
The Tree of Life – When do Plants spin off new Species?
An international multi-disciplinary research team from Brown University, the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, and Yale University has reconstructed the largest …

Novel compounds for fighting against parasitic diseases
Parasites of the Trypanosomatidae family cause a number of serious human diseases. Researchers from Italy, Belgium, and Germany have published the …

Breaking Test for Silk
HITS researchers analyze the properties of spider silk using computer simulations – different components provide resistance and high flexibility – article in „Biophysical …

No. 2 | 03-2011
News about the next HITS “Journalists in Residence”, venia legendi for HITSter Dr. Rüdiger Pakmor, a simulation showing how black …

Neues Graduiertenprogramm in Computerlinguistik gestartet
This content is only available in German. Universität Heidelberg und Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien (HITS) vertiefen ihre Kooperation …

A Code for Evolutionary Biology
Alexandros (Alexis) Stamatakis heads the new research group “Scientific Computing” at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) – Software and supercomputing …

BDBDB2 Workshop on Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Simulations
BDBDB2 Workshop on Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Simulations at the Studio, Villa Bosch, Heidelberg Following a very successful workshop on …

No. 1 | 11-2010
The very first edition of the HITS newsletter “The Charts” introducing the research at HITS and a portrait of TAP group …

Kosmologische Jungferntaufe in Heidelberg
This content is only available in German. Workshop des „Virgo Consortium“ – führende theoretische Astrophysiker treffen sich am HITS – Supercomputer-Simulationen zur …

Besseres Datenmanagement und neue Simulationsmethoden
This content is only available in German. Forscher des Heidelberger Instituts für Theoretische Studien (HITS) arbeiten am nationalen „Netzwerk Systembiologie …