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Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life.

The session features an invited talk by Professor Josh Bongard titled: ‘From rigid to soft to biological robots’. Abstract: Organisms and robots must find ways to return to a viable state when confronted with unexpected internal surprise such as injury, or external surprise, such as a new environment.…

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The Historical Sociolinguistics Network (HiSoN), as sponsored by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) as part of its Historical Sociolinguistics Research and Training Program, is proud to announce the fifth edition of the Historical Sociolinguistics Young Researchers Forum (HSYRF).…

Multi-structured Problems, Linkage Kernels, and the Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm (GOMEA) - Arthur Guijt Most, if not all, real-world problems contain dependencies between its variables. When performing variation, accounting for these dependencies is important to obtain highly scalable…

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The 'Hello World!' series focuses on new encounters and new inspiration, inviting seven speakers with hugely varying backgrounds to give us their perspectives on what they see as currently important.

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Neuroevolution, Trajectories and Landscapes Neuroevolution, the use of evolutionary algorithms to design neural networks, has a long tradition in evolutionary computation with roots in the early 1990s. Traditionally, neuroevolution systems optimise both the neural network topology and its weights. However,…

A lecturer winning a prize, an expert appearing in the media or a professor giving their inaugural speech: these are faces we often see. But we rarely see the staff who work behind the scenes to make their work possible. They are now featured in the photo exhibition ‘The forces behind the faces’.

As part of the EUniWell Open Lecture Series, Dr György Purebl will be speaking on "From knowledge transfer to personal development: The changing needs of Generation Z in higher education" on Thursday, 10 February, 14:00 CET / 13:00 GMT. About the Open Lecture Series EUniWell is united by the shared…

Talk 1: The impact of cost metrics on algorithm configuration Finding the best configuration of algorithms’ hyperparameters for a given optimization problem is an important task in evolutionary computation. While performing an algorithm configuration task, we need to determine the objective, i.e., cost…

PhD student Jie Luo will talk about The Effects of Learning in Morphologically Evolving Robot Systems Simultaneously evolving morphologies (bodies) and controllers (brains) of robots can cause a mismatch between the inherited body and brain in the offspring. To mitigate this problem,…

PhD student Arkadiy Dushatskiy will talk about Surrogate-Assisted Model-Based Evolutionary Algorithms The family of Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithms (GOMEA) has shown excellent performance and scalability in various optimization domains, including combinatorial, real-valued…

How can you teach students what they want to do after graduating by using Design Thinking? Bram Hoonhouts Comenius Project aims to tackle a pressing issue among students: they have little clue what they want to do when they graduate, but are sure that a perfect CV is required. By using the…

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Cosine Marco Beijersbergen has been appointed as one of the distinguished 62 fellows of the Netherlands Academy of Engineering (NAE). With these fellows, the NAE emphasises the importance of technological innovation for sustainable social change. The inauguration is on 13 November.

Last July, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Minister of Education, Culture and Science and Annetje Ottow, President of Leiden University's Executive Board, opened the new front office of the Leiden University office in Jakarta. The office - located on the grounds of the Dutch embassy - has a dual role. Firstly, it…

Yesterday, eight professors were simultaneously inaugurated as ‘Medical Delta professor’, at Leiden University, LUMC, TU Delft, Erasmus University and Erasmus MC. Ariane Briegel, researcher of the Institute of Biology Leiden of Leiden University, also received the double appointment.

Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this edition…

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. This day has been celebrated in the Netherlands since 1912, usually centring around a specific theme. This year’s theme: solidarity, the power for change.

The Vereniging 'Vrienden van het Instituut Kern' is pleased to invite you to the lecture of Dr Abhishek Jain (Gonda Fellow at the IIAS), entitled "Local Biographies in Jain Literary Production".

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This year the Faculty of Archaeology celebrates its 25th birthday! On Thursday the 8th of September we will have a kick off event for this celebratory year. Starting on 16.00 hours, Professor David Fontijn will hold a lecture on the history of the Faculty, after which there are drinks, foodtrucks…

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