaboration and quantum: opening academic year Faculty of Science 03 September 2019With a call for dialogue and collaboration, vice dean Bart de Smit kicked off the new academic year for the Faculty of Science on Tuesday 3 September....
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Young scientists meet up at Young Faculty of Science 14 August 2019Being an assistant professor can be rather solitary. You often do not have your own research group and also you don't yet have the extensive network o...
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Photo report: this is what math conference Equadiff looks like 18 July 2019The winner of the 'Nobel Prize for Mathematics' was there, Mayor Henri Lenferink was there, and 550 enthusiastic participants were there: Equadiff 201...
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These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of Science 16 July 2019The Faculty of Science has received no less than seven Veni grants this year. Camila Correa, Max van Duijn, Stéphanie van der Pas, Sergii Pud, Mónica ...
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Tim van Erven makes computers even smarter 15 July 2019In high school, Tim van Erven read about an artificially intelligent algorithm that could solve mazes. From that moment on, he was sold: ‘There’s some...