Computer Science Talent joins HITS
In February 2015, Sarah Lutteropp joined the SCO group (leader: Alexandros Stamatakis) as student worker. She currently studies at the Karlsruhe …
What is the Impact of Cosmic Rays on Galaxy Formation?
European Research Council will fund HITS astrophysicist Christoph Pfrommer with an ERC Consolidator Grant with € 2 Million HITS astrophysicist Priv.-Doz. Dr. …
Brighter than 100 Billion Stars
Supernova scientist Friedrich Röpke is the leader of the new research group „Physics of Stellar Objects“ at HITS and professor …
No. 18 | 3-2015
Everything about the HITS Symposium on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Klaus Tschira Foundation, exciting science news such …
Groundbreaking Ceremony for ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre
A groundbreaking ceremony for the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre took place on February 24 at ESO’s Headquarters in Garching, …
HITS scientists building bioinformatics networks
HITS scientists Jonathan Fuller and Xiaofeng Yu have been involved in co-founding the Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics (HUB) along with colleagues …
Seminar: “Computational Methods in Optics and Astrophysics”
This seminar is aimed at students from the Physics Master program and is credited as “Compulsory Master Seminar” (MVSem). The work-load …
New Branches at the Tree of Life
Biologist Emily Jane McTavish (University of Kansas) does evolutionary research using DNA sequence data and computational tools. She is visiting the …
Heidelberg Researchers Find Unusually Elastic Protein
Scientists at Heidelberg University and the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) have discovered an unusually elastic protein in one of …
Klaus Tschira Foundation celebrates anniversary with HITS
Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) organized a scientific symposium on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the Klaus Tschira …