697 search results for “james webb space telescope” in the Public website
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Vivian Ng: ‘Because of my job, I’m meeting new people, so it doesn’t feel like working to me’
Vivian studies the Global Political Economy specialisation of the MA International Relations and is the coordinator of the Humanities Buddy Programme. Originally from Malaysia, she has been studying abroad in various places. At Leiden, she focuses her studies on illicit political economy and ensures…
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Freon-40 may not be a useful marker of life
Observations made with the ALMA telescope in Chile and ESA’s Rosetta mission, have detected the faint molecular fingerprint of methyl chloride in gas, a chemical commonly produced by industrial biological processes on Earth, around both an infant star and a comet. Methyl chloride, also known as Freon-40,…
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MRI for planning and characterization of uveal melanoma patients treated with proton beam therapy
PhD defence
- Midsummer Night
- Partial Solar Eclipse
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Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity: Looking back and moving forward
Conference, Symposium
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CPP Colloquium “A cultural theory of deliberation”
Lecture
- The Once and Future Moon?
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes
Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Netherlands now demands a re-evaluation of Dutch colonial responsibilities. By recovering knowledge of these gains, this project will measure the wealth obtained…
- Museum Night
- 50 years since the first moon landing
- Midsummer Night
- National Stargazing Days
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Similar but not the same - methods and applications of quantitative MRI to study muscular dystrophies
PhD defence
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Spectral Infrastructure - On Unhoused Music, (Im)Possible Realism, and the Unarchivable
Arts and culture, Symposium
- The internet of 100 years ago
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Van Marum Colloquium: Proton-coupled electron transfer at interfaces: the importance of non-ideal isotherms
Lecture
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Poster sessions
Speech Prosody 2024 includes several poster sessions, the description of which you can find below.
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Monthly Reads | Project 0100
Each month we will be spotlighting material we have been reading, or that have been recommended to us that relate to AI and a particular theme.
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Software, star clusters and supercomputers
Simon Portegies Zwart, professor of Computational Astrophysics, uses computers to simulate the evolution of stars. We speak with him about his field and about the challenges of working with huge amounts of complex data.
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Van Engelshoven’s Letter to Parliament calls for more funding for science
‘Academics have descended from their ivory tower, but there’s still too little action or financing.’ Leiden professor of Science Communication Ionica Smeets saw all her wishes come true on 28 January, with the presentation of the Letter to Parliament sent by Minister Van Engelshoven of the Ministry…
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The Humanities Buddy Programme: definitely recommended
Many international students start their master programme at the Humanities Faculty in Leiden every semester. Among them also Ronghu Zu (29, China), Yucheng Lu (28, China), Mariana Diaz (25, Mexico) en Julia Seidel (27, Germany). For many students the university, city and country were completely new…
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14 Veni grants awarded to Leiden researchers
Fourteen promising researchers from Leiden University have been given the opportunity to realise their research plans for the coming years thanks to a Veni grant from the NWO. This year, these subsidies have been granted to studies of the influence of noise on the great tit, the conditions necessary…
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2018 Hall of Fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2018 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
- Museum Night
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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LCCP Symposium “Sharing finitude - in memoriam Jean-Luc Nancy”
Conference
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MCBIM Colloquium: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Artificial Photosynthesis
Lecture
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John Rhoden and African-American Writers and Artists as Cold War Diplomats
Lecture
- Volume 10 (2015)
- Volume 6 (2011)
- Program 2024
- Pale Blue Dot Symposium: 30 Years of Pale Blue Dot
- Special Lecture: Making Sense of the Universe
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3 October University: big science for small people
‘I already gave a talk about planets when I was five.’ With the theme of the 3 October celebrations being ‘Jong geleerd is oud gedaan’ (meaning something like, ‘You’re never too young to learn’), this year’s 3 October University was especially for children. Many parents came with their offspring to…
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
- Seminar 4: The Formation of Discourse Communities in the Early Middle Ages
- Volume 17 (2022)
- Volume 7 (2012)
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
- Volume 15 (2020)
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Second 'Retired and Kicking' symposium
Lecture, Retired and Kicking
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Dies Natalis
University ceremony
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Lunch Time Seminars
The biweekly Lunch Time Seminar is an online only event, but it is not publicly accessible in real-time. If you would like to attend one of the upcoming sessions, please send an email to sails@liacs.leidenuniv.nl.
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Publications
Recent publications