Today the erudite prof.dr. Frans von der Dunk, professor of Space Law. About all the challenges of meteor mining and related super, super interesting topics. What a top college! Thank you very much, Frans!

This morning the erudite Ron Keller – former NL ambassador to Russia/China, among others – called in to answer questions about Ukraine in the context of the Geopolitics course. #Gouda

The 2023 Christmas dinner was a great success. Actually we have nothing to add to that.

It’s going to be another busy week for the students. Including a guest lecture by Mr. David Solomonia, Ambassador of Georgia to the Netherlands (in connection with the Geopolitics course).

This morning, Dr Frans Alkemade will lecture on Bayesian statistics in the context of the Cold Case course. The first interim reports will be delivered to Leo Simais (The Hague Criminal Investigation Department) before Christmas. Exciting! Quite a few students are sick with the flu. It’ll be fine! To make the study of Law (subject … Lees verder →

Today a TOP COLLEGE in connection with the UMC project. Three guest lecturers: prof.dr. Frits van Merode (professor of logistics and operations management at Maastricht University), Thomas Attema (TNO) & Sophie van Zutphen (Visuals at Work). Sophie’s lecture was extremely late. That makes sense: peer-to-peer is always extremely inspiring. HURRAH!

This morning the unsurpassed, hyper-intelligent Margot Stakenborg (theoretical physicist & chemist) taught the Existential Risk Research course. What fundamentally threatens humanity (as in: 100% wipe-out)? Climate? Nope. Pandemic? Nope. Nuclear war? Yep. AI? Absolute.

This afternoon the students collected the Christmas tree. Now let’s bring Mandeville into a magical atmosphere!

Last night, of course, Sinterklaas Eve! With poems, surprises and – of course – Diplomacy!

Today the super intelligent, erudite but above all extremely knowledgeable Bart Groothuis, member of the European Parliament, lectured on Geopolitics and Cyber Secutiry issues. What a top lecture! Hurrah!