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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by Escher30 April 2020Twenty years onwards, in a review of an Escher exhibition in Italy, Nature Physics writes about it again: Leiden mathematicians helping Escher out. A ...
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Hora est through a computer speaker: Leiden’s first fully online PhD defence08 April 2020Samineh Bagheri is the first PhD candidate to defend her thesis fully remotely.
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From smarter cities to epidemic control: algorithms can help06 April 2020Where should you plant ten trees so that as many city-dwellers as possible can enjoy them? If a smart algorithm knows how people move through the city...
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AI versus corona02 April 2020It’s all hands on deck at the moment to resolve the COVID-19 crisis. Researchers from various disciplines are helping where they can, also from the fi...
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Major win for CLAIRE in 50 million euro round of “seed funding”26 March 2020The European Commission has released 50 million euro to strengthen artificial intelligence in Europe. Five consortia were selected to spend this 50 mi...
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‘I always thought I was immune to stress, but now I’m not so sure’26 March 2020Lecturers had a week to move their courses online. An enormous challenge because remote teaching definitely wasn’t commonplace at Leiden University. S...
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Looking to distract the kids while you work from home? Get them programming!25 March 2020Many of us are working from home at the moment, but our children are at home too. While this can be fun, parents sometimes need a bit of peace and qui...
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Three Leiden Science women in Leiden Top 5010 March 2020On International Women’s Day 2020, the first edition of the Leiden Top 50 was revealed, a list of 50 women who made a difference in Leiden in 2019. Am...
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A fusion of reading and programming28 February 2020The connection between programming and reading seems non-existing. Yet in the new reading book ‘De Programmeerbende’ they go together very well. On 26...
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Girl power and science during the Girls in Science Day14 February 2020Working on superconductivity, finding an exoplanet or learning how to program with Python. More than one hundred girls visited Leiden University on Th...
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Will wind turbines take the long track speedskaters to gold?14 February 2020Team Jumbo-Visma is going for gold at the World Championships this weekend in Salt Lake City. For this, they have worked on a new special training met...
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Helping low-income families in energy transition12 February 2020In the coming decades, more than 2 million social housing units in the Netherlands will receive an upgrade in insulation and heating, in order to inc...
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Less power-consuming graphics on your phone11 February 2020Network-on-Chips are hardware that are used to communicate between different parts of a microchip. They have been around for over twenty years, but th...
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‘Universities and government should take the lead in the fight against cybercrime’07 February 2020From ransomware to Citrix traffic jams: over the past few months Dutch organisations were regularly brought to a standstill by serious cyber attacks. ...
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’06 February 2020‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as ...