Past events
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18 Dec15:00 - 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...
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11 Dec16:30 - 19:00
PhD projects
This edition of the Forum is focused on PhD projects from some of the departments involved in this Forum.
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30 Nov11:00 - 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...
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27 Nov14:00
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.
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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?’
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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.
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01 Oct15:30 - 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.
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17 Sep12:00 - 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.
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14 Sep10:45 - 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 Sep19:00
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.