News

• 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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