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Each year the international network of University-based Institutes for Advanced Study (UBIAS) selects a ‘Topic of the Year’; a topic of global importance that is explored through different activities and formats. In ...
Call for proposal Interdisciplinary research and education
17 Dec 2018
From 24-26 October 2019, the annual AIS conference will be hosted for the first time in Europe, by the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands. This ...
Impressions of CCS 2018 by Wim Hordijk
4 Dec 2018
IAS fellow-alumnus Wim Hordijk has written a short report on the Conference on Complex Systems 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece.
IAS welcomes a new research fellow
19 Nov 2018
The IAS Board of Associates has recently selected Dr. Maarten Marsman as research fellow. He will join the IAS community part-time for the duration of one year.
IAS on the AT5 news
12 Nov 2018
At the UvA Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) researchers from various disciplines collaboratively develop new methods to get a grip on complex challenges (e.g. health, crime, market stability, inequality). AT5, the ...
Call for excellent students to join the IAS research community!
2 Nov 2018
The Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) offers 10 outstanding students the opportunity to join the IAS research community. You will get a place to work on your final thesis in a ...
Call for proposals: ABC-IAS fellowship grant
15 Oct 2018
The IAS and Amsterdam Brain & Cognition (ABC) join forces to facilitate grant writing by offering special fellowships.
Computational model clarifies immune response during cardiac surgery
11 Oct 2018
An interdisciplinary research team of computational scientists, biologists, medical scientists, and mathematicians, led by Peter Sloot, professor of Complex Adaptive Systems at the UvA and Scientific Director of the ...
Complexity & Creative Industry: prepare your proposal at the IAS
11 Oct 2018
NWO has recently opened a call for proposals ‘Complexity & Creative Industry’ to stimulate research on complex, persistent societal problems that cannot be solved by traditional governance or design approaches. ...
Simulation-based Science @UvA continues in 2018-2019
9 Oct 2018
With much pleasure we announce that the UvA Simulation-based Science community will continue to meet regularly at the IAS in the academic year 2018-2019. This year we will organise five thematic meetings, besides the ...
Interview: How to build the Virtual Human
21 Sep 2018
Alfons Hoekstra (Professor of Computational BioMedicine) and Peter Sloot (Professor of Computational Science and IAS Scientific Director) are involved in a large European research consortium that aims to create the ...
Partnership between UvA IAS and TNO to get a grip on complexity
31 Aug 2018
On 29 August 2018, the University of Amsterdam and TNO signed a Letter of Intent to establish a new partnership: “Policy by Simulation”. They join forces to get a better understanding of complex phenomena, and create ...
IAS welcomes three new research fellows
27 Aug 2018
With the start of the new academic year, the Institute for Advanced Study welcomes three new research fellows. Luc Coffeng, Claudi Bockting and Paul Duijn will join the IAS part-time for the duration of one year. ...
IAS welcomes another NWO Research Talent
31 Jul 2018
Julian Burger, postgraduate student (Psychology) from the University of Amsterdam, has been awarded an NWO Research Talent grant to carry out PhD research on implementing network modelling in clinical practice. His ...
IAS fellow Sacha Epskamp receives NWO Veni grant
25 Jul 2018
Sacha Epskamp, assistant professor at the Psychological Methods department of the University of Amsterdam and research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, has received an NWO Veni grant for his project on ...
IAS welcomes two NWO Research Talents
26 Jun 2018
Maartje Eijlander and Casper Hesp, postgraduate students from the University of Amsterdam, have both been awarded an NWO Research Talent grant to carry out PhD research. Both projects will be (partly) hosted by the ...
Do the best universities collaborate with the best ones only?
6 Jun 2018
Although one might expect that university rankings would steer scientific collaboration towards ‘working with the best only’, a recent study shows that geographical vicinity is one of the strongest indicators of the ...
New method predicts emergent behaviour in complex systems
24 Apr 2018
An international team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the University of Geneva has shown that information processing features can accurately predict the emergent behaviour of complex ...
UvA Simulation-based Science community established
3 Apr 2018
Did you know that at the UvA more than 100 researchers, spread across all faculties, apply advanced computational modelling and simulation methods in their research? They have recently established the UvA ...
New research fellow: Antonio Cappuccio
26 Mar 2018
Antonio Cappuccio (computational biologist and data scientist) joined the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) as research fellow. He will be working at IAS until June and from December until March 2019.
UvA IAS joins the international UBIAS network
21 Mar 2018
On 21 March 2018, our membership application has been approved during the UBIAS Directors' Conference in São Paulo, Brazil.
Funding for research on socio-economic inequalities in health
7 Mar 2018
A newly formed interdisciplinary IAS consortium on health systems complexity, under the leadership of IAS Associate Karien Stronks (Academic Medical Center/University of Amsterdam, Public Health), recently received a ...
A new type of fellowship grant in collaboration with the Amsterdam Brain and Cognition centre (ABC)
26 Feb 2018
ABC members who wish to create and write a novel interdisciplinary research proposal on one of ABC's research themes, can apply for an ABC-IAS grant that allows them to spend time at the IAS and work in a small team ...
IAS Associate Jelle Bruineberg receives ABC Talent Grant
14 Feb 2018
IAS Associate Jelle Bruineberg (Philosophy) is awarded an ABC (Amsterdam Brain and Cognition) Talent Grant. With this grant, Bruineberg aims to submit a NWO VENI-proposal on the topic of ‘explanation in adaptive ...
IAS fellow Sacha Epskamp wins dissertation prize
14 Feb 2018
IAS research fellow Sacha Epskamp has won the Psychometric Society Dissertation Prize for his thesis ‘Network Psychometrics’. Epskamp: "Receiving this prize is a great honour for me".
Unexpected visitor at the IAS
12 Feb 2018
Last Wednesday, the Institute for Advanced Study received an unexpected visitor: a tourist from Germany knocked on our door. She read about the IAS building in BauNetz, a German magazine on architecture and decided ...
New data yields deeper understanding of poverty in India
23 Jan 2018
A new international study led by UvA researchers Peter Sloot and Michael Lees has yielded extensive data on slums in Bangalore and provides a detailed insight into the problem of poverty in India. The highly granular ...
Seed funding for computational origins of life research
13 Jan 2018
The Origins Center of the Netherlands has recently granted seed funding to explore the first steps towards establishing a Computational Origins of Life Simulator.
Get to know the IAS research fellows!
20 Dec 2017
We are pleased to announce that the IAS Board of Associates has recently awarded fellowships to a selection of talented researchers, both from the University of Amsterdam as well as from other universities and ...
Exhibition "Bio-inspired Art and Architecture" at UvA Special Collections
14 Nov 2017
As part of a scientific workshop, we have organised a special exhibition inspired by D'Arcy Thompson's famous book “On Growth and Form”. You can visit this temporary exhibition at the UvA Special Collections until 8 ...
NPCS call for proposals for mini-workshops on Complex Systems
6 Nov 2017
The NPCS funds mini-workshops on complex systems aiming at encouraging new scientists to the field of complexity.
Santa Fe: Complex Systems Summer School 2018
23 Oct 2017
Apply now for the 2018 Complex Systems Summer School at Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico).
Science, Art and the Humanities at Worlding the Brain 2017
9 Oct 2017
IAS Associate Patricia Pisters is co-organising the Worlding the Brain Conference, from 2 till 4 November 2017 in Amsterdam.
Burgemeester Van der Laan overleden
6 Oct 2017
Eberhard van der Laan, Burgemeester van Amsterdam en inspirerend lid van de Board of Trustees van het IAS is overleden.
NPCS funding for workshop on host-microbiome research
15 Sep 2017
The Netherlands Platform Complex System (NPCS) has granted funding to organise a workshop: "Making sense of the data deluge:
translating host-microbiome interaction data into systems level". The workshop will be ...
Impression of the IAS Boards meeting and side events
11 Sep 2017
On the occasion of the first official meeting of its Scientific Advisory Board and Board of Trustees, the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) organised several events on September 7-8, 2017.
New IAS Associates on board!
9 Sep 2017
The Institute for Advanced Study is happy to announce that it has strengthened its Boards of Associates with six new members.
Six postdoc positions for Origins of Life research
4 Sep 2017
The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the potential host organisations for research fellows (postdoc positions) in the Origins Center of the Netherlands.
The Quantum Nature of Biology and Life
24 Aug 2017
IAS Scientific Director Peter Sloot will give a lecture on the quantum nature of biology and life at the symposium "Fundamentals of Life in the Universe" (Groningen, 31/08-01/09),
Call for UBIAS Intercontinental Academia: Laws: Rigidity and Dynamics
19 Jun 2017
The international network of University-Based Institutes for Advanced Study (UBIAS) initiated the Intercontinental Academia where ‘scientific exchange’ between generations, disciplines, cultures and continents takes ...
IAS Associate Patrica Pisters member Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
15 May 2017
Patricia Pisters (Film Studies) has been appointed as a new member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
IAS at the workshop ''Re-inventing Society in the Digital Age''
24 Apr 2017
On May 8-9, the Complexity Science Hub Vienna will organise a workshop to discuss the digital future of our society.
TEDx Talk by Peter Sloot: The Fire of Life
3 Apr 2017
Professor Peter M.A. Sloot is scientific director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the UvA.
IAS Associate Henkjan Honing new academic director IIS
30 Mar 2017
As of March 2017, Henkjan Honing is the new academic director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (IIS). Honing is professor of Music Cognition at the University of Amsterdam and IAS Associate.
Two workshops funded by NPCS
11 Mar 2017
The Netherlands Platform Complex System (NPCS) has granted funds for two workshops to be hosted by the IAS.
Ten years of the European Research Council
10 Mar 2017
In 2017 the European Research Council will mark its 10th anniversary. The University of Amsterdam is the ‘top hosting organisation’ in the Netherlands with 71 ERC-grants.
Short impression of the IAS Excellence Lounge
7 Mar 2017
On 23 February the first Excellence Lounge took place at the IAS. Students from the Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship and Amsterdam Science Talent Scholarship were invited for an academic discussion with IAS ...
Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth on the IAS Board of Trustees
6 Jan 2017
The Institute for Advanced Study is honored to announce that Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth has accepted to join the Board of Trustees.
David Krakauer on the IAS Scientific Advisory Board
20 Dec 2016
The Institute for Advanced Study is proud to present a new member of its Scientific Advisory Board: David Krakauer.
Impression Inauguration UvA-IAS
22 Sep 2016
The inauguration of the UvA Institute for Advanced Study on 19 September drew a large enthousiastic audience to the Agnietenkapel, thanks to a varied programme and eminent speakers.
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