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Veni awards for seventeen young Leiden researches
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded Veni funding to seventeen researchers who recently obtained their PhD. This award offers promising young scientists the opportunity to develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights
The Sackler Distinguished Lecture Series on Human Rights was established at Leiden University through an endowment given by Dr. Raymond R. Sackler and his wife, Beverly, international philanthropists with a commitment to supporting scientific research. The lectures mark the annual celebration of International…
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Conference Hazelhoff Centre: Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets
To celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law, the conference ‘Public and Private Regulation of Financial Markets’ was held on the 11th of May 2017 at law firm Stibbe in Amsterdam. The conference attracted an international audience originating from more than five different…
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Success for Leiden with Vidi subsidies
NWO has awarded a Vidi subsidy to a total of 89 young and innovative researchers. Leiden researchers have won twelve of these subsidies and three subsidies have gone to the LUMC. Each researcher will receive up to 800,000 euro to develop a particular research theme or to set up a research group.
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Call for Papers Conference: The "Others" amongst "Us"
The conference 'The
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When will there be a coronavirus vaccine?
The genetic code of the new coronavirus has been found: it is closely related to the SARS virus from 2003. Professor of Molecular Virology, Eric Snijder, has been researching coronaviruses for years. We asked him a few questions about the outbreak. ‘It’s still unclear whether this new virus is more…
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure
In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded that they constituted a genuine Roman treasure. Here follows a reconstruction in three acts.
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COVID Radar is a good predictor of increasing infections
The COVID Radar app is citizen science at its best. More than 200,000 users in the Netherlands are answering questions about their health and behaviour to help predict the development of the pandemic. Niels Chavannes, Professor of General Practice at Leiden University Medical Center, explains how the…
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The best exam tips from Leiden’s student psychologists
Are you a school or university student, and do you feel very anxious before and during exams? Take advantage of these tips by Leiden student psychologists, from how to stop ruminating to how to conquer a black-out.
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Webb data suggest potential atmosphere around rocky exoplanet
Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope may have detected atmospheric gases surrounding 55 Cancri e, a hot rocky exoplanet 41 light-years from Earth. This is the best evidence to date for the existence of any rocky planet atmosphere outside our solar system.
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Looking for love: how we can fool ourselves when we are into someone
Can we truly assess whether someone finds us attractive? Cognitive psychologist Iliana Samara conducted her PhD project on romantic attraction and discovered that men, in particular, tend to overestimate the interest of their date. She explains why this may be.
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Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
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CCLS Matchmaking Event
Conference, Matchmaking Event
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Towards conversational information seeking
Lecture
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Models Combination in Multi-stage Information Retrieval Architectures
Lecture
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A Brief Introduction to Reinforcement Learning
Lecture
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LED3 Lecture: Organoids to model human health and disease in vitro
Lecture
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Detailed Video Understanding
Lecture
- IBL Spotlight - Evolution and Biodiversity
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Constrained and Multirate Training of Neural Networks
Lecture
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A brief introduction to GPU programming and optimization
Lecture
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Computational User Modelling
Lecture
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Leiden University College The Hague Celebrates The Graduating Class of 2019 ½
On 5 February 2020, Leiden University College celebrated the graduation of its Class of 2019 ½. Referencing Aladdin’s ‘A Whole New World’, Dean Judi Mesman praised the graduates’ achievement and encouraged them to pursue new horizons on their journey that has just took off.
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…
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Wherefore Phonology?
Lecture, LUCL Colloquium - Lunch Series '23/'24
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Archaeozoology is essential to modern environmental management
Lecture
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Access to Justice in Today’s Libya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Learning to perceive: Psychological and neural processes underlying placebo and nocebo effects on cutaneous sensations
PhD defence
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Minimal success and its associated inferences: Telicity marking with V-DAO in Mandarin Chinese
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Remnants of the Semitic case system in Old Aramaic
Lecture, Summer School evening lectures
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Offensive Cyber Operations: Understanding Intangible Warfare
Lecture
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Cosmic tomography with weak gravitational lensing
PhD defence
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Cross-border International Crimes: the Reach of the ICC's Jurisdiction
Conference
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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The Great Rectification: A New Paradigm for China’s Online Platform Economy
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Gig economy and digital labour in Iran: what space for workers’ rights between public discourses and legal practices?
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture
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Aging nationally in contemporary Poland| Jessica Robbins
Lecture, Online webinar
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LTP Lecture: Frege’s Logic: From 'Begriffsschrift' to 'Grundgesetze'
Lecture
- Van Marum Colloquium: Unraveling Catalytic Reactions at the Solid-Gas and Solid-Liquid Interface – Active Sites and their Surroundings
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Interaction of syntax and information structure: Focus-driven T-to-C movement of modal auxiliaries
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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LUC The Hague: Decision-making about Corona -related Policies at LUC
In these uncertain times when we all have to adapt to new circumstances, LUC is working hard to develop and implement changes in procedures and guidelines for staff and students. We would like to explain how this is organized, because staff and students are not always aware of the many steps that are…
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Eduard Fosch-Villaronga awarded ERC Starting Grant
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga from Leiden University has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This grant of 1.5m euros enables talented early-career scholars to start their own pioneer project, lead a research team, and implement their best ideas at the frontiers of their…
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LUC student Jennifer Pfister on Deconstructing Generation Z
Social entrepreneur, Co-Founder of 'Women in Innovation and Leadership' and LUC student. In a recent article published by German news outlet 'Bento' third year student in Governance, Economics and Development Jennifer Pfister spoke about her role as a social entrepreneur and student at LUC.
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At LUC, the Hague Forest is a classroom
Rain or shine: in the course ‘The Ecology Project’ students of Leiden University College visit the nature of The Hague each week.
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Computational modeling of non-native phonetic learning and spoken word processing
Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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Random Erasing
Lecture
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A glimpse into my research between Bayesian Optimization and Mechanics
Lecture
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LED3 Lecture: Harnessing the Chemistry of Natural Product Biosynthesis
Lecture