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Jonathan Hak on the paramount importance of the truth – and why we shouldn’t always take images at face value
Hak, lawyer, international imagery law lecturer, and adjunct associate professor, talks about his PhD research on the use of images in international criminal prosecutions. He was a public prosecutor in Canada for over 30 years and dealt primarily with the prosecution of homicides and other major cri…
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Leiden Slavist in Ukraine: ‘My love for Russia has faded’
To read Chekhov in the ‘original’. That was what motivated Arie van der Ent to study Slavic languages and literature with Karel van het Reve at Leiden University. ‘My love for Chekhov hasn’t faded,’ says Van der Ent from his home 60 kilometres south of Kyiv. ‘But it has for the rest of Russia.’
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Students become ‘change agents’ in Sustainability Challenge
Leiden students working to solve a sustainability problem at the request of an external party: that is the Sustainability Challenge. During a recent symposium, 28 groups of four to five students unveiled their solutions. The commisioners expressed great enthusiasm.
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What do you do if your professor winks at you?
Sexual harassment was the theme of the recent annual symposium of student ambassadors to the Leiden-Bollenstreek police in collaboration with the police and the municipality. An extremely important issue to students − if the 100 places being claimed as soon as the symposium was announced was anything…
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Recipients Meijers Grants 2023
At least six people are off to a good start of the summer, because they are the recipients of a Meijers grant. For the next few years, these researchers will be able to devote themselves to their PhD research. Let’s meet these new PhD candidates!
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Motion of stars near Milky Way's central black hole is only predictable for few hundred years
The orbits of 27 stars orbiting closely around the black hole at the center of our Milky Way are very chaotic. As a result, researchers cannot predict with confidence where they will be in about 462 years. ‘That is astonishingly short,’ says astronomer Simon Portegies Zwart who collaborated on the r…
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Minister wants to learn from dissertation on veteran policy
Theo van den Doel received his PhD in January for his research on veteran support. This showed that for long the government learned little from past missions. He has since presented his dissertation to the Lower House of Representatives, and the Minister for Defence, Kajsa Ollongren, has responded to…
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The quest for the magic angle
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science still can't explain how something so magical can happen, but physicists use special equipment to reveal what is taking place under the surface.
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island]
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered Archive Program (Cohort 3). From the 3rd up to the 5th of October, a digitization training workshop took place on Lamu island, on the so-called northern…
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Exploring Open-World Visual Understanding with Deep Learning
PhD defence
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Applications of quantum annealing in combinatorial optimization
PhD defence
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Developmental effects of polystyrene nanoparticles in the chicken embryo
PhD defence
- 5th Meeting reading group 'The Role of Experience'
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Bridging the gap between physics and chemistry in early stages of star formation
PhD defence
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Programming in Python
Training
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Dark Matters
PhD defence
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Computerized Adaptive Testing in Dutch Mental Health Care
PhD defence
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Palladium-catalyzed carbonylative synthesis of carboxylic acid anhydrides from alkenes
PhD defence
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Ruthenium-peptide conjugates for targeted phototherapy
PhD defence
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Expanding the coverage of ecosystem service impacts in Life Cycle Assessment
PhD defence
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Generalization of placebo and nocebo effects on somatosensory sensations
PhD defence
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Squaramide-based supramolecular polymers
PhD defence
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Widening the horizons of outer space law
PhD defence
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United in Distinctiveness
PhD defence
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The Continuity and Discontinuity of Fundamental Military Concepts in Russian Military Thought Between 1856 and 2010
PhD defence
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Met zachte drang
PhD defence
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VVIK Lecture | Uncovering the Manuscript History of the Śrīkaṇṭhacarita: Tracing and Reconstruction
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Opening exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Exhibition
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Probing Cosmic Monsters: Confronting Hydrodynamic Simulations with New Observations of High-density Environments
PhD defence
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Forces and Symmetries in Cells and Tissues
PhD defence
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Cortical contributions to cognitive control of language and beyond
PhD defence
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Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Regulation of autophagy-related mechanisms during bacterial infection
PhD defence
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Republiek op drift?
PhD defence
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The Remains of the Kula Devi: Broken Statuary and Elite Legitimation in Postcolonial Bengal
Lecture, Vrienden van het Instituut Kern
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Decisions under Financial Scarcity
PhD defence
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The Śākadvīpīya Sun Cult from Ancient Times to the Present Day
Lecture, Friends of the Kern Institute
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Before Temples
PhD defence
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Peaceful Alternatives to Asymmetric Conflict
PhD defence
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Surface Temperature and the Dynamics of H2 on Cu(111)
PhD defence
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Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Conference
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An Ontology for Physical Necessity
PhD defence
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On quantum transport in flat-band materials
PhD defence
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The Leiden Dialectology Workshop Series (4) and Introduction to QGIS Workshop
Workshop Series
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Understanding Continuity and Change in US Counterterrorism Policy Through Policymaker Profiles
PhD defence
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Legal Analysis of Access to Old-Age Public Pension Benefits in Rwanda
PhD defence
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Visual analytics for spatially-resolved omics data at single cell resolution: Methods and Applications
PhD defence
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Wrongful moderation: regulation of internet intermediary service provider liability and freedom of expression
PhD defence
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The hunt for frozen organic molecules in space
PhD defence
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Applications of Large Language Models to the Humanities Workshop
Workshop