Events

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  • 25June2019

    Black holes and entanglement

    10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Sagar Lokhande's research focuses on the role of quantum entanglement in the physics of black holes.

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  • 25June2019

    Visceral hypersensitivity in IBS

    12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Mw. S.A. van Diest will defend the doctoral thesis ‘The Pain behind Visceral Hypersensitivity in IBS'.

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  • 25June2019

    Management of lateral ankle injuries

    14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Mw. S.A. van Diest will defend the doctoral thesis 'The Pain behind Visceral Hypersensitivity in IBS’.

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  • 25June2019

    Platform imaginaries. Rethinking Airbnb and other dominant technologies

    17:00 - 18:30 | Event

    Platforms like Airbnb, Uber and Thuisbezorgd are amongst the most popular technologies that support urban living. They allow people to rent a room, hire a car, or have food delivered to their doorstep; they regulate ...

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  • 25June2019

    UvA Alumni Chapter New York Event

    18:30 - 21:00 | Event

    Join the UvA Alumni Chapter event in New York for a conversation with UvA alumnus and photographer Richard Koek, who will talk about his career change from a tax lawyer for an international accounting firm to a ...

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  • 26June2019

    Legal change after public health crises in China

    10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Annemieke van den Dool examines the processes behind and nature of post-crisis legal change in China. Her main aim is to investigate to what extent and under which conditions public health crises lead to legal change ...

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  • 26June2019

    Complexity of groin injuries

    11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Dhr. R.F.H. Langhout will defend the doctoral thesis ‘The Complexity of Groin Injury. In search of the Injury Mechanism’.

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  • 26June2019

    Costs and benefits of plant defence suppression by spider mites

    12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Herbivores eat plants, and plants defend their tissues. To overcome these plant defences, herbivores have evolved a variety of offensive strategies. Bram Knegt studies the costs and benefits of a recently described ...

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  • 26June2019

    Policy targets and aquatic ecosystem responses

    13:00 - 14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    In response to the deterioration of aquatic ecosystems policy targets have been defined to prevent further biodiversity losses. The aim of Peter van Puijenbroek's research is to bridge the gap between these targets ...

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  • 26June2019

    Fluorescence nanoscopy applications in tribology

    14:00 - 15:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Dina Petrova presents two new measurement methods that use fluorescence microscopy to go beyond the diffraction limit. She applies these to research in the field of friction and lubrication sciences.

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  • 26June2019

    Sexual Violence in Wars of Decolonization

    20:00 - 21:30 | Event

    NIAS Fellows Stef Scagliola and Natalya Vince compare their findings on sexual violence in wars of decolonization in Indonesia (1945-1949) and Algeria (1954-1962).

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  • 27June2019

    ‘Niches’ in vascular bone marrow

    10:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Mw. M.J. Goedhart will defend the doctoral thesis ‘The Vascular Bone Marrow Niche as Immunological and Hematopoietic Hotspot’.

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  • 27June2019

    Implementing structured data in electronic health records

    12:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Dhr. E. Joukes will defend the doctoral thesis ‘Implementing Structured Data in Electronic Health Records’.

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  • 27June2019

    Preventing irritant contact dermatitis in health care workers

    14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Mw. M. Soltanipoor will defend the doctoral thesis ‘Irritant Contact Dermatitis. A Strategy for Prevention in Dutch Health Care Workers’.

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  • 27June2019

    Frijda Lecture at the ABC Symposium 2019: 'The Emerged Disturbed Mind'

    16:45 - 17:45 | Event

    Members of the Alumni Network Brain and Cognitive Sciences are invited to join the Frijda Lecture at the ABC Symposium 2019: 'The Emergent Disturbed Mind'. This year, the annual Frijda Lecture is given by Dr. Greg ...

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  • 28June2019

    Semantic accounts of expressions

    10:00 - 11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Nadine Theiler develops semantic accounts of a range of expressions: attitude verbs, discourse particles and additive particles.

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  • 28June2019

    Innervation and intestinal inflammation

    11:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Mw. R.A. Willemze will defend the doctoral thesis ‘Connecting Innervation and Intestinal Inflammation’.

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  • 28June2019

    Essay writing and crisis

    12:00 - 13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Thijs Witty investigates writers who have turned to essayistic composition in moments of crisis. One of his aims is to demonstrate how essays can be considered helpful measures for uncertainties that resist ...

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  • 28June2019

    Commensals and pathogens in renal pathology

    13:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Mw. D. Emal will defend the doctoral thesis ‘Damage-Associated Molecular Patterns, Commensals and Pathogens in Renal Pathology’.

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  • 28June2019

    The genetic architecture of substance use

    14:00 | PhD defence ceremony

    Dhr. A.T. Marees will defend the doctoral thesis ‘The Genetic Architecture of Substance Use’.

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