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• Mieke Zaanen appointed Director General of the KNAW

  18 Nov 2014

  Mieke Zaanen, Secretary General of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been appointed Director General of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), effective 1 February 2015.

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• FOM 'Projectruimte' grant for UvA physicist Ben Freivogel

  18 Nov 2014

  The Foundation FOM has awarded a 'Projectruimte' grant to Dr Ben Freivogel for his proposal 'Quantifying violations of causality in quantum gravity'.

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• Phd in the spotlight: Frank Tramper

  14 Nov 2014

  Frank Tramper (1981) will be awarded his doctorate degree at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on 28 November. As part of his doctoral research at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy (API), Tramper studied ...

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• Local order in liquids

  14 Nov 2014

  In liquids there is, contrary to the common perception, no complete disorder at the molecular level. This is shown by Matthijs Panman and his colleagues at the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) in ...

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• Amsterdam educational institutes join valorisation support

  13 Nov 2014

  As from November 12 November, the UvA, AUAS/HvA, VU, VUmc and AMC-UvA will consolidate their Technology Transfer Offices into a new centre of expertise, to be called Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA).

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• Three Nobel Prize winners in chemistry to visit Amsterdam

  13 Nov 2014

  The Holland Research School of Molecular Chemistry (HRSMC) will soon be welcoming three Nobel Prize winners in chemistry: William E. Moerner (2014), Arieh Warshel (2013) and Roald Hoffmann (1981).

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• UvA Informatics Master's programmes rate high in NVAO assessment

  12 Nov 2014

  In the accreditation decisions just announced by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO), all Master's programmes at the Graduate School of Informatics have received positive or very ...

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• UvA researchers win the Multimedia Grand Challenge 2014

  12 Nov 2014

  Jan Zahálka, Stevan Rudinac and Marcel Worring from the Informatics Institute won the Grand Challenge 1st prize award at the ACM Multimedia 2014 with their contribution ‘New Yorker Melange: Interactive Brew of ...

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• UvA honorary doctorates for astrophysicist Kouveliotou and heritage expert Van Rappard-Boon

  12 Nov 2014

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will award honorary doctorates to astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou and heritage expert Charlotte van Rappard-Boon. Kouveliotou is receiving the honorary doctorate for her crucial ...

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• UvA Master's in Logic rated 'Excellent'

  11 Nov 2014

  The Master's programme in Logic at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been awarded the status of 'Excellent' by the Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders (NVAO). The NVAO assessment panel ...

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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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