Fourteen students in geology, biology, astronomy and mathematics and seven staff members have made a geological excursion to Australia.
The Palaeolithic period extends from the earliest stone tools (and in Europe, earliest occupation) to the beginning of the current warm period.
Hermen Jan Hupkes has been awarded a Rubicon grant by NWO.
Wiskundemeisjes Jeanine Daems and Ionica Smeets will be on television. From Thursday, November 15th on, on Nederland 2, from 9.30-9.45 AM, they will b...
Since 2000 the Leiden Student Council (LSR) yearly awards a prize for the best teacher of the university at the Dies Natalis.
On Saturday, September 29 the wiskundemeisjes have won the NFTVM award (issued by the society of Nieuwe Film- en Televisiemakers), in the category 'in...
On June, Wednesday 27th nine of our ALGANT master students received their diploma. Herewith a very successful ALGANT year has come to an end.
The Leiden archaeologist Wil Roebroeks has been awarded the Spinoza prize for his original observations about early hominins and the development of hu...
Today it was made public that Hendrik Lenstra has been appointed by the Dutch Royal Academy for Sciences (KNAW) as 'Akademiehoogleraar' (Academy Profe...
Ronald Cramer (CWI/Leiden) has been awarded a VICI-grant by the Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research (NWO) for his research on the mathemat...
As of July 1st, 2006 prof. dr. Richard D. Gill has been appointed professor in Mathematical Statistics at our institute, holding the position previous...
Jan Zaanen, Professor in Theoretical Physics of condensed material, has been awarded a Spinoza prize. His pioneering ideas about the collective behavi...
From the NWO Open Competition Frank den Hollander has been awarded a two year postdoc grant, entitled "Wulff shape of critical droplets under stochast...
As of March, 1st, Prof. dr. J. Meulman has been appointed as professor at the Mathematical Institute.
During the Dutch Mathematical Congress, Joost Batenburg has been awarded the Philips Mathematics Prize for PhD students.
