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  • HITS Public Talk – Monika Mondal: The catch 22 of science & development

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

    by Monika Mondal, 2026 HITS Journalist in Residence   In the developing world, science is often presented as a ladder to social and economic upliftment. Like many Indians, Monika Mondal, trained as an engineer, climbed that ladder, only to realize that ladder is leaning against the wrong wall. Seeking a more meaningful path, she embarked […]

  • HITS Colloquium Alexander Mäder: Flooding the zone with AI – brauchen wir noch Menschen in der Wissenschaftskommunikation?

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      By Alexander Mäder, Hochschule der Medien, Stuttgart   Flooding the zone with AI? The role of humans in science communication While AI-generated content is getting better and better, communication experts wonder what jobs will be left for them in the end. They can't be sure that there's a limit to what AI can do. […]

  • IWR, EllIS, SIMPLAIX – Joint Colloquium – Gábor Csányi: MACE Force Field Models for the Periodic Table

    Mathematikon Universität Heidelberg Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, Heidelberg

      by Gábor Csányi Director Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P)   I will report on our latest efforts to create universally applicable machine learning force fields using the MACE architecture. Large publicly available databases (such as OMAT and OMOL) and large scale GPU compute allow the construction of force field models that cover […]

  • Tag der offenen Tür am HITS

    Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35, Heidelberg, Germany

    Am Samstag, 11. Juli 2026, öffnet das Heidelberger Institut für Theoretische Studien (HITS) wieder seine Türen im Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 35. Von 11 bis 17 Uhr erwartet die Besucher*innen ein vielfältiges Programm mit allgemeinverständlichen Vorträgen und Präsentationen zu den Forschungsthemen des Instituts, botanischen Gartenführungen in deutscher und englischer Sprache und zahlreichen Angeboten zum Mit-Machen und Mit-Denken. Als […]

  • HITS Colloquium Sebastian Funk – Predicting the course of an epidemic: models, data, and their limits

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      by Sebastian Funk, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London   Predicting the course of an epidemic: models, data, and their limits Every new infectious disease outbreak raises the same urgent, quantitative questions: how large is it really, where is it heading, how many hospital beds will be needed. These are prediction problems, […]

  • HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Yuji Sugita – How Can Protein Droplets Be Dissolved?

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      by Yuji Sugita RIKEN Center for Computational Science RIKEN Pioneering Research Institute Department of Physics, The University of Tokyo For a CV, click here.   It is well known that bimolecular droplets formed by liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) play a crucial role in understanding cellular biological processes and elucidating molecular mechanisms underlying several diseases. […]

  • HITS Colloquium Simone Ponzetto – Computational Approaches to Political Communication: From Populist Rhetoric to Moral Framing

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      by Simone Ponzetto, Universität Mannheim   Abstract Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods for the analysis of political communication. While many computational approaches focus on topics, sentiment, or political stance, political discourse also conveys more subtle rhetorical, pragmatic, and moral dimensions that are central […]