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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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• ERC Starting Grant for Joris Mooij

  31 Mar 2015

  Dr Joris Mooij researcher at the Intelligent Autonomous Systems-group of the Informatics Institute, has obtained an ERC Starting Grant for the project ‘Causal Analysis of Feedback Systems (CAFES)’. The grant provides ...

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• Heathlands more susceptible to climate change due to landscape management

  29 Mar 2015

  Dutch heathlands are a typical ‘cultural landscape’ that cannot exist without landscape management. A new study by a European science team, which included Dr Albert Tietema of the University of Amsterdam, shows how ...

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• Update power failure: exams and classes

  27 Mar 2015

  A major power outage this morning (Friday, 27 March) has hit large parts of the province of North Holland and Amsterdam in particular. The UvA’s Science Park and IWO were without power. Both locations have been ...

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• Science faculties UvA-VU launch popular science magazine

  26 Mar 2015

  The first issue of the popular science magazine ‘Amsterdam Science’ was officially released earlier today during the Dies Natalis celebrations of the UvA’s Faculty of Science. A joint initiative of the University of ...

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• Three UvA Informatics Master's receive ‘Top Programme’ designation

  26 Mar 2015

  The Master's programmes in Logic, System and Network Engineering (SNE) and Software Engineering at the University of Amsterdam's Graduate School of Informatics have all been designated as ‘Top Programmes’ by the ...

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• New method to remove cyanide from industrial waste water

  26 Mar 2015

  Chemists at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have discovered a new method for removing cyanide from the waste water of steel mills. The removal of cyanide from such water is expensive but essential. Paula Oulego ...

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• UvA-VU research project in Digital Humanities granted

  24 Mar 2015

  The research programme Amsterdam Data Science was recently awarded an investment from the Amsterdam Academic Alliance (AAA). Now it has been announced that within this programme, University of Amsterdam researchers ...

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• ABC grant awarded to Carien Lansink and Heleen Slagter

  24 Mar 2015

  Dr Carien Lansink of the Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences and Dr Heleen Slagter (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences) have been awarded a research grant of €250,000.- by the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition ...

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Earth Surface Science

  24 Mar 2015

  Chemicals in drugs end up in our waste water and in the environment. Fortunately, some microorganisms may be able to break down these harmful substances. Exactly how these bacteria do this is being jointly ...

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• The chemistry of oil paintings

  23 Mar 2015

  At the fifteenth Dies Natalis of the Faculty of Science on Thursday 26 March chemist Piet Iedema of the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) will lecture on the chemical aspects of decay in oil ...

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• Marie Curie Fellowships awarded to thirteen UvA researchers

  20 Mar 2015

  A Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship has been awarded to thirteen researchers for research projects at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). The projects will focus, among other things, on sexual communication between ...

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• Update: 10-point plan

  20 Mar 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will set up a committee to develop proposals for modernising the way the UvA is governed. In addition, a committee of inquiry will look at the UvA’s finances, together with its real ...

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• UvA wins EP-Nuffic prize for Ambassador Programme

  19 Mar 2015

  During the EP-Nuffic Annual Conference on 12 March, the Orange Carpet Award for higher education was awarded to the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for its Global Exchange Ambassador Programme. EP-Nuffic has created ...

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• ABC grant awarded to Paul Lucassen and Liesbeth Reneman

  17 Mar 2015

  Prof. dr Paul Lucassen (Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences) has been awarded a €250.000,- project grant together with Dr Liesbeth Reneman (AMC) by Amsterdam Brain & Cognition Center for their project: 'Detecting ...

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• Register for the ABC Creative Mind Prize 2015

  16 Mar 2015

  The ABC Creative Mind Prize 2015 will be presented to a young academic with an original and exciting research proposal that centres around the aspects of creativity, cognition and/or the workings of the human brain. ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  13 Mar 2015

  On Monday, 16 March, the third meeting in a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place.

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• UvA climbs in latest THE World Reputation Rankings

  12 Mar 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has risen in the latest THE World Reputation Rankings 2015 and is now placed in the 51-60 group.

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• Science Research at UvA-VU: Dynamic Analysis Seminar

  6 Mar 2015

  Talking about their research is an important activity for mathematicians, but an audience of five colleagues is just too small. And so, every two weeks, UvA researchers and their VU colleagues come together to attend ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  6 Mar 2015

  On Monday, 9 March, the second meeting in a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place. The discussion will take place in CREA’s Muziekzaal from 13:30 to ...

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• Photanol and AkzoNobel collaboration wins Bio Business Award 2015

  3 Mar 2015

  The collaboration between the University of Amsterdam (UvA) spin-off company Photanol and the chemical group AkzoNobel has been awarded the WBM Bio Business Award 2015 in the category of Bio-based Chemical ...

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