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HITS group leader Volker Springel will become Max Planck Director in Summer 2018
Volker Springel, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics group (TAP) at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), accepted the offer to …
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HITS: Call for “Journalist in Residence” in 2018 and 2019
Are you an experienced science journalist? Would you like a change of scenery and the chance to escape your daily routine? …
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T.V. Padma: “A focus not on deadlines, but on learning new things.”
She walks up the steps to the entrance gate, stops suddenly and turns around to look back on the green garden …
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HITS researcher becomes Fellow of the American Statistical Association
“Computational Statstics” group leader Prof. Tilmann Gneiting is being named Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) 2017. In this year, the …
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Digitale Mündigkeit und Bürgerrechte
This content is only available in German. Wissenschaftsministerin Theresia Bauer und netzpolitischer Sprecher Konstantin von Notz (Grüne) zum Informationsbesuch am …
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HITS researcher Anna Wienhard invited to speak at the ICM
“Groups and Geometry” (GRG) group leader Prof. Anna Wienhard has been invited to present at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM). …
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Against the odds: Indian science and science journalism (plus video)
T.V. Padma (Delhi / India), science journalist and HITS Journalist in Residence 2017, will speak about the challenges and chances for scientists …
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Facts instead of Fake News: HITS supports the “March for Science”
The international “March for Science” will take place on April 22nd, 2017. Demonstrations are currently planned in more than 400 cities worldwide in …