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Measuring sulfur with satellites15 January 2020Seagoing vessels may emit fewer and fewer harmful substances, but how do you measure whether they comply with the standards? The Dutch Environment and...
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Faculty of Science starts new year with awards for talents07 January 2020Mathematician Robbin Bastiaansen, physicist Irene Battisti, pharmacist Fouzia Lghoul-Oulad Saïd and physics and astronomy student Maite Boden are the ...
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Joost Batenburg new professor for SAILS07 January 2020SAILS started the new year with a new professor. Joost Batenburg will join the SAILS team with his expertise in Imaging and Visualisation. This makes ...
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Max van Duijn nominated for Discoverer of the Year 201907 January 2020Every person on earth can read another person’s mind. Not in the way psychics or witches do, but by putting themselves in the shoes of others and cons...
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NWO grant for optimal design of complex and distributed cyber-physical systems19 December 2019NWO awarded a grant for novel research on Complex and Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). The grant will fund a four-year research project in wh...
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Leiden University as source of inspiration for new Master's programme in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science10 December 2019Across Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka there is an urgent need for appropriate educational programmes that develop skills in data science and artifi...
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Building with algorithms: looking for the optimal design09 December 2019How can computers help design optimal buildings? PhD student Koen van der Blom makes algorithms that take into account all kinds of different architec...
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Lise Stork wins award for app to share biodiversity data05 December 2019Fifty thousand euros in expert knowledge and the title Young eScientist 2019: the National eScience Symposium on 21 November was very successful for c...
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Marcus Specht joins PERL as Professor of Digital Education26 November 2019Marcus Specht, director of the LDE Center of Education and Learning, has been appointed as Professor of Digital Education since November 15. He has jo...
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Children compete against each other with robots25 November 2019Robots, nervous looks and above all, lots of fun. On November 16, children up to 16 years old came together for the MakeX competition. With this robot...
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Leiden programming team qualifies for world championships21 November 2019The team 'git merge -s octopus solution cup' has won the programming competition 'Northwestern Europe Regional Contest' on November 17. For the first ...
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Four million euros for DIGITAL TWIN program21 November 2019The five-year DIGITAL TWIN program can start as NWO granted 4 million euros from the Perspective program. With this grant, 19 new researchers will be ...
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Joost Visser appointed as professor of Large Scale Software and Data Science19 November 2019On 15 November Joost Visser started as Professor of Large Scale Software and Data Science at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS...
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CRITTERS Exposition: a photo impression07 November 2019From November 4 to 10, the exposition CRITTERS will be exhibited in Naturalis Biodiversity Center during Beyond Human Festival. In CRITTERS artists an...
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Translation Beauty and Joy of Computing may convince girls to choose computer science31 October 2019Programming courses are often only available in English. All the more reason for the Programming Education Research Lab (PERL) of the Leiden Institute...