Promotores: H.W. Lenstra, K. Belabas (University of Bordeaux)

Het Algorithms and Software Technology (AST) onderzoeksprogramma voert onderzoek uit op het gebied van algoritme-ontwerp en analyse.

Promotor: Robert Tijdeman, Co-promotor: Cornelis Kraaikamp

Multi-objective evolutionary computation aims to find high quality (Pareto optimal) solutions that represent the trade-off between multiple objectives.

Het Leidse team 'Geen Syntax', bestaande uit Bas Nieuwenhuizen, Mathijs van de Nes en Raymond van Bommel, heeft in Utrecht de Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) 2013 gewonnen.

Promotor: J. N. Kok, Co-promotor: A. J. Knobbe

This thesis is a collection of theoretical works aiming at adjusting quantum algorithms to the hardware of quantum computers.

HEPGAME is a research project that combines the world’s fastest computer algebra system for High Energy Physics equations, FORM, with insights from artificial intelligence. The name combines High Energy Physics and Games.

PhD Defence

The research in this thesis is focused on tomographic reconstruction based on two imaging modalities in electron microscopy.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, Co-promotor: R.S. de Jong

With the dramatic growth of the image data on the web, there is an increasing demand of the algorithms capable of understanding the visual information automatically.

In this PhD-thesis several new and existing data science application are described that are particularly focused on applications for tax administrations.

Promotors: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. B. Sendhoff (Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Promotores: S.J. Edixhoven, P.Parent

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven

PhD Defence

Promotor: Prof.dr. P. Stevenhagen, Co-promotor: B. de Smit

This thesis describes the Multi-site All-Sky CAmeRA (MASCARA), which consists of two small robotic telescope designed to detect exoplanets around the brightest stars in the sky.

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Promotor: K.J. Batenburg, Co-promotor: A.W. van der Vaart, B. de Smit

Promotores: T.H.W. Bäck, A. Plaat, Co-promotor: F.J. Verbeek

The thesis is part of a bigger project, the HEPGAME (High Energy Physics Game). The main objective for HEPGAME is the utilization of AI solutions, particularly by using MCTS for simplification of HEP calculations.

Less than 1 in 10 drug candidates that enter phase 1 clinical trials actually gets approved for human use.

This monograph focuses on clustering of objects in high-dimensional data, given the restriction that the objects do not cluster on all the attributes, not even on a single subset of attributes, but often on different subsets of attributes in the data.

Computers zijn in staat om ongelooflijk nauwkeurige voorspellingen te doen op basis van machine learning. Met andere woorden, deze computers kunnen zonder tussenkomst leren als ze eenmaal door mensen zijn voorgeprogrammeerd. Bij LIACS verkennen en verleggen we de grenzen van wat een revolutionaire nieuwe…

By training with virtual opponents known as computer generated forces (CGFs), trainee fighter pilots can build the experience necessary for air combat operations, at a fraction of the cost of training with real aircraft.

Promotor: T. Hankemeier, Co-Promotores: T. Reijmers, L. Coulier

In this thesis we will explore the use of fuzzy systems theory for applications in bioinformatics.

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

In this thesis, we use low-frequency and high-frequency radio observations to address the following questions regarding quasars: is the radio loud/quiet quasar dichotomy real?

The next generation of high-contrast imaging instruments on space-based observatories requires sophisticated wavefront sensing and control in addition to a high-performance coronagraph.

Promotores: C. J. ten Cate; M. A. Ainslie. Co-promotor: W. Slabbekoorn

Lecture

It is a common technique in global optimization with expensive black-box functions to learn a surrogate-model of the response function from past evaluations and use it to decide on the location of future evaluations.

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Science, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS)

Het Leidse team ‘Geen Commentaar’ heeft op 16 oktober de finale van de Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest 2011 in Eindhoven gewonnen. De studenten wisten het snelst oplossingen te programmeren voor algoritmische vraagstukken.

Thomas Bäck heeft de Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) CIS Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award gewonnen voor zijn bijdrage aan 'evolutionary computation'.

In 2012 the Pascal chair of the Faculty of Science of Leiden University, and particular of Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), will be held by Prof. Dr. Kyle Gallivan, Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, USA.

The combination of data science and sports is a hot topic. In a talk during the opening of the Academic Year at the Faculty of Science, Professor Joost Kok explained what data analytics can teach us about sports.

The LIACS Media Lab has received a research grant from the worldwide leading graphics hardware company NVIDIA. The grant exists of newly developed hardware utilizing thousands of processors. LIACS researchers will use it to investigate deep learning in understanding imagery from sources such as MRI…

On Saturday, 23 October 2010, the Benelux Algorithm Programming Contest (BAPC) was held in Leiden. In Studentcenter Plexus, 20 teams of students from colleges and universities in the Benelux competed for prizes up to EUR 1024,-. They were given 10 algorithmic programming problems, from which they had…

Lecture

Een international team van wetenschappers op het gebied van ‘Evolutionary Computation’, met onder anderen de Leidse hoogleraar Jaap van den Herik, heeft de Humies Award 2014 gewonnen. Het team ontwikkelde een algoritme dat een schaakprogramma, dat alleen de loop der stukken kent, automatisch laat leren…

Uit handen van Robbert Dijkgraaf ontving staatssecretaris Mona Keijzer op de vooravond van Prinsjesdag de Nationale Agenda Quantum Technologie. Met deze agenda willen Nederlandse kennisinstellingen en bedrijven de Nederlandse voortrekkersrol op dit gebied behouden en versterken. Onderzoekers van de…

Van 24 t/m 26 januari vindt de 11e jaarlijkse conferentie Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) plaats in Brussel. Het Leidse Centrum voor Recht en Digitale Technologie (eLaw) zal in diverse panels vertegenwoordigd zijn.

Humanities

Veel belangrijke onderwerpen in de informatica, zoals de juistheid van software, de efficiëntie van algoritmen en de modellering van gecompliceerde systemen, zijn afhankelijk van een goede theoretische onderbouwing. In de Theoriegroep bestuderen we deze fundamentele bouwstenen en ontwikkelen we verificatiemethoden…