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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.

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Colloquium Erin R. Johnson: Dispersion Interactions in Density-Functional Theory and Application to Molecular Crystal-Structure Prediction

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By Erin R. Johnson, Department of Chemistry, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada   The exchange-hole dipole moment (XDM) method is a density-functional model of London dispersion based upon second-order perturbation theory. The XDM dispersion coefficients are non-empirical and depend directly on the electron density and related properties, allowing variation of […]

Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 5 (BDBDB5)

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  Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 5 (BDBDB5: https://bdbdb.h-its.org/) will take place in virtual format on 24-25 March 2021. We will have four exciting talks by invited speakers - Aleksei Aksimentiev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA), Gerhard Hummer (Max Planck Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany), Syma Khalid (University of Southampton, UK) and Roseanna Zia […]

Colloquium Lillian T. Chong: Weighted ensemble simulations of long-timescale dynamics: From chemical reactions to SARS-CoV-2

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By Lillian Chong, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, USA   The weighted ensemble (WE) path sampling strategy orchestrates multiple simulations in parallel with rigorous statistical resampling at fixed time intervals to maintain rigorous kinetics. WE simulations can be orders of magnitude more efficient than standard simulations in generating unbiased, atomically detailed pathways for rare […]

Colloquium Alina Schadwinkel: Science journalism in Corona times

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By Alina Schadwinkel, Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Heidelberg What the heck is a coronavirus ? How do I protect myself? How safe and effective are the new vaccines - and when will the pandemic finally be over? For more than a year, Sars-CoV-2 has dominated the media. People are demanding information. As quickly as […]

Colloquium Warner Marzocchi: Model validation in natural hazard forecasting – a scientific perspective

  By Warner Marzocchi, Unversity of Naples, Federico II, Italy Science is rooted in the concept that a model can be tested against independent observations and rejected when necessary. However, the problem of model testing becomes formidable when we consider natural "open" systems. Owing to their scale, complexity, and openness to interactions within a larger […]

Colloquium Yuji Sugita: Parallel computing algorithms in molecular dynamics simulations for extremely large-scale biological systems

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  By Yuji Sugita, RIKEN, Theoretical Molecular Science, Japan Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of nano- and biomolecules are one of the most important techniques in computational science. Protein conformational changes and protein-ligand bindings are simulated with all-atom MD simulations to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying these biological processes. Conventionally, we can perform MD simulations of a […]

Symmetric Spaces for Graph Embeddings

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Abstract: Learning faithful graph representations as sets of vertex embeddings has become a fundamental intermediary step in a wide range of machine learning applications. We propose the systematic use of symmetric spaces in representation learning, a class encompassing many of the previously used embedding targets. This enables us to introduce new methods for graph embeddings […]

Colloquium Eva Wolfangel: Immersive Media for Science Journalism and Science Communication

  By Eva Wolfangel, Journalist, Speaker, Moderator Immersive Media like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality offer great possibilities for science communication and science journalism. But nevertheless journalists and communicators often fail to use this new technologies creatively and in to take advantage of the possibilities they offer. In this talk we will discover some amazing […]

HITS-SIMPLAIX joint colloquium Frank Noé: Deep Learning for Molecular Physics and Chemistry

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By Frank Noé, Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik AI, and specifically deep ML methods have a profound impact on industry and information technology. But since recently AI methods are also changing the way we do science. In this talk I will present some of our recent efforts to build machine learning methods that […]

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