This Week’s Discoveries, Archive

This week's archive.


05 Oct 2010 Ionica Smeets - Mathematical Institute
"Dropping pennies - explaining science to laymen"
 
28 Sep 2010 Rudy Schild - Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian
"Why are some quasars radio loud: Observations of Quasar Central Structure"
 
Peter Grünwald - Mathematical Institute
"How to update probabilities when given new information: a new look at paradoxes such as the Monty Hall (3 doors, car and goat), the 3-prisoners and the 2-children problem"
 
21 Sep 2010 Robert Wiersma - Leiden Observatory
"Simulating the Chemical Enrichment of the Intergalactic Medium"
 
Dennis van der Vliet - Leiden Institute of Chemistry
"Fuel Cell Electrochemistry"
 
14 Sep 2010 Jan-Willem van de Meent - Leiden Institute of Physics
"Making it Big: How circulation in giant cells aids metabolic transport"
 
Daniel Worm - Mathematical Institute
"Invariant measures of Markov operators"
 
07 Sep 2010 Peter Bruin - Mathematical Institute
"Sums of squares"
 
Marcel Schaaf - Institute Biology Leiden
"The mobility of a transcription factor inside the nucleus"
 
15 Jun 2010 RINO - Stichting RINO
"Fast Forward Physics"