Lezing, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights

This research project studies the distribution and impact of medieval malaria in the Netherlands.

On Friday, 29 October 2021 (15.15-17.00), this year’s lecture will be delivered by Prof. Howard Louthan, (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA) at the Faculty Club of Leiden University. It will be titled ‘Revisiting a Renaissance Classic: Theuerdank, Maximilian I (1486-1519) and the Discovery of…

Prof.dr. Peter Bisschop, hoogleraar Sanskrit en Oude Culturen van Zuid-Azië, heeft een NWO Vrije Competitie subsidie verworven voor zijn onderzoek naar de snelle opkomst van het Shivaïsme in de zesde en zevende eeuw in Zuid- en Zuidoost-Azië. Het onderzoek getiteld 'From Universe of Visnu to Universe…

De opkomst, verbreiding en neergang van de beerput in stedelijke context

De Universiteit Leiden gaat twee nieuwe opleidingen economie aanbieden in Den Haag. Het gaat om de bachelor Economie en Samenleving en de master Economie van de Publieke Sector. De NVAO heeft beide Nederlandstalige opleidingen goedgekeurd en geaccrediteerd. De bacheloropleiding is een gezamenlijke opleiding…

Eerstejaars bachelor studenten Security Studies kregen een interactief gastcollege van Han van Midden, voormalig burgemeester van Roosendaal.

‘Moedig en lovenswaardig’, noemde de facultaire commissie de scriptie. Studente Geesteswetenschappen Annika Schmeding won de eerste prijs bij de Leidse Universitaire Scriptieprijzen 2015. Voor haar onderzoek ‘Who’s the real ‘nomad’ in Afghanistan?’ ontving ze de hoofdprijs van 3000 euro.

Elk jaar wordt de ‘Kluitersprijs’ uitgereikt aan studenten die excellente resultaten hebben behaald tijdens de minor Intelligence Studies.

Het interdisciplinaire studieprogramma Social Resilience and Securiy biedt in het studiejaar 2022-2023 een nieuwe minor voor startende derdejaars bachelor studenten die geïnteresseerd zijn in interpersoonlijk geweld. De nieuwe minor valt goed in de smaak bij studenten: de inschrijvingen zaten binnen…

Hoogleraar Peter Bisschop ontvangt een ERC Advanced-beurs. Hij gaat het bedrag van ongeveer 2,5 miljoen euro besteden aan onderzoek naar purana’s: geschriften in het Sanskriet van soms meer dan vijftienhonderd jaar oud.

This multidisciplinary minor provides students with knowledge on how and why humans became the way they are. The minor focuses on the evolution of the species Homo sapiens from other hominin lineages and animal ancestors, and on the various factors shaping this process. Not only is human evolution of…

Promotores: Prof.dr. M. Franx, Prof.dr. M. Kriek (Univ. of California at Berkeley)

Data theory research on the analysis on the multidimensional data

This thesis describes how complex and real-world relevant analytical solutions can be found starting from a simple Nagumo problem posed on one or two-dimensional lattices.

The work described in this Thesis is focused on the assembly of oligosaccharide fragments derived from a fungal polysaccharide, galactosaminogalactan (GAG) and fragments of the exopolysaccharide Pel, generated by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Contributions to the UNEP international panel for sustainable resource management

Freshwater biodiversity has been threatened by eutrophication due to excessive nutrients in the environment. Releasing the freshwater species from such pressures requires efforts from industry and manufacturers to avoid emissions to vulnerable and high-risk regions.

BlaC is the β-lactamase of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. We show that it can recover from inhibition by clavulanic acid and that phosphate helps it do so.

We investigate how radiation pressure can be used to influence the mechanical motion of a micro-mirror suspended from springs.

Leiden University’s Academic Challenge

In this thesis we study quantum transport phenomena on the nanometer scale, in two classes of materials: topological insulators with induced superconductivity and graphene superlattices.

You are invited to sign in for the Tabula Gratulatoria for a volume that has been composed for the occasion of Prof. Dr Marc Boone’s retirement.

Hoe dachten de anglosaksen over de ervaring van het ouder worden? Was het echt een gouden tijd voor de ouderen zoals werd gesuggereerd?

Debtelin (’boekje’ in het Mantsjoe) is een initiatief van de Leidse sinoloog en mantsjoeïst Fresco Sam-Sin en is gevuld met artikelen van Leidse studenten en onderzoekers sinologie.

Hoe definiëren we het werk van een filmregisseur wiens films vele vastgestelde grenzen tegelijk overschrijdt?

How were the Russians, under early modern conditions, able to incorporate this distant, undeveloped and, because frequent nomadic attacks, dangerous territory? And what role did the Kolyvan-Voskresensk plants play in this process?

Corruption, integrity (or a lack thereof…) and public values are near omnipresent elements in public administration and politics of all times. Cases of corrupt public officials and politicians continuously emerge. Strangely enough, however, it often remains unknown what actually occurred, how something…

Aim: To develop and enable application of a practical, flexible, user-friendly platform to provide the scientific community with a tool to generate land surface products and its associated uncertainties and exploit these for data-intensive science.

This thesis contains results on the arithmetic and geometry of del Pezzo surfaces of degree 1.In Chapter 1 we give the necessary background, assuming the reader is familiar with algebraic geometry.

De Scriptieprijs 18e Eeuw gaat dit jaar naar alumna Literary Studies Azinat Abubakari. Haar helder geschreven scriptie over de wisselwerking tussen gender en ras in Franse literaire werken uit de late achttiende en vroege negentiende eeuw gooide hoge ogen.

For centuries astronomers studied the Universe by collecting light. Nowadays, we are living in times of great technological advancements, which allow us to explore our Universe in a new way - though gravitational wave radiation.

Wetland plants are distinguished from plants of other terrestrial ecosystems by their adaptations to specific habitat stresses, including waterlogged and flooding and the subsequent abundance of phytotoxic compounds.

Mechanical metamaterials are man-made materials which derive their unusual properties from their structure rather than their composition.

This article 'Shaping the European External Action Service and its post-Lisbon crisis management structures: an assessment of the EU High Representatives’ political leadership' assesses the role, influence and core aspects of the EU High Representatives’ (HR/VPs) “political leadership” in the context…

Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

The high velocity tail of the total velocity distribution of stars provides essential insight into fundamental properties of the Galaxy.

The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.

Promotores: G.A. Persoon, H.H. de Iongh

In his dissertation Michiel Hooykaas outlines the results of six empirical research projects focused at biodiversity awareness in the Netherlands, specifically people’s knowledge about animals.

Promotor: E. Gittenberger, Co-promotor: B.W. Hoeksema

Artin L-functions associated to continuous representations of the absolute Galois group G_K of a global field K capture a lot of information about G_K as well as arithmetic properties of K.

I have studied the hot, diffuse gas around and between galaxies. Specifically, I have used the EAGLE numerical simulations of galaxy formation to predict the properties of this gas, and I have used those properties to predict specific observables: soft X-ray absorption and emission lines.

Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

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The radio sky harbours both galactic and extragalactic sources of arcminute- to degree-scale emission of various physical origins. To discover extragalactic diffuse emission in the Cosmic Web beyond galaxy clusters, one must image low–surface brightness structures amidst a sea of brighter compact fore-…

Self-assembly is an abundant process in nature and is vital to many processes in living organisms.

Optimization tasks in practice have multifaceted challenges as they are often black box, subject to multiple equality and inequality constraints and expensive to evaluate.