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Silicon pore optics for high-energy optical systems
PhD defence
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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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'Possible Titles - No Wrong Answers'
Lecture, Workshop on zine-making
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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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Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production
Debate
- Public Ethics Talks
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Van Marum Colloquium: Proton-coupled electron transfer at interfaces: the importance of non-ideal isotherms
Lecture
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The Hague Threat Intelligence Exchange (Hague TIX) 2023
Conference
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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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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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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
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Maori Day
Festival
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Exploring Strange New Worlds with High-Dispersion Spectroscopy
PhD defence
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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John Rhoden and African-American Writers and Artists as Cold War Diplomats
Lecture
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MCBIM Colloquium: Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Artificial Photosynthesis
Lecture
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Anthropology of Asia at Leiden Update
Conference, Network event
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LCCP Symposium “Sharing finitude - in memoriam Jean-Luc Nancy”
Conference
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Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
Conference
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Hall of Fame 2017
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed members of academic societies or have taken up positions in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include them…
- Volume 6 (2011)
- Volume 10 (2015)
- With kind regards: Convention, standards and breaking the rules in letter-writing
- Pale Blue Dot Symposium: 30 Years of Pale Blue Dot
- Program 2024
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Tuning in to star-planet interactions at radio wavelengths
PhD defence
- Special Lecture: Making Sense of the Universe
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Interview with Professor Ken Meier: 'Protests, a representative government and the role of leadership'
Professor Ken Meier is one of the most prominent researchers of the world in the field of Public Administration. Meier holds appointments as a professor of Public Administration at Cardiff School of Business (Wales), a professor of bureaucracy and democracy at Leiden University (The Netherlands), research…
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Social Science Matters: How useful is deprivation of liberty?
A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serious crime (...) evokes feelings of disgust and insecurity in society’, Dutch Minister for Justice and Security Grapperhaus comments on the sentence that…
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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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‘Toward the Abolition of Photography’s Imperial Rights’ – Masterclass with Ariella Aisha Azoulay
Masterclass
- Seminar 4: The Formation of Discourse Communities in the Early Middle Ages
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Greedy Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Oort lecture
- Volume 17 (2022)
- Volume 7 (2012)
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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26 Research and Education Grants in 2020 for the Institute of Security and Global Affairs
Whilst 2020 has been an unusual and taxing year for colleagues at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), the Institute nevertheless can look back on an impressive range of successful grant applications during the previous year. This impressive result was achieved on top of excellent results…
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The Secondary Homelands of the Indo-European Languages (IG-AT2022)
Conference
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Actio! Actio! Actio! European Acting Techniques in Historical Perspective
Arts and culture, Symposium
- Volume 15 (2020)
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Second 'Retired and Kicking' symposium
Lecture, Retired and Kicking