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Season’s Greetings!
Dear friends and colleagues, 2018 was a year of change for HITS. Two research groups successfully completed their work at the institute: …
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Und ab geht die Post: Das virtuelle Universum auf einer Briefmarke
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The Data Revolution in the Night Sky
The HITS Astroinformatics research group led by Kai Polsterer helps astronomers to better analyze the rapidly growing data-sets with modern methods …
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Computing the tree of life: The Computational Molecular Evolution group at HITS
The “Scientific Computing“ group (SCO, group leader: Prof. Alexandros Stamatakis) will change its name as of January 1st, 2019: To better reflect …
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“Highly Cited Researchers” at HITS
HITS scientists are listed among the most cited researchers worldwide. This year’s “Highly Cited Researchers” ranking by Clarivate Analytics again …
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Programmieren von der Pike auf: HITS unterstützt Roboter-Wettbewerb
Vom 11.-12. Oktober 2018 fand am Ernst-Sigle-Gymnasium in Kornwestheim (Baden-Württemberg) der Programmierwettbewerb zum Thema „Mathematik und Robotik“ statt. Schülerinnen und …
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ACM Symposium 2018: Michael Strube speaks about „the dark side of NLP“
The German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) turns 50 this year and celebrates its anniversary with a Symposium in …
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“Astroinformatics” Conference 2018 in Heidelberg
The international “Astroinformatics 2018” conference will be held in the Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, from September 3–7, 2018. Scientists from all over the world …
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Kerstin Hoppenhaus named “Journalist in Residence” at HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies provides science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science through a …
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An Honor and a Farewell
After more than eight years at HITS, Volker Springel, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics group at HITS, has assumed his new …