
ACM Symposium 2018: Michael Strube speaks about „the dark side of NLP“
The German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) turns 50 this year and celebrates its anniversary with a Symposium in …

W3 Professor & Groupleader for Theoretical Astrophysics
The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) invite applications …

Visitors from Yunnan Observatories
A group of astronomers from Yunnan Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, is visiting the PSO group from September 3 to 7, 2018 to discuss …

No. 32 | 09-2018
A preview of the international Astroinformatics Conference, hosted by HITS researchers, a report of the HITS open house event, new findings …

“Astroinformatics” Conference 2018 in Heidelberg
The international “Astroinformatics 2018” conference will be held in the Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, from September 3–7, 2018. Scientists from all over the world …

Parasites discovered in fossil fly pupae
Parasitic wasps existed as early as several million years ago. Within a project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), researchers …

Detecting “fake news”: Michael Strube@DSJM Workshop
Michael Strube will give a talk at the DSJM workshop in London, titled “exploiting the speaker´s credibility to detect fake …

Thermonuclear explosions of rapidly differentially rotating white dwarfs
In an upcoming publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, an international team of researchers, including PSO scientists Markus Kromer and Friedrich Rö…

Kerstin Hoppenhaus – Journalist in Residence 2018
German science journalist Kerstin Hoppenhaus was the HITS “Journalist in Residence” from July until December 2018. Hoppenhaus studied Biology in Mainz, Tü…

Kerstin Hoppenhaus named “Journalist in Residence” at HITS
The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies provides science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science through a …