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LION Summer School: Modern Physics at all Scales 14 July 2017
From 16 to 26 July, the Leiden Institute of Physics organizes its annual summer school, titled ‘Modern Physics at all Scales’.
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Beach workshop: ‘So you have a degree in Science. Now what?’ 14 July 2017
On July 13, over seventy PhD students from Leiden and Delft came together at Katwijk beach for a workshop organized by the Casimir Research School: ‘S...
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Rubicon for ‘Artificial Sun’ 13 July 2017
Physicist Christopher Berg Smiet, who recently obtained his PhD in Leiden, has been awarded an NWO Rubicon. The grant allows him to conduct postdoctor...
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Cum laude on understanding catalysts under extreme conditions 11 July 2017
Physical chemist Rik Mom developed a revolutionary way to investigate catalysts in action in detail. For this work he received the distinction cum lau...
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Cross-talk between stagnation points in flow and orientation 07 July 2017
Publication in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Over 200 spectators Andrei Linde in Leidse Schouwburg 29 June 2017
As part of his guest professorship in Leiden, famous theoretical physicist Prof. Andrei Linde (Stanford University) gave a public lecture on June 23 a...
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Solution to distortion effect STM scanning 27 June 2017
STM scanning experiments on poorly conducting materials are challenging, and can cause a distortion effect. A new model corrects for this effect, allo...
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Spinoza Prize for Michel Orrit, Professor of Spectroscopy 16 June 2017
It is partly thanks to Leiden professor Michel Orrit that we are today able to study individual molecules. He just missed winning a Nobel Prize, but i...
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John van Noort appointed Professor in Biophysics 14 June 2017
Leiden University has appointed John van Noort as Professor in Biophysics. He studies the way in which our DNA is folded and read out.
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Meet this year's Lorentz Professor Renata Kallosh: 'Lorentz is my hero in physics' 08 June 2017
Professor Renata Kallosh (Stanford University), one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists, will be this summer’s Lorentz Professor at the Leid...
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Leiden econophysics model tested best by central banks 01 June 2017
A full overview of all loans and debts between banks would help preventing a new financial collapse. But banks do not provide this information. An eco...
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Peculiar particles show paradoxical behavior 23 May 2017
Theoretical physicists research a special class of particles; Weyl fermions. They have found them to exhibit paradoxical behavior, in contradiction to...
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NWO Projectruimte Grant for DNA Flexibility Research 17 May 2017
Theoretical physicist Helmut Schiessel receives an NWO Projectruimte grant of 390,000 euro. He will use this budget to hire a postdoc and a PhD studen...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing 08 May 2017
The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Developing quantum software with a grant of 18.8 million euros 04 May 2017
The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gra...