PhD defense
Our visiting PhD student Paschalia Kapli, that visited our lab twice, successfully defended her PhD at the University of Crete on …
DFG funds an interdisciplinary Research Training Group
DFG funds an interdisciplinary Research Training Group (DFG Graduiertenkolleg) “Adaptive Information Processing from Heterogeneous Sources” in a cooperation of TU Darmstadt, …
In “Science”: Scientists resolve the evolution of insects
A collaboration of more than 100 researchers from 10 countries announce the results of an unprecedented scientific study that resolves the evolutionary history …
In “Nature”: Galaxies out of a Supercomputer
A new computer simulation shows the formation of galaxies with unprecedented precision, allowing astrophysicists from Heidelberg, the U.S. and England …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
Computer Science helps astronomers exploring the sky
The new HITS research group “Astroinformatics” will develop methods and software for astronomers and help facilitating the analysis and processing of …