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.

Millennium Simulation Visualizations

9. November 2014

The cold dark matter model has become the leading theoretical paradigm for the formation of structure in the Universe. Together with …

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In “Science”: Scientists resolve the evolution of insects

7. November 2014

A collaboration of more than 100 researchers from 10 countries announce the results of an unprecedented scientific study that resolves the evolutionary history …

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GALIC – Code

5. November 2014

The GALIC code is a publicly available program that implements a new iterative method for the construction of N-body galaxy models …

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NGenIC – Code

5. November 2014

NGenIC is an initial conditions code for cosmological structure formation that can be used to set-up random N-body realizations of Gaussian …

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Aquarius Project Visualizations

3. November 2014

The Aquarius Project is a large-scale collaborative programme of the Virgo Consortium, similar in scope and scale to the Millennium Simulation …

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Put more Journalism into Science Journalism

3. November 2014

Science journalist Michele Catanzaro on research in the media from an  international, non-naive view – HITS public talk on Tuesday, November 11, 4 …

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GADGET – Code

29. October 2014

GADGET is a freely available code for cosmological N-body/SPH simulations on massively parallel computers with distributed memory. GADGET uses an …

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Virgo-Consortium

29. October 2014

The Virgo Consortium for cosmological supercomputer simulations was founded in 1994 and has developed rapidly into the international collaboration that it …

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Millennium Galaxy Catalogues

28. October 2014

When published in 2005, the Millennium Run was the largest ever simulation of the formation of structure within the ΛCDM cosmology. It …

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Illustris-Simulation

28. October 2014

The Illustris project is a large cosmological hydrodynamics simulation of galaxy formation, completed in late 2013, using a state of the art …

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