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An important part of the SCS specialisation is the internship period. Students will get the opportunity to get to know the field and to apply what they have learned during the courses.

In this special edition of Information Polity there is a focus on the transparency challenges of using algorithms in government in decision-making procedures at the macro-, meso-, and micro-levels.

The Study Information Committee works to create a positive and accurate picture of the bachelor and master programs offered by the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). The committee consists of IBL staff members and study ambassadors. We reach out to future and current students, high school biology teachers,…

Quantum Information Science & Technology (QIST) encompasses the understanding, design, construction and investigation of quantum information processing systems, such as quantum computers, quantum communication networks, and quantum sensors.

Op 4 september promoveert Elisabeth J. Kerr. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Elisabeth!

Combinatorial games are games for two competing players, moving in a turn-by-turn fashion, in which there is no chance nor hidden information⁠. Chess, checkers and the simpler tic tac toe are well-known examples of this class of games, as well as game of go⁠.

Systems with local constraints is a new finding in recent researches on complex systems. The heterogeneous spatial interactions and the temporal dependencies among those numerous units make it difficult to describe by traditional statistical physics.

Op 5 september promoveert Zhen Li. Het Leiden University Centre for Linguistics feliciteert Zhen!

Op 9 mei 2018 verdedigde Roy van Keulen zijn proefschrift 'Digital Force: Life, Liberty & Livelihood in the Information Age'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotor prof.dr. A. Ellian.

Promotie

Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr

With the emergence of online social networks (OSNs), the way people create and share information has changed, which becomes faster and broader than traditional social media.

The four possible segments A, T, C and G that link together to form DNA molecules, and with their ordering encode genetic information, are not only different in name, but also in their physical and chemical properties.

In this dissertation, we study partition-based models that can be used both for interpretable predictive modeling and for understanding data via interpretable patterns.

This study has been carried out in the community of Sukamiskin, a kelurahan (‘village’) in Bandung, the Capital of West Java Province, located in the Sunda Region of Indonesia.

Promotores: W.T. de Groot, M. Tchuenté, Co-promotor: J.P. Cheylan

Op 20 maart 2019 verdedigde Tim Dekkers zijn proefschrift 'Mobility, Control and Technology in Border Areas: Discretion and Decision-making in the Information Age'. Het promotieonderzoek is begeleid door promotoren prof. dr. J.P. van der Leun en prof. dr. M.A.H. van der Woude.

Laatste technologische ontwikkelingen op het gebied van datamining en profilering.

This thesis develops statistical methods for the analysis of high dimensional data: high dimensional networks reconstruction (Chapters 1-4), incorporation of prior information in networks reconstruction (Chapters 2-4), incorporation of prior knowledge in genetic association studies (Chapter 3).

In dit artikel wordt het concept van probleemprioritering binnen de context van bestuurskundig onderzoek verkend.

In the traditional theory of linear elasticity, superposition dictates that the response of a material does not depend on the sequence of the applied mechanical actuations.

Announcement of a new publication by Janneke Verheijen, lecturer at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.

Promovenda Gineke Wiggers heeft de 2e prijs gewonnen voor haar paper over User-Focused Ranking in Legal Information Retrieval in het PhD consortium van de 31e International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX).

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

Dit proefschrift onderzoekt de reactie van de Europese Unie op het groeiende probleem van desinformatie. Het gebruikt deze casus om kritisch te analyseren hoe samenlevingen informatie-uitdagingen zoals

To what extent can digital technologies be considered as authorities?

Lezing

Promotie

Lezing

Promotor: Prof.dr. C.W.J. Beenakker

Studievoorlichting

DNA carries various forms of information. Out of these forms of information the most well-known is classical genetic information.

De onderzoeksgroep Digital Archaeology beheert twee computerlaboratoria voor verschillende doeleinden: een onderwijslab en een onderzoekslab.

Op 8 november heeft de Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Wessel Kraaij benoemd tot een van de 2017 Distinguished Members. ACM Distinguished Members hebben een significante bijdrage geleverd op het gebied van computing, computer science of information technology. Wereldwijd ontvingen dit jaar…

Humans perceive the real world through their sensory organs: vision, taste, hearing, smell, and touch. In terms of information, we consider these different modesalso referred to as different channels of information or modals.

Anna van Buerenplein, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, Den Haag

Anna van Buerenplein, Anna van Buerenplein 301, 2595 DG, Den Haag

Promotie

Vandaag de dag liggen statistische methodes aan de grondslag van beslissingen in allerlei facetten van het leven, van de gezondheidszorg en agricultuur tot de financiële sector en marketing.

Studievoorlichting

Our recent excavations have focused on the more recent New Kingdom/Late Period (ca. 1500-332 BCE) material.

In het academisch jaar 2023-2024 biedt het interdisciplinaire onderzoeksprogramma Sociale Veerkracht en Veiligheid vier vakken aan voor studenten die beginnen met het derde jaar van hun bachelor. Deze vakken zijn te volgen binnen de ruimte voor keuzevakken. Je kunt de vakken afzonderlijk als keuzevak…