Congratulations to the winners of the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group Call 2026/2027: 'Abstraction, Broad Generalisation, and Composition: The ABCs of Analogy' by Lucia Donatelli, Martha Lewis and Claire Stevenson. bit.ly/3RfIP0D @claires012345.bsky.social @marthaflinders.bsky.social

Exoplanetary scientists, (astro)biologists and planetary scientists and teams developing and building the next generation telescopes come together this week at the Lorentz Center. bit.ly/3QAzwIq @exoclouds.bsky.social @astrorickman.bsky.social @timlichtenberg.bsky.social

We would like to draw your attention to this video of the workshop “Roadmap to the Exploration of Venus Habitability.” It perfectly illustrates what a workshop at the Lorentz Center is like. In addition, the topic itself is more than worth watching. youtu.be/xhCdanBLASc?...

Congratulations to Maximilian Ries, Sebastian Pfaller and Andrea Giuntoli for winning the 2027 CECAM-Lorentz Call with their proposal "Fracture of Amorphous Materials Across the Scales". @cecamevents.bsky.social bit.ly/3QjelKG

Researchers, practitioners, and autism community stakeholders discuss facilitators and barriers to support wellbeing, strengths, and identity development in autistic people. @jiedilei.bsky.social @ilianamagiati.bsky.social @jeroendewinter.bsky.social @juliettegudkne1.bsky.social bit.ly/3OkId8P

This week we welcome the winner of the Huibregtsen Prize 2024: Sarian Kosten. In addition to the Huibregtsen Prize, the winner is offered a workshop at the Lorentz Center. bit.ly/4cDzxUu

This workshop aims to connect and explore the various knowledge gaps hindering achievement of true person-centeredness in healthcare, to identify research avenues to address these knowledge gaps, and work towards a grant proposal to perform such research. bit.ly/4cvWb0X

The aim of this workshop is to bring together leading experts of the field to review the current state of knowledge on Intra-Cluster Light (ICL), the faint halo of stars between galaxies in galaxy groups and clusters. @mireiamontes.bsky.social bit.ly/3Q4BCzV

This week's workshop aims to broaden the research focus of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) to comprehensively include bio-energetics or brain energy dynamics, particularly emphasizing energy expenditure. bit.ly/4s2JC1S @naelnadifkasri-lab.bsky.social

We would like to share an exciting opportunity: the Golestan Fellowship at NIAS. This fellowship is aimed at non-Dutch researchers with post-PhD experience working at the interface of medical or biological sciences and the humanities or social sciences. nias.knaw.nl/fellowships/...

This workshop aims to answer the question: how can we ensure that joint decision making about healthcare is facilitated by AI, in a way that is legally and medical-ethically warranted? bit.ly/40OwEJP @johankwisthout.bsky.social

This workshop aims to systematize theories of bundled modalities across logic subfields, exploring their general properties, computational advantages, and applications. The workshop fosters interdisciplinary dialogue to establish bundled modalities as a cohesive paradigm in logic. bit.ly/3NkPi9f

In times of crisis, play often emerges as a vital response for dealing with highly uncertain, precarious and unfathomable conditions. This workshops works on the development of a prototype for playful strategies in crisis. bit.ly/416rKI9 @apolitopoulos.bsky.social

This workshop brings together mathematicians, philosophers, computer scientists, and experimental neuroscientists to identify either missing or ill-directed trends in neuroscience and ask new questions toward a new paradigm. bit.ly/4sLmipW @battaglialab.bsky.social @danielkostic.bsky.social

How do we turn distributed AI infrastructure into a unified scientific instrument? The winner of the 2026 eScience Center-Lorentz Competition—"Beyond Models"—aims to do just that. The team will host an intensive workshop at @LorentzCenter w/ dedicated support from our #RSEs. Congrats to the team! 🎉

Congratulations to Azza Ahmed, Thomas Abeel, Raymond Oonk and Arnaud Renard for winning the eScience Center-Lorentz Competition 2025 with their proposal 'Beyond Models: Distributed AI Infrastructure as a Scientific Instrument'. bit.ly/3PgBzR7 @esciencecenter.bsky.social

Researchers from quantum computing, quantum communication, and the foundations of quantum mechanics explore the fundamental ingredients behind quantum advantage—the ability of quantum technologies to outperform classical ones. bit.ly/4uicjKh @alexiasalavrakos.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu

This workshop aims to explore the nexus between conceptions of time, innovation, and progress across cultural and historical contexts to develop a new narrative sensitive to alternative forms of innovation. bit.ly/3OSc7kM @inekesluiter.bsky.social

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The goal of this workshop is to connect the chemical fossil records of nearby galaxies with the latest observations of galaxies in the early Universe. bit.ly/46irYz5 @joriswitstok.bsky.social

This week we welcome the workshop of the NIAS-Lorentz Theme Group 2025/2026: Hybrid Agencies - Embodied Intelligence in Biological and Artificial Agents. bit.ly/4rpN72K @annaciaunica.bsky.social @erikjbekkers.bsky.social

Participants of this workshop will work to fully expand X-ray analysis into the 3D world of polarimetric-spectral-timing, whereby X-ray timing methods are used to study variations across both X-ray energy and polarization. bit.ly/3Obhiw5 @philuttley.bsky.social

WE Heraeus-Lorentz Call 2026 is open! The WE Heraeus-Lorentz collaboration calls for researchers to organize WE Heraeus-Lorentz Workshop(s) and seminars to be held at the Lorentz Center, Netherlands, between April and August 2027. www.lorentzcenter.nl/we-heraeus

Scholars and practitioners will analyze institutional racism in Dutch basic education from a Critical Race Theory perspective. bit.ly/4tqxyJE

The workshop brings together experts from different fields to explore whether Venus may once have been habitable by examining the coevolution of the planet's surface, interior, and atmosphere. bit.ly/4aEpWvu

This week's workshop is the winner of the CECAM-Lorentz Competition 25-26. Quoting the Review Board: “a strong proposal connecting current developments in application of computer science and the urgency of moving to (and maintaining) a sustainable society.” bit.ly/4rhGaAs @cecamevents.bsky.social

This workshop aims to establish a sustainable community of philosophers doing interdisciplinary research (PIRC), in which philosophers who engage in interdisciplinary research can exchange knowledge, experiences, and support. bit.ly/49Ehjkm

Scientists in the broad field of degenerate parabolic systems (porous medium type equations, higher order problems, cross-diffusion systems, free-boundary problems) with application in physics and biology come together at the Lorentz Center. bit.ly/4b7AYue

Call for Nominations Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellowship '27/'28 is open! The DNLF is awarded annually to a leading researcher to work on innovative research that brings together perspectives from the humanities and/or social sciences with the natural and/or technological sciences. bit.ly/49kUguI

To advance AI-supported materials, this workshop brings researchers from materials science together with those working in AI/ML, focusing on the small data challenges. Jointly, they will identify common problems and develop plans for tackling them. bit.ly/4qryewn @leecronin.bsky.social

Researchers, industrial practitioners, and open-source contributors come together to collaboratively explore the multifaceted challenges of software supply chains and dependency management. @coolsweng.bsky.social bit.ly/4sCekjA

Discover the important role philosophy plays in all different scientific fields! Four stories by philosophers, four thought-provoking new perspectives on pressing societal issues. Join our public lecture in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave on 29 January. bit.ly/4pm2Wqp

This workshop tackles thorny questions about amplifying fundamental research in science communication. Can we ethically use hype to foster public engagement with basic sciences? bit.ly/3NadTNl

This workshop focusses on the use and evaluation of an open-source software solution for peer nomination methodology. bit.ly/4q4zzca @loespouwels.bsky.social

This workshop brings together a diverse, interdisciplinary community of scientists to advance our understanding of interfacial water and its role in shaping the electric double layer (EDL), a fundamental component governing the performance of electrochemical systems. bit.ly/48KOSAG

Discover the important role philosophy plays in all different scientific fields! Four stories by philosophers, four thought-provoking new perspectives on pressing societal issues. Join our public lecture in Rijksmuseum Boerhaave on 29 January. bit.ly/4pm2Wqp

This workshop brings together a multi-disciplinary audience curating the development of cutting-edge applications of Machine Learning in physics and chemistry. bit.ly/4a6vzms

Experts in the field of (opto)spintronics in vdW and related materials gather to find open research lines in this field, identify the main challenges in the field and pinpoint how these challenges could be overcome. bit.ly/3X08Cty @mhdguimaraes.bsky.social @jagodaslawinska.bsky.social

Join on 11/11 our public lecture 'Why study islands? An introduction to the insular world', at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. Speaker is José María Fernández-Palacios, professor of the University of La Laguna. He will talk about how species adapt or go extinct as island environments change. bit.ly/47rAgpd

iSAPS provides young researchers in the software architecture field and practicing architects from the industry the opportunity to learn from the leaders in the field. bit.ly/3WBIsNp @danielfeitosa.bsky.social @plago.bsky.social

This workshop aims to establish a cross-disciplinary dialogue between experts in several disciplines to address the urgent challenge of reducing the energy footprint of computational science. bit.ly/4nuk77l @riakymch.bsky.social @malyzajko.bsky.social @gconstantinides.bsky.social

In this video, scientists at different career stages explain three exciting breakthroughs in superconductivity research. On top of that, this video gives an unique insight into what physicists actually do during a Lorentz Center workshop. youtu.be/2qieThb_fow?...

Using the lead isotope community and neighbouring fields as nucleus, this workshop initiates the development of a toolbox for the archaeological sciences written as R package. bit.ly/4nah57V @benmarwick.bsky.social

Heading home after a week at the Lorentz Center in Leiden for a wonderful workshop about designing kinetics. The @lorentzcenter.bsky.social and other places for collaborative research such as @cecamevents.bsky.social and @esivienna.bsky.social do an incredible job for the community. Thank you! 🙏

Theoretical, computational, and experimental scientists from several diverse communities, interested in designing kinetics approaches, come together this at the Lorentz Center. @bettinagkeller.bsky.social @cecamevents.bsky.social bit.ly/4okRoTi

How can science free itself from colonial legacies embedded in its practices? This is the central question driving a new project by Professor Catarina Dutilh Novaes, who joins NIAS in the first semester of 26–27 as the Distinguished NIAS-Lorentz Fellow. @cdutilhnovaes.bsky.social bit.ly/4mXW0O7

The goal of this workshop is to define and implement a roadmap for a detailed intercomparison project between multiple leading computational frameworks of magma ocean evolution. bit.ly/3IZbJyn @timlichtenberg.bsky.social @lavainspace.bsky.social @astroyami.bsky.social @meteodenny.bsky.social

This workshop takes a step forward in unveiling the connection between galactic central regions, where small stellar and gaseous structures coexist with massive black holes (MBHs), and the evolution of galaxies at a global scale. @katjafah.bsky.social bit.ly/3VNIMbA

Ben jij proactief, stressbestendig en heb je een probleemoplossende instelling? Vind je het leuk te werken op dé plek waar wetenschap samenkomt? Solliciteer dan naar de functie van workshopcoördinator bij het Lorentz Center! bit.ly/48G8oPa

Ben jij een enthousiaste, ervaren, verbindende leidinggevende en deel jij onze passie voor het samenbrengen van wetenschappers uit verschillende disciplines? Het Lorentz Center is op zoek naar een nieuwe Operationeel Manager. Meer informatie vind je hier: bit.ly/3VVT9u5 Solliciteren tot 8 oktober.