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Leiden University champion of the Benelux in programming contest22 October 2019On October 19, the annual Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest took place in Nijmegen. The team ‘git merge -s octopus solution cup’ of Leiden Univers...
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LIACS part of AI-driven VR-film08 October 2019During this year's Dutch Film Festival (NFF), which took place from 27 September to 5 October in Utrecht, a new Artificial Intelligence-driven Virtual...
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Record sum Leiden Science Run for refugee scholars01 October 2019The Leiden Science Run 2019 has raised a record sum of 12,135 euros for refugee student foundation UAF. No less than 101 teams – also a record – and t...
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Michiel Kreutzer new Dean of the Faculty of Science26 September 2019Professor Michiel Kreutzer has been appointed as Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University. He will take up the role on 1 January 2020. At p...
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Over fifty scientists come together for MACODA25 September 2019In the week of 16 – 21 September, an international group of more than 50 scientists met at the Many Criteria Optimization and Decision Analysis (MACOD...
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The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technology17 September 2019State secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
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Computer science students second-best in national hacking competition10 September 2019On September 7, the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science participated with a team of six students in the first edition of the Capture the Fla...
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Dialogue, collaboration and quantum: opening academic year Faculty of Science03 September 2019With a call for dialogue and collaboration, vice dean Bart de Smit kicked off the new academic year for the Faculty of Science on Tuesday 3 September....
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Gravitation Grant for innovative outlook on the social and ethical challenges of new technology30 August 2019Leading scientists in the field of the ethics and philosophy of technology are currently revising time-honoured key philosophical concepts such as aut...
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Gravitation Grant for combining human and artificial intelligence30 August 2019The project Hybrid Intelligence receives 19 million euros from the Gravitation programme of the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The consortium consists ...
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Fifty percent chance you've reacted to junk news at least once22 August 2019A new article, published by researchers from the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science and the Leiden University Centre of Linguistics in the ...
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Doing science in the mud at Lowlands22 August 2019Conducting experiments next to the huge speakers of the Alpha Stage at Lowlands. This was reality for researchers Max van Duijn and Tessa Verhoef, and...
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Summer school in China: extreme heat and the Chinese Silicon Valley15 August 2019Going to school during the summer holidays? Some of our students accepted the challenge. And they didn’t do that just around the corner. During their ...
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Young scientists meet up at Young Faculty of Science14 August 2019Being an assistant professor can be rather solitary. You often do not have your own research group and also you don't yet have the extensive network o...
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First SAILS Professor appointed24 July 2019Bart Custers was appointed Professor of Law and Data Science on the first of July. This makes him the first professor to be appointed for the SAILS pr...