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Victoria Stodden to receive Humboldt Research Award
Victoria Stodden, statistician and associate professor at the Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of …

Honors for HITS group leaders at the KIT “Ehrenabend“
At the “Ehrenabend des Präsidenten” (“Honorary Evening of the President”) in late November, the leadership of the Karlsruhe Institute of …

HITS researcher Sebastian Lerch appointed ECMWF Fellow
Sebastian Lerch, junior research group leader at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and visiting scientist in the Computational Statistics (CST) …

The foundations of the science of forecasting
HITS Scientific Director Tilmann Gneiting receives the 2024 Ulf Grenander Prize in Stochastic Theory and Modeling for seminal work in environmental and …

New Scientific Director: Tilmann Gneiting
As of January 2023, Tilmann Gneiting is the new Scientific Director of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director rotates through the …

More than the sum of its parts: Combining models to improve COVID-19 forecasts
Soon after the beginning of the pandemic, researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of …

How can we rely on AI?
Statisticians from HITS, KIT, and Heidelberg University introduce the new “CORP” approach to better determine the reliability of forecasting methods. CORP …

New Scientific Director: Frauke Gräter
As of January 2021, Frauke Gräter is the new Scientific Director of HITS. As the position of Scientific Director rotates through …

Mapping the uncertainty: COVID-19 forecasts
Researchers from the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have developed a web platform …

Verification and post-processing of weather forecasts
Fellowship term ends for Tilmann Gneiting as one of ECMWF’s first three Fellows CST group leader Tilmann Gneiting was appointed …