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A mathematical shoe-tying award18 August 2020Knots come in all shapes and sizes: mariners and scouts can vouch for this. Sjabbo Schaveling will obtain his PhD on 1 September for a mathematical me...
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New scanning method turns objects inside out at high speed29 June 2020What if you could watch a CT scan live, instead of analysing the images afterwards? If it is up to the Leiden mathematician Jan-Willem Buurlage, that ...
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Open letter is successful: The Lancet withdraws controversial Covid-19 publication05 June 2020The leading medical journal The Lancet has withdrawn a controversial publication on the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine. The reason for this is t...
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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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NETWORKS consortium receives COFUND grant from European Commission06 April 2020The Gravitation programme NETWORKS has been awarded a COFUND grant of 3 million euros. Half of this comes from the European Commission's Marie Skłodow...
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Hardly an audience and a remote committee: receiving a PhD in times of corona19 March 2020Almost all PhD defences at Leiden University have been postponed due to the corona virus, but statistician Sanne Willems is going through with hers. I...
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Leiden statisticians create app for patients and doctors to calculate cancer survival probabilities11 March 2020A new app is able to calculate personalised survival probabilities for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Doctors and patients can use the a...
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Science Groot funding for Leiden scientists24 February 2020Leiden scientists are the main applicants for five projects that have been awarded a Science Groot grant of up to 3 million euros in the Science Domai...
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Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 202007 February 2020German mathematician Andreas Greven is the Kloosterman Professor 2020 at the Mathematical Institute in Leiden. He held the Kloosterman Lecture on 6 Fe...
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Dynamic personalised sarcoma care: implementation of a mathematical prediction app in the clinic22 January 2020A new app provides dynamic predictions of survival for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. It was developed by the mathematical Institute res...
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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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Jacqueline Meulman receives the 2020 Psychometric Society Career Award for Lifetime Achievement10 January 2020Recognition for an unprecedented career of more than forty years: Professor of Applied Statistics Jacqueline Meulman of the Mathematical Institute rec...
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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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Mathematical model predicts drug concentration in the brain17 December 2019Do medicines arrive in the right amount at the right spot in our brain? By making a model that depicts our brain in small 'brain blocks', Esmée Vendel...
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Connect four: bachelor mathematics labelled excellent for the fourth time06 December 2019For the fourth time in a row, the Dutch University Selection Guide labelled the Leiden bachelor’s programme Mathematics as ‘Excellent’. Director of ed...