On 22 March 2010, the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship 2010 will be awarded to Richard Gill, Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Leiden University. Richard Gill will work to improve the knowledge and application of statistics in justice. A word of welcome will be given by Arjen Doelman, Director of the Lorentz Center, and Wim Blockmans, Rector of NIAS. An introduction will follow by Alexander Rinnooy Kan, Chair of the Advisory Board Award ceremony for the Distinguished Lorentz Fellowship. After that Richard Gill will give his 'inaugural' lecture 'Science Meets Justice: Forensic Statistics at the Interface'.
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Manjul Bhargava (Princeton University) is visiting Hendrik Lenstra from 22 to 27 January. On Friday, 22 January, he will give a lecture titled "Binary quartic forms and ranks of elliptic curves" in room 405 from 14:15 to 16:00.
After Padova (2007) and Brussels (2008) the graduation ceremony of the ALGANT programme took place this year in Leiden. ALGANT is a two-year international master program in pure mathematics, with a strong emphasis on Algebra, Geometry and Number Theory. At this moment four universities participate: Padova, Bordeaux, Paris (Orsay), and Leiden. On Monday 6 and Tuesday 7 July ALGANT graduates from all four cities gave their public master thesis defenses. On Wednesday 8 July the graduation ceremony took place, in the Academy Building.
Read the news item about the ceremony of Leiden University.
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