Lezing, NGL-lezing

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 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.

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…

When observing star-forming galaxies, we are not only seeing stellar light, but we also see how this interacts with galactic gas and dust. This thesis contains studies of the stellar, nebular and dust properties of low mass star-forming galaxies.

Hot astrophysical plasma is ubiquitous in the Universe, from comets in our Solar system to the largest scale structures -- the cosmic web filaments. These hot plasmas, with the temperature of a few millions of degrees, are often observed in the X-ray wavelength range.

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.

Promotor: Prof.dr. P.G.L Klinkhamer, Co-promotor: K. Vrieling

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.

Creating a framework to assess the sustainability of fish farms which will set sustainability standards and give consumers information about the the sustainability and safety of their seafood.

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

Real-life processes are characterized by dynamics involving time. Examples are walking, sleeping, disease progress in medical treatment, and events in a workflow.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

This proposed research uses ego-documents from visual artists that were not intended for publication to reassess the scholarly debate on the demise of the Russian Avant-garde aesthetic in the twenties and early thirties of the 20th century.

Studievoorlichting

De strategische leiding van de Europe Hub ligt bij een Stuurgroep, samengesteld uit leden van verschillende faculteiten van de Universiteit Leiden. De stuurgroep houdt zich bezig met zaken als algemene visie, personeel, communicatie, budget, output en impact.

Tuberculosis (TB) is associated with 1.5 million deaths annually. There is a need exists to optimize both current as well as novel antibiotic combination treatment strategies to improve the effectiveness and safety of treatments against TB.

Project TARGET is een onderzoek gericht op de relatie tussen illegale vuurwapenhandel en vuurwapengeweld. In een studie in zeven landen werd gekeken naar de verschillen en overeenkomsten. Katharina Krüsselmann en Marieke Liem namen de situatie in Nederland onder de loep. In dit artikel hun belangrijkste…

De duidelijke daling van dodelijk vuurwapengeweld in de EU is sinds 2012 stil gevallen en sommige landen -zoals Zweden- kampen zelfs met een stijging. Een wapenwedloop onder drugscriminelen en de toegenomen illegale beschikbaarheid van vuurwapens kunnen leiden tot meer crimineel en wapengeweld. Dat…

Van 11 tot 17 september staat Leiden in het teken van kunst en wetenschap. Wat kan de combinatie van deze twee velden voor ons betekenen? En hoe kan de samenwerking ertussen worden versterkt? Verschillende publieksevents en een spiksplinternieuw symposium voor specialisten moeten antwoord geven op deze…

Wiskunde en Natuurwetenschappen, Leids Instituut voor Onderzoek in de Natuurkunde (LION)

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Hieronder een overzicht van de 12 belangrijkste Facebook events die plaatsvonden op de Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs en een overview van onze 12 Instagram highlights van 2018.

De opleiding Life Science and Technology (LST) stond 9 september 2014 met een feestelijk gebakje stil bij haar 15 jarig bestaan. Het gaat bijzonder goed met de opleiding. Er zijn veel eerstejaars studenten en LST masterstudenten vinden of vóór hun diploma-uitreiking of er vlak na een goede baan.