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KiKa grant for mathematician: how statistics helps fight bone cancer 12 July 2024
Using mathematics to help children with bone cancer. It sounds a little strange, but for statistician Marta Fiocco, it's just her job. She gets a subs...
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Losing count: the mathematical magic of counting curves 04 July 2024
How can you figure out which points lie on a certain curve? And how many possible curves do you count by a given number of points? These are the kinds...
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No experiments but equations: how Daoyi Wang uses math to understand the world 21 June 2024
How do you study the growth of microorganisms, the spread of epidemic diseases or the healing of wounds, without actually performing experiments? Daoy...
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What do maths and blood clots have to do with each other? 17 June 2024
Mathematics can help predict thrombosis. Mathematician Mark Alber has developed models that even aid in suggesting treatments. In the Kloosterman lect...
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Peter Grünwald develops a revolutionary statistical theory with an ERC Advanced Grant 11 April 2024
Using mathematics to determine whether scientific results are significant or not. Peter Grünwald, full professor of Statistical Learning at the Mathem...
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Grant opens door to decipher the secret sensory world of plants 04 April 2024
Plants not only sense when they are touched, but they can also adapt to it. For example, by strengthening or defending themselves. But how do plants d...
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Gravitation funding for five projects with Leiden researchers 25 March 2024
The Advanced Nano-electrochemistry Institute Of the Netherlands (ANION) consortium will receive 23.6m euros in Gravitation funding for research on imp...
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Dutch Cancer Society allocates funds to a mathematician: for treating Ewing sarcoma with the help of an app 26 January 2024
If doctors could better estimate a patient's chances of survival, this would help in choosing a specific treatment. It would be particularly beneficia...
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Post-quantum cryptography should keep our DigiD, bank accounts and state secrets safe 15 January 2024
Our banking, DigiD and sensitive medical data: what if our entire digital infrastructure can no longer be trusted? Jelle Don has this question permane...
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Leiden quantum technology research very successful in funding call 10 January 2024
No less than six Leiden projects received a grant for quantum research from the national growth programme Quantum Delta NL and the NWO. After all, in ...
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Mathematics across borders: Peter Stevenhagen in Pakistan 18 December 2023
Peter Stevenhagen delivered daily lectures at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering in Lahore, in collaboration with ICTP, a well-known...
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These researchers turn mathematical models into healthcare solutions 12 December 2023
Two Leiden researchers have demonstrated how mathematics can improve our healthcare. Daniel Gomon has developed a model that contributes to the qualit...
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Verifying the correctness of mathematical theorems with a computer 12 December 2023
How correct are mathematical theorems? And is all the theory around them correct? To find out, mathematics student Dominique Lawson converted a mathem...
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How ‘sleeping’ microorganisms can determine the fate of a population 12 December 2023
Microorganisms that temporarily ‘go to sleep’ play an important role in the evolution and survival of a population. Mathematician Shubhamoy Nandan con...
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Honouring a mathematical legacy: Edixhoven fellow tries to understand millennia-old problems 19 October 2023
Not all problems are easy to solve, but with enough bright minds, you make progress step by step. ‘The kind of problems I am interested in have been o...