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What happens to a neutron star after its formation? Why are big media cooperations looking for molecular biologists? How big can …
ReStore checkpointing library
Fault-tolerant distributed applications require mechanisms to recover data lost via a process failure. On modern cluster systems it is typically impractical …
Registration now open: SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling”
The first SIMPLAIX Workshop on “Machine Learning for Multiscale Molecular Modeling” will take place in the Studio Villa Bosch in Heidelberg …
New Scientific Director: Tilmann Gneiting
As of January 2023, Tilmann Gneiting is the new Scientific Director of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director rotates through the …
Exploring the life of binary stars
Since September 2022, astrophysicist Rajika Kuruwita has been the first fellow of the HITS Independent Postdoc Program. The program offers an opportunity …
Season’s Greetings
Another extraordinary year is almost over and as always at this time, we take the opportunity to look back and take …
Issue 4 | 2022
Fall is the season of the harvest, and at HITS it´s particularly abundant this year: Alexandros Stamatakis, head of the …
Anil Ananthaswamy to be “Journalist in Residence” at HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …
Time and again: “Highly Cited Researcher“ at HITS
For seven years running, computer scientist Alexandros Stamatakis from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) has been named one of …
European Research: Biodiversity computing in the “hotspot” Crete
Bioinformatician Alexandros Stamatakis (HITS Heidelberg and KIT Karlsruhe) will receive funding of 2.4 million euros from the European Commission for an ERA …