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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 ...

The Origins Center of the Netherlands has recently granted seed funding to explore the first steps towards establishing a Computational Origins of Life Simulator.

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 ...

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 ...

The NPCS funds mini-workshops on complex systems aiming at encouraging new scientists to the field of complexity.

Apply now for the 2018 Complex Systems Summer School at Santa Fe Institute (New Mexico).

IAS Associate Patricia Pisters is co-organising the Worlding the Brain Conference, from 2 till 4 November 2017 in Amsterdam.

Eberhard van der Laan, Burgemeester van Amsterdam en inspirerend lid van de Board of Trustees van het IAS is overleden.

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 ...

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.

The Institute for Advanced Study is happy to announce that it has strengthened its Boards of Associates with six new members.

The Institute for Advanced Study is one of the potential host organisations for research fellows (postdoc positions) in the Origins Center of the Netherlands.

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),

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 ...

Patricia Pisters (Film Studies) has been appointed as a new member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

On May 8-9, the Complexity Science Hub Vienna will organise a workshop to discuss the digital future of our society.

Professor Peter M.A. Sloot is scientific director of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the UvA.

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.

The Netherlands Platform Complex System (NPCS) has granted funds for two workshops to be hosted by the IAS.

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.

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 ...

The Institute for Advanced Study is honored to announce that Nobel Laureate Alvin Roth has accepted to join the Board of Trustees.

The Institute for Advanced Study is proud to present a new member of its Scientific Advisory Board: David Krakauer.

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.