157 search results for “over sterrewacht” in the Public website
-
Wopke Hoekstra in gesprek met studenten over de NAVO-top
Wopke Hoekstra, outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs visited Campus The Hague on 6 July to talk to students about the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius.
-
Leiden through the eyes of Matthew Fields
Matthew Fields, from Philadelphia, US, came to Leiden to study astronomy as part of the Euroscholars scheme. 'I came here to gain valuable research experience, and I haven't been disappointed!'
-
Leiden astronomers explain the universe in educational videos
A stretchy sheet over a bowl representing space, a marble on it's surface creating a dimple, deforming space. Simple classroom experiments like these are featured in new educational videos by AstroEDU. In the videos Leiden astronomers Maria Cristina Fortuna and Henk Hoekstra explain what we know of…
-
New research centre for studying planet and star formation
The ALMA Local Expertise Group (Allegro) is located in the Leiden Observatory (Sterrewacht). Professor Ewine van Dishoeck: ‘The Netherlands has played an important role in establishing ALMA. Thanks to this subsidy, we can now reap the scientific benefits.'
-
Hendrik Casimir Prize 2016 awarded to Andrea Peña and Jorrit Hortensius
At the LION/Sterrewacht new year’s reception, Prof. Tjerk Oosterkamp handed out the 2016 Hendrik Casimir Prize to physics students Andrea Peña (Leiden) and Jorrit Hortensius (Delft). The Casimir Research School yearly awards the Hendrik Casimir Prize to the best MSc students in (Applied) Physics of…
-
Hendrik Casimir Prize 2017 awarded to Nashwan Sabti and Nikolas Kavadias
At the LION/Sterrewacht new year’s reception, Scientific Director of Casimir Tjerk Oosterkamp handed out the 2017 Hendrik Casimir Prize to physics students Nashwan Sabti (Leiden) and Nikolas Kavadias (Delft). The Casimir Research School yearly awards the prize to the best MSc students in (Applied) Physics…
-
ILLP 2016 off to a flying start
The third edition of the International Leiden Leadership Programme (ILLP) has kicked off with a successful opening seminar at the Sterrewacht.
-
Ongekende Belangen. Over maatschappelijke democratie en bestuurlijke responsiviteit
Inaugural lecture
-
Lecture by Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren: 'Handing Over Responsibility'
Lecture
- Partial Solar Eclipse
-
HundrED selects IAU astroEDU as a top 100 education innovation
AstroEDU is one of the world's most inspiring education innovations, according to the experts at HundrED. It is a recognition for a place where educators can discover, review, change, and share astronomy- and space-related activities for primary and secondary education, and where they can have their…
-
Refugee children explore cosmos with Universe Awareness
In September 2016, the educational programme Universe Awareness (UNAWE) implemented a series of educational activities at Basisschool De Verrekijker, a primary school for refugee children in Katwijk, the Netherlands.
- Book presentation Oort Biography - Piet van der Kruit
- LWSK lecture: the hunt for a second moon
- LWSK Daedalus workshop: In-/finity in mathematics, physics and astronomy
- LWSK Daedalus workshop: helium - a voyage to absolute zero
- LWSK Daedalus workshop: study evening about globular clusters
- LWSK lecture: Jupiter and the Juno mission
- Night of the Night
- National Stargazing Days
- LSWK lecture: Black holes as quantum computers and the strange matter of high-temperature super conduction
- Open Monument Day
- LWSK lecture: The role of ice sheets in climate change and sea level fluctuations from Milankovitsch time scales to IPCC projections for the
- Lancering James Webb Telescoop Event
- Old Observatory closed because of corona virus
- Moons Beyond the Solar System
- Christmas Break
- Museum Night
-
In vertrouwen. Normatieve beschouwing over euthanasie, dementie en de schriftelijke wilsverklaring
PhD defence
- Sun Viewing Day
- LWSK presents: The laserinterferometer Space Antenna
- Science (Wis- en Natuurwetenschappen)
-
“De illusie van het politieke primaat” and “Can the centre hold? Over de robuustheid van de rijksoverheid”
Inaugural lecture
-
A 120 year-old Telescope Gets a Makeover
For the first time more than half century, one of oldest telescopes at Leiden Observatory is getting a major improvement.
-
Spinoza winner Marijn Franx to use successor to Hubble
A permanent exhibition on the place of humans in the cosmos. This is something Franx wants to use his Spinoza Prize for. ‘So much progress has been made that we are still trying to define the questions. In finding the answers we are constantly coming up against surprises.’
-
The Middle East doesn't exist
On Friday 2 October journalist Sander van Hoorn starts his lecture series ‘The Middle East doesn't exist’, which was organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS). ‘If all goes well, people will understand the Middle East that bit less after my lectures.’
- National Sun Watching Day - Online
- ESA Space Talks
-
Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos)
Conference
- Museum Night
- 50 years since the first moon landing
- The Once and Future Moon?
- Night of Discoveries
-
18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
-
What do PAHs do in space?
Xander Tielens, Professor of Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Space, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in space. The combination of astronomical observations, computer models and lab research makes the research highly interdisciplinary.
-
Six university buildings you can visit on the Open Monument Days
Of the 32 historic buildings that are opening their doors to the public on the Open Monument Days on 8 and 9 September, five are University buildings. The Hortus Botanicus is also open.
-
Gamification: improve your course with game didactics
Course
- DansBlok in the observatory - Step into the universe of movement
- Kaiser Lente Lezingen: Launching into the night — a brief history of space exploration
- Open Day