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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241216T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241216T150000
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SUMMARY:HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Markus Meuwly: Computational Protein Dynamics in the Era of Machine-Learned Atomistic Simulations
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Markus Meuwly\, Department of Chemistry\, University of Basel\, Switzerland \n  \nMachine Learning-based techniques have the potential to fundamentally change how we approach characterizing and understanding chemical and biological materials. It is anticipated that ML applied to protein dynamics allows to carry out atomistic simulations on functionally relevant time scales using models approaching chemical accuracy. In the present seminar I will present methodological advances and their application to position-dependent spectroscopy and ligand (re-)binding reactions in small proteins with a focus on the links between simulations and experiment. Both\, opportunities and limitations of machine learning-based techniques will also be discussed. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\n\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-simplaix-joint-colloquium-markus-meuwly/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241021T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20241021T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20241009T105548Z
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SUMMARY:HITS Colloquium Guillermo Cabrera-Vives: Machine Learning & Astronomy: Unique Challenges for a Unique Field
DESCRIPTION:By Guillermo Cabrera-Vives\, Department of Computer Science\, Universidad de Concepción\,  Chile \nCurrently Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at HITS \n  \nAstronomy\, like many other fields\, is experiencing an explosion of data\, with vast amounts of information pouring in from the universe. This influx has driven the development of new machine learning (ML) tools\, enabling new discoveries while also presenting unique challenges. Unlike standard ML tools\, those used in astronomy must adapt to data collected from distant sources\, often captured under irregular and constrained observational conditions. In this talk\, I will discuss the different challenges of applying ML in astronomy\, including handling observational biases\, irregular time series sampling\, and the need for robust uncertainty estimation\, among others. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\n\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-colloquium-guillermo-cabrera-vives/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240713T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240713T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20240513T082619Z
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SUMMARY:Open Day at HITS
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us for our Open Day at HITS on Saturday\, 13 July\, from 11am-5pm \n\nThe Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies will open its doors to the public again. The program includes science talks in English and German\, presentations and hands-on stations\, all showcasing the research of the Institute.\n\nOne of the highlights this year will be the guided tours – also in English and German – through the HITS garden (advance registration is closed but there will be a few tickets available on Saturday). \nA free shuttle bus will run from 11am to 5.30pm every 30 minutes between S-Bahnhof Altstadt (Karlstor) and HITS\, free parking is available in the car park “Unter der Boschwiese”. Refreshments will be served throughout the day. \nProgramm2024
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/open-day-at-hits-2024/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240624T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240624T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20240528T121710Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Volker Springel: Interfacing galaxy formation with precision cosmology
DESCRIPTION:By Volker Springel\, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics\, Garching\, Germany\nHITS Fellow 2018 \n  \nNumerical simulations of cosmic structure formation have become a powerful tool in astrophysics. Starting right after the Big Bang\, they predict the dark matter backbone of the cosmic web far into the non-linear regime and follow complex galaxy formation physics with rapidly improving fidelity. In my talk\, I discuss extremely large simulations of the Universe and describe how they help to constrain basic cosmological parameters\, including the mass of neutrinos. They also allow us to test astrophysical hypothesis\, such as the influence of supermassive black holes on galaxy formation. Finally\, I will also discuss some of the specific computational challenges in this field. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-volker-springel/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240422T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240422T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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SUMMARY:HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Michele Parrinello: Do we really understand catalysis?
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Michele Parrinello\, Italian Institute of Technology\, Genova (Italy) \n  \nThe transition to a green economy depends critically on the development of efficient catalysts that could for instance help in sequestrating CO2 or producing H2. To reach this goal a detailed understanding of the catalytic mechanism would be of great value. Unfortunately\, most industrial catalysis takes place at temperatures and pressures\, so high that both experimental and theoretical investigations are challenging. Current theories cannot explain the extreme durability and stability of industrial catalysts under these conditions. In our view the root of this difficulty lies in a static view of the catalytic process in which the catalyst is only seen as a static platform for reaction. We argue instead that industrial catalysts are dynamical entities that\, under reaction conditions evolve forming reactive sites with the reagents. Recent technical development\, driven by machine learning methodologies\, allow realistic and accurate atomistic simulations to be performed. These simulations are validating such a complex dynamical picture\, and we find in our simulations that efficient catalysts are better described as functional materials. We focus our attention on the synthesis and cracking of NH3. The final purpose of these studies is twofold. On the one hand one wants to reduce the remarkably large carbon footprint of ammonia production which account for 4% of the global CO2 emission. On the other\, having in mind a hydrogen-based economy indicating ways of dissociating ammonia into its constituents nitrogen and hydrogen so as to allow using ammonia to store and transport hydrogen. \n  \nShort CV: \nMichele Parrinello currently leads the atomistic simulation group at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genoa. Together with Roberto Car he introduced the ab-initio molecular dynamics method. This method\, which goes under the name of Car-Parrinello Method\, represents the beginning of a new field and has dramatically influenced the field of electronic structure calculations for solids\, liquids and molecules. He is also known for a variety of widely used molecular dynamics methods like the Parrinello-Rahman barostat\, metadynamics and more recently he has pioneered the use of machine learning methodologies to molecular dynamics. Parrinello’s scientific interests are strongly interdisciplinary and include the study of complex chemical reactions\, materials science and protein dynamics. He has been awarded numerous prizes\, among which the 2011 Marcel Benoist Prize\, the 2017 Dreyfus Prize and the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Award. He is a member of several academies\, and his work is highly cited. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please use the following link: https://kta-email.zoom.us/j/91851613782?pwd=TzNmZHI5UmZTRmtXSnp5cVIrSFhCUT09.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-simplaix-joint-colloquium-michele-parrinello/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240318T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240318T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20240213T093512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240221T132117Z
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SUMMARY:HITS Colloquium "AI at HITS" - Symposium in honor of Wilfried Juling
DESCRIPTION:  \nThe symposium is a special event in honor of Professor Wilfried Juling\, whose decade-long leadership has greatly supported and furthered HITS. \n  \nSpeakers at the symposium are: \nCarsten Könneker\, HITS Stiftung \nPascal Friederich\, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) \nGanna (Anya) Gryn´ova\, HITS and Heidelberg University \nSebastian Lerch\, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and HITS \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will take place in hybrid format.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at events@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-colloquium-ai-at-hits-symposium-in-honor-of-wilfried-juling/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240122T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240122T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20240109T124332Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240109T132055Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Meik Bittkowski: Augmenting Science Journalism - The development of technology-based support for science journalism at the Science Media Center Germany
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Meik Bittkowski\, Science Media Center Germany\, Cologne \n  \nOne way to augment (not replace) science journalism is to provide technological support for journalistic work processes\, from monitoring and research to the production of new content. The Science Media Center Germany\, founded in 2015\, had its own R&D lab right from the start to explore the possibilities of this form of augmentation and test it in prototype applications. This talk will take you through the stages of our journey so far\, which began here at HITS in 2012. \n  \nShort CV: \nMeik Bittkowski is Head of Research and Development at the Science Media Center (SMC)\, responsible in particular for the SMC Lab. He has many years of experience with data journalism projects\, including at HITS in Heidelberg. He studied philosophy and German studies as well as computer science and received his doctorate in philosophy. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-meik-bittkowski/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231120T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20231025T115631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T095501Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Laura Maria Sangalli: Physics-Informed Spatial and Functional Data Analysis over non-Euclidean Domains
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Laura Maria Sangalli\, MOX – Dipartimento di Matematica\, Politecnico di Milano\, Italy \n  \nRecent years have seen an explosive growth in the recording of increasingly complex and high-dimensional data\, whose analysis calls for the definition of new methods\, merging ideas and approaches from statistics and applied mathematics. My talk will focus on spatial and functional data observed over non-Euclidean domains\, such as linear networks\, two-dimensional Riemannian manifolds and non-convex volumes. I will present an innovative class of methods\, based on regularizing terms involving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)\, defined over the complex domains being considered. These Physics-Informed statistical learning methods enable the inclusion of the available problem specific information\, suitably encoded in the regularizing PDE. Illustrative applications from environmental and life sciences will be presented. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-laura-maria-sangalli/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231023T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20231023T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20231016T074019Z
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SUMMARY:HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Volker Deringer: Machine-learning-driven advances in modelling and understanding disordered materials
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Volker Deringer\, Department of Chemistry\, University of Oxford\, UK \nMachine learning (ML) based interatomic potential models are increasingly popular simulation tools for molecular and materials systems and hold promise for use on exascale supercomputers [1]. ML potentials are fitted to large sets of quantum-mechanical reference data\, and therefore developing high-quality datasets and automated training approaches is becoming an increasingly important re-search challenge. In this seminar\, I will highlight some recent developments in ML-driven molecular-dynamics simulations of structurally complex inorganic materials\, combining methodological aspects and practical applications. In regard to methods\, I will discuss the use of cheaply available “synthetic” data in pre-training atomistic ML models [2]\, which can improve accuracy and robustness of neural-network interatomic potentials compared to direct training on quantum-mechanical data [3]. Regarding applications\, I will showcase device-scale simulations of phase-change memory materials (which encode digital “ones” and “zeroes” in data-storage devices) [4]. Finally\, I will discuss perspectives for the development of both purpose-specific and generally applicable ML potentials for materials. \n[1] C. Chang et al.\, Nat. Rev. Mater. 8\, 309 (2023).\n[2] J. L. A. Gardner et al.\, Digital Discovery 2\, 651 (2023).\n[3] J. L. A. Gardner et al.\, arXiv:2307.15714 [physics.comp-ph].\n[4] Y. Zhou et al.\, Nat. Electron.\, DOI: 10.1038/s41928-023-01030-x (2023). \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please use the following link: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqcuyrpzIoH9KZWyFkzZoddoPQdtZDml5j
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-simplaix-joint-colloquium-volker-deringer/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230928T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230928T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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SUMMARY:HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Fernanda Duarte: Exploring chemical reactivity in the age of automation and ML
DESCRIPTION:By Fernanda Duarte\, Department of Chemistry\, University of Oxford\, UK \n  \nEfficiently and accurately modelling chemical reactions in the condensed phase stands as one of the ‘grand challenges’ in computational chemistry. Although characterizing reaction energy pathways has become routine\, the exploration of intricate reaction mechanisms remains a time-consuming and non-systematic endeavour\, even for experienced computational chemists. To reduce technical barriers and enhance both efficiency and accuracy\, new developments in algorithms and computational methods are necessary. \nIn this talk\, I will present our team’s efforts to tackle these challenges through the integration of automation and machine learning\, demonstrating their potential for studying complex reaction mechanisms in the condensed phase. I will first describe our work on automating reaction pathways search through the use of our open-source software\, autodE\, which streamlines the characterisation of reaction pathways\, necessitating minimal user input and expertise and being compatible with several electronic structure theory packages.[1] I will illustrate the functionality and general applicability of autodE in a range of reaction classes\, including complex organic and metal-catalysed reactions\, and discuss current challenges in the field. \nMoving towards increasingly complex systems in the condensed phase\, such as large flexible molecules with explicit solvents\, I will present a comprehensive automated methodology for constructing machine learning potentials (MLPs).[2-4] MLPs have emerged as powerful surrogates for state-of-the-art ab initio methods\, providing access to accurate energy and forces at a significantly lower computational cost. Our approach combines the use of efficient MLP frameworks with automated active learning\, enabling the construction of data-efficient training sets across the relevant chemical and conformational space. I will discuss diverse examples to showcase the versatility of this approach and its transferability to a broad range of chemical systems\, including chemical reactions. \n  \nReferences \n\nA. Young\, J. J. Silcock\, A. J. Sterling\, F. Duarte. autodE: Automated Calculation of Reaction Energy Profiles— Application to Organic and Organometallic Reactions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021\, 60\, 4266.\nA. Young\, T. Johnston-Wood\, V. Deringer\, F. Duarte. A Transferable Active-Learning Strategy for Reactive Molecular Force Fields. Chem. Sci.\, 2021\,12\, 10944.\nA. Young\, T. Johnston-Wood\, H. Zhang\, F. Duarte. Reaction dynamics of Diels-Alder reactions from machine learned potentials. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2022\, 24\, 20820.\nZhang\, V. Juraskova\, F. Duarte. Modeling Chemical Processes in Explicit Solvents with Machine Learning Potentials. ChemRxiv2023 Preprint.\n\n  \nShort CV: \nFernanda was born in Santiago\, Chile. She completed undergraduate and graduate studies at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC). Her PhD research focused on the formulation of theoretical frameworks for characterising chemical processes employing Density Functional Theory (DFT) and hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) approaches. \nAfter graduation\, she joined the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Uppsala University\, where she pursued training in biomolecular modelling. In 2015\, she moved to the University of Oxford with a Royal Society Newton Fellowship\, working in the area of computational organic chemistry. She then joined the School of Chemistry at Edinburgh with a Chancellor’s Fellowship before returning to Oxford in 2018 as Associate Professor in Chemistry. \nThroughout her career\, Fernanda has received various accolades\, including the L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science award (2009)\, Pre-doctoral Fulbright scholarship (2010)\, Marie Curie Career Grant (2015\, decline in lieu of the Newton Fellowship)\, MGMS Frank Blaney Award(2020)\, OpenEye Outstanding Junior Faculty Award (2021)\, Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize (2021)\, and Novartis Early Career Award in Chemistry (2022). Her team develops computational methods to understand (bio)chemical reactivity and guide molecular design. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please use the following link: https://kta-email.zoom.us/j/91974742258?pwd=K3U1TGFNWEJVaUhTODM5M3FZc0Vhdz09
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-simplaix-joint-colloquium-fernanda-duarte/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230724T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230724T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Rafal Weron: Electricity price forecasting in the 2020s
DESCRIPTION:By Rafal Weron\, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology\, Poland \nAlthough electricity price forecasting aims at predicting both spot and forward prices\, the vast majority of research is focused on short-term horizons which exhibit dynamics unlike in any other market. The reason is that power system stability calls for a constant balance between production and consumption\, while being weather (both demand and supply) and business activity (demand only) dependent. The recent market innovations do not help in this respect. The rapid expansion of intermittent renewable energy sources is not offset by the costly increase of electricity storage capacities and modernization of the grid infrastructure.\nOn the methodological side\, this leads to three visible trends in electricity price forecasting research as of 2022. Firstly\, there is a slow\, but more noticeable with every year\, tendency to consider not only point but also probabilistic (interval\, density) or even path (also called ensemble) forecasts. Secondly\, there is a clear shift from the relatively parsimonious econometric (or statistical) models towards more complex and harder to comprehend\, but more versatile and eventually more accurate statistical/machine learning approaches. Thirdly\, statistical error measures are nowadays regarded as only the first evaluation step. Since they may not necessarily reflect the economic value of reducing prediction errors\, more and more often\, they are complemented by case studies comparing products from scheduling or trading strategies based on price forecasts obtained from different models. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at christina.blach@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-rafal-weron-2/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230708T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230708T130000
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SUMMARY:Math Colloquium and HITS Fellow Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:The “Math colloquium” is a special event in honor of former HITS group leader and alumna Anna Wienhard (Groups and Geometry group)\, who took up her new position as Director of the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in November 2022. \nThe distinguished speakers at the colloquium are: \nSteve Trettel\, University of San Francisco\, California/USA\n“Geometry from the Inside”  \nRichard Schwartz\, Brown University\, Rhode Island/USA\n“Divide and Conquer:  5 Point Energy Minimization” \n \nAfter the talks and discussion\,  Anna Wienhard will be awarded HITS Fellow by HITS Scientific Director Tilmann Gneiting. \nA shuttle service will run between S-Bahnhof Altstadt and HITS\, departure times are: \n10:15 from S-Bahnhof Altstadt to HITS\n13:30 from HITS to S-Bahnhof Altstadt \nThe shuttle will leave from the same bus stop as the Science Bus. \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtcemrrD0jHdF6YQLeMHVPUpUIGcLAf8O-\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/math-colloquium/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230705T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230705T203000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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SUMMARY:ChatGPT and its ilk
DESCRIPTION:Public Talk by Anil Ananthaswamy\, HITS Journalist in Residence 2023\nin collaboration with the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation \nThere are anecdotal reports of cab drivers asking their passengers: “Have you heard of ChatGPT?” This cultural phenomenon is indicative of an inflection point in the development of a form of artificial intelligence (AI) called the large language model (LLM). ChatGPT is one such AI. \nIn this talk\, Anil Ananthaswamy will explain the conceptual underpinnings of LLMs\, how they are trained\, and curious emergent properties they are beginning to display\, such as being able to solve math problems\, even though they weren’t specifically trained to do so. But are these LLMs actually capable of reasoning or are they simply doing some extremely sophisticated pattern matching? \nThe talk will also highlight the dangers of large language models\, as they are currently designed\, and why it’s important for society to become aware of the promises and perils of such AIs\, as the technology has reached a point of no return. \nModeration: Jan Stühmer\, Machine Learning and Articifial Intelligence group\, HITS \nThe event is on-site and will take place in the “MAINS” (Mathematik-Informatik-Station)\, right in the center of Heidelberg\, close to the main station. It is organized in collaboration with the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF)\, the organizing institution of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum that celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2023. \n  \nAnil Ananthaswamy is currently “HITS Journalist in Residence” at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS). He is an award-winning science journalist and former staff writer and deputy news editor at New Scientist magazine. As a freelance journalist\, he writes for Quanta\, Scientific American\, New Scientist and Nature\, among others. He’s the author of three popular science books\, a former guest editor at the University of California\, Santa Cruz’s science writing program\, and he teaches science journalism at the National Centre for Biological Sciences\, Bangalore\, India. Before he switched to science writing\, Anil had trained as an electronics and computer engineer at the Indian Institute of Technology\, Madras (BSEE) and the University of Washington\, Seattle (MSEE)\, and was working as a software engineer in Silicon Valley.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/chatgpt-and-its-ilk/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230613T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230613T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20230515T114502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230605T093414Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Olexandr Isayev: Accelerating Design of Organic Materials with Machine Learning and AI
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Olexandr Isayev\, Carnegie Mellon University\, Department of Chemistry\, Pittsburgh\, Pennsylvania\, USA \nDeep learning is revolutionizing many areas of science and technology\, particularly in natural language processing\, speech recognition\, and computer vision. In this talk\, we will provide an overview of the latest developments of machine learning and AI methods and their application to the problem of molecular discovery and rational design at Isayev’s Lab at CMU. We identify several areas where existing methods have the potential to accelerate materials research and disrupt more traditional approaches. First\, we will present a deep learning model that approximates the solution of the Schrodinger equation. We introduce the AIMNet-NSE (Neural Spin Equilibration) architecture\, which can predict molecular energies for an arbitrary combination of molecular charge and spin multiplicity. The AIMNet-NSE model allows us to bypass QM calculations fully and derive the ionization potential\, electron affinity\, and conceptual Density Functional Theory quantities like electronegativity\, hardness\, and condensed Fukui functions. We show that these descriptors and learned atomic representations could be used to model chemical reactivity through an example of regioselectivity in electrophilic aromatic substitution reactions. Second\, we proposed a novel ML-guided materials discovery platform that combines synergistic innovations in automated flow synthesis and automated machine learning (AutoML) method development. A software-controlled\, continuous polymer synthesis platform enables rapid iterative experimental–computational cycles that result in the synthesis of hundreds of unique copolymer compositions within a multi-variable compositional space. The non-intuitive design criteria identified by ML\, accomplished by exploring less than 0.9% of overall compositional space\, upended conventional wisdom in the design of 19F MRI agents and led to the identification of >10 copolymer compositions that outperformed state-of-the-art materials. \n  \nShort CV: \nOlexandr Isayev is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008\, Olexandr received his Ph.D. in computational chemistry. He was Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Case Western Reserve University and a scientist at the government research lab. During 2016-2019 he was a faculty at UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy\, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Olexandr received the “Emerging Technology Award” from the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the GPU computing award from NVIDIA. The research in his lab focuses on connecting artificial intelligence (AI) with chemical sciences. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMudeGqqTgqE9AKlyirJF9Cv0xXYH0EGSTV.\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-olexandr-isayev/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230522T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230522T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20230510T084612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230510T095450Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Norman Schumann: Media in the Climate Crisis - How German Media Manage Humanity´s Greatest Communication Challenge
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Norman Schumann\, Klima vor acht e.V. \nIt’s hard to imagine that the world is coming to an end\, and nobody’s talking about it. Unfortunately\, this happens every day in the German media\, or\, to put it differently\, the issue is not being addressed. After more than thirty years since the establishment of the IPCC\, we now know for certain that climate change is caused by human activities\, and we have the power to do something about it. However\, the German media has not been giving enough attention to this critical issue\, making global warming the most significant communication challenge faced by humankind too. \nDuring our presentation\, we will take a journey through the German media\, especially public broadcasting. We will analyze quantitative data to understand how the media reports on climate change and highlight common incorrect narratives. Additionally\, we will give a brief introduction to the work of the initiative “KLIMA° vor acht“. The initiative aims to increase the coverage of “climate” topics in the German television landscape and has already achieved some notable successes in this regard. \n  \nShort CV: \nDr. Norman Schumann studied mathematics and philosophy at the Ruhr University in Bochum and at John Hopkins University in Baltimore. He has been involved in various areas of the climate movement for some time and is co-founder and spokesman of KLIMA vor Acht e.V. \nHe works as a data scientist and data manager in the energy sector. Since 2022\, he has also been working as a freelancer at Hamburg University\, Chair of Communication Science\, especially Climate and Science Communication. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvc-uupjgtEtBN-g6ZPSrD9jEhggG_ieFK\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-norman-schumann/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230511T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230511T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T115457Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Philipp Podsiadlowski: How Stars End Their Lives
DESCRIPTION:By Philipp Podsiadlowski\, Stellar Astrophysics\, University of Oxford\, UK \n  \nWhile the basic evolution of stars has been understood for many decades\, there are still major uncertainties in our theoretical understanding of how stars end their lives\, both in the context of low- and intermediate-mass stars (including the Sun) and massive stars. After reviewing some of key principles that govern the structure and evolution of stars\, I will present recent progress that has been made for both groups of stars. I will argue and present numerical simulations that show that all stars become dynamically unstable when they become very large giants\, which leads to sporadic\, dynamical mass ejections. Low- and intermediate-mass stars may lose all of their envelopes as a consequence\, leaving white-dwarf remnants. More massive stars experience core collapse\, leaving a neutron-star or black-hole remnant\, possibly associated with a supernova explosion. I will show how the dramatic recent progress on understanding the core-collapse process\, for the first time\, allows us to connect the late evolution of massive stars with the resulting supernova explosions and the final remnants and discuss how observations with current gravitational-wave detectors (such as LIGO) will allow us to test this theoretical connection. \n  \nShort CV: \nPhilipp grew up in Germany\, but left Germany after three years of study at the Technical University of Munich to start a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (USA). After graduating there in 1989\, writing a thesis on “Binary Models for Supernova 1987A”\, he moved to Cambridge (UK) for 5 years\, first as a SERC Fellow and later as a Royal Society Research Associate of Martin Rees. After a year as a Royal Society Exchange Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy in Munich\, he became a SERC Advanced Fellow and University Lecturer at the University of Oxford in 1996\, becoming Full Professor in 2006. In 2015\, he was awarded a Humboldt Research Prize by the Humboldt Society in Germany\, which has helped him to establish a close scientific link with the University of Bonn. In 2020 he gave up his university position to become an independent scientist. Philipp is an expert on the theory of single and binary stars\, in particular with applications to compact binary systems\, the progenitors of different supernova types\, and most recently to understanding the origin of the gravitational-wave sources discovered by the Advanced LIGO detector since 2016. In recent years\, Philipp has been a regular visitor to HITS\, working with the groups of Fritz Röpke and Fabian Schneider. He is currently the Klaus Tschira Guest Professor at HITS. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJItc-uqrjIpE9dB4Feg7847E8jt3ITFr_VY\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-philipp-podsiadlowski/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230428T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230428T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20230405T113237Z
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SUMMARY:HITS-IMK Joint Colloquium Adrian Raftery: Downscaled Probabilistic Climate Change Projections\, with Application to Hot Days
DESCRIPTION:By Adrian E. Raftery\, Department of Statistics\, University of Washington\, Seattle\, USA \nThis colloquium is organized jointly with the Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research (IMK)\, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). \n  \nThe climate change projections of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are based on scenarios for future emissions\, but these are not statistically based and do not have a full probabilistic interpretation. Instead\, Raftery et al. (2017) and Liu and Raftery (2021) developed probabilistic forecasts for global average temperature change to 2100. I will describe a method for downscaling these to yield for probabilistic long-term spatial forecasts of local average annual temperature change\, combining the probabilistic global method with a pattern scaling approach. This yields a probability distribution for average temperature in any year and any place in the future. Finally\, we ask\, how common dangerously hot days are likely to be at any location by the end of the century\, and develop a method for assessing its predictive distribution. We find\, for example\, that exposure to dangerous heat levels is likely to increase by factors of 3-10 in many parts of the midlatitudes. This is joint work with Xin Chen\, Peiran Liu\, Lucas Zeppetello and David Battisti. \n  \nShort and long CVs can be found here \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuceqqrzwrHNF-Bm9dRm-ysB7oyk0n8ckK.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-imk-joint-colloquium/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230424T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230424T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20230215T122952Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Jürgen Knödlseder: The carbon footprint of astronomical research infrastructures
DESCRIPTION:By Jürgen Knödlseder\, IRAP\, GAHEC\, Toulouse\, France \n  \nThe carbon footprint of astronomical research is an increasingly topical issue with first estimates of research institute and national community footprints having recently been published. As these assessments generally do not take into account the contribution of astronomical research infrastructures\, we propose to complement them by providing an estimate of the contribution of astronomical space missions and ground-based observatories using greenhouse gas emission factors that relate cost and payload mass to carbon footprint. We find that use of astronomical research infrastructures dominates the carbon footprint of an average astronomer. Comparison of our findings with the socio-economic pathways that are compliant with keeping the global average temperature rise below levels of 1.5°C or 2°C suggests that drastic changes are needed on how astronomical research is conducted in the future. Specifically\, continuous deployment of ever more and larger astronomical research infrastructures is clearly not sustainable. We argue that a new narrative for doing astronomical research is needed if we want to keep our planet habitable. \n  \nShort CV: \nDr. Jürgen Knödlseder graduated at the Technical University of Munich and the Max-Planck Institute for extraterrestrial physics (MPE) in Garching\, Germany. He then moved to the Institute of Astrophysics (IAP) in Paris and subsequently to the Institute for Astrophysics and Planetology (IRAP) in Toulouse\, France where he became in 2001 a staff scientist of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is working on instrumentation and observations in the field of gamma-ray astronomy\, initially using the COMPTEL telescope aboard the CGRO satellite and the SPI telescope aboard the INTEGRAL satellite on the topics of nucleosynthesis and antimatter. More recently he focused on the topic of cosmic rays\, working on observations of the Fermi satellite and on the development of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA). He is member of the astrophysics advisory board of the French Space Agency CNES\, and he was chairing for nine years the Consortium Board of CTA. Since 2022 he is head of the office for environmental footprint reduction of the CTA Observatory. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUqcOGurzooEtd5_WvsY3GGpIxSa1vG4e3U.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/jurgen-knodlseder/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230327T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230327T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Victor M. Panaretos: Sums of Squares from Pythagoras to Hilbert via Fisher
DESCRIPTION:By Victor M. Panaretos\, Institute of Mathematics\, EPFL\, Switzerland \nFor one hundred years\, the analysis of variance has been at the core of statistical inference. Though Fisher first distilled the notion circa 1920\, its roots go much deeper in time\, and ultimately lie in some of the most elemental concepts of geometry. This\, in turn\, lends it considerable versatility as statisticians grapple with data that are increasingly complex in their mathematical description. I will try to illustrate that\, particularly when the data are infinite dimensional\, the analysis of variance can help statisticians elicit order out of chaos\, apparently promising to remain at the core of statistics for another hundred years. \n  \nShort CV: \nVictor M. Panaretos is Professor of Mathematical Statistics and Director of the Mathematics Institute at the EPFL. He received his PhD in 2007 from UC Berkeley\, advised by David Brillinger. Upon graduation he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the EPFL\, where he rose the ranks to Full Professor. He received the Erich Lehmann Award for an Outstanding PhD (UC Berkeley\, 2007)\, an ERC Starting Grant Award (2011) and was named “One of 40 extraordinary scientists under 40” by the World Economic Forum (2014). He is an Elected Member of the ISI (2008) and a Fellow of the IMS (2019). He was the Bernoulli Society Forum Lecturer in the 2019 EMS\, and will be a plenary speaker at the XVI Latin American Congress in Probability and Mathematical Statistic (CLAPEM). He is an Associate Editor for Biometrika\, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods)\, and previously for the Annals of Statistics\, Annals of Applied Statistics\, and Electronic Journal of Statistics. He has served the discipline from various posts\, most notably currently being President-Elect of the Bernoulli Society. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvcuytrjMpG9AiPDXORfnJ2HpaGx-d3vmv.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-victor-m-panaretos/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230227T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230227T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20230125T091105Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230213T162506Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Shimei Pan: Bias and Fairness in AI
DESCRIPTION:By Shimei Pan\, Information Systems Department of UMBC\, Baltimore\, USA \nThe emergence of advanced AI technologies\, such as Deep Learning and ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize the way we work\, live\, and interact with each other\, potentially bringing a profound transformation of our society. Thus\, it is imperative that we ensure the responsible development and equitable use of these technologies. Unfortunately\, it has been found recently that numerous AI systems exhibit prejudice against certain groups of people\, including women and people of color.  There is an increasing concern that vulnerable groups in our society could be harmed by biased AI systems. \nIn this talk\, I will present some of our recent work on bias and fairness in AI such as fairness definitions/assessment and bias mitigation.  As AI fairness is not a purely technical construct\, having social implications\, I will also present our work on human-fair AI interaction to demonstrate that an algorithmic solution itself is often insufficient to achieve its intended societal goals. \n  \nShort CV: \nDr. Shimei Pan is an Associate Professor in the Information Systems Department and the director of the text mining and social media analytics lab at University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. Previously\, she was a research scientist at IBM Watson Research Center in New York. Her research focuses on Natural Language Processing (NLP)\, fair AI\, and Human-AI Interaction.  Her current Fulbright Award in Germany is on cross-cultural analysis of social biases with large pre-trained language models. Dr. Pan received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEldOCrqDssE9UtTNjzWOSpZh6dEb3EZelh\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-shimei-pan/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230123T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230123T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20230111T130228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230116T123339Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Peter Smillie: Counting fullerenes with modular forms — an application of number theory to carbon chemistry
DESCRIPTION:By Peter Smillie\, Mathematical Institute\, Heidelberg University \nFullerenes are polyhedral molecules made of carbon atoms\, first discovered in 1985. A few isomers are naturally occurring and many more have since been synthesised\, with numerous applications across materials science\, biology\, and medicine. One source of theoretical interest in fullerenes is that there are a lot of them; it is well known that if n is large\, you can synthesise about n^9 (n to the 9th power) distinct isomers with exactly n carbon atoms. \nAs I will explain\, the set of all isomers has a beautiful mathematical structure\, corresponding to certain integral points in 18 dimensional space. A fundamental problem is to predict the chemical properties of an isomer from this mathematical description. This is the goal of a joint project with Ganna Gryn’ova at HITS. \nI will present a surprising result\, joint with Philip Engel\, that there exists an exact formula for the number of distinct isomers with n atoms using modular forms\, which are certain sequences with deep connections to the prime numbers. We are still working out the details\, but this should reproduce tables that mathematical chemists have computed up to n= 300 or so\, and let us calculate essentially instantaneously the number of isomers for any n. \n  \nShort CV: \nPeter Smillie is a “Geometry Plus” Junior Professor at the University of Heidelberg. His primary research is in differential geometry\, especially the study of minimal surfaces in symmetric spaces and moduli spaces of geometric structures. It was his work on the moduli space of polyhedra that led to his discovery with P. Engel in 2017 of the connection between polyhedra and modular forms. In ongoing joint work with F. \nBonsante and A. Seppi\, he is developing new tools to study the asymptotic behavior of special surfaces in spacetime. In 2022\, together with N. Sagman\, he found a counterexample to the well-known Labourie conjecture in higher Teichmüller theory. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard in 2018\, and held post-doctoral positions at the IHES in Paris and at Caltech\, before starting at Heidelberg in 2022. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqf-Ctrz0vHNcjyGBh6Px8jdpz8HulIYJx.\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-peter-smillie/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221121T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221121T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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SUMMARY:HITS-SIMPLAIX joint colloquium Michele Ceriotti: Atomic-scale modeling in the age of machine learning
DESCRIPTION:By Michele Ceriotti\, EPFL STI SMX-GE\, Lausanne\, Switzerland \nWhen modeling materials and molecules at the atomic scale\, achieving a realistic level of complexity and making quantitative predictions are usually conflicting goals.\nData-driven techniques have made great strides towards enabling simulations of materials in realistic conditions with uncompromising accuracy.\nIn this talk I will summarize the core concepts that have driven the extraordinarily fast progress of the field\, discussing the relationship to more general concepts in geometric machine learning.\nI will describe some of the most promising modeling techniques that combine physics-inspired and data-driven paradigms\, indicate the most pressing open challenges\, and present several compelling examples ranging from water to semiconductors and from metals to molecular materials. \n  \nShort CV: \nMichele Ceriotti received his Ph.D. in Physics from ETH Zürich. He spent three years in Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow at Merton College. Since 2013 he leads the laboratory for Computational Science and Modeling\, in the institute of Materials at EPFL\, that focuses on method development for atomistic materials modeling based on statistical mechanics and machine learning. He is one of the core developers of several open-source software packages\, including http://ipi-code.org and http://chemiscope.org\, and proudly serves the atomistic modeling community as an associate editor of the Journal of Chemical Physics\, as a moderator of the physics.chem-ph section of the arXiv\, and as an editorial board member of Physical Review Materials. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here:\nhttps://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJElcu6sqDktHdDUmD6C08q__YImcdMaYdAE\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/hits-simplaix-joint-colloquium-michele-ceriotti/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221024T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221024T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
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SUMMARY:Colloquium David Dao: Gainforest: Using artificial intelligence to help restore the natural world
DESCRIPTION:By David Dao\, GainForest/PhD candidate ETH Zurich\, Switzerland \nNature has been deteriorating at rates unparalleled in human history and the implications are global. Climate change and biodiversity loss are two bullets in the same gun. Perils we face in parallel\, both driven by deforestation and land use change. If global tropical deforestation were a country\, its resulting emissions would be larger than the whole of the European Union. Time is running out and we need urgent climate and environmental action.\nUnfortunately\, we cannot value what we cannot measure. And we are failing to capture nature’s full contributions to society. In this talk\, we argue that machine learning (ML) can play a significant role in responding to this critical call for action – but only when we develop ML algorithms in co-design with local and Indigenous communities – by empowering digital monitoring\, reporting and verification and conservation projects. \nWe will present our work at Gainforest\, a global science-based non-profit and currently a semi-finalist of the $10M XPRIZE Rainforest\, and how Gainforest is deploying affordable top-down and bottom-up monitoring solutions on the ground in partnership with the government of Paraguay and conservation partners in the Global South. Lastly\, we will discuss how increased transparency and decentralized science for nature can enable novel financial schemes to tackle global deforestation. \n  \nShort CV: \nDavid Dao (he/him) is the founder of GainForest and an Artificial Intelligence (AI) researcher at ETH Zurich. GainForest is a non-profit grantee of Microsoft’s AI for Earth program and Filecoin Green\, and a $10M XPRIZE Rainforest Semi-Finalist to prevent deforestation. In co-design with local communities in South America and Southeast Asia\, GainForest develops a global assessment protocol that rewards sustainable nature stewardship and has been featured by BBC Radio4\, World Economic Forum\, Microsoft\, Handelsblatt\, Boston Consulting Group\, and the United Nations. At ETH Zurich\, David founded the Climate + AI initiative at DS3Lab and maintains Github’s most starred collection on ethical use of AI (“Awful AI”). In close collaboration with the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)\, MIT\, and Restor they develop satellite-based monitoring algorithms to assess biodiversity. Additionally\, he leads the joint Kara Data Marketplace initiative with Stanford\, UC Berkeley\, and Oasis Labs. David’s research won best papers and several academic grants. Previously\, he was an engineer in Silicon Valley and a research fellow at Berkeley AI Research (BAIR)\, Stanford University\, and Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. David is a Global Shaper at World Economic Forum\, the Forest Lead of Climate Change AI\, a Climate Leader at Climate Reality Project\, a UN youth delegate for UN since COP23\, an advisor to the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers and Paraguay’s official COP delegation\, and a mentor at Creative Destruction Lab Paris. In his spare time\, David explores tropical rainforests in South America and the deep sea of Southeast Asia. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMrfu6spzIuHtOgC6naQ96p1gN2L58Lcev9\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-david-dao/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221004T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20221004T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20220804T083033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T113442Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Sarbani Basu: Learning physics through astronomy - the Sun and Stars as laboratories
DESCRIPTION:By Sarbani Basu\, Department of Astronomy\, Yale University\, USA \nWe normally rely on physics to interpret and understand astrophysical processes. However\, with precise seismic data from the Sun and other stars\, we can use astrophysics to inform us about the physical properties of stellar matter\, and in some cases inform us even about fundamental physics. \nIn this talk I shall describe how we use seismic data to study properties of matter. I shall also touch up how solar and stellar data have been used to put constraints on fundamental physics\, such as the time variation of the gravitational constant. \n  \nShort CV: \nSarbani Basu is the William K. Lanman Jr. Professor of Astronomy at Yale University\, USA. \nProf. Basu was educated in India. She obtained her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Mumbai for work done at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Subsequently\, she did her postdoctoral work in helioseismology. She was a post-doc at the Queen Mary & Westfield College\, London\, and University of Aarhus\, Denmark before moving to the US in 1997 to join the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton.  She joined Yale University in 2000. She chaired the Department of Astronomy from 2016-2022. \nProf. Basu conducts research in the fields of solar and stellar astrophysics using seismic data. She has been studying both the general properties and the details of the structure and dynamics of the Sun\, focusing on solar-cycle dependences. Her interest in putting the Sun in a general astronomical context has led her to use asteroseismic data obtained by the Kepler and TESS spacecrafts to study other stars.  She has published over 290 peer-reviewed articles and a full-length book. Her work has garnered more than 25\,000 citations. Her papers can be found linked to her website at http://campuspress.yale.edu/sarbanibasu/ \nProf. Basu has won several awards and accolades. She received the Vainu Bappu Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of India in 1996 for her early work on helioseismology.  In 2018\, she was awarded the George Ellery Hale award of the Solar Physics Division of the American Astronomical Society for her contributions to the understanding of the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun and stars. Her other achievements include the US National Science Foundation’s CAREER award in 2004\, being elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015 and being elected to be among the inaugural batch of Fellows of the American Astronomical Society in 2020. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0kceqoqzopH9N8g5xeY6Cs28iVZ7m1ga-g\n\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/sarbani-basu/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220718T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220718T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20220705T112852Z
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SUMMARY:Eike Hermann Müller: Efficient fast multipole methods for (kinetic) Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particle systems
DESCRIPTION:By Eike Hermann Müller\, Department of Mathematical Sciences\, University of Bath\, UK \nIncluding electrostatics in (kinetic) Monte Carlo simulations of interacting particles is challenging due to the long-range nature of the Coulomb potential. As a result\, the computational complexity grows rapidly with N\, the number of particles in the system. While the Fast Multipole Method (FMM) allows the computation of electrostatic interactions for a fixed configuration in O(N) time\, a full sweep over all particles in a (kinetic) Monte Carlo update is still too expensive if FMM is applied naively. To overcome this issue\, we developed modified versions of FMM which require only O(1) computations per particle hop in kinetic Monte Carlo or O(log(N)) operations for a single-particle move in standard Monte Carlo. The algorithms are implemented in a new performance portable Python framework for molecular simulations. Our framework provides an abstraction for typical operations such as loops over all particle pairs\, which are orchestrated by control flow in Python. While this allows the easy implementation of simulation algorithms in a high-level language\, under the hood code generation guarantees the efficient execution on different parallel computer architectures. \n  \nShort CV: \nEike Mueller is an Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) for Scientific Computing in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Bath (UK). Originally trained as a physicist\, Eike has worked on the development and implementation of efficient numerical algorithms to tackle challenging problems in science and engineering. His work on new multigrid solvers for partial differential equations in atmospheric fluid dynamics has led to significant impact by improving the performance of the UK’s operational climate- and weather forecast model. More generally\, Eike’s research focuses on the development of fast\, parallel algorithms in interdisciplinary contexts. While collaborating with meteorologists\, chemists and physicists\, Eike has worked on the application of multilevel methods to predict the spread of atmospheric pollutants\, to simulate path integrals in quantum mechanics and to accelerate (kinetic) Monte Carlo simulations. In addition to the design of new numerical methods\, Eike is also interested in their efficient implementation\, performance portability and sustainable software engineering.\nBefore joining the University of Bath as a PostDoc in 2011\, Eike completed a PhD in computational particle physics in Edinburgh (2009) and worked as a scientist at the UK Meteorological Office (2009-2011). https://people.bath.ac.uk/em459/ \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUodO2hrTIuHdPIM5No5L88WVkpvkXbTVhM.\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/eike-hermann-mueller/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220709T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220709T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20220629T130711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220629T130711Z
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SUMMARY:Open Day at HITS
DESCRIPTION:Come and join us for our Open Day at HITS on Saturday\, 9 July\, from 11am-5pm \n\n\n\nAfter four years the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies will open its doors to the public again. Under the overall theme of “Digital Worlds 20.22” the program includes science talks in English and German\, presentations and hands-on stations\, all showcasing the research of the Institute. \nOne of the highlights this year will be the guided tours – also in English and German – through the HITS garden. \nA free shuttle bus will run from 11am to 5.30pm every 30 minutes between S-Bahnhof Altstadt (Karlstor) and HITS\, free parking is available in the car park “Unter der Boschwiese”. Refreshments will be served throughout the day.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/open-day-at-hits/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220706T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220706T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20220620T111829Z
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SUMMARY:Antonis Rokas: Incongruence in the Tree of Life
DESCRIPTION:By Antonis Rokas\, Department of Biological Sciences\, Vanderbilt University\, USA \nThe use of genome-scale amounts of data and sophisticated statistical phylogenetic approaches have greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its branches. However\, incongruence—the inference of conflicting evolutionary histories stemming from a multitude of analytical and biological factors—remains pervasive\, especially for certain key branches in life’s history. In my talk\, I will discuss the factors that drive incongruence; methodological advances to diagnose and handle incongruence; and important avenues for future research. Detecting and understanding the causes of incongruence in phylogenomic data sets is essential for understanding the process of phylogenesis and for the accurate reconstruction and interpretation of the tree of life. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIucOqprz0sGdLrk5z-hO1PMAox4hA0mF-M\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/antonis-rokas/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220628T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220628T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20220601T121821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220602T082942Z
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SUMMARY:Julio Saez-Rodriguez: Computational models from multi-omics data for personalized medicine
DESCRIPTION:By Julio Saez-Rodriguez\, Heidelberg University Hospital\, Institute of Computational Biomedicine \nModern technologies allow us to profile in high detail biological and medical samples at fast decreasing costs. New technologies are opening new data modalities\, including to measure at the single-cell level and with spatial resolution.  Computational models\, in particular those built with machine learning\, are expected to help us to extract insight form these data.  Using biological knowledge to aid machine learning can significantly improve the results. Towards this end\, we have developed a number of tools that range from a meta-resource of biological knowledge to methods to infer pathway and transcription factor activities from gene expression and subsequently infer causal paths among them. Furthermore\, we have developed approaches to build dynamic logic models of molecular networks and how they response to perturbations such as drug treatment. I will illustrate their utility in cases of biomedical relevance and show how they  improve our understanding of molecular processes\, identify biomarkers\, and point at  novel therapeutic opportunities. \nShort CV \nJulio Saez-Rodriguez is Professor of Medical Bioinformatics and Data Analysis at the Faculty of Medicine of Heidelberg University\, director of the Institute for Computational Biomedicine\, group leader of the EMBL-Heidelberg University Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit\, a member of the Heidelberg ELLIS Unit\, and a co-director of the DREAM challenges. He holds a PhD (2007) in Chemical Engineering. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School and M.I.T (2007- 2010)\, group leader at EMBL-EBI\, Cambridge (2010-2015)\, and professor of Computational Biomedicine at RWTH Aachen (2015-2018).  He is interested in developing and applying computational methods to acquire a functional understanding of signaling networks and their deregulation in disease\, and to apply this knowledge to develop novel therapeutics. Current emphasis in his group is on use of single-cell technologies\, multi-omics integration\, and understanding multi-cellular communication. While his previous focus has been on cancer\, he is increasingly working on autoimmune\, kidney and cardiovascular disease. More information at www.saezlab.org. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIvce-grD0rHtEOfOHnabJJ3qeTO4LDogAf\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/julio-saez-rodriguez/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220524T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220524T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20220503T103555Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T090214Z
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SUMMARY:Carl Smith: 'Fortress Australia' and 'E-Narnia': did unique societal adaptations help Australia and Estonia during the pandemic?
DESCRIPTION:By Carl Smith \nIn late 2021\, Australian science journalist Carl Smith was granted a rare and special privilege: he was allowed to leave his country. \nFor most people living in Australia at the time\, this was not possible – because it was one of the few nations that continued to aim for ‘covid zero’. This meant closing borders\, tracing every contact\, stamping out every infection cluster\, and multiple rounds of lockdowns. \nAfter arriving in Europe in early 2022\, he visited another country on the other side of the world that had a very different but equally unique experience of the pandemic. \nThe small Baltic nation of Estonia is one of the most advanced ‘digital societies’ in the world. Sophisticated digital infrastructure created before the pandemic limits the need for Estonians to leave their homes to interact with their government or local companies. \nSo\, what impacts did these unusual factors have on each country during the rampage of the Sars-CoV-2 virus? \nAs we continue to hear stories of how other nations battled the COVID-19 pandemic\, how do we even define ‘success’? And what can we learn from countries like Australia and Estonia as societies step into a ‘new normal’? \n  \nCarl Smith is a science journalist\, broadcaster & podcaster working for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)’s Science Unit. He’s won some of Australia’s most prestigious awards\, including a Walkley Award and the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism. Carl is currently the ‘Journalist in Residence’ at HITS. More about Carl Smith  https://www.carlsmith.co/ \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe talk will be hybrid\, with a limited amount of participants on-site.\nIf you would like to participate in person\, please register in advance at benedicta.frech@h-its.org.\nIf you would like to participate online\, please register in advance here: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAvf-ivqzksGN33NJrJhv0HRrvdvUuxZnAv.\n\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/public-talk-carl-smith/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220516T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220516T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T165035
CREATED:20220412T101956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220413T082358Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Andreas Reuter: Habitual Inclination Towards Scrutiny: A Brief Reflection on How HITS Came About
DESCRIPTION:By Andreas Reuter \nInstitutes can be created/established for various reasons. Universities (in Germany) do it routinely as a means of structuring their organization. Beauty parlors and private schools like to polish their image by trading under the name of „Institute of XYZ“. And then there are (a few) independent institutes that were established with a more or less specific mission. Those mission statements typically avoid mentioning the expectation underlying the effort in the first place: Be excellent\, win awards. This becomes apparent when analyzing which role models are quoted for the newly established institutes. \nWhether or not such an institute lives up to the aspirations of its founders is often hard to judge. And in fact\, one typically finds that the rationale for setting up the organization is continuously retrofitted to match the actual development. \nHITS was established in 2010\, the discussions about the idea and its implementation having started some three years before. Unfortunately\, not all the people directly involved in defining both structure and mission of the new institute are still around\, but while some of them are\, it probably is interesting to reflect on how the whole thing started and how it evolved – compared to the original expectations. I will give an account of that process\, which (at least initially) was guided by a very simple\, yet ambitious\, recipe formulated by James Bryant Conant: „There is only one proved method of assisting the advancement of pure science: that of picking [individuals] of genius\, backing them heavily\, and leaving them to direct themselves.“ \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom.\nPlease register in advance for this meeting: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkd-ugqTotHdPGt88HGzv33pyb22B8KrJO\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\n\n\nIn case you are not able to attend\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-andreas-reuter/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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