Promotor: K. Kuijken, Co-Promotor: H. Hoekstra

Promotores: Prof.dr. J. Schaye & Prof.dr. C. Steidel (California Institute of Technology)

Promotor: Prof.dr. J. Schaye, Co-promotor: Marcello Cacciato

Galaxies form and evolve through close interaction with their surroundings. As a result, the heavy elements ('metals') that are synthesized in stars, are found both inside and outside galaxies.

This thesis aims to enhance our understanding of galaxies by testing theoretical models of galaxy formation against observations, particularly in the cases of extreme systems which have been found to have an excess of baryonic mass in their central regions, in the form of either supermassive black holes…

This thesis investigates how galaxies form and what diversifies the evolutionary histories of galaxies.

We investigate the buildup of galaxies from various vantage points. The first two chapters focus on the stellar content of galaxies, especially the distribution of stellar masses at birth and potential variations therein in various galactic environments.

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.

Promotor: J. Schaye

Promotores: H. Schiessel, G.T. Barkema

Promotor: Prof.dr. A. Achucarro

Catalysis is of extreme relevance in the production of everyday materials and plays a central role in many aspects of our life.

Promotor: Prof.dr. R.M.H. Merks

Lezing

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

Promotor: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok

This thesis contributes to studying primordial cosmology theories and their detectability in future observations.

This thesis covers various applications of topology in condensed matter physics and quantum information.

The theoretical explanation of cosmic acceleration is nowadays one of the biggest puzzles in cosmology.

The focus of the dissertation

Lezing

This thesis is about cosmological inflation and its relation to observations.

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M. Danhof, Co-promotor: O.E. Della Pasqua

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

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.

The genetic information of all living organisms is contained in their DNA. Cells modify the degree of DNA compaction by epigenetics, which largely determines what genes are read out and which genes are transcriptionally silent.

Galaxy intrinsic alignments induce a major astrophysical contamination to weak gravitational lensing measurements and need to be modelled and mitigated when extracting cosmological information from such measurements.

The energy system is at the heart of two of the greatest challenges of the 21st century: decreasing CO2 emissions to meet the ambitions of the Paris agreement while fulfilling the growing energy demand associated with the economic aspirations of a growing world population.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S.F. Portegies Zwart

During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.

Congres/symposium

Promotie

In this thesis, the research focuses on the properties of dark matter and dark matter haloes and how they connect with the galaxies we can observe in the Universe.

It has now been well established that shocks and turbulent motions in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) generated through cluster mergers can produce large-scale synchrotron emission.

Promotor: Prof.dr. S. Portegies Zwart

Supervisor: S.F. Portegies Zwart Co-Supervisor: A.G.A. Brown

Promotoren: R. Tijdeman, A.K. Lenstra, Co-promotor: H.J.J. te Riele

Promotores: Prof.dr. T.H.W. Bäck, Prof.dr. M. Bongards (Cologne University)

Astronomen van onder meer SRON en de Sterrewacht Leiden hebben met ESA’s ruimtetelescoop XMM-Newton gas gevonden dat één van de puzzelstukjes vormt om de totale hoeveelheid ‘normale’ materie in het heelal in kaart te brengen. Het onderzoek wordt 21 juni gepubliceerd in Nature.

Lezing, Studium Generale

Promotor: M.T.M. Koper, Co-Promotor: L.B.F. Juurlink

This interdisciplinary research project explores several adaptive machine learning methods which can give insight into the interaction between human and machine. The ultimate goal is open and natural communication between humans and AI that should result in mutual trust, cooperation and coordination…

Promotor: Roeland M.H. Merks

Promotor: Prof.dr. V. Icke, Co-Promotor: T.I. Madura

Promotie

The zebrafish is a promising vertebrate model organism in early drug discovery and development.

Promotie

We strive to address the challenge of constructing a modeling language to write software which can take advantage of recent hardware developments (multicore, cloud) without compromising in its abstraction levels.