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An algorithm for problem solving in cars and the human brainImagine having a car accident in a parking lot, your car has some small damage and you have to get it fixed. What if your car could tell you which par...
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New online national platform Sport Data Valley connects science and sportA consortium of knowledge institutes, led by Leiden University launched an online platform for analysis and research of sports and movement data on 7 ...
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Faculty of Science opens academic year with live stream in homely settingFrom a white leather armchair, on which Barack Obama once sat, Dean Michiel Kreutzer opened the academic year. This time not with visitors, but comple...
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Computers help wood anatomists with wood identificationThe most commonly used method for the taxonomic identification of tree trunks is wood anatomy. The number of experts in this area is decreasing, and e...
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Data science at the Netherlands Tax and Customs AdministrationHow can data science improve tax administration? Mark Pijnenburg, a senior data scientist at the Netherlands Tax and Customs Administration, decided t...
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New database brings structure to global fungal diversityAn organized overview of the current global fungal diversity, that is what Irene Martorelli and colleagues try to achieve with the new MycoDiversity D...
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Brand-new professor Gerard van Westen wants to cross boundariesBrand-new professor Gerard van Westen works at the intersection of artificial intelligence and drug development. For the new chair in Artificial Intel...
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Bridging the gap between databases and data scienceIn relational databases you can store information and data without losing the relationships between those data. They are therefore useful tools for co...
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Digital infrastructure for research into the social network of the full Dutch populationAn interdisciplinary consortium consisting of Leiden University, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Statistics Netherlands (CBS), receives €1 mill...
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Nele Mentens joins LIACS as Professor of Applied Cryptography & Data SecurityFinding solutions for economically and socially relevant problems in digital data security. That is what Nele Mentens, Professor of Applied Cryptograp...
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Finding unique drug structures with artificial intelligence and chemistryIn the search for new medicines against diseases such as cancer, a Leiden team has developed a new workflow. This approach combines artificial intelli...
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More efficient drug development with the help of computer modelsThe coronavirus has the world in its grip. Finding a cure has never been more important. Unfortunately, the development of new drugs for treatment of ...
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Cyber Security Governance EssentialsThe new 'Cyber Security Governance Essentials' will start in September 2020. Third year bachelor students of The Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer...
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How mathematician Hendrik Lenstra completed an unfinished artwork by EscherTwenty 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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Hora est through a computer speaker: Leiden’s first fully online PhD defenceSamineh Bagheri is the first PhD candidate to defend her thesis fully remotely.