News

• Statement in response to brief squat of UvA’s Student Services building

  30 Apr 2015

  The following statement was issued by the Executive Board in response to the brief squat of the UvA’s Student Services building at the Binnengasthuisstraat.

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• Johan van Benthem elected member of American Academy

  30 Apr 2015

  Johan van Benthem, emeritus university professor of Pure and Applied Logic at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), was recently elected Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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• Two Faculty of Science subject areas listed in QS World University Rankings top 50

  29 Apr 2015

  In the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published on Tuesday 28 April, Geography and Linguistics of the Faculty of Science are in the top 50.

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• STW grant for UvA physicists Gregorkiewicz and Sinke

  29 Apr 2015

  UvA professors Tom Gregorkiewicz (Institute of Physics, IoP) and Wim Sinke (IoP and Energy Research Centre for the Netherlands, ECN) have received a grant in the Open Technology programme of the Dutch Technology ...

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• STW project awarded to Raphael Poss and Andy Pimentel

  28 Apr 2015

  UvA-IvI researchers Raphael Poss and Andy Pimentel received an STW Open Technology Program grant of €500,000 to develop software techniques and tools together with ASML to improve the monitoring inside- and ...

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• Results of works council elections

  21 Apr 2015

  Works council elections took place from 7-14 April. In a public meeting on Monday, 20 April, the Central Voting Office confirmed the election results.

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Applied Gaming Research Community

  21 Apr 2015

  Academic staff at VU University Amsterdam’s Network Institute and the University of Amsterdam’s Master’s programme in Game Studies have created a new platform. A group of researchers working in the field of Applied ...

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• 2014 Annual Review published

  21 Apr 2015

  The Faculty of Science (FNWI) Annual Review provides an overview of highlights from the Faculty's teaching and research activities during the past year.

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• COMMIT/ valorisation grant for VideoStoryXL proposal

  20 Apr 2015

  Researchers Amirhossein Habibian, Thomas Mensink and Cees Snoek of the Informatics Institute have received a COMMIT/ valorisation grant in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and ...

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• Press statement UvA-AUAS/HvA Executive Board

  20 Apr 2015

  The Executive Board would like to thank the Supervisory Boards for their enormous efforts and the speed and assiduousness with which they have drawn conclusions and taken decisions. The broad support makes it ...

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• A radical approach to efficient amine synthesis

  20 Apr 2015

  In a concerted research effort with several European research groups, chemists of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have found experimental evidence for the existence of a unique type of ...

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• Press statement Supervisory Boards

  19 Apr 2015

  Today, the Supervisory Boards held talks about the current situation with the Executive Board, the deans, the domain chairs and the representative advisory bodies of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam ...

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• Statement Supervisory Boards

  19 Apr 2015

  The following statement was issued by the Supervisory Boards following the decision by Louise Gunning to tender her resignation as president of the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam ...

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• President UvA Executive Board tenders resignation

  19 Apr 2015

  Yesterday evening, Louise Gunning tendered her resignation as president of the Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences to the Supervisory Boards.

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• Supervisory Board statement

  17 Apr 2015

  The following statement is from the Supervisory Board, following the Joint Meeting of the Central Works Council (COR) and the Central Student Council (CSR):

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• Best poster award for information and language processing researchers

  16 Apr 2015

  Hosein Azarbonyad and Maarten Marx from the research group Information and Language Processing Systems (Informatics Institute) and Mostafa Dehghani and Jaap Kamps from ILLC have won the best poster award of 37th ...

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• New method to automatically assess quality of Wikipedia pages

  14 Apr 2015

  Wikipedia is extremely useful as a work of reference, but how do you know whether its content is accurate? UvA researcher Xinyi Li has developed a method to automatically assess the quality of Wikipedia pages. He ...

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• Decision to evict Maagdenhuis occupiers

  13 Apr 2015

  We realise that questions exist about our decision this past Friday to observe the ruling of the court and formally request the police to vacate the Maagdenuis building. In the following letter, we would like to ...

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• Patrick Decowski, professor of Experimental Astroparticle Physics

  13 Apr 2015

  Dr M.P. Decowski has been appointed professor of Experimental Astroparticle Physics at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Phd in the Spotlight: Magdalena Julkowska

  13 Apr 2015

  Magdalena Julkowska (1986) will be awarded her doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam on 30 April. During her doctoral research at the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS) she learned more about how ...

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