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Colloquium Jürgen Knödlseder: The carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Jürgen Knödlseder, IRAP, GAHEC, Toulouse, France   The carbon footprint of astronomical research is an increasingly topical issue with first estimates of research institute and national community footprints having recently been published. As these assessments generally do not take into account the contribution of astronomical research infrastructures, we propose to complement them by providing […]

HITS-IMK Joint Colloquium Adrian Raftery: Downscaled Probabilistic Climate Change Projections, with Application to Hot Days

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Adrian E. Raftery, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, USA This colloquium is organized jointly with the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).   The climate change projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are based on scenarios for future emissions, but these are not statistically […]

FAIRDOM User Meeting

Online

The purpose of the FAIRDOM user meetings is to establish an active FAIRDOM user community to allow networking between various FAIRDOM-SEEK users and learn from each other’s experiences. Within the two-hours event invited users will showcase the use of FAIRDOMHub and other FAIRDOM-SEEK instances for their research projects. After the presentations we’ll have plenty of […]

Colloquium Philipp Podsiadlowski: How Stars End Their Lives

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Philipp Podsiadlowski, Stellar Astrophysics, University of Oxford, UK   While the basic evolution of stars has been understood for many decades, there are still major uncertainties in our theoretical understanding of how stars end their lives, both in the context of low- and intermediate-mass stars (including the Sun) and massive stars. After reviewing some […]

Colloquium Norman Schumann: Media in the Climate Crisis – How German Media Manage Humanity´s Greatest Communication Challenge

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

  By Norman Schumann, Klima vor acht e.V. It's hard to imagine that the world is coming to an end, and nobody's talking about it. Unfortunately, this happens every day in the German media, or, to put it differently, the issue is not being addressed. After more than thirty years since the establishment of the […]

Colloquium Olexandr Isayev: Accelerating Design of Organic Materials with Machine Learning and AI

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

  By Olexandr Isayev, Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Deep learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and technology, particularly in natural language processing, speech recognition, and computer vision. In this talk, we will provide an overview of the latest developments of machine learning and AI methods and their application to […]

2nd HBPMolSim Training Workshop on Tools for Molecular Simulation of Neuronal Signaling Cascades and HBP BRAVE partner project open meeting

Mathematikon Heidelberg University Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, Heidelberg, Germany

The second HBPMolSIM training workshop on Tools for Molecular Simulation of Neuronal Signaling Cascades will take place in hybrid format on 21-23 June 2023 at the Mathematikon, Heidelberg University (free of charge). The workshop will include training on the SDA7 and tauRAMD tools developed in the MCM group at HITS, focusing on the computation of […]

ChatGPT and its ilk

Public Talk by Anil Ananthaswamy, HITS Journalist in Residence 2023 in collaboration with the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation There are anecdotal reports of cab drivers asking their passengers: “Have you heard of ChatGPT?” This cultural phenomenon is indicative of an inflection point in the development of a form of artificial intelligence (AI) called the large […]

Math Colloquium and HITS Fellow Ceremony

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

The “Math colloquium” is a special event in honor of former HITS group leader and alumna Anna Wienhard (Groups and Geometry group), who took up her new position as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in November 2022. The distinguished speakers at the colloquium are: Steve Trettel, University of San […]

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