Season’s Greetings

19. December 2024

While many of our international students have returned home to their families abroad, other HITSters are staying to celebrate the festive …

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Frauke Gräter: “I will miss HITS.”

19. December 2024

After fifteen years at HITS, group leader Frauke Gräter will leave the institute at the end of the year. As …

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Victoria Stodden, Member of the HITS SAB

Victoria Stodden to receive Humboldt Research Award

18. December 2024

Victoria Stodden, statistician and associate professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of …

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Honors for HITS group leaders at the KIT “Ehrenabend“

11. December 2024

At the “Ehrenabend des Präsidenten” (“Honorary Evening of the President”) in late November, the leadership of the Karlsruhe Institute of …

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Jackson Ryan to be “Journalist in Residence” at HITS

9. December 2024

The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …

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Issue 4 | 2024

5. December 2024

You live and learn. This is why we attended one of the largest conferences for German science journalism (Wissenswerte). Not only …

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Biodiversity research and Phylogenetic trees: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS

20. November 2024

For nine years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been identified as one …

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Issue 3 | 2024

17. September 2024

On 13 July 2024, HITS opened its doors to the public again and welcomed more than 500 visitors. The program titled “Weather, viruses and …

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Five days to go: Call for “HITS Journalist in Residence” in 2025

10. September 2024

Call for 2025: HITS Journalist in Residence program open for applications. Deadline: 15 September 2024

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ChatGPT & Co: Why we shouldn’t blindly trust generative AI

26. August 2024

Outreach talk by HITS group leader Jan Stuehmer on how facts are stored in Large Language Models At the “Open Day” 2024, …

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