1,653 search results for “lecture at science” in the Public website
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LTP Lecture: Quine’s naturalized epistemology of ontology
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Public lecture "Do Smart Devices Make Us Less Smart?"
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iGEM team Leiden 2016
Using E. coli bacteria to convert a toxic compound in the soil on Mars into oxygen to make life on the planet possible. A team of thirteen Leiden students are taking part in the annual iGEM competition with an entry based on this idea. iGEM is an international competition for students where they use…
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Delegation from Leiden University to visit Japan
A delegation from Leiden University will be visiting several Japanese universities and research institutions from 18 to 26 November to discuss research and teaching collaborations.
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Professor warns about risk of politicising security services
The amended Intelligence and Security Services Act (WiV) enacts a fundamental change in the relationship between the security services and politics. This carries the risk of politicisation of information, according to Professor Paul Abels. Inaugural lecture on 16 February.
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Leiden Medicinal Chemistry researcher Andreas Bender receives prestigious EFMC Prize
Andreas Bender, Assistant Professor for Medicinal Chemistry in the Medicinal Chemistry Division of the Leiden / Amsterdam Center for Drug Research, received the
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Citizens central part of diplomacy
‘Ordinary citizens’ are featuring more prominently in foreign policies which has already resulted in some unexpected outcomes such as Brexit. Jan Melissen, Senior Fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) conducts research into the societisation of diplomacy. He is interested in…
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Janneke Wesseling on The Device Paradigm and Contemporary Practices in Art and Design
On May 18 Janneke Wesseling gave a lecture at the conference
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NATO boss: ‘The Netherlands needs to invest more in defence’
Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary-General of NATO, gave a guest lecture at Leiden University on 19 April. His message was clear: increased international tensions call for greater investments in defence. According to Stoltenberg, the Netherlands is not one of the big spenders in this area.
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Leiden Literature Lunch Lecture (and reading) - Literary Leiden
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Misleading bar and pie charts
People can be easily mislead with graphs. But they don’t necessarily stay misled, the research shows.
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Online Master's Experience Day Computer Science
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Online Master's Experience Day Computer Science
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Thijs Bosker on NOS Jeugdjournaal about plastic pollution and microplastics
On Friday evening 8 June, Thijs Bosker, Associate Professor at Leiden University College (LUC), was on television in NOS Jeugdjournaal about plastic pollution and microplastics
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Speech by Minister Dijkgraaf at Leiden University: ‘When knowledge becomes critical’
On Friday 11 March (16.00 hrs.) Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) will give a speech at Leiden University entitled ‘When knowledge becomes critical’. In the speech, he will address several critical challenges in science and society. The livestream will be open to all.
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LED3 Lecture: Natural Product Antibiotics: Past, Present, Future
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LIC Lecture: Structure-based development of immunoproteasome inhibitors
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Experience day Data Science & Artificial Intelligence
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Two NWO grants for Johan Rooryck
LUCL is pleased to announce that Professor Johan Rooryck has been awarded both an NWO Horizon Grant for his project entitled 'Knowledge and culture', and an NWO Vrije Competitie Grant for his project entitled 'Lend me your ears: the grammar of (un)transferable possession' for a total of €2.75m.
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The structure of a working catalyst: from flat surfaces to nanoparticles
Promotor: Prof.dr. J.W.M. Frenken
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Publication MSCA project on Legal and Ethical Aspects of Healthcare Robot Technology
On Saturday 9 March 2019, Dr. Eduard Fosch-Villaronga got his first publication for his Marie Skłodowska Curie project on the Legal and Ethical Aspects of Healthcare Robot Technology.
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FameLab: all about blood vessels in 180 seconds
PhD candidates in medicine, Wouter Jan Geelhoed and Nan van Geloven, are the winners of the Leiden preliminary round of FameLab. They are through to the final on 22 April.
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New paradigm for visual recognition
Leiden University computer scientists Yu Liu, Yanming Guo and Michael Lew are a step closer to their ultimate goal: search engines with visual recognition. Their publication of a new algorithm for fusing multi-scale deep learning representations has been received with great enthusiasm. No other algorithm…
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Governments working with one hand tied when it comes to data on vulnerable groups
A new discussion paper published in Policy Sciences by two Leiden researchers claims that governments are working with one hand tied when it comes to data on vulnerable groups. At the core of this paper is the idea that even though the volume of data has increased in recent years, the quality of the…
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LIC Lecture: Chemically fueled droplets; towards the synthesis of life
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LED3 Lecture - Elucidating inositol pyrophosphate signaling with chemical tools
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Sports and data analytics: discovering the unknown known
The combination of data science and sports is a hot topic. In a talk during the opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science, Professor Joost Kok explained what data analytics can teach us about sports.
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LCCP Lecture The Social Dimension of Critical Phenomenology
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LCCP Lecture “Heideggerian Subjectivity between Subjectivism and Impersonalism”
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LIC Lecture: Helical supramolecular polymers - Toward structure-function relationships
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Magnifying the minute
Making all those things we normally cannot see visible is the challenge that fascinates Fons Verbeek, Leiden's new Professor of Computational Bio-Imaging. Contributions from chemistry, optics and in particular computational sciences to making and processing these images give greater insight into the…
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Beyond the Canvas: Exploring Art-Science Collaborations
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Potentialities of bringing together anthropology and political science
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Capitalising on research to benefit patients
Menzo Havenga, CEO of Batavia Biosciences on the Leiden Bio Science Park (LBSP), has a favourite hobbyhorse: the Clinical Development Board. The aim of this board is to make sure that high-impact research results in high-value products that will benefit patients.
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FameLab: young scientists take the stage
In FameLab contestants explain their research to the public in a three-minute presentation – without using PowerPoint or other presentation tools. The Leiden heats of this international communications competition will be held on 7 March. Anyone is welcome to come and watch!
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Sixth Honorary Doctorate for Grzegorz Rozenberg
On 27 November 2015 Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Rozenberg receives his sixth Honorary Doctorate.
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Residents and researchers explore plastic and psychology in the city
This year will see the start of not one but two citizen science projects in Leiden and The Hague. This is the outcome of a large survey among residents and researchers in both university cities. The Citizen Science Lab will help the winners implement their ideas, with support from the University and…
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'Biologists also need to be a bit of a data analyst’
Biologists today have to be able to work with big data. Data analysis skills should be taught from the start of the degree programme, or - even better - in secondary school. This is the message of Vera van Noort, new Professor of Computational Biology. Inaugural lecture 22 January.
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The mission of Felienne Hermans
‘A woman with a mission’. In this honourable way, Dean Geert de Snoo described computer scientist Felienne Hermans at the official opening of her new research group Programming Education Research Lab (PERL). He is right: Felienne has a very important mission. With her new research group, she will do…
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The legitimacy of political power
A fair distribution of goods and services is the most important factor in justifying political power. This is the conclusion of Honorata Mazepus in her PhD dissertation 'What makes authorities legitimate in the eyes of citizens?' PhD defence September.
- ReproducibiliTea Leiden: Getting started with open science (journal club)
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New book reflects on power and normality
Who determines what is wrong with children and how they develop? Educator and sociologist Annemieke van Drenth wrote a book about this that will be released on 10 June. In it, she uses the history of the school for ‘idiotic children’ in The Hague to investigate how special children were identified in…
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Online Master's Experience: Master Biomedical Sciences
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Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs hosts PROSEPS conference in The Hague
On Thursday 19 and Friday 20 September the PROSEPS conference took place in The Hague under the auspices of the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University. During the two-day meet up, working group meetings and workshops took place in the New Babylon Conference Centre in the heart…
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Statistician Heike Trautmann is Pascal professor 2017
The German professor of Information Systems and Statistics Heike Trautmann accepted the Pascal chair this month at LIACS, the computer science institute of Leiden University. Trautmann’s main research areas are evolutionary multiobjective optimisation and data science, in which LIACS is strong as we…
- OSCoffee: Open Science in Criminology - barriers and opportunities
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Student for a day Data science & Artificial Intelligence
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Experience Day master’s Political Science: on campus
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