611 search results for “complex systems” in the Staff website
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    An AI system that tells you why you should eat glass – should that be allowed?
        
    
The English-language interdisciplinary minor ‘AI and Society’ explores the role of artificial intelligence in our society. The interdisciplinary nature of the minor is proving beneficiary for students and lecturers alike. We sit in during a class.
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    Research on trust in the criminal justice system receives 1.5 million euros
        
    
How to strengthen mutual trust between agencies in the criminal justice system and youth with a migration background or weaker socio-economic position. The Netherlands Science Agenda has awarded 1.5 million euros to a consortium to find out.
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    Scheduled maintenance educational systems from May 12th until May 13th, 2023
    
    
ICT
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    Summer update to AV systems: join an instruction session to learn more
    
    
Facility
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    Dutch East Indies tax system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
        
    
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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    Huaqi TangFaculty of Science
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    Laurens HelingFaculty of Science
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    New professor of Theoretical Physics: ‘The problems I study can come from anywhere in society’
        
    
The financial sector, supply chains and ecology. Not necessarily topics you might associate with physics, yet it’s exactly what new professor Diego Garlaschelli is dealing with. The common thread? Complex networks.
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    Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
        
    
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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    Malformations in heart, eyes and nervous system: Nano-plastics disrupt growth
        
    
Nano-plastics cause malformations. Meiru Wang, researcher at the Institute of Biology Leiden, looked at the extreme effects polystyrene nano-particles could have, using chicken embryos as a model. Her results were quite alarming. Especially as nano-particles are everywhere. In the air, floating through…
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    Baoxiao LiuFaculty of Science
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    Tomer FishmanFaculty of Science
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    Shiza AslamFaculty of Science
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    New professor Luca Giomi creates his own physics of living systems
        
    
Swarms of drones, pedestrians or the cells in your body. Those are all examples of active matter: materials whose building blocks can move autonomously. That’s what Luca Giomi studies. Giomi has been appointed Professor of theoretical physics in the area of soft matter and biological physics at the…
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    Astronomers find missing link for origin of water in solar systems
        
    
An international team of astronomers, including astronomers from Leiden University, has found the missing link in the path taken by water through star-forming clouds and young stars to comets and planets. They did so with the help of the ALMA observatory in Chile. The researchers published their findings…
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    Complex networks in perspective
    
    
Conference
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    Joost BeltmanFaculty of Science
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    Alireza Mashaghi TabariFaculty of Science
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    Pingtao DingFaculty of Science
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    'It’s the complexity of this group of patients that makes the challenge of improving their quality of life so interesting’
        
    
Dialysis patients experience a range of physical and mental symptoms that interact and influence each otherIn her doctoral research, psychologist Judith Tommel wanted to find the optimum approach to help these dialysis patients improve their quality of life. ‘We need to make sure we avoid excluding…
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    Olivier BéquignonFaculty of Science
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    Crammed with meaning: what museum collections tell us about our political system
        
    
What does a 19th-century exhibition of traditional utensils from the province of Zeeland tell us about the current rise of populism? A lot, Ad Maas will say in his inaugural lecture.
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    Marco CinelliFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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    Intelligence for a Complex Environment
    
    
PhD defence
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    Femke Bakker
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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    Elke KrekelsFaculty of Science
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    Vasilii AkulovFaculty of Science
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    Aida Naghilouye HidajiFaculty of Science
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    Barbara ScalviniFaculty of Science
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    Eric BangFaculty of Science
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    Frans TheuwsFaculty of Archaeology
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    Topological decoding of biomolecular fold complexity
    
    
PhD defence
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    Metals, energy and geopolitics, a complex mix
    
    
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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    Benedetto NeolaFaculty of Humanities
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    Dita AuzinaFaculty of Archaeology
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    Adam BenferFaculty of Archaeology
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    Antoine CoudardFaculty of Science
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    Algorithms and the Rule of Law in the Justice System: Melanie Fink on the Future of Justice in Estonia and Beyond
        
    
On 24 March 2023, the University of Tartu, Estonia hosted a Workshop on ‘'Algorithms, Rule of Law, and the Future of Justice: Implications in the Estonian Justice System’.
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    Anastasiia SkurativskaFaculty of Science
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    Francesca AriciFaculty of Science
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    Franciscus ClaasFaculteit Geneeskunde
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    C. van RaadFaculty of Law
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    Dimitris GerontogiannisFaculty of Science
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    Nasi LiuFaculty of Science
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    Marjolijn LugthartFaculty of Science
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    Dario BijkerFaculty of Science
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    appointed professor of Computational Linguistics: 'If you know how systems work, you can better assess their limitations'
        
    
ChatGPT, translation machines and bots: for Carole Tiberius, they are a piece of cake. On 1 January, she was appointed professor of Computational Linguistics. 'There ae two elements to the field: computer science and linguistics.'
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    Neoplatonism in the Christological Debates of Late Antiquity: Influences, Interferences, and Contrasts
    
    
Conference
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    to let Dutch government collapse, caused overburdening of judicial system and violation of children's rights in Germany
        
    
The Dutch conservative VVD party plans to make the right to family reunification more difficult for people with temporary residence permits. In Germany, this restriction led to several lawsuits which were won by status holders. Mark Klaassen, Assistant Professor in Migration Law, believes this is a…
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    Herman SpainkFaculty of Science