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  • HITS Colloquium Christina Elmer: Synthetic Truthfulness? Learning Systems as a Challenge for Communication and a Transformative Force for Journalism

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      By Christina Elmer, Institute & School of Journalism, TU Dortmund University   AI systems are both promising and unsettling for quality journalism. On the one hand, they open up completely new possibilities – for investigating large amounts of data, utilizing knowledge resources and creating even more efficient workflows. At the same time, they jeopardize […]

  • HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Massimiliano Bonomi: Structural and Dynamic Biology with Integrative Approaches

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

    By Massimiliano Bonomi, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France Understanding the molecular mechanisms by which biological systems carry out their functions is often essential for the rational targeting of associated diseases. In many cases, determining the three- dimensional (3D) structure of these systems provides valuable insights. However, it is often the interplay between structural and dynamical properties […]

  • HITS Colloquium Raphael Hirschi: Predicting the Impact of Massive Stars in the Universe and how to Store Renewable Energy From the Sun on Earth

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      By Raphael Hirschi, Klaus Tschira Guest Professor Astrophysics Research Centre, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Keele University, UK   In this colloquium, I will start by briefly reviewing the importance of stars in the Universe. I will then discuss how we can re-create stars on computers using a range of simulations using a […]

  • HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Rommie Amaro: Multiscale Computational Microscopy for In Situ Molecular Dynamics

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      By Rommie Amaro, Endowed Chair, Distinguished Professorship in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, Department of Molecular Biology, UC San Diego, USA   Advances in multiscale computational microscopy are transforming our ability to visualize and understand biomolecular systems in their native contexts. In this talk, I will highlight recent progress in in situ molecular dynamics (MD), where […]

  • 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. […]

  • 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, Mannheim University   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 […]

  • HITS Colloquium Michael Baake – The Markov embedding problem – old and new

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

      by Michael Baake, Fakultät für Mathematik, Universität Bielefeld   Markov matrices are a widely used tool for the empirical description of real-world data, which are usually sampled in discrete time steps. Since the underlying processes may (and often do) run in continuous time, one needs some time interpolation consistency, as the Finnish statistician Gustav […]