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Djordjo Milovic wins KWG award13 May 2015Djordjo Milovic has won the KWG award for PhD students during the 51st Dutch Mathematical Congress, which took place on 14 and 15 April 2015 in Leiden...
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Death of Mathematics student Willem Obbens06 May 2015
With dismay we took note of the sudden death of Willem Obbens, student and student assistant in Mathematics, Leiden University.
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‘Discoverer of the Year’, best dissertation and Education Award 201406 January 2015At the New Year’s reception of the Faculty of Science on 6 January, it was announced that Annelien Zweemer, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research, ...
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Research Prof.Dr. Arjen Doelman selected within Mathematics of Planet Earth program NWO10 December 2014The research project ‘Adaptive Semi-Strong Ecosystem Dynamics’ of Prof.Dr. Arjen Doelman is selected for funding as one of the 7 research projects wit...
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TOP Grant NWO for Prof. Dr. Aad van der Vaart and Dr. Robin de Jong10 December 2014OP Grants NWO are awarded to 16 scientists in astronomy, computer science and mathematics, or a combination of these disciplines (multidisciplinary) b...
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Björn de Rijk wins SIAM Posterprize12 November 2014
During the last SIAM / Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures / conference, PhD student Björn de Rijk, supervised by Prof.Dr. Arjen Doelman and Prof....
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Francisco Aranda Ordaz Award (Latin-American Prize) for Julián Facundo Martínez22 October 2014
During the CLAPEM (The Latin American Congress of Probability and Mathematical Statistics by its initials in Spanish), held in Cartagena de Indias, Co...
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Roeland Merks wint IgNobel 24/7 battle13 October 2014
The Ig Nobel prize is awarded annually to ten studies that first "let you laugh and then let you think about it." Scientists from around the world loo...
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Fields Medal for Leiden Professor of Number Theory Manjul Bhargava13 August 2014Leiden Professor of Number Theory Manjul Bhargava has been awarded a Fields Medal, widely regarded as the Nobel Prize for Maths. Bhargava is a profess...
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Michelle Sweering (17) best math girl in the world18 July 2014The Dutch Michelle Sweering became the best math girl in the world at the International Mathematical Olympiad in South Africa. She is the only girl wh...
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NETWORKS is recruiting researchers and PhD students24 April 2014NETWORKS, a new consortium of 11 researchers from the University of Amsterdam, Technical University Eindhoven, Leiden University and CWI aims to addre...
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Stéphanie van der Pas wins the Leiden University Thesis Awards 201413 February 2014Stéphanie van der Pas won the Leiden University Thesis Awards 2014 with her thesis "Almost the Best of Three Worlds: The Switch Model Selection Criter...
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Appointment prof. dr. R.H.M. Merks27 January 2014Roeland Merks is appointed as professor Multiscale Mathematical Biology (0.2 FTE) at the Mathematical Institute as from 15 January 2014.
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NWO Gravitation Programme awarded 10-year grant to research consortia 'Networks'20 December 2013Professor Frank den Hollander has been awarded a 10-year grant through the NWO Gravitation program, jointly with colleagues from the University of Ams...
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Stéphanie van der Pas wins ASML Graduation Prize Mathematics for analysis new research method25 November 2013On November 29, Stéphanie van der Pas receives the ASML Graduation Prize for Mathematics at the Royal Holland Society of Sciences (KHMW) in Haarlem. S...