On March 27-28 2025, Guus Regts and Ferenc Bencs are organizing a workshop on the Combinatorial, Algorithmic and Probabilistic aspects of Partition Functions.

There will be a partial solar eclipse on 29 March, that will be visible from the Netherlands. To allow as many people as possible to enjoy this event, we will be opening our doors for the public on this day.

Lecture by Dr. Andreas Orthaber (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Philip Rutten will defend the dissertation 'The Movement Ecology of Pedestrian Crowds'. Supervisor is Prof. S. Klous. The co-supervisors are Dr M.H. Lees and Prof. P.M.A. Sloot.

Aleksi Anttila will defend the dissertation 'Not Nothing. Nonemptiness in Team Semantics'. Supervisors are Prof. ing. R.A.M. van Rooij and Dr M.D. Aloni. The co-supervisor is Dr F. Yang.

by Klaas Vandepoele

Matthias Brucklacher will defend the dissertation 'Representation Learning with Generative Neural Networks: A Biological Perspective'. Supervisors are Prof. C.M.A. Pennartz and Prof. S.M. Bohte. The co-supervisor is Dr J.F. Mejias.

Nanne Taks will defend the dissertation 'Tissue-Specific Interactions between Xanthomonas Campestris pv. Campestris and its Host Plant'. Supervisor is Dr ir. H.A. van den Burg. The co-supervisor is Dr J.S. Pfeilmeier.

Microbiome Friday Seminar, hosted by the Research Priority Area on Personal Microbiome Health (RPA-PMH)

Lecture by Dr. Phil Uttley about x-ray interferometry

Tim Piel will defend the dissertation 'Effects of Hydrogen Peroxide on Cyanobacterial Blooms'. Supervisors are Prof. J. Huisman and Dr P.M. Visser. The co-supervisor is Prof. C.P.D. Brussaard.

Tamika van 't Hoff will defend the dissertation 'Modeling Emerging Polymeric and Biological Networks with Random Graphs'. Supervisors are Prof. P.D. Iedema and Dr D. Dubbeldam.

On this day you will learn about the neuroscience conducted at SILS, but you will also be inspired by speakers from other renowned institutes in Europe. There will be a poster session, you can submit your abstract in the registration form below. Interns from the groups are also encouraged to s...

Martijn Mekkering will defend the dissertation 'The Bright Future of Single Atom Catalysis'. Supervisors are Dr N. Yan and Prof. G. Rothenberg.

Wout Moltmaker will defend the dissertation 'Invariants of Planar Knotoids and Linkoids'. Supervisor is Prof. J.A. Ellis-Monaghan. The co-supervisor is Prof. L.H. Kauffman.

Amber Penning will defend the dissertation 'Small RNA, Big Impact: Profiling the Therapeutic Potential of MicroRNA-132 in Alzheimer’s Disease'. Supervisors are Prof. I. Huitinga and Prof. P.J. Lucassen. The co-supervisors are Dr E. Salta and Dr C.P. Fitzsimons.

Prof. Sahar El Aidy, appointed as Professor of Microbiome Engineering at the Faculty of Science, will publicly accept the professorship by delivering an address, titled: Thriving through Adaptation

Sebastian Zur will defend the dissertation 'Multidimensional Quantum Walks and the Multiplicative Ladder Adversary'. Supervisor is Prof. S.M. Jeffery. The co-supervisor is Dr K. Guo.

Stefan van Vliet will defend the dissertation 'Surface Chemistry of Ruthenium'. Supervisor is Prof. P.C.M. Planken. The co-supervisor is Dr R. Bliem.

Lorenzo Cruciani will defend the dissertation 'Ruthenium thin films: terahertz generation and direct laser patterning'. Supervisor is Prof. P.C.M. Planken. The co-supervisor is Dr N.J. van Druten.