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No. 30 | 03-2018
News about the next HITS “Journalists in Residence”, venia legendi for HITSter Dr. Rüdiger Pakmor, a simulation showing how black …
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EuroNeurotrophin project starts
14 Early Stage Researchers to be trained in a European training network for the discovery of small molecule neurotrophin mimetics as candidate …
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Visitor: Benoit Coté
From February 12 to February 23, 2018, Dr. Benoit Coté from from the Konkoly Observatory of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences …
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SS 2018: Machine learning for molecular world
by Frauke Gräter and Rebecca Wade Over the last decade machine learning revolutionized computer vision and language processing. This progress …
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CBI Junior Group: Mission Accomplished
HITS Junior Group “Computational Biology” is bringing its work to a close with two publications in “Nature.” According to Group Leader …
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Welcome Jakub!
We welcome Jakub Fišák as a guest student in the PSO group. Jakub is a PhD student at Masaryk University (…
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PSO group hosts HJAC colloquium speaker Frans Pretorius
On January 30, 2018, the PSO group hosted Professor Frans Pretorius from Princeton University. Frans works on general relativity with a …
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Better Weather Forecasts for Africa: Development Assistance 2.0
Precipitation forecasts are very useful for agricultural areas such as the Sahel. However, while there are reliable models and measurements for …
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Vorlesung: Python programming for scientists
Heidelberg University, Winter Semester 2017/2018, Lecturer: Dr. Markus Kromer
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How black holes shape the cosmos
Astrophysicists from Heidelberg, Garching, and the USA gained new insights into the formation and evolution of galaxies. They calculated how black …