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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 1d

How can science free itself from colonial legacies embedded in its practices? This is the central question driving a new project by Professor Catarina Dutilh Novaes, who joins NIAS in the first semester of 26–27 as the Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellow. @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 2d

The goal of this workshop is to define and implement a roadmap for a detailed intercomparison project between multiple leading computational frameworks of magma ocean evolution. bit.ly/3IZbJyn
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 2d

This workshop takes a step forward in unveiling the connection between galactic central regions, where small stellar and gaseous structures coexist with massive black holes (MBHs), and the evolution of galaxies at a global scale.
@katjafah.bsky.social
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 6d

Ben jij proactief, stressbestendig en heb je een probleemoplossende instelling? Vind je het leuk te werken op dé plek waar wetenschap samenkomt?
Solliciteer dan naar de functie van workshopcoördinator bij het Lorentz Center!
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Workshopcoördinator

Het Lorentz Center is op zoek naar een: Workshopcoördinator (0,8-1,0 fte) Vacaturenummer: 16002Het Lorentz Center is dé plek waar wetenschap samenkomt! Jaarlijks organiseren wij ongeveer 80 intern...

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 12d

Ben jij een enthousiaste, ervaren, verbindende leidinggevende en deel jij onze passie voor het samenbrengen van wetenschappers uit verschillende disciplines?
Het Lorentz Center is op zoek naar een nieuwe Operationeel Manager.
Meer informatie vind je hier: bit.ly/3VVT9u5
Solliciteren tot 8 oktober.

Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 14d

Join on 11 November our public lecture 'Why study islands? An introduction to the insular world', at Museum Boerhaave.
Speaker is José María Fernández-Palacios, professor of the University of La Laguna. He will talk about how species adapt or go extinct as island environments change. bit.ly/4nGACgY

Lorentz Lecture - Why study islands? - Rijksmuseum Boerhaave

This public lecture is part of the week-long Lorentz Center workshop ‘Merging biology and geology to study island biodiversity‘.

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 16d

This workshop aims to develop methodologies for combined data analysis and build a roadmap for advancing the field of cosmology while also utilizing GW insights to tackle key challenges in stellar and extragalactic astrophysics. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @samayanissanke.bsky.social

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 16d

Experts with theoretical traditions, researchers experienced in approaches to theory construction, educators and policymakers work on the first steps toward creating a mature subfield of theoretical psychology. bit.ly/4nLOWoE @annemscheel.bsky.social @bringmannlaura.bsky.social @jmbh.bsky.social

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 20d

Het Lorentz Center zoekt per direct een: Wetenschappelijk Coördinator.
Ben jij gepromoveerd, nieuwsgierig naar grensverleggend onderzoek en heb je passie voor verbinding? Dan is dit jouw kans om een sleutelrol te spelen in het bruisende hart van de internationale wetenschap. bit.ly/46sTA3J

Wetenschappelijk Coördinator

Het Lorentz Center zoekt per direct een:Wetenschappelijk Coördinator (32-38 uur per week)Word de spil in internationale wetenschappelijke samenwerking! Ben jij gepromoveerd, nieuwsgierig naar grensver...

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 23d

Mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers, historians, philosophers, social scientists, and policymakers come together to discuss how rapid developments in technology will change the practice of mathematical research. bit.ly/3I1YLj4

Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · 23d

This workshop aims to tackle the critical challenges of documenting paradata in 3D heritage visualisations. By developing actionable standards and tools, this workshop seeks to ensure transparency, reliability, and reusability in 3D scholarship. bit.ly/46jG7Lt
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Sep 8

Scientists eager to build a community interested in the control of complex nonequilibrium phenomena, come together this week at the Lorentz Center to establish some fruitful connections between recent theoretical and experimental progress. bit.ly/4ge4Fu2

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Daniel Kostic @danielkostic.bsky.social · Sep 2

Our paper "Large Physics Models: Towards a collaborative approach with Large Language Models and Foundation Models" has just been accepted for publication in THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C. It is a result of a workshop shorturl.at/6UbIW at @lorentzcenter.bsky.social, and is co-authored with:

Center for Scientific Workshops in All Disciplines - Physics & question-answering machines: artificial scientific understanding?

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Aug 25

The workshop aims to unravel the mechanisms behind the nitrogen- and oxygen-bearing iCOMs dichotomy, integrating observations, modeling, and computational studies.
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Aug 25

This workshop aims to establish an international alliance of proven, effective psychosocial multicomponent intervention programs for neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia.
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Lorentz Center and the @esciencecenter.bsky.social invite researchers to join the eScience Center - Lorentz Competition 2025.
This year the focus is on:
Advancing AI Techniques for Scientific Research and Scholarship
More information: bit.ly/4fCmx1a

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Aug 18

This workshop aims to create a new research agenda in theoretical biology, drawing on the biosemiotic and Extended Evolutionary Synthesis paradigms supplementing the Modern Synthesis. bit.ly/4mRGFyZ

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Aug 14

Halfway there – Let’s finish (y)our common rooms! In June, we launched a crowdfunding campaign to upgrade the common rooms. Already over half of our target amount is donated! We are deeply grateful for every contribution, large or small.
More information and how to make a donation: bit.ly/3JdthGR

Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Aug 11

This week, researchers from across the aviation sector and stakeholders, come together to develop a whitepaper on 'Mitigating Contrail Impact' in reducing the environmental impact of aviation. bit.ly/4owdzGK

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Nitish Govindarajan @nitish-gov.bsky.social · Aug 8

Checkout our latest article on "The intricacies of computational electrochemistry"! It summarizes a lot of discussions from a @lorentzcenter.bsky.social workshop we organized last year. We hope this article offers valuable insights for both newcomers and experts in this exciting field!

Prashant Kamat @kamat.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Intricacies of Computational Electrochemistry | ACS Energy Letters
Computational electrochemistry is hard. The reasons for its complexity lie not only in the multiscale nature of electrochemical processes but also in the rapid, ongoing method development
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The Intricacies of Computational Electrochemistry

Computational electrochemistry is hard─anybody who has ever tried will know. We argue that the reasons for its complexity lie not only in the multiscale nature of electrochemical processes but also i...

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Aug 4

This workshop aims to accelerate progress in unraveling the nature of the Gaia phase spiral and its implications for galactic dynamics by fostering the in-depth exploration and collaboration essential to tackling this grand challenge.
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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Jul 29

Researchers from AI, machine learning, logic, mathematics and law come together to discuss about the conceptual foundation of causality and responsibility and how they should be formalized with the support of mathematical/computational tools. bit.ly/4o9hfOv
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Mijke Jetten 🌱 @jettenmijke.bsky.social · Jul 26

It’s a wrap. 5 days of Global Open Research Commons #GORC @lorentzcenter.bsky.social #Leiden @researchdataall.bsky.social @rdaeurope.bsky.social

Good discussions, expert people, interesting use cases.

Check out the inspiring work of this group ➡️ www.rd-alliance.org/groups/gorc-...

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Mijke Jetten 🌱 @jettenmijke.bsky.social · Jul 21

Travelling from the 1st day @researchdataall.bsky.social @rdaeurope.bsky.social Making the Global Open Research Commons #GORC Truly Global workshop @lorentzcenter.bsky.social #Leiden. Good discussions, expert people, interesting use cases. Happy for 4 more days. And look at this pretty lady 💚

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Lorentz Center @lorentzcenter.bsky.social · Jul 16

Researchers from different backgrounds who work broadly on Diophantine problems come together at the Lorentz Center to make new connections across their respective fields.
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