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?

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.

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.

Op deze pagina vindt u de opnames van de online This Week's Discoveries vanaf 12 mei 2020 en een lijst sprekers vanaf oktober 2015.

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.

Circumstellar discs are the reservoirs of gas and dust that surround young stars and have the potential to become planetary systems.

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

Electrons in a crystal lattice have properties that may differ from those of a free electron in vacuum.

This thesis describes the structural and biochemical characterization of the β-lactamase BlaC from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb), and the Alr and YlmE proteins from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2).Mtb is the main cause of tuberculosis.

In the thesis the dynamics of strategies is studied from two perspectives.In the first part of the thesis strategies are considered to be opinions present in a community.

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

The zoo of detected exoplanets reveals both the uniqueness of our own Solar System and the complexity of planetary system formation, sparking fundamental questions about how planetary systems form and evolve.

Cursus, Workshop

Tijdens de 80e sessie van het in Genève gevestigde Institut de Droit International kreeg Aleydis Nissen de Andrés Bello Prijs. De wedstrijd werd in 1931 opgericht door James Brown Scott en wordt sindsdien uitgevoerd onder auspiciën van het Institut.

In this thesis we use state-of-the-art observations and simulations to provide the best constraints to date on the HVS ejection rate and constraints on the stellar content and dynamics at the GC, including the progenitor binary populations and their star formation history.

Op 3 mei jongstleden werd de 10e Niko Tinbergenlezing georganiseerd. De lezingen werden dit jaar verzorgd door Steven Pinker en Rivke Jaffe. De beelden van de lezing van Steven Pinker zijn nu online terug te kijken en daarnaast is er een fotoreportage gemaakt.

Promotor: Prof.dr. E.F. van Dishoeck, Prof.dr. F.F.S. van der Tak (RUG)

België staat aan de vooravond van een hervorming van het Burgerlijk Wetboek. Ruben de Graaff adviseerde de commissie het internationale recht te erkennen als bron van verbintenissen. Zijn aanbeveling blijkt te zijn overgenomen.

Lezing, Pint of Science

The Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies is delighted to announce that Dr Farouk El-Hosseny will join the teaching staff as Visiting Assistant Professor of International Law.

Many of our department’s staff members are actively involved in the Empirical Legal Studies lab and strive towards publishing impactful empirical legal research.

Researchers from the Department of Economics - Kees Goudswaard, Koen Caminada, Marike Knoef, Pierre Koning and Olaf van Vliet - have been awarded a grant of one million euros by Instituut Gak to investigate self-sufficiency and social protection.

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

This interdisciplinary minor addresses sustainabilty challenges from a systems perspective, and investigates ways to sustain society within planetary boundaries.

Congres/symposium

How and to what extent the historic house (re-)constructs identity through image-making in China.

Na het ontvangen van je diploma van LUC, kun je als alumni overal ter wereld heen. Velen die je voor zijn gegaan hebben ervoor gekozen om een master als vervolgopleiding te doen. Sommigen beginnen meteen aan hun professionele carrière of volgen een PhD. Door de vele academische vakgebieden die op LUC…

Aan de Universiteit Leiden worden cursussen over papyri en papyrologie aangeboden voor beginners en gevorderden (BA en MA), zowel op basis van teksten in vertaling als in de originele brontalen, van Egyptisch tot Grieks, Latijn en Arabisch.

Lezing

A neurocognitive investigation of the development of social performance monitoring in youth growing up in stressful versus non-stressful environments

This thesis describes the synthesis, analysis of various tetrazine bearing compounds and use in bioorthogonal chemistry.

Op deze pagina vind je de opnames van de Tuesday Talks sinds april 2025. Ook de opnames van de voorloper van de Tuesday Talks, This Week’s Discoveries, zijn hier te vinden

Lees hier de publicaties die over het Erfgoed Gezocht project zijn verschenen.

How can we broaden youth participation in STEM Learning

Kunst en vrije tijd, Kunst en vrije tijd

Zin om eens een ander vakgebied te verkennen? Of juist een onderwerp uit je studie verder uit te diepen? Ook deze zomer biedt de Universiteit Leiden weer een brede selectie Summer Schools aan.

Clinical development of drugs for central nervous system (CNS) disorders has been particularly challenging and still suffers from high attrition rates.

In 2018, the number of mobile phone users will reach about 4.9 billion. Assuming an average of 5 photos taken per day using the built-in cameras would result in about 9 trillion photos annually.

Death in all types of melanomas is generally caused by metastasis. Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common intraocular melanoma, there are currently no (patient-derived) animal models that faithfully recapitulate metastatic dissemination of UM.

Growth hormone profiles are pulsatile and highly variable between individuals, limiting the implementation of mathemathical models to quantify an individual's secretion.

Promotores: Prof.dr. J.N. Kok, Prof.dr. M.R.V. Chaudron (Chalmers Univ., Sweden)

In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important.

Ferritin is a spherical metalloprotein, capable of storing and releasing iron in a controllable way. It is composed of a protein shell of about 12 nm and within its cavity, iron is stored in a mineral form.

This thesis describes a study from both a theoreticaL and an experimental point of view.

Promotor: Prof.dr. K.J. Batenburg

Heart failure is a major health care problem with high mortality.

This dissertation is about Bayesian learning from data. How can humans and computers learn from data?