HITS organizes scientific events throughout the year. Each month, HITS hosts its colloquium series. If you like to receive an invitation, please use this registration form: https://www.h-its.org/registration/
Our research groups offer scientific workshops. Additionally, HITS offers talks and events for the general public in Heidelberg and surroundings.
By Carl Smith In late 2021, Australian science journalist Carl Smith was granted a rare and special privilege: he was allowed to leave his country. For most people living in Australia at the time, this was not possible - because it was one of the few nations that continued to aim for ‘covid zero’. This […]
By Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Heidelberg University Hospital, Institute of Computational Biomedicine Modern technologies allow us to profile in high detail biological and medical samples at fast decreasing costs. New technologies are opening new data modalities, including to measure at the single-cell level and with spatial resolution. Computational models, in particular those built with machine learning, are […]
By Antonis Rokas, Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, USA The use of genome-scale amounts of data and sophisticated statistical phylogenetic approaches have greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its branches. However, incongruence—the inference of conflicting evolutionary histories stemming from a multitude of analytical […]
By Eike Hermann Müller, Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Bath, UK Including electrostatics in (kinetic) Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particles is challenging due to the long-range nature of the Coulomb potential. As a result, the computational complexity grows rapidly with N, the number of particles in the system. While the Fast Multipole Method […]
By Sarbani Basu, Department of Astronomy, Yale University, USA We normally rely on physics to interpret and understand astrophysical processes. However, with precise seismic data from the Sun and other stars, we can use astrophysics to inform us about the physical properties of stellar matter, and in some cases inform us even about fundamental physics. […]
By David Dao, GainForest/PhD candidate ETH Zurich, Switzerland Nature has been deteriorating at rates unparalleled in human history and the implications are global. Climate change and biodiversity loss are two bullets in the same gun. Perils we face in parallel, both driven by deforestation and land use change. If global tropical deforestation were a country, […]
By Michele Ceriotti, EPFL STI SMX-GE, Lausanne, Switzerland When modeling materials and molecules at the atomic scale, achieving a realistic level of complexity and making quantitative predictions are usually conflicting goals. Data-driven techniques have made great strides towards enabling simulations of materials in realistic conditions with uncompromising accuracy. In this talk I will summarize the […]
By Peter Smillie, Mathematical Institute, Heidelberg University Fullerenes are polyhedral molecules made of carbon atoms, first discovered in 1985. A few isomers are naturally occurring and many more have since been synthesised, with numerous applications across materials science, biology, and medicine. One source of theoretical interest in fullerenes is that there are a lot of […]
By Shimei Pan, Information Systems Department of UMBC, Baltimore, USA The emergence of advanced AI technologies, such as Deep Learning and ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the way we work, live, and interact with each other, potentially bringing a profound transformation of our society. Thus, it is imperative that we ensure the responsible development […]
By Victor M. Panaretos, Institute of Mathematics, EPFL, Switzerland For one hundred years, the analysis of variance has been at the core of statistical inference. Though Fisher first distilled the notion circa 1920, its roots go much deeper in time, and ultimately lie in some of the most elemental concepts of geometry. This, in turn, […]
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