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Yoga, inclusiveness and dilemma game at first Science PhD Day26 April 2019Morning yoga, having your resumé checked at the information market, or dancing for inclusiveness: just a small selection of the activities of the firs...
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New section makes statistics understandable15 April 2019‘Statistics? I hated that hard subject in school’, statistician Sanne Willems is often told. And that is a pity, she thinks, because statistics doesn...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of Ecology04 April 2019Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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How suspicious parties can work together safely19 March 2019Cryptographer Max Fillinger developed new methods to analyse a group of algorithms called commitments schemes. These schemes are building blocks for c...
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United Nations Fellowship awarded to Statistics PhD Kevin Duisters22 February 2019United Nations Global Pulse, an initiative of the UN Secretary-General on big data and AI, recently launched the Data Fellows program. Kevin Duisters,...
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'NETWORKS goes to school' introduces school students to networks science13 February 2019
In 2018 NETWORKS organised a very succesful masterclass on networks and their applications for secondary school students with the title 'NETWORKS goes...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’08 February 2019His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 201813 December 2018Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...
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Humboldt Research Award for Frank den Hollander19 November 2018Frank den Hollander has received the Humboldt Research Award of €60,000. He was nominated by two German colleagues with whom he is working together fo...
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Did Rembrandt paint Leiden Professor van Schooten?06 November 2018Leiden Professor of Maths Frans van Schooten Jnr. (1615-1660) and his wife Margrieta were painted by Rembrandt. This is the claim made by mathematicia...
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The million dollar proof31 October 2018PhD student Raymond van Bommel decided to pore upon one of the most complicated mathematical problems of our time; the solution of it is worth 1 milli...
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Mathematics as weapon against desertification22 October 2018PhD student Robbin Bastiaansen applies mathematics to get insight in practical problems. By comparing mathematical models with developments in existin...
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First Leiden Science Family Day: glitter gel, virtual reality and ice-cold clouds09 October 2018The first Leiden Science Family Day on Saturday 6 October was a great success. During the ‘Weekend of Science’ more than 700 visitors, including 350 c...
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Making maths fun: volunteering in Africa05 October 2018This summer, PhD students Marta Maggioni and Rosa Winter went to Africa. Not just to enjoy the beautiful continent, but also to stir up the enthusiasm...
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LIACS and MI welcome 70 global optimization specialists25 September 2018The 14th International Global Optimization Workshop (LeGO 2018) was hosted by Leiden University in September.