News
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Frank Takes one of the new Leiden University Teachers' Academy members 08 October 2018
Five innovative and excellent teachers have joined the Leiden University Teachers' Academy (LTA). Members of the Academy exchange experiences and shar...
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LIACS and MI welcome 70 global optimization specialists 25 September 2018
The 14th International Global Optimization Workshop (LeGO 2018) was hosted by Leiden University in September.
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Neurocomputing article by LIACS researchers most cited 21 September 2018
LIACS scientist, Dr. Michael S. Lew, along with his students now has the most cited article in the top tier neural network journal Neurocomputing, the...
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PhD on research on an industrial production process 16 September 2018
Computer scientist Bas van Stein conducted research at Tata Steel and BMW on how their production processes could be streamlined and optimised on the ...
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Wessel Kraaij jointly wins the Mark Everingham prize for TRECVid 14 September 2018
The 2018 IEEE Computer Society PAMI Mark Everingham Prize has been awarded jointly to Wessel Kraaij, Alan Smeaton, Paul Over and George Awad for the “...
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Students have a taste of consultancy during company visit 13 September 2018
What is it like to work in the consulting industry? Twenty-five students from the bachelor programme Informatics & Economics visited the consulting fi...
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Children as storytellers and mindreaders 28 August 2018
How do children learn to see the world through someone else’s perspective? Max van Duijn, assistant professor at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Comp...
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Han de Winde steps down as vice-dean of Faculty of Science 15 August 2018
Han de Winde will step down as a member of the faculty board of the Faculty of Science from 1 September 2018. De Winde had been vice–dean at the facul...
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Augustinians reveal recipe for close friendships 10 August 2018
It is a holy grail among behavioural scientists: can you predict how close a group will become? An international research team from Leiden, Oxford and...
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Teacher of the Year 2017 throws students in at the deep end with supervision 06 August 2018
"I did not know that I could become even more proud of you." Kristian Rietveld's father responded to the news that his son was appointed Teacher of th...
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Francien Dechesne will give a Tegenlicht-talk at Lowlands 03 August 2018
Om Saturday August 18, Francien Dechesne (eLaw) and Holger Hoos (LIACS) will give a VPRO Tegenlicht-talk at the Lowlands festival
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First session of new series of grants matchmaking events well visited 05 July 2018
Over 100 participants joined the first grant matchmaking and working session on the call for the Dutch National Research Agenda, on 25 June in the PLN...
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Innovative knowledge projects start in The Hague 14 June 2018
The Municipality of The Hague called on researchers to come up with a proposal for an innovative research project on problems big cities face such as ...
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Lecture Rens Meerhoff in series Kracht van Sportdata 06 June 2018
In the series 'Kracht van Sportdata' (Power of Sport data) Rens Meerhoff, postdoc at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), held a...
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The Facebook scandal: guidance and tips 11 April 2018
Facebook is under attack due to the scandal with Cambridge Analytica: Data of tens of millions of users have been leaked. Does this mean the end of Fa...