1,349 search results for “cities science” in the Staff website
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Bootcamp
Arts and culture, Sport
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Beach volleybal
Arts and culture, Sport
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BAMBOO Night - All Things Sustainability
Lecture, Pint of Science
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Office Workout
Arts and culture, Sport
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Self defense
Arts and culture, Sport
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Educational innovation at Humanities: 'Students are great initiators’
In the academic year 2018 - 2019, the Faculty of Humanities established the Educational Innovation Programme. In this way, the faculty wants to realise the ambitions from the educational vision of Leiden University in education. How is the programme currently doing? We talked to project manager Sanne…
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Campus Den Haag hosts 'On Campus' Experience Days
Last Saturday, Wijnhaven Campus and the Anna van Buerenplein were the setting for the first 'on campus' Experience Days in The Hague since the restrictive measures in higher education were introduced in March 2020. Spread over the day, some 200 students visited the campus to delve deeper into the 3…
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EPP meta-measure and rethinking machine learning benchmarks: A recipe for meta-learning success?
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From data to discoveries: machine learning and optimization in space
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Hardware-Software Co-Design towards Efficient Neuromorphic Computing
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‘Technology shouldn’t shape our future; we should’
Technology holds so much promise – from self-driving cars to enhanced physical performance from smart implants under the skin. But we should not let ourselves be caught off guard. That is the message of Bart Custers, Professor of Law and Data Science in his inaugural lecture on 21 May. ‘We don’t talk…
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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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IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
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- IBL Spotlight - Development & Disease
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IBL Spotlight - Bioactive Molecules
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IBL Spotlight - Development and Disease
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A real professor in the classroom
It’s starting to become a real Dies Natalis tradition: on 8 February professors from Leiden University teach a class at primary schools in the region. This introduces children to academia and teaches them more about conducting research. ‘Had you expected me to be a woman?’
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BrAInpower exhibition: tremendous and troubling uses of AI in our daily lives
Care robots, medical treatments, deepfakes and self-driving cars all with the aid of artificial intelligence (AI). The BrAInpower exhibition at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave shows spectacular applications of AI and explains how it can make such huge leaps. Bas Haring, Professor of Public Understanding of Science,…
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Executive Board column: Annetje Ottow on Brussels, Africa and societal impact
Within the scope of innovating and connecting – the theme of our new Strategic Plan – I paid a visit to Brussels last week. It is important to give Leiden University a face in Brussels and to show our expertise, on Africa for instance.
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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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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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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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CANCELLED: LCN2 Seminar: Algorithms for Network Visualization and beyond
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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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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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From Atoms to Asteroids: How Chemistry Governs the Birth of Planets
Lecture, Harold Linnartz Astrochemistry Prize lecture
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Astrochemistry
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‘All of Leiden will join in with the Seeing Stars experiment’
What will happen if the lights in a large part of the city are switched off? How many stars can you see without all that light pollution? This is what researchers, artists and the residents of Leiden are going to investigate during Seeing Stars Leiden on 25 September. ‘Leiden is the ideal place for…
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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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Detailed Video Understanding
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- IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
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Towards conversational information seeking
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A brief introduction to GPU programming and optimization
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Constrained and Multirate Training of Neural Networks
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A Brief Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
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Computational User Modelling
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Models Combination in Multi-stage Information Retrieval Architectures
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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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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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ReuvensReuvensplaats 3-4, Leiden
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Reuvens
Reuvensplaats 2, Leiden
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Nederlands Instituut Marokko (NIMAR)Avenue Mohamed El Fassi (ex. Av. Marrakech) 3, Rabat
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: How photonics and sub-wavelength optics are shaping next-generation telescopes
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