The sequence-dependence of biomolecular interactions involving nucleic acids and proteins is essential for numerous processes inside the cell. Insights into the underlying molecular mechanisms have been obtained using various biochemical and biophysical methods on two different levels — bulk and sin…

To an algebraic curve C over the complex numbers one can associate a non-negative integer g, the genus, as a measure of its complexity.

With the advent of multicore processors and data centers, computer hardware has become increasingly parallel, allowing one to run multiple pieces of software at the same time on different machines. Coordination of these pieces is best expressed in a coordination language as an explicit interaction protocol…

In my research, we developed a method to distinguish knots. A knot is a mathematical depiction of the everyday knot that occurs in ropes and cords.

The University of Amsterdam is looking for a PhD researcher in the NWO-funded project "Staging Nobility in Urban Space. The Nassau Dynasty and the Towns of the Low Countries (c. 1400-c. 1570)". This PhD project identifies the impact the Nassau dynasty had on urban space in the Low Countries and investigates…

CML-IA is a database that contains characterisation factors for life cycle impact assessment (LCIA) and is easily read by the CMLCA software program.

Most of current public-key cryptography is considered insecure against attacks from sufficiently powerful quantum computers. Post-quantum cryptography studies methods to secure information resistant against such attacks. One proposal is isogeny-based cryptography, which bases its security on computational…

A Josephson junction is a device where a thin insulating barrier or a nanostructure is placed between two superconducting leads. Such a junction is essential to superconducting qubits that store quantum information due to its anharmonic spectrum.

How does one become a guest author for Nobel Prize winner Dr. Denis Mukwege Foundation? One of our alumni, Mariasole Forlani, can tell you all about it.

The 2019 Model ICAO took place from 21-24 May at the ICAO headquarters in Montreal.

Sociale Wetenschappen, Politieke Wetenschap

Athletes always strive for the top. How can data scientists assist them in improving their performance? During the seminar Data Science and Sports, the possibilities and challenges of collaboration between these two worlds were discussed.

On 4 and 5 November 2021 an ICOG-workshop will be held on the cognitive turn in history. It is possible to attend this workshop online. The participants of the workshop are cultural and intellectual historians of the pre-modern periods and/or of the historiography of academia from a long-term perspective,…

On June 26-28, 2024, the Annual Conference of the International Society for the Study of Medieval Theology will take place. The theme this year is "The End: Finiteness, Death and Completion in Medieval Theology". Deadline for paper proposals: 20 December 2023.

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Mathematisch Instituut (MI)

How to ensure the environmental and economic benefits of circularity transition at macro-scale?

The project

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

From 2 to 4 September 2024, the University of Fribourg organizes a three-day graduate course on multilingual manuscripts in the middle ages. Apply before: April 8, 2024.

On Wednesday 16 October 2024 the project ‘(Re)counting the Uncounted. Replication and Contextualisation of Dutch and Belgian Premodern Population Estimates (1350-1800)’ will take place at the International Institute of Social History (Cruquiusweg 31, Amsterdam). The project presentation is preceded…

In this thesis, we extend the concept of null models as canonical ensembles of multi-graphs with given constraints and present new metrics able to characterize real-world layered systems based on their correlation patterns.

In this thesis,

Religion, Philosophy, and the Pre-modern World

In de pre-PhD fase zoekt het Dual PhD Centre, samen met de kandidaat, een geschikte promotor en de juiste graduate school. De promotor speelt een cruciale rol bij het werken aan een dissertatie of proefschrift. Onder haar of zijn leiding wordt het dissertatieplan (voortkomend uit het onderzoeksvoorstel)…

Leiden Law School and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies are very pleased to announce that Dr. Mamadou Hébié will be re-joining the Grotius Centre on the 1st of May 2021.

This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

Ter gelegenheid van het 400e jubileum van de eerste publicatie van 'De jure belli ac pacis' door Hugo Grotius in 1625, wordt een internationaal congres georganiseerd door Stichting Grotiana, het Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence van de Universiteit van Amsterdam, het Grotius Centre for Legal Studies…

Loopbaan en solliciteren

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen

Lezing

Course Program 2023-2024

Studievoorlichting

Promotores: G.R. de Snoo, B. Sinsin, Co-Promotor: H.H. de Iongh

Velen zagen de VN Summit of the Future als hét moment van de waarheid voor de Verenigde Naties en hun toekomstplannen voor de wereld. Joris Larik, universitair docent internationaal en EU recht, duidt de resultaten.

On 5 and 6 june 2024, the conference The Senses, Cognition, and the Body in Medieval Devotional Practices is organised at the University of Padova. The organisers welcome abstracts for 25-minute papers in English or Italian, to be submitted by November 30.

Intensive 5-day programme on the world-famous Antwerp-based printing and publishing house founded by Christopher Plantin in 1555. International experts will discuss how it developed the production and distribution of religious books and related illustrations and prints in the following centuries.

Promotie

Op 14 en 15 september vond de workshop ‘Lobbying the Courts’ in Parijs plaats. Het betrof een interdisciplinaire workshop, waarin onderzoekers vanuit verschillende disciplines samenkwamen om te brainstormen over de vraag of, hoe en wanneer belangenorganisaties zich in hun lobbystrategieën richten…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Instituut Biologie Leiden (IBL)

On January 8 and 9, a conference will take place at Leiden University, titled: "The Plurality of Early Modern Media: 21st-Century Perspectives on Interdisciplinary Research in the Humanities". This conference marks the 25 years anniversary of the Intersections series (published by Brill) and reflects…

Binnen het onderzoeksproject "Governing and Building the City: Mirrors for Magistrates as a Lieu for Theoretical Reflection on Architecture" lopen er momenteel twee vacatures voor een doctoraatsstudent en een post-doctoraal onderzoeker. Kandidaten kunnen solliciteren tot 15 mei 2024.

Do selenium nanoparticles in fish food cause subtle alterations in behavior of fish: effect of particles size and concentration?

From October 17 to October 20, the international conference "Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling" will take place at the Dutch Royal Institute in Rome. Research Master students can obtain 2 ECTS by participating in this conference an an additional…

Promotie

On January 25, the University of Antwerp organizes a workshop around the theme of "The Fragmented City in Premodern Europe". The workshop is free to attend, but registration is necessary.