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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...
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Children's stories as inspiration for an artificial brain23 July 2019Max van Duijn, Assistant Professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), has been awarded a Veni grant for his research into c...
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How public money for science leads to new medicines22 July 2019Public funding for fundamental research is essential for innovation and the development of new medicines. This is demonstrated by Professor Science Ba...
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Chinese whispers in the name of science at Lowlands18 July 2019As long as we humans have existed, we have told each other stories. But how does a story change each time it is told? Which elements stick and which o...
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These are the seven Veni winners of the Faculty of Science16 July 2019The Faculty of Science has received no less than seven Veni grants this year. Camila Correa, Max van Duijn, Stéphanie van der Pas, Sergii Pud, Mónica ...
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Six Computer Science master students excel and go to Oxford04 July 2019Six master students of the Computer Science programme will present their papers on future cities at the NetMob conference in Oxford. The six papers we...
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Detecting and comparing sign languages28 June 2019For his PhD project, computer scientist Manolis Fragkiadakis is developing a tool that can compare videos of sign language corpora. This would make it...
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A digital eye for archaeologists25 June 2019Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart is refining an artificial intelligence system that can detect and classify archaeological objects on digital images. Su...
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Building a bridge between data science and the social and behavioural sciences25 June 2019What is the best living environment for dementia patients? To answer this question, Daniela Gawehns is using data mining methods to search through dif...
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The patient forum as a goldmine25 June 2019Patients with certain diseases discuss their experiences and support one another on specialised internet forums. With the right data-science methods, ...
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Searching for 27 million patterns in 6,000 tax treaties24 June 2019PhD candidate Manon Wintgens is using an algorithm to trawl through thousands of international tax treaties. She hopes to detect a system in the dizzy...
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Self-learning machines for better understanding of the universe13 June 2019Bright explosions appear all over the radio and gravitational-wave sky. This dynamic side of the universe which has just been discovered, can be mappe...