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Cosmic Rays: The Key to Galaxy Formation?
HITS Astrophysicist Christoph Pfrommer starts with new Junior Research group “High Energy Astrophysics and Cosmology” – funded by a €2 million ERC Consolidator …
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Quotenjournalismus – Wie Redaktionen mit den Daten über ihr Publikum umgehen sollten
This content is only available in German. Der Wissenschaftsjournalist Alexander Mäder über die digitalen Möglichkeiten für den Online-Journalismus – ö…
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33 million core hours for collaborative project
The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) has granted 33 million core hours at the Cineca High Performance Computing Center in …
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First place at NAACL 2016 Shared Task
Madeline Remse, Master student in the HITS NLP group, finished first place in the Automated Evaluation of Scientific Writing Shared Task …
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NAACL-HLT 2016
Two papers got accepted at NAACL-HLT 2016: Nafise Moosavi and Michael Strube: Search Space Pruning: A Simple Solution for Better Coreference Resolvers (…
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No. 22 | 03-2016
A new publication on binary star systems, the introduction of Gesa Schönberger as the new HITS Managing Director, and a …
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“Journalist in Residence”: Michael Stang at HITS
The German science journalist Michael Stang has begun his stay at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) as “Journalist in …
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Michael Stang – Journalist in Residence 2016
German science journalist Michael Stang was the fifth “Journalist in Residence” at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). For the …
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Turbulent times: When stars approach
HITS astrophysicists use new methods to simulate the common-envelope phase of binary stars, discovering dynamic irregularities that may help to explain …
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Data mining algorithms and new standards for astronomers
Kai Polsterer, leader of the HITS Astroinformatics (AIN) group, is now chair of the IVOA Knowledge Discovery in Databases group. It’…