1,026 search results for “science functies” in the Staff website
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Our government should be more resilient
A fragmented political landscape, permanent pressure from current affairs and an increasingly political civil service: our government faces many challenges. This makes it all the more difficult to make important decisions about pensions or the climate. Research and good education can help meet the challenges…
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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From data to discoveries: machine learning and optimization in space
Lecture
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Hardware-Software Co-Design towards Efficient Neuromorphic Computing
Lecture
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IBL Spotlight - Development and Disease
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IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
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IBL Spotlight - Bioactive Molecules
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- IBL Spotlight - Development & Disease
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Unknown, but not unloved
Do you know what the capital of St Eustatius is? Or which province Curaçao belongs to? No idea? You are not the only one: the majority of European Dutch people know little about the Caribbean islands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is according to a large-scale opinion survey led by political…
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AI and emotion recognition: ‘It could disrupt social interactions’
Just imagine new AI technology is able to read human emotions flawlessly. How would that affect us as humans? That is the question PhD candidate Alexandra Prégent is exploring.
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Opinion: AI is taking over our jobs – or is the reality more nuanced?
Following the news that TomTom is cutting 300 jobs due to the use of artificial intelligence (AI), FGGA researchers Friso Selten and Alex Ingrams responded with opinion pieces. They place the news in a broader context and call for a more nuanced debate on AI and job losses.
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LUC Student Wins Nobel Peace Prize Essay Competition
Natalia Sobrino-Saeb, third-year student at Leiden University College The Hague, won the challenge by the Ignitor Fellowship Program held by the Nobel Peace Center for her essay on the threats to journalism in Mexico. On December 10th Natalia met the Committee of the Ignitor Fellowship in Oslo and attended…
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CANCELLED: LCN2 Seminar: Algorithms for Network Visualization and beyond
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From Atoms to Asteroids: How Chemistry Governs the Birth of Planets
Lecture, Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize lecture
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How to be an Academic in a World on Fire: A Hands-On Workshop co-organized by LUGO and OSCL
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CANCELLED: Digital Twin Engineering
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Astrochemistry
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Greedy Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Oort lecture
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…
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Improving Nature’s Antibiotics to Overcome Resistant Bacteria
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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A Brief Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
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Discontinuous Constituency and BERT: Two Case Studies of Dutch
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IBL Spotlight - Host-Microbe Interactions
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Models Combination in Multi-stage Information Retrieval Architectures
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Computational User Modelling
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- IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
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Detailed Video Understanding
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Towards conversational information seeking
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Constrained and Multirate Training of Neural Networks
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A brief introduction to GPU programming and optimization
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga awarded ERC Starting Grant
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enables talented early-career scholars to start their own pioneer project, lead a research team, and implement their best ideas at the frontiers of their…
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
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A glimpse into my research between Bayesian Optimization and Mechanics
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: De geologie van het zonnestelsel: de prachtige planetaire paralellen van tastbare gesteenten en inspirerende landschappen
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: How photonics and sub-wavelength optics are shaping next-generation telescopes
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
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Elephants in the Room
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"The First Stars" & "Uncovering the oldest stars in the Milky Way"
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Measuring the edge of Infinity
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Astronomy on Tap
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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Ready for Quantum?! (in Dutch)
Lecture, NGL-lezing
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Liveable Planet Lunch Lecture: ‘If you want to travel far, go together’: transdisciplinary collaboration for a Liveable Planet - Laurens Hessels
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Stellar drama: Relationships between planets and stars
Lecture, Astronomy on Tap
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Certainty in uncertain times
Lecture, MI 70 years
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Connect & Open Up: Evolution of a researcher's data management practices: from data hazard to data steward
Webinar
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Karina Caputi on the early universe
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Liveable Planet Interdisciplinary Collaborations: Jessica Kiefte-De Jong (LUMC) and Paul Behrens (FWN) on Food & Sustainability - Discussion
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