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Ghent University

University information
NameGhent University
Native nameUniversiteit Gent (Dutch)
Latin nameAcademia Gandavensis
MottoAudere Sapiens
Motto in EnglishDare to Think
Established1817
TypePublic
Religious affiliationPluralistic
Endowment- 410 million
RectorPaul Van Cauwenberge
Staff7,100
Students32,000
CityGhent
StateFlanders
CountryBelgium
Former namesState University of Ghent (RUG)
ColoursBlue and Yellow   
AffiliationsGhent University Association
Santander Network
Erasmus Student Network
European University Association
Websitehttp://www.ugent.be

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Ghent University (Dutch: Universiteit Gent, abbreviated as UGent) is a Dutch-speaking public university located in Ghent, Belgium. It is one of the larger Flemish universities, consisting of 32,000 students and 7,100 staff members. The current rector is Paul Van Cauwenberge.

It was established in 1817 by King William I of the Netherlands. After the Belgian revolution of 1830, it was administered by the newly-formed Belgian state. French became the academic language until 1930, when Ghent University became the first Dutch-speaking university in Belgium. In 1991, the university was granted major autonomy and changed its name from State University of Ghent (Dutch: Rijksuniversiteit Gent , abbreviated as RUG) to its current name.

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gentbelgium.ca The city of Gent is one of the premiere travel destinations in Europe. Situated between Brussels and Bruges, Gent features beautiful Medieval buildings, castles and old city squares. Visitors can enjoy a panoramic view of the city from its Belfy tower. Presently a university town, Gent was once the second largest city in all of Europe. Please enjoy our short video overview of the city and visit our website for further information: www.gentbelgium.ca
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UKIP Leader Nigel Farage is invited by the KASPER students' union to speak at the University of Ghent in Flanders, Belgium, where EU Council president Herman van Rompuy and EU Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso were recently awarded honorary doctorates. After his speech, KASPER awarded its own institutional honorary doctorate to Mr. Farage. www.kasper-gent.org Source: 6-part video from www.Youtube.com
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Prof. SN Balagangadhara (Ghent University, Belgium) discusses the art of avadhana, advaita vedanta and problem solving heuristics with Shatavadhani Dr. R. Ganesh.
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Prof. SN Balagangadhara (Ghent University, Belgium) talks about Rethinking Religion in India.
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University of Ghent Belgium :: Dancing for the climate :: 10 december 2009 :: The UFO :: St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 33 :: 9000 Gent :: Belgium ::
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An introduction to Rethinking Religion in India II, 10-13 Jan. 2009, New Delhi, India, brought to you by Ghent University (Belgium) and Kuvempu University (India).
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Belfort-Group invites : International Symposium : May 29th 2010 : The illegal spraying of harmful substances in the atmosphere by airplanes also known as CHEMTRAILS : THE TRUTH! = PROGRAM : Friday, May 28th 2010 : 17h00: Reception at the City Hall of Gent The Belfort-Group, the CSE- Initiative, the City of Aigina (GR) and international guests will be received by the mayor of Gent, Mr. Daniel Termont, in connection with the International Chemtrail Symposium. Saturday, May 29th 2010 : International Symposium The illegal spraying of harmful substances in the atmosphere by airplanes, also known as chemtrails The Truth! Location: Faculty of Bio-Sciences, Oehoe-Auditorium, University of Ghent, Coupure Links 653, Ghent, Belgium Official language: English Admission fee: 15 Euros Morning program : 9h00 Doors open 9h30 - 10h30: Welcome, getting acquainted, followed by the presentation of different organisations and grassroot-groups. Opportunity for questions and discussion. 10h30 Coffee break 11h00 - 12h30 Lecture Geo-engineering by Michael Murphy, journalist and political activist from the Los Angeles area, USA 12h30 Lunch break Afternoon program : 14h00 Brotherhood - Welcome by Peter Vereecke of the Belfort-Group 14h05 Why are we here? - Introduction by Sofia Xenidis 14h10 What in heaven is going on? 1. Contrail or Chemtrail ? Confrontation of two visions : 14h10 -14h40 *Contrail: the official vision of meteorologists, which states that the phenomenon is explained as water vapour <b>...</b>
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University of Ghent will soon have the most powerfull supercomputer of Belgium.
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The full-length 42-minute video in HD 720p can be downloaded from www.crm.ugent.be (the slides are available for download from this same location). This video lecture by Anita Prinzie (The University of Manchester, UK) and Dirk Van den Poel (Ghent University, Belgium) discusses our research about generalizing Random Forests (Leo Breiman, 2001) to other methods (both in classification and regression for data mining). We generalize our new method to Random Multinomial Logit and Random Naive Bayes. When applied to a case study in customer intelligence (cross-selling), we achieve a significant and substantial improvement in predictive performance over other multi-class classification methods in machine learning such as random forests and SVM (support vector machines).
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Is Secularism the Solution to Communal Conflict in India? Prof. SN Balagangadhara (Ghent University, Belgium) answers the platform question at Rethinking Religion in India 2009 (Day 1).
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Universities in Belgium

Dutch-speaking: Universiteit Antwerpen * Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussel * Vrije Universiteit Brussel * Universiteit Gent * Universiteit Hasselt * Katholieke Universiteit Leuven + Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Campus Kortrijk French-speaking: Faculté polytechnique de Mons * Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons * Facultés universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix * Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis * Faculté universitaire des sciences agronomiques de Gembloux * Université catholique de Louvain * Université Libre de Bruxelles * University of Liège * University of Mons-Hainaut Other recognised academic establishments: Brussels Faculty for Protestant Theology * Evangelical Theological Faculty Postgraduate: College of Europe (Bruges) * Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine * University of Antwerp Management School * Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management * Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School Military: Royal Military Academy Transgressing universities: transnational University Limburg

Santander Network

Aalborg University * Adam Mickiewicz University * Babeş-Bolyai University * Eindhoven University of Technology * Ghent University * Grenoble Institute of Technology * Joseph Fourier University * Lund University * Malmö University * Minho University * Norwegian University of Science and Technology * Pierre Mendès-France University * Polytechnic University of Valencia * Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León * University of Bari * University of Bayreuth * University of Bergen * University of Cantabria * University of Catania * University of Giessen * University of Gothenburg * University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria * University of Le Havre * University of Leeds * University of Liège * University of Limerick * University of Malta * University of Murcia * University of Osnabrück * University of Patras * University of Pau and Pays de l'Adour * University of Porto * University of Rennes 1 * University of Rennes 2 � Upper Brittany * University of Rouen * University of Southern Denmark * University of Trieste * University of Valladolid * University of Wrocław * Vrije Universiteit |

CESAER Association

Aalborg * Athens Polytechnic * BME * Chalmers * CTU Prague * DTU * École centrale Paris * EPFL * ETH Zurich * Florence * Ghent * GIT * Hanover * Heroit-Watt * INSA de Lyon * INSA de Toulouse * IST * ITU * Karlsruhe * KTH * KTU * KU Leuven * Lund * METU * NTNU * ParisTech * Politecnico di Milano * POLITO * Porto * PUB * Queen's * PUT * RWTH Aachen * Southampton * Stuttgart * Supélec * Technion * Thessaloniki * TKK * TPU * TU Berlin * BUT * TU Crete * TU Darmstadt * TU Delft * TU Dresden * TU Eindhoven * TU Hamburg * TU Ilmenau * TU Munich * TU Vienna * TU Warsaw * TUT * Twente * UCL * UCD * UPC * UPM * UPV |



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