Dit jaar zullen verschillende wetenschappers antwoord gaan geven op vragen uit het publiek over wetenschap. Boegbeeld van onze route Klaas Landsman en filosoof Emanuel Rutten werden gevraagd om vier verschillende vragen te beantwoorden over geloof en wetenschap. De video opnames hiervan zijn hier terug te zien: VIDEO’s Hieronder volgt ook nog een uitgebreider antwoord op […]
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13 – 17 July 2020 The Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena (DIEP) organizes its first summerschool. The school is intended for advanced master’s students, PhDs, postdocs, and beyond. The main focus of the school is the role of emergence in the lowest as well as the highest energies, and the softest as well as the […]
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Funded by the NWA Startimpuls, the LU tutor project was designed to motivate primary school students with their (bèta) study material while at the same time motivating university students to gain experience in the profession as a school teacher. Please watch the delighted video in this link to see the first results of the tutor […]
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The NWA has awarded a 5 million euro grant to CORTEX – the Center for Optimal, Real-Time Machine Studies of the Explosive Universe. The CORTEX consortium of 12 partners from academia, industry and society will make self-learning machines faster, to figure out how massive cosmic explosions work, and to innovative systems that benefit our society. […]
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Building Blocks – the curiosity-driven route within the National Science Agenda par excellence – focuses on the fundamental physical, mathematical, and possibly philosophical laws behind the functioning of the universe: from which particles is it built up in the small, how has it developed in the large, what are the underlying principles, and where are […]
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De route Bouwstenen – de nieuwsgierigheidsgedreven route binnen de NWA par excellence – richt zich op de fundamentele natuurkundige, wiskundige, en mogelijk filosofische wetten achter de werking van het heelal: uit welke deeltjes is het opgebouwd in het klein, hoe heeft het zich ontwikkeld in het groot, wat zijn de onderliggende principes, en waar liggen de grenzen van onze kennis? We […]
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