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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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Maagdenhuis vacated
11 Apr 2015
After six weeks, the police made an end to the Maagdenhuis occupation this morning. Yesterday, the district court ordered the occupiers to immediately vacate the building. After the judge’s ruling, the UvA observed ...
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Judge rules that occupiers must leave the Maagdenhuis
10 Apr 2015
The interim relief judge of Amsterdam’s district court has decided that the occupiers of the Maagdenhuis must leave the building immediately and that for safety reasons the planned festival must be cancelled.
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Dierenbescherming nominates researcher Peter Hordijk
10 Apr 2015
Special Chair molecular cellular biologist Peter Hordijk, of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS), has been nominated by the Dutch Animal Protection Society Dierenbescherming for their "Courage in the ...
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Update: Maagdenhuis
8 Apr 2015
In recent weeks, a number of concerns have been raised within the academic community. The Executive Board has taken note of these concerns and has presented a 10-point plan to address them.
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Rubicon grant for three young UvA researchers
8 Apr 2015
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NOW) has awarded a Rubicon grant to three UvA researchers who recently obtained their doctorates. This will allow them to conduct research at a leading institute ...
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Joint exchanging program University of Amsterdam and the Indian Institute of Science
7 Apr 2015
On 25 March 2015 an Memorandum of Understanding (moU) between the University of Amsterdam and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) was signed in Bangalore. In the absence of the Rector of the UvA, Prof. Dymph van ...
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Science Research at UvA-VU: Centre for Analytical Sciences Amsterdam
7 Apr 2015
‘The UvA and VU University Amsterdam are home to a high concentration of analytical chemistry professionals. In addition to our individual strengths, we offer a very special, highly unique combination,’ explains ...
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H2020 funding for Alfons Hoekstra
1 Apr 2015
In the H2020 FET High Performance Computing call, Prof. Alfons Hoekstra (research group Section Computational Science) has received a grant of EUR 4 million as coordinator for the ComPat project: Computing Patterns ...
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NWO project granted to Peter Sloot and Mike Lees
31 Mar 2015
Prof. Peter Sloot and Dr Mike Lees (Faculty of Science-Informatics Institute) have obtained a grant for a NWO project called 'The Kumbh Mela Experiment: Measuring and Understanding the dynamics of mankind’s largest ...
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Theo Gevers in documentary about emotion recognition
31 Mar 2015
Theo Gevers, professor of Computer Vision at the Informatics Institute, is featured in an international documentary about the use of new technology to decipher our unconscious messages.
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