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New Scientific Director: Tilmann Gneiting

3. January 2023

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

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HITS helps ESCAPE improve their data discoverability with machine learning

2. March 2022

ESCAPE, the European Science Cluster of Astronomy & Particle Physics ESFRI Research Infrastructures, has successfully tested new machine learning prototypes that …

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Revisiting star formation in the era of big data

1. December 2021

HITS group leader Kai Polsterer selected member of an international team at the International Space Science Institute Kai Polsterer, head of …

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Measuring the true scale of the Universe

8. December 2020

The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) is a beneficiary of the ERC Synergy Grant “UniverScale”. An international research team from …

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The Data Revolution in the Night Sky

14. December 2018

The HITS Astroinformatics research group led by Kai Polsterer helps astronomers to better analyze the rapidly growing data-sets with modern methods …

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ESCAPE: Launch of the European Project for Data Management in Astronomy

20. November 2018

2019 marks the beginning of one of the biggest projects for data management in astronomy. The „European Science Cluster for Astronomy & Particle …

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“Astroinformatics” Conference 2018 in Heidelberg

29. August 2018

The international “Astroinformatics 2018” conference will be held in the Studio Villa Bosch, Heidelberg, from September 3–7, 2018. Scientists from all over the world …

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On the way to better understand the Universe

10. October 2016

HITS is scientific partner of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions – led by the Australian National …

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Data mining algorithms and new standards for astronomers

3. February 2016

Kai Polsterer, leader of the HITS Astroinformatics (AIN) group, is now chair of the IVOA Knowledge Discovery in Databases group. It’…

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Smartphones, Dark Matter & Code – Kai Polsterer @ ADASS in Sydney

23. October 2015

Three hundred international astronomers and software engineers will gather in Sydney during 25-29 October for the 25th annual Astronomical Data Analysis …

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