The world is in turmoil. International wars and conflicts have been raging for some time. And political and social developments are causing insecurity, uncertainty and unrest. This has not gone unnoticed within our university community. We have seen protests, demonstrations and other incidents. This…

How should tests and assessments be organised now that students can use generative AI? This was the subject of one of the first meetings of the newly established AI Student Network. From their unique perspective, the students came up with some very interesting ideas.

After nearly two years of retirement, Wil Roebroeks looks back on a career that began in a time of freedom and ended in a field that has undergone profound academic and social change. ‘I have been fortunate to always enjoy my work,’ he says. ‘That is also my advice to younger generations: above all,…

Lions in Kenya respond very differently to human land use, climate and conservation practices. That is the conclusion of thesis from Leiden biologist Monica Chege. A uniform approach is therefore insufficient. ‘Effective conservation only works when management is tailored to local conditions and developed…

Nominated as best Master thesis by the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA), Robin Neumann has received the second prize in the Leiden University best thesis competition.

Thursday 21 March, the Faculty Board invites all university staff to get together for an informal discussion on how our faculty will move towards the culture change of Academia in Motion.

Prof.dr. A. Briegel Prof.dr. D. Claessen Summary Bacteriophages are the most prevalent biological entities, influencing bacterial evolution and communities. Their omnipresence and potential applications in medicine and industry make them vital for scientific exploration. This research delves into the…

Symposium

In recent years, so-called digital twins (DTs) have arisen, including in the area of cyber-physical systems, where they form a connected counterpart to the system of interest (SOI). Such DTs (1) receive real-time data from the SOI, (2) use such data and models to implement services to e.g. predict performance,…

Prof.dr. M. van Crevel Prof.dr. I.B. Smits Summary How does Chinese fan fiction re-create foreign (in this case, Anglophone) source texts, and how does such re-creation contribute to fans’ subjectivity construction? This thesis underlines fan fiction’s nature as (literary) text, with the imagination…

Prof.dr. J. Schaye dr. M. Schaller Summary Understanding how galaxies form, interact, and evolve comes largely from comparing theory predictions with observational data. Numerical simulations of galaxies provide the most accurate approach to testing the theory. They follow the non-linear evolution of…

Due to illness, today's Tuesday Talks has unfortunately been cancelled. When a new date is set, we will let you know.

As museums, archives and other cultural institutions make their colonial collections available online—giving contested materials a digital afterlife—unresolved histories and new ethical matters are bound to emerge. What can be traced, remembered and imagined through archives rife with omission and harm?…

The Digital Archaeology Group has invited Sebastian Fajardo to discuss his research: "From Above - Revealing Pre-Hispanic Landscapes in the Mountainous Tropical Forests"

Generative AI can create a wide variety of outputs, including art, music, literature, and other cultural artifacts. Whether these creations can truly be considered "culture" is a matter of debate. Join us for an exclusive chance to hear from AI experts in the fields of Art, Music, Education, and Culture.…

Explanation of the two-year Master’s program in Population Health Management and the Summer School in Population Health Management, which takes place every summer and lasts 5 days.

Lecture, Astronomy on Tap

Uitleg over de twee jarige master opleiding Population Health Management en over de Summer School Population Health Management die elke zomer wordt gegeven en 5 dagen duurt.

PhD defence

Deep learning has dramatically improved the state-of-the-art in object detection, speech recognition, natural language processing, and many other domains. The astonishing success of deep learning is achieved by deep neural networks trained with huge amounts of training examples and massive computing…

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In this network event, we will have a closer look at Open Science and its efforts to make scientific research accessible, reproducible, and freely available to people within and outside of academics. Anna van t Veer is the coordinator of the Open Science Community Leiden. She will join us to tell…

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How do you prepare yourself for the next step in your (study) career? The Career Services of Leiden University are here to help! During the Leiden University Career Days we offer interesting workshops and events to help you get ready for that next step. This event is for all students and young…

Conference

In this online Library Carpentry workshop that is dedicated to library staff, you will learn basic data skills. The workshop comprises 4 online morning sessions on 18th, 19th, 25th, 26th March 2024. The workshop is organized by the libraries of UvA/HvA, VU, Leiden University, Radboud University and…

Dialectologists are interested in both the synchronic and diachronic aspects of dialectal variation. In the first half of this workshop, you will see a range of methods in dialect comparison, such as comparing vowels using different reference systems. The geographical patterns we see on maps are shaped…

The third workshop will involve students going to the library to find a linguistic atlas/ dialect survey of their choice, and they will have to scan or take a picture of 2 maps from the source and bring it to class. The aim of this task is to explore the possible types of maps in atlases from languages…

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Workshop

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This workshop is part of the Centre for Digital Scholarship's Summer Training Week and Kristina Hettne and Alessa Gambardella, both GO FAIR Foundation Fellows 2024, will tell us more about the options for actual implementation of FAIR data. While the Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable…

Lecture

The psychology of biases, and how they influence us as scholars In this OSCoffee, Zsuzsika Sjoerds will help us delve into the domain of cognitive biases and explore the influence they have on our work as scholars. ,We discuss how biases shape our scientific journey, from hypothesis formation…

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Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Series '24/'25

Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.

2021 was an eventful year once again for the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs (FGGA). Hybrid, working from home, online education, on-campus education, face masks, self-tests, keeping distance, quarantine and the coronavirus. Words that have now become a standard part of our vocabulary when…

In November 2023, the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA) underwent its first full external research evaluation for the period from 2016 to 2021 with outstanding results. In its final assessment report, the independent external evaluation committee underlines that ‘the committee is impressed…

On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…

PhD defence

Have you thought about your ambitions after your graduation or promotion? Come and get some inspiration from Wim Klop! In a talk show setting, he will discuss his impressive career at one of Holland's largest international companies – dsm-firmenich, previously Royal DSM – and answer audience questio…

In this work I investigate the post-verbal modal marker DE in Sichuanese (a southwestern Mandarin variety), which, at a first sight, seems to be highly ambiguous among various root modal readings when appearing in the [V-DE] construction (see (1)). Based on a recent fieldwork on Sichuanese, I will show…

From 1 November, we will record our travel and homeworking days in Shuttel. If you have registered for your Shuttel card, you will be sent it at your home address. If you have not yet registered, check your mailbox for a mail from Shuttel: they will send a reminder every Wednesday. Once you receive…

This workshop is part of the Thesis Hub The Hague Southwest, an initiative of Leiden-Delft-Erasmus universities. What does it mean to do ethical research? In this two-hour workshop we want to create awareness around the responsibility you have as a student, when doing research; both when using qualitative…

This workshop will cover the the basics of digital mapping. It will discuss the core principles underlying geo-spatial visualisations, together with some of the data formats and software applications that are commonly used in this field. During the workshop, participants…