Promotor: P.D. Grünwald

The research programme Probability Theory focuses on probability theory and on operations research.

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Leiden University would like to stay in contact with its alumni. That is why we try to keep contact info up to date, but we would also like to stay informed about where you are working after graduation and how your career is progressing.

Schemas are knowledge structures that allow us to make efficient judgments about the world without the cost of memorizing every detail of previous experiences. It has long been known that schemas can enhance long-term memory for related information.

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The organizing committee has decided that the conference will take place fully online. We are currently looking into what is technologically possible in terms of platforms. We are aiming at a combination of hosted paper-videos, which can be watched in advance of the conference, and live sessions in…

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Following current regulations regarding the attempts to constrain the effects of the Corona virus outbreak, the University of Leiden has cancelled all physical forms of teaching until 6 April. As conference organisers, we will use this period to consider how to proceed with the conference. In the most…

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Biologists Michelle Spierings and Ryan Bogaars will both join the Dutch Final of the FameLab Competition on April 21st in Museum Boerhaave, Leiden.

Follow-up steps are currently being taken in the Programme Standards project. The Programme Boards have been asked to prepare an action plan for each programme based on the feedback on the programme reports. The aim is to devise a more effective structure for the curriculum, in order to reduce the pressure…

The updated MRI scanner at the Leiden Institute for Brain and Cognition (LIBC) will become operational on 29 September. The new version is faster and better than the current model.

The building is far from finished, but the former ministry of Internal Affairs is looking more and more like the Academic building for the locations of the University of Leiden in the Hague that it has to become. This week I got a tour behind the scenes of the gigantic project, where I was able to see…

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander Co-Promotor: F.M. Spieksma

The renovation of Cluster Zuid (Van Eyckhof-Van Wijkplaats) is the third project in the development of the Humanities Campus. The circular dismantling of Cluster Zuid has started.

The second call-for-papers has now closed and those who have submitted an abstract will hear whether their papers have been accepted or rejected by the end of November. The organizing team is keeping an eye on all developments regarding the Coronavirus and will decide in December whether ICEHL-21 will…

Due to the by now world-wide Covid19 restrictions on travelling and holding meetings, the committee has decided to cancel the conference in June. We are now looking into postponing the conference (either to a later date in 2020 or to 2021). We will keep you informed about any further developments. All…

The LUC academic staff are involved in many projects because next to their teaching, they are also doing academic research within their fields of expertise. What follows is a short update of some of the special achievements of our staff.

This thesis is based on five papers on several topics.

A new app is able to calculate personalised survival probabilities for patients suffering from soft tissue sarcoma. Doctors and patients can use the app to calculate personalised survival probabilities together. Mathematician Anja Rüten-Budde received her doctorate for her research into survival probability…

Do you want to make sure you're well prepared for the job market, or maybe help your students on their way to a job? Leiden University Career Zone, the University website about the job market, has been updated and it now has more tests, better tools and its own job portal.

The research programme Statistical Science is concerned with the analysis and interpretation of masses of data, the quantification of uncertainty using probability models, and the development and benchmarking of algorithms and methods with these aims.

Leiden University and REALaw organise a Conference and Summer Course on Europeanisation of national administrative law. This will be held from 2-4 September 2019 in the Old Observatory in Leiden. All speakers are confirmed and the programme is now published.

Three times per year Leiden University publishes alumni magazine Leidraad. Leidraad is a publication of the Development & Alumni Relations Department of Leiden University and is sent to all Dutch speaking alumni of the university, free of charge.

The MOOC Terrorism and Counterterrorism: Comparing Theory & Practice was one of the first MOOCs of Leiden University to go live back in September 2013. More than three years have passed and the MOOC has attracted over 100,000 people coming from more than 100 countries.

The Indonesia-Netherlands Security and Rule of Law Update will take place on Wednesday January 17 and Thursday January 18, 2018, in Jakarta and consists of a one-day public symposium and networking opportunity for a larger audience and one day of a series of twelve substantive panel-workshops in smaller…

Promotor: W.Th.F. den Hollander, Co-promotor: F.R. Nardi

From 1 September, the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) will be offering a fully funded regular Master’s programme in Vitality and Ageing.

The members of LUXs develop and validate new methods and algorithms for analysing data, and apply these in a wide range of problems. Their research ranges from multidisciplinary applications to proving mathematical theorems.

Welcome! If you're going to start, you'll probably have a lot of questions: what will LUMC education look like in the coming month? What do you need to know about the corona measures within the LUMC buildings? Below we list where you can find more information, and what the latest announcements are.

The research presented in this thesis makes use of small molecules (as H2 , D2 and O2 ) on well-defined single crystal surfaces (flat Pt(111), flat Cu(211) and curved Pt(111)) to elucidate the role of surface structure and degrees of freedom in the reactant in specific surface reactions.

In accordance with the present travel advice issued by Leiden University and KU Leuven concerning student mobility abroad, it is highly unlikely that the ‘Egyptology in the Field’ programme will be able to take place as normal in Egypt during the 2020-2021 academic year