News

What´s new at HITS? On this page you can find the latest news from and about HITS, including the latest scientific discoveries, personal achievements by our researchers or general changes at HITS.

Cut it, but not so fast!

12. January 2017

Blood clotting is an amazing biological process in which injured blood vessels are plugged by platelets –flowing in our blood stream– …

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New Scientific Director: Michael Strube

2. January 2017

As of January 2017, Prof. Dr. Michael Strube is the new Scientific Director (“Institutssprecher”) of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director …

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Smart Simulations for Supercomputers

27. December 2016

HITS researcher Volker Springel received a HLRS Golden Spike Award 2016 for his work in the “The Illustris++ Project: The Next Generation …

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Welcome Sara!

21. December 2016

A warm welcome to Sara Becker that has just joined the MBM group as an intern. Sara is a master …

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EACL Paper Accepted

19. December 2016

The paper “Trust, but Verify! Better Entity Linking through Automatic Verification” by Benjamin Heinzerling, Michael Strube, and Chin-Yew Lin has been …

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Season´s Greetings

15. December 2016

Dear friends and colleagues, As we come to the end of an eventful and turbulent year, we and all the HITSters …

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Visitor: Prof. Nikolaos Stergioulas

13. December 2016

Prof. Nikolaos Stergioulas from AUTH Thessaloniki visited the PSO group from November 15 to November 20. He is the main developer of the …

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Visitor: Dr. Matthias Hempel

13. December 2016

On November 21/22, Dr. Matthias Hempel from Basel University visited the PSO group at HITS. He is an expert on the nuclear …

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Visitor: Prof. Georges Meynet

13. December 2016

On May 24, 2016, Prof. Georges Meynet from Geneva Observatory visited the PSO group at HITS and gave the Astrophysical Colloquium at the …

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XIth Würzburg workshop on supernovae and related topics

12. December 2016

On December 8 and 9, the PSO group organized the XIth Würzburg workshop on supernovae and related topics – in collaboration with the …

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