Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotores: P.J.A. van Heijster; A. Zagaris

Vast, often populated, areas in dryland ecosystems face the dangers of desertification.

One of the effects of climate change is the phenomenon of desertification, a process that occurs in semi-arid and arid areas and causes land degradation as well as vegetation loss. Due to the lack of resources, vegetation self-organizes to sustain itself by forming large-scale spatial patterns.

Geometric phases lead to a nontrivial interference result when an electron's different quantum mechanical paths choices encircle a magnetic coil in an Aharonov-Bohm experiment.

What happens to electrical waves that have to cross gaps in insulation material around nerves in the human body

Promotor: Arjen Doelman, Co-promotor: Vivi Rottschäfer

Promotor: A. Doelman, Co-promotor: J.D.M. Rademacher

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-promotor: O.W. van Gaans

This thesis is is made of three parts. The first part describes a generalization of the Chabauty's method, that can be used to determine the rational points of a curve such that s+g>r+1, where g is the genusof the curve, r is the rank of the Mordell-Weil group of the jacobian of the curve and s is…

Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: G.A. Palma

This PhD thesis concerns the topic of arithmetic geometry. We address three different questions and each of the questions in some way is about counting how big some set is or can be.

We consider the propagation of electrical signals through nerve fibres.

Arithmetic geometry concerns the number-theoretic properties of geometric objects defined by polynomials. Mathematicians are interested in the rational solutions to these geometric objects.

Promotor: V. Vitelli, Co-promotor: J. Paulose

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.J. Batenburg

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

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Chemical-induced organ toxicity is a major concern in the development and use of chemicals, including drugs, pesticides, industrial chemicals and cosmetics. In the last decades, the onset and progression of chemical-induced organ toxicity has been linked amongst others to perturbation of mitochondri…

This work is dedicated to interpreting in cohomological terms the special values of zeta functions of arithmetic schemes.

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

This thesis is dedicated to the exploration of the primordial dark ages: unknown physics during the earliest stages of the Universe’s expansion that have not yet been directly probed by observations. Cosmic inflation is a burst of exponential expansion of space after the “Big Bang”.

Promotor: Prof.dr. M.L. van Hecke, Co-Promotor: V. Vitelli

Promotores: Bas Edixhoven, Jean-Benoit Bost, Co-promotor: Robin de Jong

Promotores: P. Stevenhagen, L. van Geemen Co-promotor: R.M. van Luijk

This thesis aims to demonstrate how the achromatic nature and design flexibility of liquid-crystal optics can be used to improve high-contrast imaging instruments to facilitate detailed exoplanet characterization.

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotores: S.C.Hille, O.W. van Gaans

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In design optimization problems, engineers typically handcraft design representations based on personal expertise, which leaves a fingerprint of the user experience in the optimization data. Thus, learning this notion of experience as transferrable design features has potential to improve the performance…

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This thesis concerns the relation bettween the good reduction of Shimura varieties and the associated loop groups.

Promotor: S.J. Edixhoven, L.D.J. Taelman

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Promotor: A. Achúcarro, Co-Promotor: J.W. van Holten

Promotores: A.P. IJzerman, H.W.T. van Vlijmen

Promotor: S.M. Verduyn Lunel, Co-Promotor: O.W. van Gaans

Promotor: Prof.dr. B. van de Water

The molecular mechanisms that instigate a healthy cell to become malignant are fueled by (epi)genetic alterations in so-called driver genes.

The focus of the dissertation

This thesis deals with properties of Jacobians of genus two curves that cover elliptic curves.

Promotor: J. van der Greef; Co-promotor: E. van Wijk, M. Wang

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This PhD-thesis presents a study on micron-sized particles, so-called colloids. By controlling the chemical and physical properties of these particles, such as the interparticle interaction and the particles’ shape, colloids can act as building blocks that self-assembly into larger structures.

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 this work, we investigate the minute circular dichroism effects of single nanoparticles.To this aim, we apply photothermal imaging with a polarization-modulated heating beam.

In this dissertation non-parametric Bayesian methods are used in the application of robotic vision.

De Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) heeft het Graduiertenkolleg 'Moduli and Automorphic Forms: Arithmetic and Geometric Aspects' voor een periode van 4,5 jaar met een bedrag van 1,8 ME gehonoreerd.

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Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leiden Academic Centre for Drug Research (LACDR)

Arthur Crucq, alumnus Kunstgeschiedenis en momenteel promovendus aan de Universiteit Leiden, heeft dit jaar de Ted Meijer-prijs in ontvangst mogen nemen van het Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome (KNIR).

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