Past events

  • 18 Dec
    15:00 - 17:00

    Flexible Parsimonious Models for Complex Data and the Challenge of Rare Words

    Researchers throughout academia, industry, and government are generating data at scales and levels of complexity far beyond what could previously have been imagined. Complex data demand statistical models that are sufficiently flexible to adapt to meaningful, underlying signals, allowing scientists...

  • 11 Dec
    16:30 - 19:00

    PhD projects

    This edition of the Forum is focused on PhD projects from some of the departments involved in this Forum.

  • 30 Nov
    11:00 - 13:00

    Culture Ethics and Leadership | seminar by Prof. Dr. Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School

    Prof. Dr. Amy Edmondson will give a presentation about her research on psychological safety in the workplace. She will adopt a retrospect look on how she developed key ideas about psychological safety, and look forward on how organizations can improve their learning capacity. This seminar is open...

  • 27 Nov
    14:00

    Modelling brain energy metabolism

    The brain consumes an inordinate amount of energy with respect to its weight and understanding brain energy metabolism is crucial. Prof Renaud Jolivet will explain why this is crucial and go more in-depth on how to design models of brain energy metabolism and more.

  • 05 Oct 16 Oct

    Dutch Agri Food Week 2018

    During the fourth edition of the Dutch Agri Food Week The Netherlands will evolve around the future of our food. Visitors will get answers to the question: ‘what are we eating now, and what will be eating in 2050?’

  • 02 Oct

    Modelling human metabolism

    The workshop aims to create a multidisciplinary platform to address how metabolic modelling can answer important scientific questions and contribute to applications in disease, nutrition, and drug metabolism and what needs to be done to achieve this.

  • 01 Oct
    15:30 - 16:30

    Magnetic resonance spectroscopy to study human brain

    Magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS) is a non-invasive technique that allows the measurement of multiple metabolites in the brain in vivo at the same time.

  • 17 Sep
    12:00 - 14:00

    SBE’s Research Themes Launch

    Join us at the start of a new academic year as the seven research themes of the School of Business and Economics share their visions with the SBE and UM communities.

  • 14 Sep
    10:45 - 15:00

    Future-Proof Decision Making Symposium

    From pensions to accountancy, from healthcare to performance management systems, small differences in the way
    information is presented can have huge impact on individuals’ choices, business strategy and policy-making.

  • 05 Sep
    19:00

    Is the movie Interstellar scientifically correct?

    Nobel-prize winner Kip Thorne has co-written the script for this blockbuster, so we can expect that the physics of the script is 100% truthful, right? Before and after the movie a UM-professor will give you the answers.