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Theses 2024

At this place we provide an overview of the various PhD Theses produced within SILS. A link to the full text of the thesis is provided. SILS Theses before 2016 are available via dare.uva.nl.

On the quest to study polyploidy in cyanobacteria

H. Pineda Hernández 13 February 2024 Supervisors:  F. Branco dos Santos ,  L.W. Hamoen Research Group: B acterial cell biology and physiology group Uva DARE: This thesis online

Stress effects on the developing and adult brain

Synaptic and network mechanisms underlying memory and disease.

Niek Brosens 18 January 2024 Supervisors:   H.J. Krugers ,  P.J. Lucassen ;  H.W.H.G. Kessels Research Group: Brain Plasticity Group Uva DARE: This thesis online

The role of oxidative stress in development of antimicrobial resistance in  E. coli

Wenxi Qi 10 January 2024 Supervisors:  B.H. ter Kuile ,  S. Brul Research Group: Molecular Biology and Microbial Food Safety Uva DARE: This thesis online

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Elise van der Pol

Senior researcher, microsoft research amsterdam.

• E-mail: evanderpol[at][company][dot]com
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My research interests lie in AI4Science, and structure, symmetry, and equivariance in reinforcement learning and machine learning. I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research Amsterdam, working on reinforcement learning and deep learning for molecular simulation. Before joining MSR, I completed my PhD on the topic of Symmetry and Structure in Deep Reinforcement Learning in the Amsterdam Machine Learning Lab , working with Max Welling (UvA), Frans Oliehoek (TU Delft) and Herke van Hoof (UvA). Before my PhD, I studied Artificial Intelligence at the University of Amsterdam where I obtained my Master's degree (cum laude). My MSc thesis was on the subject of Deep Reinforcement Learning for Coordinated Traffic Light Controllers . I was also involved in Inclusive AI .

• Book : I was featured in the PhD narratives book Why would I want to do a PhD in computer science? .
• Talk : 25th October 2023 I gave an invited talk at the Chalmers Structured Learning Workshop .
• Talk : 10th October 2023 I gave a talk at the WAI NL Summit .
• Nomination : I was nominated for the WAI NL Researcher Award .
• Paper : One-shot Imitation Learning via Interaction Warping was accepted to CoRL 2023.
• Defense : 12th July 2023 I successfully defended my PhD thesis entitled Symmetry and Structure in Deep Reinforcement Learning and obtained my PhD degree.
• Organization : We organized a workshop on Symmetries in Robot Learning at RSS 2023.
• Lecture : 5th July 2023 I gave a lecture on Symmetries in RL in the Barcelona Reinforcement Learning Summer School
• Paper : New preprint: One-shot Imitation Learning via Interaction Warping .
• Organization : We organized a workshop on Physics for Machine Learning at ICLR 2023.
• Talk : 2nd February 2023 I gave an invited talk in the MILA Geometric Deep Learning Reading Group .
• Profile : I was profiled by Women in Machine Learning .
• Paper : Maximum Class Separation as Inductive Bias in One Matrix was accepted to NeurIPS 2022 as an oral.
• Paper : Equivariant Networks for Zero-Shot Coordination was accepted to NeurIPS 2022.
• Talk : 14 December 2022 I gave an invited talk at the icarl seminars at Imperial College London.
• Paper : Stochastic Parallelizable Eigengap Dilation for Large Graph Clustering was accepted to the ICML 2022 Workshop on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Machine Learning 2022.
• Lecture : November 2022 I gave a guest lecture Introduction to Reinforcement Learning in University of Amsterdam's MSc Data Science course Applied Machine Learning .
• Paper : New preprint: Equivariant Networks for Zero-Shot Coordination .
• Paper : New preprint: Maximum Class Separation as Inductive Bias in One Matrix .
• Paper : New preprint: Stochastic Parallelizable Eigengap Dilation for Large Graph Clustering .
• Job : I've joined Microsoft Research Amsterdam as a Senior Researcher. I'll be working on reinforcement learning and deep learning for molecular simulation.
• Lecture : 14th July 2022 I'm giving a lecture on Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning at the Amsterdam Reinforcement Learning Summer School .
• Talk : 03 June 2022 I'm giving an invited talk at BeneRL 2022 .
• Talk : 16 May 2022 I'm giving an invited talk at Stanford University.
• Talk : 19 April 2022 I gave an invited talk at University of Oxford.
• Blog : I was invited to contribute my thoughts on GNNs in RL to What does 2022 hold for Geometric and Graph ML? by Michael Bronstein and Petar Veličković.
• Paper : Multi-Agent MDP Homomorphic Networks was accepted to ICLR 2022.
• Paper : Geometric and Physical Quantities improve E(3) Equivariant Message Passing was accepted to ICLR 2022 as a spotlight.
• Organization : We're organizing a workshop on gamification and multi-agent solutions at ICLR 2022.
• Lecture : 30 November 2021 I gave a guest lecture Introduction to Reinforcement Learning in University of Amsterdam's MSc Data Science course Applied Machine Learning .
• Paper : New preprint: Multi-Agent MDP Homomorphic Networks .
• Paper : New preprint: Geometric and Physical Quantities improve E(3) Equivariant Message Passing .
• Organization : We're organizing a workshop on data-centric reinforcement learning at NeurIPS 2021.
• Talk : 15 July 2021 I gave a talk on Geometric Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning for the Geometric Deep Learning course in the African Masters in Machine Intelligence .
• Paper : The Impact of Negative Sampling on Contrastive Structured World Models was accepted to the ICML 2021 workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for Reasoning and Perception .
• Visit : I was a research scientist intern in DeepMind 's Multi-Agent team.
• Organization : We organized an ICLR social which took place 6 May 2021.
• Talk : 7 May 2021 I gave a keynote talk on Equivariance in MDPs at the ICLR workshop on Self-supervision for Reinforcement Learning .
• Talk : 15 December 2020 I gave a talk on MDP Homomorphic Networks for Deep Reinforcement Learning at the University of Tuebingen.
• Lecture : 23 November 2020 I gave a guest lecture Introduction to Reinforcement Learning in University of Amsterdam's MSc Data Science course Applied Machine Learning .
• Talk : 13 November 2020 I gave a talk on Equivariance, deep reinforcement learning, and making it work at Leiden University.
• Paper : MDP Homomorphic Networks: Group Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning was accepted to NeurIPS 2020.
• Paper : Plannable Approximations to MDP Homomorphisms: Equivariance under Actions was accepted to AAMAS 2020.
• Paper : Contrastive Learning of Structured World Models was accepted to ICLR 2020 as a long talk.
• Paper : Hyperspherical Prototype Networks was accepted to NeurIPS 2019.

Publications and Preprints

• One-shot Imitation Learning via Interaction Warping - O. Biza, S. Thompson, K.R. Pagidi, A. Kumar, E. van der Pol , R. Walters, T. Kipf, J. van de Meent, L.L.S. Wong, R. Platt , accepted to CoRL 2023 · PDF
• Maximum Class Separation as Inductive Bias in One Matrix - T. Kasarla, G. J. Burghouts, M. van Spengler, E. van der Pol , R. Cucchiara, P. Mettes , NeurIPS 2022 (Oral) · PDF · Overview · Code
• Equivariant Networks for Zero-Shot Coordination - D. Muglich, C. Schroeder de Witt, E. van der Pol , S. Whiteson, J. Foerster , NeurIPS 2022 · PDF
• Stochastic Parallelizable Eigengap Dilation for Large Graph Clustering - E. van der Pol , I. Gemp, Y. Bachrach, R. Everett , ICML 2022 Workshop on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Machine Learning · PDF · Overview
• Multi-Agent MDP Homomorphic Networks - E. van der Pol , H. van Hoof, F.A. Oliehoek, M. Welling , ICLR 2022 · PDF · Code
• Geometric and Physical Quantities improve E(3) Equivariant Message Passing - J. Brandstetter, R. Hesselink, E. van der Pol , E.J. Bekkers, M. Welling , ICLR 2022 (Spotlight) · PDF · Code
• The Impact of Negative Sampling on Contrastive Structured World Models - O. Biza, E. van der Pol , T. Kipf , ICML 2021 workshop on Self-Supervised Learning for Reasoning and Perception · PDF · Code
• MDP Homomorphic Networks: Group Symmetries in Reinforcement Learning - E. van der Pol , D.E. Worrall, H. van Hoof, F.A. Oliehoek, M. Welling , NeurIPS 2020 · PDF · Overview · Video · Code · Supplementary
• Plannable Approximations to MDP Homomorphisms: Equivariance under Actions - E. van der Pol , T. Kipf, F.A. Oliehoek, M. Welling , AAMAS 2020 · PDF · Overview · Video · Code
• Contrastive Learning of Structured World Models - T. Kipf, E. van der Pol , M. Welling , ICLR 2020 (Oral) · PDF · Video · Code
• Hyperspherical Prototype Networks - P. Mettes, E. van der Pol , C.G.M. Snoek , NeurIPS 2019 · PDF · Code
• Beyond Local Nash Equilibria for Adversarial Networks - F.A. Oliehoek, R. Savani, J. Gallego-Posada, E. van der Pol , R. Groß , Benelearn 2018 · PDF
• Visual Rationalizations in Deep Reinforcement Learning for Atari Games - L. Weitkamp, E. van der Pol , Z. Akata , BNAIC 2018 (Oral) · PDF
• Deep Reinforcement Learning for Coordination in Traffic Light Control - E. van der Pol , Master's Thesis, University of Amsterdam · PDF
• Coordinated Deep Reinforcement Learners for Traffic Light Control - E. van der Pol , F.A. Oliehoek , NIPS 2016 Workshop on Learning, Inference and Control of Multi-Agent Systems · PDF
• Video Demo: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Coordination in Traffic Light Control - E. van der Pol , F.A. Oliehoek , BNAIC 2016 · PDF · Video
• Linguistic Style Accommodation in Disagreements - E. van der Pol , S. Gieske, R. Fernández , *SEM 2016 · PDF
• Empirical Evaluation of Collective Rationality for Quota Rules in Judgment Aggregation - S. Gieske, E. van der Pol , U. Endriss , BNAIC 2015 · PDF

Dissertation Defense: Vincent Seminck

Echoes of Friendship & Enmity. Agonal and Political Thinking in Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Schmitt Supervisors: Josef Früchtl & Marc de Wilde | 3 May  13:00 hrs. in the Agnietenkapel

Today, we liberal democrats live in a time when nothing less than our liberal democracy is at stake: there is the threat of dictatorship from Russia, and the threat of populism to America and Europe. Populism uses friend-enemy rhetoric to exploit people’s gut feelings to gain power, at the cost of polarising society. In this rhetoric, we can often recognise the political thinking characteristic of Carl Schmitt, in which the enemy is identified as the other or the stranger, whose otherness or strangeness poses an existential threat to ‘our’ way of living. In this thesis, I aim to offer an immanent alternative, which is inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche’s agonal thinking, in which the enemy is perceived not only as a threat, but also as a stimulant to self-overcoming and the transformation of our way of life into a rich plurality of way s of life. I also consider the implications of Schmitt’s thesis of the metaphysical opposition between his own political and Nietzsche’s agonal account of friendship and enmity for different appropriations of their friend-enemy thinking in theories of agonistic democracy. I discuss both Jacques Derrida’s (im)possibility of transcending the friend-enemy dichotomy through a quasi-theological third figure and Chantal Mouffe’s option of transforming friend-enemy antagonism into agonism. But the main question is: How can we liberal democrats use Nietzsche’s and Schmitt’s friend-enemy thinking to better understand and strengthen our liberal democracy?

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Bsc Thesis - Private Acts - Public Settings. The current state of cruising at Park de Oeverlanden

BSc Thesis - De bouw van circulaire gevels bevorderen middels het verbintenissenrecht

MSc Thesis - Implementation of change in the municipality

By Regina Aukes

BSc Thesis: De totstandkoming van besluiten binnen de milieuzones van de gemeente Amsterdam met behulp van algoritmes

MSc Thesis VU - Facial recognition technology in public spaces

The technical, legal and ethical aspects concerning the implementation of…

Master Theses - Data Science & Artificial…

MSc-thesisprojecten Energie Lab Zuidoost

Made Thesis Archive (AMS Institute)

MA - Thesis: Tussen drie vuren: Een eeuw…

MA - Thesis: Inlijving van de Brettenzone tussen 1988-2015

Door Fieke de Groot

MA Thesis - De Wallenkwestie - Stadshistorisch onderzoek naar de Amsterdamse kadeonderhoudsverplichting

Msc Thesis - Healthcare experiences and barriers for MSM who engage in chemsex

Bachelorthesis: De aanpak van klimaatadaptatie op gebouwniveau

Door Thom Jansen

MSc Thesis - Condominium associations in the energy transition

By Stijn Olthof

Msc Thesis AMS Institute - Recognizing value

Exploring the potential of the community land trust as a model for…

MSc Thesis - Slavernij in het onderwijs

De invloed van het publieke en politieke debat over het slavernijverleden…

MSc Thesis UvA - De keerzijde van de medaille: een corrupt spel in de schaduw van de Olympische Spelen. 

MSc Thesis- Anticipating social acceptance of heating alternatives in Amsterdam

MSc Thesis- Ex-ante assessment of social acceptance of sustainable heating systems in Amsterdam South East

MSc Thesis - Renovating with Residents

By Floris Jansen

MSc Thesis Erasmus - De innovatiecapaciteit van gemeentes

Onderzoek in Amsterdam en Rotterdam

MSc Thesis - Value in the wardrobe: A case study of the transition towards a circular economy clothing industry in the Amsterdam…

MSc Thesis - Assess the future social acceptance of sustainable heating system in Amsterdam Southeast by using Cross-Impact Balances…

MSc Thesis - Hoe sluit het preventieve jeugdbeleid Amsterdam aan bij de leefwereld van jongeren met mentale problemen?

Towards 5th Generation District Heating and Cooling in Amstel III and Arenapoor

Thesis HvA - Verlichting van de Amsterdamse woningmarkt

Woningbouw mogelijkheden voor Nieuw-West en Osdorp

Thesis Haagse Hogeschool - Jongeren betrekken bij duurzame participatie: Onderzoek naar jongerenparticipatie in Gemeente Amsterdam…

Thesis HvA - Studenten in de wijk: Een onderzoek naar buurtparticipatie door hoogopgeleide studenten in Slotervaart

MSc Thesis VU - Clusteranalyse energieverbruik woningen Amsterdam

Door Joshua Onwezen

Community interventions: Cooperation in formal structures in Community Coalitions

MSc Thesis VU - If you don’t have a network, you have nothing: The key to supporting key-figures

MSc Thesis AMS Institute - Datacenters as residual heat source for district heating in residential neighbourhoods of Amsterdam

MSc Thesis VU - Aanpak en preventie van slachtofferschap van seksueel grensoverschrijdend gedrag bij meisjes in stadsdeel Amsterdam…

MSc Thesis AMS Institute - Urban Symbiosis of Building Materials in Amsterdam

MSc Thesis AMS Institute - A just heat transition: Assessing the future of heat supply in Amsterdam using an energy justice framework

MSc Thesis Universiteit Utrecht - In de coulissen of op het toneel: Een verkennend onderzoek naar de invloed van transparantie op het…

Thesis HvA - Het effect van Sport Veel @ Jacob Geel op de sportdeelname van basisschoolleerlingen uit Amsterdam Nieuw-West:

BSc Thesis - Verwarmen met water meer waard voor later: Amsterdam Amstel III en ArenApoort

MSc Thesis - Roof Buzz: The relation between pollinator diversity and green roof characteristics

MSc Thesis Universiteit Utrecht - Betrokken in Zuid: Een kwalitatief onderzoek naar het gebiedsgericht werken in de gemeente Amsterdam…

MSc Thesis WUR - Co-existing With Wildlife in Cities: A Literature Review on Nature-Inclusive Urban Development

MSc Thesis VU - “ Doe maar gewoon, dan doe je al gek genoeg": De rol van buurtbemiddeling in de aanpak van woonoverlast door psychisch…

MSc Thesis VU - Towards inclusive mobility: a digital platform for help on the go

Duurzame restwarmte: toekomstige stadswarmte? Het 5de generatie warmtenetwerk in Amsterdam-Zuidoost

MSc Thesis University of Exeter - A reading of the current economic political doctrine as a hurdle to climate change

Thesis HvA - Het grote in het kleine: een onderzoek naar buurtdragers

Door Isamu Goiati en Kasper Lemminga 

MSc Thesis-Integrating PV systems directly on metro traction networks

Door Werner van Dijk

MSc Thesis- The role of energy storage in enabling an energy hub in Amsterdam Southeast

MSc Thesis WUR - Applications of agent based modelling: analysis and simulation of bicycle traffic in urban environments

MSc Thesis TU Delft - AI governance in the city of Amsterdam

By Daniël Brom

MSc Thesis VU - The Health Benefits of Climate Policy in Amsterdam: A Co-Benefit Assessment of Air Pollution

MSc Thesis TIAS - Closing the Gap Between Happiness and Organizational Performance

MSc Thesis AMS Institute - Bottom-up modelling of urban food-systems and their environmental impacts

Msc thesis ams institute - planning degrowth: an explorative study into the value of a degrowth approach for sustainable urban….

MSc Thesis TU Delft - Building a Housing Block with Rhythm in Addis Ababa

MSc Stage WUR - Amsterdamse Voedselbossen

Een inventarisatie naar de kansen van voedselbossen in een stedelijk…

MSc Thesis UvA - Transitiepotentieel van Urban Living Labs in de metropoolregio Amsterdam

MSc Thesis UvA - Public cooperation in the context of countering radicalization: The predicting role of police manners and trust

MSc Thesis UvA - Een groene geschiedenis: Een onderzoek naar het Algemeen Uitbreidingsplan Amsterdam en haar uitwerking van groen op…

MSc Thesis UvA - Neighbourhood perceptions in socially-mixed neighbourhoods: A study in the neighbourhoods Geuzenveld, Middenmeer and…

MSc Thesis UvA - Een veilig thuis voor iedereen: De invloed van wijkgebonden factoren en factoren gerelateerd aan de…

MSc Thesis UvA - Tunneling network's design: A de-scription of Nieuw-West's transit map - bridging the quasi-object with Amsterdam's…

MSc Thesis UvA - Een profielschets en een vergelijking van meldingen van kindermishandeling bij Veilig Thuis in Amsterdam Zuidoost en…

MSc Thesis UvA - The (mix)match between policy-makers and residents: On the problematization of Geuzenveld and social mixing as a…

MSc Thesis UvA - The new neighbours at Startblok: A study of collaborative planning and the role of communities in the development of…

Thesis HvA - Communicatie-onderzoek Gehandicapten en sport

Samenvatting

MSc Thesis UvA - Kleinschalige landbouwprojecten in Amsterdam Nieuw-West

Communicatie-onderzoek Aanpak radicalisering op Amsterdamse scholen (thesis HvA)

MSc Thesis UvA - Ritmes, de hartslag van de Stad

Door Ian Mennes

MSc Thesis UvA - Belonging to Slotermeer: Comparing the general expansion plan with the experience of residents

Thesis HvA - Lage buurtbetrokkenheid in de Aker: Onderzoek naar lage buurtbetrokkenheid onder de inwoners van de Aker tussen de 45…

MSc Thesis UvA - Buurtbudget in Slotermeer-Noordoost: democratisering van begroting gemeenschapsgeld: Een onderzoek naar deelnemers…

Msc thesis uva - broedplaatsen: beleid en praktijk.

Door F. Ensink

MSc Thesis UvA - Open Source Amsterdam: De functie van kunst in de openbare ruimte van Amsterdam Zuidoost

Thesis HvA - Little Manhattan, kans of bedreiging voor Slotervaart? Verkennende scriptie naar de leefbaarheid in Slotervaart

MSc Thesis UvA - Bewonersinitiatief inclusief: De ontwikkelingen van bewonersinitiatieven in de gemeente Amsterdam om dichter bij de…

MSc Thesis UvA - Who belongs where? Feeling of belonging and Etnic Segregation in Amsterdam

MSc Thesis UvA - Tussen de regels door: Over de invloed van institutionele en sociale regels op de hulpverlening aan spookjongeren

MSc Thesis UvA - Je oogst wat je zaait: een onderzoek naar de verhoudingen tussen jongeren en omwonenden in het zuidwest kwadrant van…

Moving towards a sustainable municipal organisation

Analysing organisational culture change processes induced by change agents

MSc Thesis AMS Institute - Circular Economy Thesis: Designing Circular Cities: Exploring the development of circular economy in cities

Circular Economy Thesis: small scale anaerobic digestion to process waste in Amsterdam

Verbinding op een campus

Hoe kan het Amsterdam Life Sciences District de verbinding verhogen?

Van wie is het sportpark?

Burgerparticiaptie bij herinrichting bestaande sportparken

MSc thesis Nick Toet

In a time where private and public incubators and accelerators spring up…