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	Information for Current students MijnUvA UvA Course Catalogue Current students website Blackboard Student Service Point Staff Alumni Prospective students International Study Programmes Studying in Dutch	News Hendrik Casimir-Ziegler Research Grant for Alfred Zerres The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) and the Nordrhein-Westfälische Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Künsten (The North Rhine-Westphalia Academy for Sciences and Arts ) have awarded a Hendrik Casimir-Karl Ziegler Research Grant 2012 to Alfred Zerres. He will use this grant to work as a guest researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) for one year. UvA classicist Irene de Jong’s Iliad commentary to be published in Cambridge series In mid-January, Cambridge University Press will be publishing the latest title in its prestigious Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics series - or ‘Green-Yellows’, as they are known in academic circles (on account of the book jacket colours) - written by University of Amsterdam (UvA) professor of Classical Greek Language and Literature Dr Irene de Jong. Black hole fires ‘gas bullets’ into space An international team of researchers including astronomers from the University of Amsterdam (UvA), Radboud University Nijmegen and ASTRON has captured a black hole in the Milky Way in the act of firing super fast ‘bullets’ of gas into space. Sociologist Gerben Moerman named UvA Lecturer of the Year 2011 Sociologist Gerben Moerman has been named UvA Lecturer of the Year 2011 for his dynamic and innovative teaching. The award was presented by jury chairwoman Tessa van Ligten, a Dentistry student and member of the Central Student Council. UvA celebrates 380th Dies Natalis The University of Amsterdam (UvA) celebrated its 380th Dies Natalis (anniversary) on Friday, 6 January 2012. In the opening address, Rector Magnificus Prof. Dymph van den Boom spoke about promoting the distinctive features of Dutch universities. The philosopher Daniel Dennett then gave the Dies Natalis speech titled ‘Curiosity’.	Agenda Classifying the prosodic features of Low German language The goal of this phonological investigation is to establish whether the primary prosodic feature in LG dialects is tone, vowel length, or something else entirely. PhD degree ceremony Tuesday 31 January 2012, 14:00 - 15:00 The impact of information on strategic voting This thesis investigates the impact of information on the extent of strategic voting, explores the motives behind economic voting and applies a similar toolbox to understand contributions to the public good in a non-trivial scenario. PhD degree ceremony Friday 3 February 2012, 10:00 - 11:00 Cultural property protection important for stability in post-conflict zones Military success can no longer be defined in terms of battlefield victory but has to take into account the post-conflict political, social, and economic stability of countries involved. Cultural Property protection (CPP) should be approached in a pro-active fashion not just in a re-active approach. PhD degree ceremony Friday 3 February 2012, 13:00 - 14:00 New methods for analysing non-convex discrete time optimal control problems This thesis develops new methods to analyse non-convex discrete time optimal control problems. A distinctive feature of such problems is that indifference states may occur: these are initial states at which several optimising trajectories originate. PhD degree ceremony Tuesday 7 February 2012, 12:00 - 13:00
'I'm standing on the shoulders of giants.' Dies Natalis 6 January 2012 Dr Gerben Moerman UvA Lecturer of the Year 2011	Go to Library Blackboard MyUvA Vacancies UvAshop