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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
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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:20260409T144834
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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
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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
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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/
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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
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20210324T080252Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201123T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201123T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20201103T120216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T100014Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Robert Best: Molecular Simulations of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
DESCRIPTION:  \nBy Robert Best\, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases\, Theoretical Biophysical Chemistry Section\, USA \nIntrinsically disordered proteins are now recognized to play a variety of roles in biology\, yet are challenging to characterize by experiment owing to the diverse ensemble of structures they populate. This makes molecular simulations\, which can generate accurate models for disordered structures\, a natural complement to experiment. I describe here how data from simulation and experiment can be combined to yield the most likely distribution of unfolded states\, and how coarse grained simulation models can be parameterized to match available experimental data for complexes of disordered proteins. Lastly\, I will talk about our work using coarse-grained models to describe phase separation to form biomolecular coacervates. \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.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-robert-best/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201012T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20201012T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20201008T111041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201008T112147Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium: Claudia Draxl: Predicting properties of complex materials: challenges for modern ab initio theory
DESCRIPTION:  \nProf. Dr. Claudia Draxl\, Physics Department of the Humboldt-University of Berlin\, solid-state theory group \n  \nCurriculum vitae:  \nClaudia Draxl is Einstein Professor at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, Germany and Max-Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Graduate Center for Quantum Materials. Her research interests cover theorectical concepts and methodology to get insight into a variety of materials and their properties. She is developer of the all-electron full-potential package exciting\, implementing density-functional theory (DFT) and methods beyond\, with a focus on excitations. A recently devloped package is the cluster-expansion code CELL. Actual research projects concern organic/inorganic hybrid structures\, wide-gap oxides\, thermoelectricity\, solar-cell materials\, film growth\, and more. She is one of the founders of the Novel Materials Discovery (NOMAD) Repository\, an open-access library of materials\, and the non-profit association FAIR-DI (FAIR Data Infrastructure for Physics\, Chemistry\, Materials Science\, and Astronomy). Based on this\, her data-driven research aims at finding structure in Big Data of materials science. \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-claudia-draxl/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200908T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200908T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20200901T091509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200901T094559Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Jens Meiler: Innovative Computational Methods for Protein Structure Prediction\, Drug Discovery\, and Therapeutic Design
DESCRIPTION:  \nProf. Dr. Jens Meiler\, Vanderbilt University\, Informatics Center for Structural Biology\, USA \n  \nCurriculum vitae:  \nJens Meiler studied Chemistry Leipzig University in Germany before he obtained his PhD working in the laboratory of Christian Griesinger at the Goethe University in Frankfurt developing new computational methods for biomolecular NMR spectroscopy. In 2001 he moved to Seattle to work with David Baker creating the protein modeling software Rosetta. In 2005 he joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University. In his research Dr. Meiler fuses computational and experimental efforts to investigate proteins\, the fundamental molecules of biology\, and their interactions with small molecule substrates\, therapeutics\, or probes. He develops computational methods with three major ambitions in mind: to enable protein structure elucidation of membrane proteins\, design proteins with novel structure and/or function\, and understand the relation between chemical structure and biological activity for drug-like small molecules. His research team in Nashville consists of around 30 undergraduate\, graduate\, and post-graduate students as well as staff scientists. He co-authored more than 200 peer-reviewed publications (H-index >40). Jens Meiler received several honors including the Chancellor Faculty Award at Vanderbilt University and the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Bessel Award of the Humboldt Foundation. In January 2020\, with an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship\, Jens Meiler became director of the newly founded Institute for Drug Discovery at Leipzig University. \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.\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-jens-meiler/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200629T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200629T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20200609T105544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T100233Z
UID:46813-1593428400-1593432000@www.h-its.org
SUMMARY:Colloquium Robert C. Williamson: The AI of Ethics
DESCRIPTION:  \nProf. Dr. Robert C. Williamson\, Australian National University\, Research School of Computer Science\, Australia \nWith the rapid growth of AI and its deployment with consequences to people\, ethical concerns regarding AI have become extremely topical. In this talk I will present a view somewhat contrary relative to much of the current literature. After briefly summarising some of the ethical concerns\, I will argue that \n\nthe ethical problems of AI can be well understood\, and mitigations and progress can be made\, by recognising that AI\, as a technology shares many features with other older technologies;\nethical decisions have always been made using technologies;\nthe careful formulation of the problems to be solved is more important than immediately attempting to come up with solutions;\nin so doing new and valuable research directions in AI are opened up;\nmany of the problems ascribed to AI are more to do with the business models within which they are used; and\nwhile there are pressing problems that demand solving\, there are also many promising prospects for making real ethical progress with AI technologies as tools – it all depends upon the choices that we make.\n\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-robert-c-williamson/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200217T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200217T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20200123T090643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T095255Z
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SUMMARY:Future Compute Paradigms
DESCRIPTION:By Wolfgang Maier\, Director HW Development\, IBM R&D – Systems & Technology Group\, Böblingen \nThe ongoing digitization of todays world is essentially based on Shannon’s theory of Information and its implementation by means of semiconductor cicuitry\, which is characterized by Moore’s law. The principal concept of this approach is to represent information by bits\, which stands for the\nminimum unit of information. With the advanced availabilty of digital data there is a growing expectation to extract more value from this data\, which in consequence means to deal with more complex abstractions of information\, respectively requires an enormous additional demand in traditional compute capacity. As physical limitations are inevitably confining the forward projection of Moore’s law new compute paradigms are essential to cope with the challenges arising from e.g. new applications in the field of Artificial Intelligence or from scientific issues in regard to Material Sciences. Brain inspired computing leveraging neurosynaptic approaches respectively quantum information processing using qBits as a complex representation of information represent such type of new compute paradigms.\nThe talk will give an overview of the current state of technology in respect to Moore’s law\, outline the underlying concepts of information theory and give insights on how those new compute paradigms are applied respectively implemented. \n  \nCurriculum vitae:  \nWolfgang Maier is Director Hardware Development at the german sited IBM R&D lab close to Stuttgart.\n\nHis career with IBM started as design engineer for Mainframe Firmware in 1996. 3 years later he accepted the role of department manager for System z IO Firmware and started to focus on the employment of industry standard IO technologies in IBM high end servers. During his international assignment in Austin (Tx) he directed the first implementation of the Infiniband technology for the IBM POWER line.\nAfter his return to Germany he extended the use of industry standards within the mainframe and headed the development of central IO hardware as well as mainframe and POWER CMOS processors.\nHis current responsibilities also span the system packaging and system control area with special focus on workload optimization and power efficiency. His current focus in innovation is on Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Computing.\nWolfgang Maier obtained his PhD in Laserphysics from the University of Tuebingen in 1996.\nHe enjoys to spend his spare time with his family\, loves skiing and motorbikes .\n  \nREGISTRATION: \nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org \nIn case you are not able to attend in person\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\nThe colloquium will be live streamed\, please use the following link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/1c4c408f1a0943cf9f540d2475d7ae7e1d
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/future-compute-paradigms/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200127T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20200127T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20200108T134922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T100222Z
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SUMMARY:Simulation of deep convective clouds under various meteorological and microphysical impacts
DESCRIPTION:By Prof. Dr. Corinna Hoose\, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research\, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology \nDeep convective clouds and the resulting heavy precipitation\, hail\, lightning and wind gusts can cause severe damage. Their forecasting with current numerical weather prediction models is a challenge\, both because of limitations on spatial resolution and because of the low predictability of timing\, location and properties of the storms. In numerical simulations\, the impact of changes in meteorological (e.g. temperature\, wind) and in microphysical conditions (e.g. aerosol particles acting as cloud condensation nuclei\, strength of ice formation) can be investigated in sensitivity experiments\, and I will show results for different cases and different variables of interest. However\, for realistic cases\, such sensitivity experiments become very costly or not feasible at all. For some applications\, statistical emulation can be used as an approach to address this problem. \n  \nCurriculum vitae:  \n\nSeit 01/2013: Professorin (W3) für Theoretische Meteorologie am IMK-TRO \, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)\n04/2010-10/2016: Helmholtz-Nachwuchsgruppenleiterin am IMK-AAF \, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)\n06/2008-03/2010: Postdoktorandin\, University of Oslo \, Norwegen\, in der Gruppe von Jón Egill Kristjánsson \n03/2008-05/2008: Postdoktorandin\, IAC \, ETH Zürich\, Schweiz\, in der Gruppe von Ulrike Lohmann \n02/2005-02/2008: Doktorandin\, IAC\, ETH Zürich\, Schweiz\, in der Gruppe von Ulrike Lohmann\n10/1999-12/2004: Physikstudium\, Universität Karlsruhe (jetzt KIT)\n\n  \nREGISTRATION: \nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org \nIn case you are not able to attend in person\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\nThe colloquium will be live streamed\, please use the following link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/667b4ee2648a409e81cba714d230e7d01d
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-corinna-hoose/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191216T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191216T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20191125T123642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T100246Z
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SUMMARY:Integrative Modeling of Allosteric Modulation in Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channels
DESCRIPTION:By Erik Lindahl\, Stockholms universitet\, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics\, Stockholm\, Sweden \nLigand-gated ion channels control the electrical excitation of nerve cells\, in particular in the post-synaptic membrane in response to chemical signals mediated by neurotransmitters. These receptors exhibit an amazing diversity in detailed structure and function – some human channels have 15-20 slightly genes\, and with five subunits this can theoretically lead to almost a million different oligomers. They are further characterised by adopting both closed\, open and desensitised states – and in addition to the neurotransmitters causing normal opening they are subject to secondary control – allosteric modulation – by a number of drugs such as alcohols\, benzodiazepines\, neurosteroids\, and anaesthetics that either potentiate or inhibit the agonist response. I will present our work on understanding the molecular mechanisms of these channels by using a broad range of experimental and theoretical methods\, and illustrate that while each method has many shortcomings their combination increasingly enable us to capture different timescales\, features\, interactions and not least dynamics of important membrane proteins. For ligand-gated ion channels in particular\, I will illustrate how this is enabling us to explain several key mechanisms\, including identifying the separate potentiating and inhibitory binding sites\, showing how we can reverse the allosteric modulation of specific channels\, to propose detailed functional models even from intermediate-resolution structural data – and not least start to understand the critical interplay of how lipids modulate membrane protein function. \n  \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org \nIn case you are not able to attend in person\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\nThe colloquium will be live streamed\, please use the following link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/304530a014b24e9d9154a06856cc888e1d
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-erik-lindahl/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191203T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191203T220000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20191121T145249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191121T145417Z
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SUMMARY:HITS at “Astronomy on Tap”
DESCRIPTION:“Can crowdsourcing be replaced by machine learning” – the pub talk by HITS researcher Erica Hopkins from the Astroinformatics (AIN) group. \nThe event is held in O’Reilly’s Irish Pub on Brückenkopfstraße (just across the river from Bismarckplatz). Entrance is free!\n \n“Astronomy on Tap” is a series of monthly astronomy events held in Heidelberg. Each event features two fun talks by professional astronomers telling the audience about the cool science they do. There’s also a daft astronomy quiz that requires no prior knowledge.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/astronomy-on-tap-12-2019/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191118T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191118T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20191010T082929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191114T095059Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Keith A. Crandall: Computational Approaches for Characterizing Microbiome Diversity
DESCRIPTION:By Keith A. Crandall\, PhD\, Professor ob Biostatistics & Bioinformatics\, Director – Computational Biology Institute\, Milken Institute School of Public Health\, George Washington University\, Washington\, DC\, USA \n  \nMicrobiome characterization has become an integral component to the study of a wide variety of disease and health for a diversity of organisms. Through the collection of metagenomic sequence data from DNA and/or RNA samples isolated from host individuals\, effective microbiome characterization can identify pathogens\, link diversity to disease state\, characterize treatment effects\, and identify drug resistant variants. I present a computational platform\, PathoScope\, for metagenomic sequence analysis to characterize microbiome diversity and test hypotheses about diversity associates with disease and diversity dynamics over time. I then describe a second software package\, TeleScope\, that characterizes transposable elements in genomic data (a part of the microbiome component often ignored)\, maps those elements back to reference genomes\, and identifies active mobile elements and their potential phenotypic impact. I present results from both empirical studies and simulation studies characterizing the utility of our computational approaches with metagenomic data and compare our approach to other leading packages. I then demonstrate our computational tools with applications in endangered species conservation\, agriculture\, and a variety of aspects of human health. Specifically\, I will demonstrate the use of microbiome characterization related to black rhino health\, human health related to Konzo disease\, and human fecal transplant diversity over time. Finally\, I will demonstrate the characterization of human endogenous retroviral elements (HERVs) in relation to head and neck cancer and incorporate this information into risk assessment. \n  \nCurriculum vitae: \nKeith A. Crandall\, PhD is the Founding Director of the Computational Biology Institute and Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at George Washington University. Professor Crandall studies the computational biology\, population genetics\, and bioinformatics\, developing and testing methods for DNA sequence analysis. He applies such methods to the study of the evolution of both infectious diseases (especially microbiome diversity) and crustaceans (especially Decapod crustaceans). Professor Crandall has published over 300 peer reviewed publications\, as well as three books. He has been a Fulbright Visiting Scholar to Oxford University and an Allen Wilson Centre Sabbatical Fellow at the University of Auckland. Professor Crandall has received a number of awards for research and teaching\, including the American Naturalist Society Young Investigator Award\, an NSF CAREER Award\, a PhRMA Foundation Faculty Development Award in Bioinformatics\, Honors Professor of the Year award at Brigham Young University\, ISI Highly Cited Researcher\, and the Edward O. Wilson Naturalist Award. He is an elected Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London. Professor Crandall earned his BA degree from Kalamazoo College in Biology and Mathematics\, an MA degree from Washington University in Statistics\, and a PhD from Washington University School of Medicine in Biology and Biomedical Sciences. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Puyo\, Ecuador. \n  \nREGISTRATION: \nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org \nIn case you are not able to attend in person\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\nThe colloquium will be live streamed\, please use the following link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/38f46c0cc6a04bf09aa74b955894fe531d\n\n 
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-keith-a-crandall/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191112T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191112T220000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20191106T123200Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191106T123236Z
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SUMMARY:HITS at "Astronomy on Tap"
DESCRIPTION:  \n“A New Science is Born: Astronomy in the Era of AI” – the pub talk by HITS researcher Antonio D’Isanto from the Astroinformatics (AIN) group. \nThe event is held in O’Reilly’s Irish Pub on Brückenkopfstraße (just across the river from Bismarckplatz). Entrance is free!\n \n“Astronomy on Tap” is a series of monthly astronomy events held in Heidelberg. Each event features two fun talks by professional astronomers telling you about the cool science they do. There’s also a daft astronomy quiz that requires no prior knowledge.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/astronomy-on-tap-11-2019/
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191021T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191021T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144834
CREATED:20190916T123748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190917T093257Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Nicholas G. Reich: The Computational Science of Real-time Influenza Forecasting
DESCRIPTION:By Nicholas G. Reich\, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology\, University of Massachusetts\, School of Public Health and Health Sciences\, Amherst\, USA \nSeasonal influenza outbreaks cause substantial annual morbidity and mortality worldwide. Accurate forecasts of key features of influenza epidemics\, such as the timing and severity of the peak incidence in a given season\, can inform public health response to outbreaks. As part of ongoing efforts to incorporate real-time data and advanced computational methods into public health decision-making\, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has organized real-time seasonal influenza forecasting challenges since 2013. This talk will summarize the recent collaborative efforts by the FluSight Network consortium to improve real-time forecast accuracy through multi-model ensemble forecasting. We will discuss the process of building and evaluating ensemble approaches\, each of which combines over 20 separate component model predictions into a single probabilistic forecast. During the Northern hemisphere winter influenza season\, the forecasts from the FluSight Network are publicly reported by the CDC as part of an official weekly communication to inform health practitioners about seasonal influenza trends. Past forecasts are available via an interactive data visualization at http://flusightnetwork.io. This talk will highlight the interdisciplinary challenges in designing\, implementing\, evaluating\, and communicating forecasts in a public health context.  \nCurriculum vitae:\nNicholas G Reich is an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst. His research group\, the Reich Lab (https://reichlab.io)\, focuses on developing statistical models for infectious disease dynamics. To forecast outbreaks of diverse infectious diseases (including dengue fever and influenza) and to assist with other outbreak response efforts\, his team has developed computational methods and user-friendly tools for analyzing real-time infectious disease surveillance data. He received a Young Faculty Director’s Award from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and in 2015 earned first place for Outstanding Research Articles in Biosurveillance from the International Society of Disease Surveillance. Dr. Reich is the director of an Influenza Forecasting Center of Excellence\, funded by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). For the 2019/2020 academic year\, Dr. Reich is a visiting scholar at the LMU-Munich Department of Statistics\, supported by an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship.  \nREGISTRATION: \n\nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org \nIn case you are not able to attend in person\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\nThe colloquium will be live streamed\, please use the following link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/a7cd0da6511c4d42b4460b003c537c981d
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-reich/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191007T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20191007T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144835
CREATED:20190902T134100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190905T104540Z
UID:39315-1570464000-1570467600@www.h-its.org
SUMMARY:Vortrag Prof. Dr. Andreas von Bubnoff\, HITS Journalist in Residence 2019: Auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit - Wissenschaftsjournalismus in Zeiten von post-truth und reproducibility crisis
DESCRIPTION:Die Wahrheit\, so scheint es\, hat es schwer heutzutage: Oxford Dictionaries erklärte “post-truth” zum internationalen Wort des Jahres 2016; Fake News verbreiten sich oft schneller\, als sie entlarvt werden können; und der Relotius-Skandal offenbarte Schwachstellen beim Faktencheck im deutschen Journalismus. Auch in der Wissenschaft gibt es Probleme: Wissenschaftliche Studien\, etwa zur Ernährung\, widersprechen sich allzu oft; zahlreiche Studien sind nicht reproduzierbar; und schwach belegte oder sogar widerlegte Theorien halten sich bisweilen überraschend lange.​ \nWie ernst sind diese Probleme wirklich\, wie konnte es dazu kommen\, und wie können wir das Vertrauen der Bevölkerung in die Wissenschaft und den Journalismus erhalten bzw. wiederherstellen? HITS Journalist in Residence Prof. Dr. Andreas von Bubnoff\, der lange Jahre als Wissenschaftsjournalist in den USA tätig war\, wird versuchen\, diese Fragen zu beantworten. \nCV: http://andreasvonbubnoff.squarespace.com/ \n  \nREGISTRIERUNG: \n\nFalls Sie an der Veranstaltung teilnehmen möchten\, wenden Sie sich bitte an Benedicta Frech (Benedicta.frech@hits.org).\nFür alle\, die nicht persönlich zur Veranstaltung kommen können: Das Kolloquium wird live gestreamt. Bitte benutzen Sie den folgenden Link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/fa84ced26eec44369988b7a1b68a92001d\nDas Video des Vortrags wird außerdem im Anschluss auch auf dem HITS YouTube Kanal verfügbar sein: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/vortrag-prof-dr-andreas-von-bubnoff/
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190909T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190909T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144835
CREATED:20190715T122756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190827T150307Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Richard A. Bonneau: Large Scale Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Protein Functions from integration of Sequence\, Structure and Networks
DESCRIPTION:By Prof. Dr. Richard A. Bonneau\, Professor of Biology and Computer Science; Director\, NYU Center for Data Science\, New York\, USA \nVladimir Gligorijevic\, P Douglas Renfrew and Richard Bonneau. \nDue to limitations of existing experimental methods for determining protein functions and the high cost of experiments\, the vast majority of proteins across many organisms remain unannotated.  Developing ML methods for combining large-scale genome-wide heterogeneous data to extract useful protein feature representations for function prediction thus remains a key problem in biology.   This problem also serves to illustrate many general aspects of multiple applications of machine learning to biological sequences. We will review a few of our recent deep learning-based methods for predicting function from various data types\, including protein sequences\, structures and protein-protein interaction networks. We will first present our recent integrative method\, deepNF (deep network fusion) that integrates different protein-protein interaction networks using multi-modal network auto-encoders to construct a shared protein feature representation indicative of protein function. In the second part of the talk\, we will focus on methods for predicting function from combining protein sequence and structure. This discussion will center on a method based on graph convolutional networks (GCNs) which extracts features from protein contact maps and sequences while learning to predict function. We will discuss the performance of GCN in predicting functions of experimentally determined structures from PDB and how we are planning on applying this method on Rosetta-predicted structures.  Our hope is to predict protein function in a manner that allows us to map the predicted function back to residues\, locations on structures\, and network neighborhoods in manner that facilitates experimental followup. \nCurriculum vitae: \nDr. Bonneau is Group Leader for Systems Biology at the newly founded Flatiron Institute in New York City and also Director of the New York University Center for Data Science.  His group works on inferring and modeling both biological and social networks (at the Simons foundation and the SMaPP lab at NYU respectively)\, developing new methods to learn very large networks from large collections of genomics data.   His group actively participates in applying these methods to ongoing systems biology consortia efforts that span bacteria\, model systems\, bacteria\, the immune system and crop plants. His group also develops methods for the prediction and design of bio molecular polymers (and polymers that mimic biological structure).  To carry out this work his group develops Rosetta as a core member of the RosettaCommons; Dr. Bonneau is a founding member of the Rosetta commons and a member of the RosettaCommons executive board. Dr. Bonneau is committed to doing all he can to leverage his position as Director of the Center for Data Science to help increase diversity in the many computational fields that comprise what we today refer to as the field of data science. \nREGISTRATION: \n\nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org \nIn case you are not able to attend in person\, you can watch the talk afterwards on the HITS YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHITSters.\nThe colloquium will be live streamed\, please use the following link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/0d38e9bc22344589b572c45a711af3671d
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-richard-bonneau/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190715T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190715T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144835
CREATED:20190709T083656Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Peter Hunter: Computational Physiology and the Physiome Project
DESCRIPTION:By Prof. Dr. Peter Hunter\, Auckland Bioengineering Institute\, University of Auckland\, New Zealand \nComputational physiological models deal with multiple physical processes (coupled tissue mechanics\, electrical activity\, fluid flow\, etc) at multiple spatial and temporal scales. In many cases the goal is to understand integrative biological function in terms of underlying tissue structure and molecular mechanisms. These models are intended both to help understand physiological function and to provide a basis for diagnosing and treating pathologies in a clinical setting. The Physiome Project is developing model and data encoding standards\, web accessible databases and open source software for multiscale modelling (e.g. www.cellml.org). A new journal called Physiome will soon be launched to publish reproducible and reusable models. The talk will discuss the current state of the Physiome Project\, including a summary of a multi-physics mathematical framework based on port-Hamiltonians for modelling physiology\, and a project to map the pathways of the autonomic nervous system (commonfund.nih.gov/sparc). \nCurriculum vitae: \nProfessor Peter Hunter is Director of the Auckland Bioengineering Institute (ABI) at the University of Auckland\, and founding Director of the Medical Technologies Centre of Research Excellence (MedTech CoRE). His research interests are in modeling human physiology using an anatomical and biophysically-based multiscale approach that links molecular processes to tissue level phenotypes. He was awarded the Rutherford Medal and a KEA World Class NZ award in 2009 and appointed to the NZ Order of Merit in 2010. He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society (London and NZ)\, President of the World Council of Biomechanics\, 2nd Vice-President of the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS)\, and past-Chair of the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. \nRegistration is closed. \nThe colloquium will be live streamed\, please use the following link: https://hitsmediaweb.h-its.org/Mediasite/Play/22f74231fb8f494ab7b719c52b17d5a01d
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-peter-hunter/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190712T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190712T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144835
CREATED:20190517T134433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190627T123325Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Rainer Malaka: Empowering People with Digital Media: Playful and Natural Human Computer Interaction
DESCRIPTION:By Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka\, Technology Center Informatics and Information Technology (TZI)\, University of Bremen\nDigital Media are omnipresent and ubiquitous phenomena. The digital revolution has already transformed our lives and societies. This trend will continue and include more devices in our surrounding such as cars and household robots. In this new digital society\, Human Computer Interaction (HCI) will shape the way we think\, communicate\, and work. We co-exist in a digital society with a global infrastructure of information technology. The talk will look at perspectives of HCI that supports humans in their abilities and motivates them in solving their everyday tasks. Playful elements and computer games seem to be promising tools to shape new forms of interaction that turn tedious work into playful activities. We will look at some techniques from entertainment computing and discuss their potential for HCI and serious applications.\nThe talk will give a number of examples of systems that show how natural and playful interaction can be used for empowering people with digital media. \nCurriculum vitae:\nRainer Malaka is Professor for Digital Media at the University of Bremen since 2006. The focus of Dr. Malaka’s work is Digital Media\, Interaction\, and Entertainment Computing. At the University of Bremen\, he directs a Graduate College “Empowering Digital Media” funded by the Klaus Tschira Foundation. He is also director of the TZI\, the center for computing technologies at the University of Bremen. Before joining the University of Bremen\, he led a research group at the European Media Lab in Heidelberg. He did his PhD at the University of Karlsruhe on modeling brain structures using neural networks. He is also steering board member of the Interdisciplinary College for multiple years\, a multidisciplinary international spring school on cognitive science\, neurosciences and AI.\nRainer Malaka is the German representative in and chair of IFIP’s technical committee TC14 for Entertainment Computing. \nREGISTRATION: \n\nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org \nIn case you are not able to attend in person\, 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-rainer-malaka/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Colloquia,Public Events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190206T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20190206T150000
DTSTAMP:20260409T144835
CREATED:20190128T163816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260126T100139Z
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SUMMARY:Colloquium Alexander Mäder: How AI could help journalists
DESCRIPTION:By Prof. Alexander Mäder\, Hochschule der Medien\, Crossmedia-Redaktion/Public Relations\, Stuttgart \nIn the old days\, not long ago\, journalists found out what happened and then reported it. But digitalization has changed this fundamentally. Not only is there less time to do the research but also other actors are weighing in with their own take of what’s happening. However\, digitalization also offers new tools to make reporting more thorough: Artificial intelligence could help journalists find credible sources and integrate their reader’s expertise. \nCurriculum vitae \nAlexander Mäder teaches digital news journalism at the Hochschule der Medien in Stuttgart. He has worked as a science journalist for 15 years at several newspapers\, magazines and websites. His PhD is in Philosophy of Science. \n  \nRegistration \nFor registration please contact Benedicta Frech: benedicta.frech@h-its.org\nPLEASE CLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE STREAM.
URL:https://www.h-its.org/event/colloquium-alexander-maeder-how-ai-could-help-journalists/
LOCATION:Studio Villa Bosch\, Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33\, Heidelberg\, 69118\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Public Events
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