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Royal honour for emeritus professor Ad IJzerman
Ad IJzerman, Emeritus Professor of Pharmacochemistry, was made a Knight of the Order of the Lion of the Netherlands on 26 April. He was presented with the royal honour by Mayor Elbert Roest in the town hall in Bloemendaal.
- Book presentation Oort Biography - Piet van der Kruit
- LWSK Daedalus workshop: In-/finity in mathematics, physics and astronomy
- LWSK Daedalus workshop: helium - a voyage to absolute zero
- LWSK lecture: Jupiter and the Juno mission
- LWSK Daedalus workshop: study evening about globular clusters
- LWSK lecture: the hunt for a second moon
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Scales of Luminosity
Lecture, Walks and Talks
- Night of the Night
- National Stargazing Days
- LWSK lecture: The role of ice sheets in climate change and sea level fluctuations from Milankovitsch time scales to IPCC projections for the
- Lancering James Webb Telescoop Event
- LSWK lecture: Black holes as quantum computers and the strange matter of high-temperature super conduction
- Old Observatory closed because of corona virus
- Open Monument Day
- Christmas Break
- Museum Night
- LWSK presents: The laserinterferometer Space Antenna
- Sun Viewing Day
- Science (Wis- en Natuurwetenschappen)
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From forming embryo to cancer metastasis: the significance of collective cell movement
Luca Giomi has the first results of his ERC consolidator grant. He discovered that epithelial cells move collectively but in different ways, depending on the scale you look at. It is hexatic at small scales, and becomes nematic at larger scales: it is a multiscale order. This collective movement of…
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Four questions about the Leiden Law Academy for team leader Linda van Dun
The Legal Post-graduate Training (JPAO) of Leiden Law School changed its name to Leiden Law Academy on 1 May 2023. A new name for the educational programme for professionals and the place to be for events and conferences. What changes will be made and what does the team hope to achieve in the coming…
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young Leiden University researchers
The European Research Council has awarded a Starting Grant to five early career scientists from Leiden University. They received funding up to 1.5 million euros to further expand on their research subject.
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Introducing ... the event coordinators of Leiden Law Academy
As of 1 May 2023, JPAO is continuing under the name Leiden Law Academy: a new name for the department that organises and facilitates our faculty’s legal postgraduate education (Juridisch PAO). A new event agency has also been added to the department to help organise the conferences and events of Leiden…
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Spinoza winner Marijn Franx to use successor to Hubble
A permanent exhibition on the place of humans in the cosmos. This is something Franx wants to use his Spinoza Prize for. ‘So much progress has been made that we are still trying to define the questions. In finding the answers we are constantly coming up against surprises.’
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The Middle East doesn't exist
On Friday 2 October journalist Sander van Hoorn starts his lecture series ‘The Middle East doesn't exist’, which was organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS). ‘If all goes well, people will understand the Middle East that bit less after my lectures.’
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A 120 year-old Telescope Gets a Makeover
For the first time more than half century, one of oldest telescopes at Leiden Observatory is getting a major improvement.
- ESA Space Talks
- National Sun Watching Day - Online
- Summer Celebration Honours Academy 2023
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Leiden/Bielefeld Workshop on Comparative Syntax (LeiBieCos)
Conference
- Museum Night
- 50 years since the first moon landing
- Moons Beyond the Solar System
- Night of Discoveries
- The Once and Future Moon?
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Karina Caputi on the early universe
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Nienke van der Marel on astrochemistry
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Six university buildings you can visit on the Open Monument Days
Of the 32 historic buildings that are opening their doors to the public on the Open Monument Days on 8 and 9 September, five are University buildings. The Hortus Botanicus is also open.
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What do PAHs do in space?
Xander Tielens, Professor of Physics and Chemistry of the Interstellar Space, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to study polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in space. The combination of astronomical observations, computer models and lab research makes the research highly interdisciplinary.
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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The Gaia telescope: mapping 1 billion stars with 1 billion pixels
Lecture, Kaiser Lente Lezing
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Maori Day
Festival
- The internet of 100 years ago
- Open Day
- Kaiser Lente Lezingen: Launching into the night — a brief history of space exploration
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Gamification: improve your course with game didactics
Course
- DansBlok in the observatory - Step into the universe of movement
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Pitfalls of discretionary conduct
Judicial officers have some leeway in how they act. In most cases that's fine, but it can also lead to abuses, such as ethnic profiling. It is easy to forget that these are not isolated decisions, but are also part of a framework of formal policies. Professor Maartje van der Woude calls for more comprehensive…
- Leiden Observatory Festival - Dive into the Universe