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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. The third speaker is Frans W. Saris, former Dean of Science, physicist, science writer, and critical…

Alumni event, Alumni Association of Archaeology presents:

Learn more about the former members of the Young Academy Leiden who contributed to a better position for young academics. In the academic year 2023-2024, Young Academy Leiden said goodbye to eleven of its members, who became YALumni. In the five years they were member of YAL, they all experienced…

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On Tuesday 11 January, the Meijers Lecture and the New Year's reception will take place at 16.00 hrs. We would like to toast the New Year with you! The Meijers Lecture will be held (in English) by Vasiliki Kosta. You can watch the livestream here or at this page at 11 January 2022.

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On Friday 11 March (16.00 hrs.) Minister Dijkgraaf (Education, Culture and Science) will give a speech at Leiden University entitled ‘When knowledge becomes critical’. In the speech, he will address several critical challenges in science and society. The livestream will be open to all.

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.…

This newsletter provides an update on the various activities of the Turnaround, Rescue and Insolvency Leiden research team (staff members). It takes place, against many developments in Brussels. The European Commission is working on its legislative proposal on business insolvency, including early restructuring…

Preceding the inaugural address of Reinout Vriesendorp as Professor of Insolvency Law at Leiden University: “***+it happens; then and now” a seminar took place on the underestimated effects of hindsight bias in insolvency cases on 23 June 2016.

We are welcoming nominations for the 2023 HJD Book Award ! The HJD Book Award is given to the author(s) of the book that best advances the theoretical and/or empirical study of diplomacy.

Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and Academic Director of the Institute for History, has been elected to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She will be inaugurated as a member on Monday 17 September.

Prof. Iris Wuisman was invited to be a speaker at the inaugural conference of the Partnership, LLP and LLC Academic Forum in Nottingham on 5th April together with David Milman, Geoffrey Morse, Jonathan Hardman, Jason Ellis, Brett Freundenberg and Marco Speranzin.

Een dag na de inauguratie van Donald Trump als nieuwe president van de Verenigde Staten werden zoektermen gelieerd aan Biden, Harris en Obama op Instagram aangemerkt als ‘gevoelige content’. Promovendus Danny Mekic waarschuwt in de Volkskrant voor techbedrijven: ‘Extreem onwenselijk’.

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Below are some of the scholarly works published within the context of the Institutions for Conflict Resolution programme.

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In 2023, many of our students and staff won great prizes and secured important research grants.

In 2021 many of our students and staff won fantastic prizes and were awarded important research grants. This is our traditional review of these successes as the end of one year marks the beginning of another.

Michiel Pronk defended his thesis on 30 March 2016

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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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…

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,…

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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’.

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As part of the EUniWell Open Lecture Series, Dr György Purebl will be speaking on

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…

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