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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20230724T110000
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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
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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:20260409T151138
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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:20260409T151138
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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:20260409T151138
CREATED:20230426T112652Z
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
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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:20260409T151138
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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:20260409T151138
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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:20260409T151138
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
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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:20260409T151138
CREATED:20221027T120742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221103T121556Z
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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:20260409T151138
CREATED:20220926T102613Z
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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:20260409T151138
CREATED:20220804T083033Z
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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:20260409T151138
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:20260409T151138
CREATED: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:20260409T151138
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:20260409T151138
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:20260409T151138
CREATED:20220503T103555Z
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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:20260409T151138
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220425T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220425T170000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Ruth Nussinov: Unraveling Oncogenic Mechanisms and their Linkage to Neurodevelopmental Disorders
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Ruth Nussinov\, National Cancer Institute\, Center for Cancer Research\, USA \nOver the last few years our work has aimed to reveal oncogenic mechanisms of key oncogenic proteins in the Ras signaling network\, including Ras\, Raf\, PI3K\, PTEN\, and more. We aim to understand their activation mechanisms\, mutations\, and signaling. During the last year we have extended our work\, asking how same-gene mutations can drive both cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders. This question has been puzzling. It has also been puzzling why those with neurodevelopmental disorders have a high risk of cancer. Ras\, MEK\, PI3K\, PTEN\, and SHP2 are among the oncogenic proteins that can harbor mutations that encode diseases other than cancer. My talk will describe these\, and the linkage between cancer and neurodevelopmental disorders at the molecular and cellular levels. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom.\nPlease register in advance for this meeting: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUlceCqrDooGtbE0bWgBUhxsI1dtS34VrRJ\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-ruth-nussinov/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220221T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220221T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T151138
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SUMMARY:HITS-SIMPLAIX joint colloquium Frank Noé: Deep Learning for Molecular Physics and Chemistry
DESCRIPTION:By Frank Noé\, Freie Universität Berlin\, Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik \nAI\, and specifically deep ML methods have a profound impact on industry and information technology. But since recently AI methods are also changing the way we do science. In this talk I will present some of our recent efforts to build machine learning methods that attack fundamental problems in physical and chemical sciences: the sampling problem in physical many-body systems\, and the solution of the quantum-chemical electronic Schrödinger equation. Key in making progress in these hard problems with ML is to interrogate the physical system about what the learning problem should be\, and to encode physical structures\, such as symmetries and conservation laws\, into the ML model. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom.\nPlease register in advance for this meeting: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0lduutrzkrH9SzLBrAxFA_e3VI2377Ttdq\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-frank-noe/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220124T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220124T110000
DTSTAMP:20260409T151138
CREATED:20220110T094119Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Eva Wolfangel: Immersive Media for Science Journalism and Science Communication
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Eva Wolfangel\, Journalist\, Speaker\, Moderator \nImmersive Media like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality offer great possibilities for science communication and science journalism. But nevertheless journalists and communicators often fail to use this new technologies creatively and in to take advantage of the possibilities they offer. In this talk we will discover some amazing best practice experiences and discuss their pros and cons. By analyzing some of the latest VR and AR storytelling projects and experiences we figure out for which communication purposes these new technologies are suitable and what points to consider in order to make meaningful use of the technology. \n  \nCurriculum vitae: \nEva Wolfangel is an award-winning freelance science and tech journalist\, a storyteller and feature writer\, a speaker and moderator. Her focus is on science reporting as well as future technologies\, tech ethics\, cyber security\, virtual reality and neuroscience. She writes for major magazines and newspapers in Germany and Switzerland — including ZEIT\, Geo\, Spiegel\, and NZZ — and produces radio features. As VR Reporterin\, she reports from virtual worlds as part of the journalistic cooperative RiffReporter. Eva’s specialty is to combine creative writing and complex topics in order to reach a broad audience. Eva Wolfangel is part of the class of 2020 of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT in Boston. 2020 she was awarded with the German Reporterpreis for her reportage about living in virtual worlds as well as with the Georg von Holtzbrinck Award for Science Journalism. 2018 she was named European Science Journalist of the Year by the Association of British Science Writers. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom.\nPlease register in advance for this meeting: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwtduGhrjgrGtM9817s79kszmunUZ8x_0o0\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-eva-wolfangel/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211122T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211122T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T151138
CREATED:20211019T110456Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Yuji Sugita: Parallel computing algorithms in molecular dynamics simulations for extremely large-scale biological systems
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Yuji Sugita\, RIKEN\, Theoretical Molecular Science\, Japan \nMolecular dynamics (MD) simulations of nano- and biomolecules are one of the most important techniques in computational science. Protein conformational changes and protein-ligand bindings are simulated with all-atom MD simulations to elucidate molecular mechanisms underlying these biological processes. Conventionally\, we can perform MD simulations of a few proteins or nucleic acids in solution or in a phospholipid bilayer\, which mimics a biological membrane. These simulation systems typically contain 105 – 106 atoms in a simulation box and could be simulated using workstations or PC-clusters with/without GPGPUs. \nIf we need to study biological processes in more realistic cellular environments\, such as the cytoplasm\, cellular nuclei\, or realistic cell membranes\, we must simulate multiple biomolecules at the same time to consider their specific or non-specific molecular interactions. Then\, the size of a simulation system increases rapidly. One of our largest simulation systems to study macromolecular crowding effects in the cytoplasm contain 10 billion atoms\, which is hardly simulated with conventional MD software on the standard computational environments. \nIn our group\, we have developed high-performance MD software\, GENESIS\, (https://www.r-ccs.riken.jp/labs/cbrt/) for such large biological simulations. To improve the parallel computations\, we have implemented unique numerical techniques\, such as mid-point cell method\, volumetric decomposition of three-dimensional FFT calculations\, and so on. In my talk\, I will discuss several key algorithms in our software. In addition\, I discuss other key features of GENESIS\, such as enhanced sampling algorithms for slow conformational dynamics\, use of multi-scale models in MD simulations\, and so on. Using these computational techniques\, we can now study biomolecular structure\, dynamics\, and functions in realistic cellular environments to understand large-scale biological phenomena. For this purpose\, it is also important to incorporate experimental observations with computer simulations through machine learning or data-assimilation methods. We discuss a few examples of data-driven MD simulations of biomacromolecules. \n  \nCurriculum vitae: \nYuji Sugita is a chief scientist in Theoretical Molecular Science Laboratory at RIKEN Cluster for Pioneering Research\, in Wako\, Japan. He is also working as a team leader of two RIKEN centers\, such as RIKEN Center for Computational Science and RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research\, in Kobe\, Japan. His research interest is the development and application studies of molecular dynamics simulations of biomolecules based on multi-scale models. He graduated from Department of Chemistry\, Graduate School of Kyoto University (1998) and received his Ph.D degree in Chemistry (1998). After a short postdoctoral fellow experience in RIKEN\, he moved to Institute for Molecular Science (IMS) in Japan as a research associate (1998) and wrote the first paper of replica-exchange molecular dynamics (REMD) simulation together with Prof. Yuko Okamoto. The paper (Chem. Phys. Lett. 314\, 141-151\, 1999) has been highly cited until now (4349 times in Google Scholar on October 14\, 2021). Then\, he moved to the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences\, University of Tokyo and started molecular dynamics simulation studies of Calcium Ion Pump with Prof. Chikashi Toyoshima. From 2007\, he has worked in RIKEN as a PI (associate chief scientist (2007-2012) and chief scientist (2012-present)). His research group has developed MD software GENESIS since 2009\, which is one of the target software in Co-design research of post-K supercomputer\, which becomes “Fugaku” supercomputer now. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom.\nPlease register in advance for this meeting: https://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0uduGsqz4rH9MYn7oqn5hOsU05BE_e8I05\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-yuji-sugita/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211018T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20211018T120000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Warner Marzocchi: Model validation in natural hazard forecasting - a scientific perspective
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Warner Marzocchi\, Unversity of Naples\, Federico II\, Italy \nScience is rooted in the concept that a model can be tested against independent observations and rejected when necessary. However\, the problem of model testing becomes formidable when we consider natural “open” systems. Owing to their scale\, complexity\, and openness to interactions within a larger environment\, most natural systems cannot be replicated in the laboratory\, and direct observations of their inner workings are always inadequate. These difficulties raise serious questions about the meaning and feasibility of “model validation” and have led to the pessimistic view that the outcome of natural processes in general cannot be accurately predicted by mathematical models (cit). \nIn this talk I discuss some efforts in seismology and volcanology to address the validation problem\, and the link with the current procedures of calibration and scoring of the models. The discussion emphasizes the importance of clarifying the probabilistic framework adopted for natural hazard forecasting\, which is aimed at quantifying the deep uncertainties that pervade the modeling of the processes. These uncertainties can be differentiated into three fundamental types: (1) the natural variability of the  systems\, usually represented as stochastic processes with parameterized distributions (aleatory variability); (2) the uncertainty in our knowledge of how systems operate and evolve\, often represented as subjective probabilities based on expert opinion (epistemic uncertainty); and (3) the possibility that our forecasts are wrong owing to behaviors of processes about which we are completely ignorant and\, hence\, cannot quantify in terms of probabilities (ontological error). Then\, I describe a probabilistic framework for hazard analysis\, which unifies the treatment of all three types of uncertainty. Within this framework\, a forecasting model is said to be complete only if it (a) fully characterizes the epistemic uncertainties in the model’s representation of aleatory variability and (b) can be unconditionally tested (in principle) against observations to identify ontological errors. Unconditional testability\, which is the key to model validation\, hinges on an experimental concept that characterizes hazard events in terms of exchangeable data sequences with well-defined frequencies. We illustrate the application of this unified probabilistic framework by describing experimental concepts for some real applications. \n  \nCurriculum vitae: \nWarner Marzocchi is professor of Geophysics and of Natural Hazard Forecasting at the\nUniversity of Naples Federico II\, and Scuola Superiore Meridionale. He has coordinated\, at\ndifferent levels\, many national\, european\, and international projects focused on short- and longterm earthquake and eruption forecasting and hazard assessment. He is member of the Academia\nEuropaea and author of more than 160 papers on journals listed in the Web of Science (H-index\n40 in WoS\, and 41 in SCOPUS). He graduated cum laude in Earth Sciences (1987) and received\nhis PhD degree in Physics (1992) at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. He\nbecame associate professor in Physics of Volcanism at the Osservatorio Vesuviano\, and he has\nbeen visiting professor at the Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo\, visiting scientist at the\nUniversity of Southern California\, and chief scientist at the Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e\nVulcanologia (INGV). He has served as chairman and member in many international scientific\norganizations\, co-chairman of the seismic hazard center at INGV\, and he has been member of the\nInternational Commission on Earthquake Forecasting (ICEF) appointed by the Italian government\nafter L’Aquila earthquake. He has been also invited to give lectures and talks at the major\ngeophysical meetings\, at many universities and research institutes in different countries. \n  \nThe colloquium on the HITS YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/rUYkw3yPrDc
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-warner-marzocchi/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210628T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210628T170000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Alán Aspuru-Guzik: There is no time for science as usual: Materials Acceleration Platforms
DESCRIPTION:By Alán Aspuru-Guzik\, Department of Chemistry and Department of Computer Science\, University of Toronto\, Canada \nThe world is facing several time-sensitive issues ranging from climate change to the rapid degradation of our climate\, as well as the emergence of new diseases like COVID-19. We need to rethink the way we do science and think of it as a workflow that could be optimized. Where are the pain points that can be solved with automation\, artificial intelligence\, or better human practices? My group has been thinking about this question with an application to the design of organic optoelectronic materials. In this talk\, I will discuss the progress in developing materials acceleration platforms\, or self-driving labs for this purpose. \nCurriculum vitae: \nAlán Aspuru-Guzik is a professor of Chemistry and Computer Science at the University of Toronto and is also the Canada 150 Research Chair in Theoretical Chemistry and a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute. He is a CIFAR Lebovic Fellow in the Biologically Inspired Solar Energy program. Alán also holds an Google Industrial Research Chair in Quantum Computing. Alán is the director of the Acceleration Consortium\, a University of Toronto-based strategic initiative that aims to gather researchers from industry\, government and academia around pre-competitive research topics related to the lab of the future. \nAlán began his independent career at Harvard University in 2006 and was a Full Professor at Harvard University from 2013-2018. He received his B.Sc. from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 1999 and obtained a PhD from the University of California\, Berkeley in 2004\, where he was also a postdoctoral fellow from 2005-2006. \nAlán conducts research in the interfaces of quantum information\, chemistry\, machine learning and chemistry. He was a pioneer in the development of algorithms and experimental implementations of quantum computers and quantum simulators dedicated to chemical systems. He has studied the role of quantum coherence in the transfer of excitonic energy in photosynthetic complexes and has accelerated the discovery by calculating organic semiconductors\, organic photovoltaic energy\, organic batteries and organic light-emitting diodes. He has worked on molecular representations and generative models for the automatic learning of molecular properties. Currently\, Alán is interested in automation and “autonomous” chemical laboratories for accelerating scientific discovery. \nAmong other recognitions\, he received the Google Focused Award for Quantum Computing\, the Sloan Research Fellowship\, The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award\, and was selected as one of the best innovators under the age of 35 by the MIT Technology Review. He is a member of the American Physical Society and an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and received the Early Career Award in Theoretical Chemistry from the American Chemical Society. \nAlán is editor-in-chief of the journal Digital Discovery as well as co-founder of Zapata Computing and Kebotix. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom.\nPlease register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkc-mprT8tE9X5XIJDIYwBqaZvYvDd8CPU.\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\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-alan-aspuru-guzik/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210517T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210517T120000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Alina Schadwinkel: Science journalism in Corona times
DESCRIPTION:By Alina Schadwinkel\, Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH\, Heidelberg \nWhat the heck is a coronavirus ? How do I protect myself? How safe and effective are the new vaccines – and when will the pandemic finally be over? For more than a year\, Sars-CoV-2 has dominated the media. People are demanding information. As quickly as possible\, as precisely as possible. Presented neither downplaying nor alarmist. A challenge. \nSeldom has it been so important to communicate science well as in these times. It is true that the core task of science journalism is to report facts and thus provide orientation\, rather than to publish opinions and positions. But today\, false reports are spreading rapidly that in the past would never have been put into the world in the first place. \nWhat distinguishes good reporting? How can scientists and journalists work together? To what extent do social media and the 24/7 news cycle complicate the work? And what can we learn from last year’s reporting for other important issues like climate change? \nThis is what Alina Schadwinkel\, Managing Editor Online of Spektrum der Wissenschaft\, talks about and discusses with you. \n  \nCurriculum vitae: \nBorn in 1987\, studied science journalism with a focus on life sciences/medicine at TU Dortmund University. From 2009 to 2010 as a trainee at »ZEIT Online«\, then freelance for various media and ZEIT editor from 2011 to 2012. Until 2013 deputy head of the life sciences department of the »New Scientist«. Subsequently six weeks with the IJP in South Africa. From October 2013 to December 2019 as editor in the science department of “ZEIT Online” in Berlin. From then on\, Managing Editor Online of »Spektrum der Wissenschaft«. Winner of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism 2014 in the category of young talent. Top 30 under 30 of the year 2015. Nominated for the Grimme Online Award in the same year for the dossier on Down’s syndrome »Wer darf Leben?«. 2016 shortlisted for the Ernst Schneider Award for the team project »Quantified Self«. 2019 nominated for the Salus Media Award as well as in the team for the Reporter Award in the category »Multimedia«. 2021 awarded the »Prize for Science Journalism» of the DGK. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom.\nPlease register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://kta-email.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pfuCrrT8oGtBigH0K3zZe9iW91CQ-cUzr\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.\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-alina-schadwinkel/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210426T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210426T160000
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Lillian T. Chong: Weighted ensemble simulations of long-timescale dynamics: From chemical reactions to SARS-CoV-2
DESCRIPTION:By Lillian Chong\, Department of Chemistry\, University of Pittsburgh\, USA \n  \nThe weighted ensemble (WE) path sampling strategy orchestrates multiple simulations in parallel with rigorous statistical resampling at fixed time intervals to maintain rigorous kinetics. WE simulations can be orders of magnitude more efficient than standard simulations in generating unbiased\, atomically detailed pathways for rare events such as large conformational transitions in proteins and protein binding processes. The WE strategy can be applied at any scale with any type of stochastic dynamics engine – from ab initio simulations to cell-scale simulations and beyond. I will present our recent applications of the WE strategy as well as challenges that remain in tackling long-timescale kinetics. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom. To receive the URL\, please register with Benedicta Frech\, Benedicta.Frech@h-its.org.\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-lillian-t-chong/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210125T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210125T160000
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CREATED:20210119T184021Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Erin R. Johnson: Dispersion Interactions in Density-Functional Theory and Application to Molecular Crystal-Structure Prediction
DESCRIPTION:By Erin R. Johnson\, Department of Chemistry\, Department of Physics & Atmospheric Science\, Dalhousie University\, Halifax\, Canada \n  \nThe exchange-hole dipole moment (XDM) method is a density-functional model of London dispersion based upon second-order perturbation theory. The XDM dispersion coefficients are non-empirical and depend directly on the electron density and related properties\, allowing variation of the atomic dispersion coefficients with changing chemical environment. XDM offers simultaneous high accuracy for a diverse range of chemical systems\, including layered materials and metal surfaces. In this talk\, recent applications of XDM will be presented\, with a focus on molecular crystal-structure prediction (CSP). We will illustrate the utility of composite methods for CSP of chiral helicenes\, which have applications in organic electronics\, and of several pharmaceutical compounds. Finally\, the effect of the density-functional delocalisation error on CSP is highlighted for organic acid-base co-crystals. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom. To receive the URL\, please register with Benedicta Frech\, Benedicta.Frech@h-its.org.\nAs we are not sure yet whether we will have the permission to record this colloqium\, we strongly recommend you watch it live.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-erin-r-johnson/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210120T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210120T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T151138
CREATED:20210104T104204Z
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SUMMARY:Siobhan Roberts: Embracing the Uncertainties
DESCRIPTION:  \nIn her talk\, Siobhan Roberts will reflect on her pandemic reporting and the importance of uncertainty in science. She will discuss epistemic uncertainty\, a lack of knowledge about facts and numbers pertaining to the past and present\, versus aleatory uncertainty\, unknowns about the future due to randomness and chance. She will also explore the impact of Bayesian analysis on our own thinking\, putting up the question: Should we think like a Bayesian? \nAbout Siobhan Roberts \nSiobhan Roberts has worked as a freelance journalist with a focus on mathematics and science since 2001. She writes regularly for The New York Times “Science Times\,” and has contributed to The New Yorker’s science and tech blog “Elements\,” The Walrus\, Quanta and The Guardian\, among other publications. Moreover\, she is the author of two biographies of mathematicians: “King of Infinite Space” on Donald Coxeter\, and “Genius at Play” on John Horton Conway. She earned multiple awards for her work\, among them the Euler Book Prize from Mathematical Association of America. She is the ninth HITS “Journalist in Residence.” \nREGISTRATION: \nThe colloquium is taking place via Zoom. To receive the URL\, please register with Benedicta Frech at Admin.FO@h-its.org\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/talk-siobhan-roberts/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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