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• Amirhossein Habibian receives ACM Multimedia best paper award

  10 Nov 2014

  Amirhossein Habibian from the Informatics Institute (IvI) received the Best Paper Award at the 2014 edition of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia. The prize is received for the paper entitled "VideoStory: ...

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• New Insights into the Paleobiology of the Dodo presented

  6 Nov 2014

  Researcher Kenneth Rijsdijk from UvA-IBED and colleague’s will present new insights of the evolving of the extinct dodo at the Conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology on Thursday 6 November. These ...

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• New book by Prof. Jan van de Craats

  5 Nov 2014

  Prof. Jan van de Craats wrote an interesting book about symmetry.

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• New method helps Google Translate translate better

  4 Nov 2014

  How does Google Translate know which words form the best translation for a particular sentence? A team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has developed a new method that assists computer ...

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• Succesful HIMS Industry Day

  4 Nov 2014

  Last Friday, 31 October, the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences organised its annual Industry Day. Over 30 companies (from Amsterdam SMEs to multinationals) were introduced into the research themes of the ...

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• Faster self-learning search engine through UvA algorithm

  4 Nov 2014

  How does Google know which search results to display? There are many algorithms that generate search results, but which one works best? Professor Maarten de Rijke of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has headed the ...

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• UvA Grassroots for ICT Innovation in Education

  3 Nov 2014

  Thomas Mensink and Jan van Gemert have been awarded an UvA Grassroots for their proposal 'Online-PAS: Evaluation of Python Assignments for Scoring and Direct Feedback'. The goal of UvA Grassroots is to use ICT for ...

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• Master's students test drone for combating rhinoceros poaching

  31 Oct 2014

  Master's students Camiel Verschoor and Anouk Visser (Artificial Intelligence) are travelling with the Dutch UAS team to South Africa to test a drone they developed for combating rhino poaching.

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• First Sustainable Chemistry exchange student to China

  29 Oct 2014

  UvA chemistry graduate Rolf Beerthuis has been accepted for a two-month research project at Fudan University - one of the top 5 universities in China. Beerthuis, who obtained his MSc degree cum laude earlier this ...

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• Vidi laureate Tati Fernández appointed at HIMS

  28 Oct 2014

  Dr. M.Á. (Tati) Fernández-Ibáñez has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Synthetic Organic Chemistry group at the Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS). She was recently awarded a prestigious Vidi ...

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• Opening Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography

  27 Oct 2014

  On Tuesday, 11 November 2014, the Advanced Research Center for Nanolithography (ARCNL) in Amsterdam will be officially opened by Sander Dekker, State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science, and Martin van den ...

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• UvA and VU present degree certificates during joint ceremony

  27 Oct 2014

  On Wednesday, 29 October, the first joint degree certificates will be presented to students of the Bachelor's programme in Chemistry at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam (VU).

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• MSc Logic graduate wins Unilever Research Prize 2014

  27 Oct 2014

  MSc Logic graduate Ciyang Qing will receive the Unilever Research Prize 2014.

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• United they stand: self-organisation makes mussel beds robust

  22 Oct 2014

  Natural ecosystems often develop distinct spatial patterns. Research from the University of Amsterdam, the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ), the Netherlands Institute of Ecology and the ...

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• Faculty of Science students receive UvA-scholarships

  17 Oct 2014

  Nine science students at Faculty of Science receive this year an Amsterdam Merit Scholarship or an Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship. On Thursday, 9 October, the University of Amsterdam held a special certificate ...

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• National Sustainability Day: cricket on a cocktail stick

  17 Oct 2014

  Ever tasted a cricket? Last Friday, on National Sustainability Day, students, staff and anyone else interested had an opportunity to taste 'cricket on a cocktail stick'. It was also the day on which the UvA ...

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• UvA holds certificate ceremony for scholarship students

  14 Oct 2014

  On Thursday, 9 October, the University of Amsterdam held a special certificate ceremony to honour this year’s recipients of the Amsterdam Merit Scholarship (AMS) and Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship (AES). The ...

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• Three ICT Horizon2020 grants for UvA researchers

  14 Oct 2014

  Yuri Demchenko and Zhiming Zhao, of the UvA Informatics Institute and Khalil Sima'an of the UvA Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, have each received a grant within the Horizon2020 ICT 2014-1 call. ...

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• Phd in the spotlight: Jesse Veenvliet

  13 Oct 2014

  Jesse Veenvliet (1983) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 31 October. Focusing on the characteristics of dopamine neurons, his doctoral research at the Swammerdam Institute ...

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• How to raise photon energy with nanomaterials

  10 Oct 2014

  Dr Hong Zhang, associate professor at the Van’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, was invited to contribute a tutorial review to the highly regarded magazine Chemical Society Reviews. It will be published in a ...

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• Bert Vercnocke receives ASL Prize for Science and Technology

  7 Oct 2014

  Theoretical physicist Bert Vercnocke (UvA Institute of Physics) received the prize for his PhD thesis Hidden structures of black holes. Vercnocke worked on his thesis at the KU Leuven. The prize is granted once ...

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• Wieteke de Boer receives STW Simon Stevin Gezel Prize 2014

  7 Oct 2014

  On 2 October 2014 Wieteke de Boer was elected Simon Stevin Gezel 2014 by the visitors of the STW annual congress for her PhD research that she did at the UvA’s Institute of Physics.

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• Succes for Amsterdam Center for Multiscale Modeling in computational sciences call

  3 Oct 2014

  Three proposals of chemistry researchers from the Amsterdam Universities were selected for the final matching phase of the ‘Computational Sciences for Energy Research' public-private partnership, a multi-million euro ...

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• Marijk van der Wende to step down as dean of Amsterdam University College

  2 Oct 2014

  As of 1 January 2015, Prof. Marijk van der Wende will be stepping down as dean of the Amsterdam University College (AUC), a joint excellence initiative of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam ...

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• UvA climbs to 77th spot on the THE World University Rankings

  2 Oct 2014

  Building on its solid performance of recent years, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has risen to the 77th spot on the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2014-2015. Last year, the UvA was ranked ...

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• Royal honour for University Professor Johan van Benthem

  1 Oct 2014

  Prof. Johan van Benthem was named Knight in the Order of the Netherlands Lion upon his retirement as University Professor of Pure and Applied Logic at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on Friday, 26 September. Van ...

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• First Forensic PhD symposium

  1 Oct 2014

  On Friday, 24 October 2014 the CLHC - Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center - will host its first forensic PhD symposium. This one day event is organised to build an active network of PhD students who are fully or partly ...

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• Hans Westerhoff appointed Fellow of the International Society for Systems Biology

  30 Sept 2014

  Hans V. Westerhoff (UvA-SILS) has been appointed Fellow of the International Society for Systems Biology. At the awarding ceremony 16 September in Melbourne, Westerhoff and two other new fellows, Leroy Hood (ISB, ...

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• 2.8 million euro for research into epigenetics of hormone resistance in breast cancer

  30 Sept 2014

  The EpiPredict project, coordinated by Dr Pernette J. Verschure of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded a European grant of €2.8 million for epigenetic research into resistance to endocrine (hormonal) ...

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• UvA Annual Report 2013 available in English

  29 Sept 2014

  The University of Amsterdam recently issued its Annual Report for 2013 in English. In line with the UvA's previous annual reports, the Annual Report 2013 provides all the key facts and figures concerning teaching and ...

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• NWO Grant for research project Max Welling

  26 Sept 2014

  Max Welling, professor of Computer Science at the Informatics Institute, has been awarded a NWO grant together with Dr Laurens van der Maaten (TU Delft) for the call ‘Natural Artificial Intelligence’. The research ...

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• Physicist Nick de Jong receives Best Speaker award at E-MRS 2014

  25 Sept 2014

  At the recent Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in Warsaw, PhD student Nick de Jong (UvA Institute of Physics) won the Graduate Student Award for the Best Oral Presentation in the ...

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• UvA spin-off Photanol partners with AkzoNobel

  25 Sept 2014

  Photanol, a cleantech corporate spin-off of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), and AkzoNobel have agreed to collaborate on the development of sustainable technologies for chemical production. The aim of the ...

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• Homogeneous catalysis at extreme concentrations

  18 Sept 2014

  Using self-assembled molecular spheres, chemists of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) have been able to study homogeneous transition-metal catalysis at very high catalyst concentrations. In the ...

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• Paul Planken, professor of Nanophotonics

  18 Sept 2014

  Professor P.C.M. Planken (1964) has been appointed professor of Nanophotonics at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science.

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• Peter de Ruiter to be appointed new IBED director

  16 Sept 2014

  Professor Peter de Ruiter will be appointed professor of Soil Systems Ecology at the UvA’s Faculty of Science and director of the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). He will assume his duties ...

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• UvA spin-off company Euvision acquired by Qualcomm

  16 Sept 2014

  Euvision Technologies BV – a spin-off company of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) – has been taken over by Qualcomm, an international market leader in next-generation mobile chips. A specialist in search engine ...

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• UvA once again ranked best Dutch university in QS World University Rankings

  16 Sept 2014

  For the fifth consecutive year, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is the highest placed Dutch university in the QS World University Rankings. The UvA has also risen in the overall rankings and now holds the 50th ...

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• Ermine moths singular in plant choice

  15 Sept 2014

  One species of moth can subsist on a particular plant type, while another can’t. Why? Katja Hora has been exploring the way in which ermine moths choose their host plant and, more in particular, the genetic ...

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• High Performance Computing course to start in January 2015

  12 Sept 2014

  From 2 until 31 January 2015, researchers from the University of Amsterdam and experts from the SURFsara national Supercomputing Center organise a course on ‘High Performance Computing and Big Data’. Researchers and ...

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• UvA and VU science faculties explore collaboration with TU/e

  12 Sept 2014

  On 8 September 2014, the Rectores Magnifici of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Prof. Dymph van der Boom, and of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), Prof. Hans van Duijn, agreed to explore further ...

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• Zeno Geradts, professor by special appointment of Forensic Data Science

  10 Sept 2014

  Dr Z.J.M.H. Geradts (1967) has been named professor by special appointment of Forensic Data Science at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Science. The chair was designated by Stichting Leerstoel ...

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• Kick-off for Sustainable Chemistry

  9 Sept 2014

  An exploding hydrogen filled balloon marked the kick-off for the Research Priority Area Sustainable Chemistry last wednesday. The ceremonial ignition by Rector Magnificus Prof. Dymph van den Boom symbolized the boost ...

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• Sustainable Logistics Grant for Sindo Nunez Queija and Neil Walton

  7 Sept 2014

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) has awarded the grants within the theme Sustainable Logistics. Dynafloat, the project of which Sindo Nunez Queija and Neil Walton (KdVI) are co-applicants, ...

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• Three graduate schools receive NWO grants for young academic talent

  4 Sept 2014

  Three research schools with which the UvA is involved are each to receive 850,000 euros for the development of young academic talent. The schools concerned are the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, Yield, ...

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• UvA celebrates opening academic year with eye on Africa

  3 Sept 2014

  On Monday, 1 September, the University of Amsterdam celebrated the opening of the 2014-2015 Academic Year. Various speakers reflected on this year’s theme: 'Amsterdam in the wider world: Africa’.

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• First Horizon2020 granted to UvA for Quantum Simulation project

  1 Sept 2014

  Robert Spreeuw of the UvA’s Institute of Physics (IoP) is partner in the first Horizon2020 granted to UvA for the research project Rydberg Quantum Simulators (RYSQ).

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• NFI and UvA participate in research

  1 Sept 2014

  Dr. Pernette J. Verschure, UvA-SILS and prof. Ate Kloosterman, NFI receive research funding from the minestry of Security and Justice to study epigenetic changes of the DNA for forensic applications. In the coming ...

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• Amsterdam video search engine tested as the best

  26 Aug 2014

  The U.S National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) tested the video search engine developed by UvA researchers as the best during an evaluation that this institute conducts yearly.

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• UvA wins two silver medals and one bronze at international mathematics competition

  25 Aug 2014

  The UvA delegation won three medals at the 21st edition of the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC). Third-year mathematics and physics students Nastasha Wijers and Josha Box took home ...

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