160 search results for “teaching prize” in the Student website
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You should eat herring on the coast and not in Maastricht
For thirty years, the Dutch Newspaper AD conducted an annual search for the best herring. This came to an end when economist Ben Vollaard, based on a statistical analysis, claimed it was rigged. But that claim doesn't smell right, says Leiden statistician Richard Gill. ‘The way you code and process…
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In memoriam Jan Zaanen 1957-2024: The universe in a speck of rusting copper
This Thursday, January 18th 2024, our esteemed colleague Jan Zaanen passed away. Jan was one of our star scientists, larger than life, with an unabashed, boisterous drive for the best of physics at the Institute Lorentz, at the Leiden Institute of Physics and in the full international scientific community.…
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The quest for the magic angle
Stack two layers of graphene, twisted at slightly different angles to each other, and the material spontaneously becomes a superconductor. Science still can't explain how something so magical can happen, but physicists use special equipment to reveal what is taking place under the surface.
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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Creative writing: Science Fiction (Dutch and English spoken)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Career Talk with Maurien Olsthoorn
Debate, Career Talk
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Greedy Supermassive Black Holes
Lecture, Oort lecture
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Symposium on Ukraine in images, words and sounds
Conference
- Leiden Teachers' Academy Education Festival 2023
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Dies Natalis 2023
University ceremony