
A Milky Way out of the Supercomputer
The formation of disk galaxies has long been a conundrum for cosmologists: computer simulations produced typically far too massive and too …

Charts Special | 03-2014
In 2013, the HITS grew by four new research groups. In a “Charts Special” issue, we will introduce briefly the new group …

Habilitation for HITSter Christoph Pfrommer
On January 29, 2014, Dr. Christoph Pfrommer (TAP-Group) successfully completed the habilitation process at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. …

Michele Catanzaro to be new “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 …

Mathematics for safer medicine
The new HITS research group “Data Mining and Uncertainty Quantification” analyzes large amounts of data and calculates uncertainties in technical systems. …

Alexandros Stamatakis board member of IBC, Montpellier/France
Alexandros Stamatakis, leader of the Scientific Computing group at HITS, has been appointed member of the scientific advisory board of the …

Honorary Certificate for Andreas Reuter
Prof. Andreas Reuter, managing director of HITS, has been awarded an Honorary Certificate by Donetsk National Technical University, Ukraine. He received …

The Science of Forecasting
Mathematician Tilmann Gneiting is leader of the new research group “Computational Statistics” at HITS and Professor at the Karlsruhe Institute for …

No. 13 | 12-2013
The presentation of two new HITS groups, the international BDBDB3 workshop on biological diffusion and Brownian dynamics, and a new method …

Bioinformatics: New type of bacteria found in the human gut
With software techniques, molecular biologists and computer scientists show that around half of the bacteria species in the human gut are …