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Statistical ‘rockstar’ Brad Efron opens Leiden statistics centreHe is said to be one of the greatest living statisticians. Bradley Efron gave a lecture in Marekerk and opened LUXs, the Leiden University Center for ...
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Statistician Aad van der Vaart Knight in the Order of the Dutch LionDuring a symposium in honour of his 60th birthday, statistician Aad van der Vaart received the royal award of Knight in the Order of the Lion of the N...
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchersFrom artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and oppo...
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New collaboration aims to predict cancer survivalPredicting cancer survival with machine learning, that is the aim of a new collaboration between the Mathematical Institute, the European Organisation...
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The mathematical ties between South Africa and Leiden: Marcel de Jeu professor by special appointment at the University of PretoriaA long-term mathematical collaboration between South Africa and Leiden will continue with the appointment of Marcel de Jeu as professor by special app...
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Mathematician Peter Koymans wins KWG PhD prizeLeiden PhD student Peter Koymans has been declared ‘best mathematics PhD student’ by the Royal Dutch Mathematical Society (KWG). He received the prize...
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Leiden University's nominees New Scientist science talentMathematician Stéphanie van der Pas and psychologist Sandy Overgaauw have been nominated for the New Scientist science talent competition, a prize for...
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Yoga, inclusiveness and dilemma game at first Science PhD DayMorning yoga, having your resumé checked at the information market, or dancing for inclusiveness: just a small selection of the activities of the firs...
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New section makes statistics understandable‘Statistics? I hated that hard subject in school’, statistician Sanne Willems is often told. And that is a pity, she thinks, because statistics doesn...
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Geert de Snoo new Director of Netherlands Institute of EcologyProfessor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Faculty of Science at Leiden University, has been appointed Director of the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIO...
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How suspicious parties can work together safelyCryptographer Max Fillinger developed new methods to analyse a group of algorithms called commitments schemes. These schemes are building blocks for c...
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United Nations Fellowship awarded to Statistics PhD Kevin DuistersUnited Nations Global Pulse, an initiative of the UN Secretary-General on big data and AI, recently launched the Data Fellows program. Kevin Duisters,...
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'NETWORKS goes to school' introduces school students to networks science
In 2018 NETWORKS organised a very succesful masterclass on networks and their applications for secondary school students with the title 'NETWORKS goes...
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Robbert Dijkgraaf: ‘Diversity improves science’His Leiden honorary doctorate, the future of scientists, and diversity in science. Robbert Dijkgraaf tells about it in one of the classical rooms of t...
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Vote for the Discoverer of the year 2018Which brilliant scientist will be our Discoverer of the year 2018? Will it be a physicist, biologist, drug discoverer or an astronomer? Or an environm...