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HITS organizes scientific events throughout the year. Each month, HITS hosts its colloquium series. If you like to receive an invitation, please use this registration form: https://www.h-its.org/registration/

Our research groups offer scientific workshops. Additionally, HITS offers talks and events for the general public in Heidelberg and surroundings.

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HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Markus Meuwly: Computational Protein Dynamics in the Era of Machine-Learned Atomistic Simulations

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

  By Markus Meuwly, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland   Machine Learning-based techniques have the potential to fundamentally change how we approach characterizing and understanding chemical and biological materials. It is anticipated that ML applied to protein dynamics allows to carry out atomistic simulations on functionally relevant time scales using models approaching chemical […]

HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Simon Olsson: How Can Generative AI Help Understand the Physics of Molecules?

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Simon Olsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Department for Computer Science and Engineering, Section for Data Science and AI, Sweden Generative AI, including large language models and image generation technologies, is influencing society and industry broadly. Current, Generative AI methods are machine learned models. These models learn statistical distributions similar to those broadly used across […]

HITS-SIMPLAIX Joint Colloquium Cecilia Clementi: Modeling Protein Dynamics with Machine Learning and Molecular Simulation

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

  By Cecilia Clementi, Einstein Professor Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Physics, Berlin, Germany The last years have seen an immense increase in high-throughput and high-resolution technologies for experimental observation as well as high-performance techniques to simulate molecular systems at a microscopic level, resulting in vast and ever-increasing amounts of high-dimensional data. However, experiments provide […]

HITS Colloquium Victoria Stodden: Verifying Correctness in AI-enabled Scientific Research – a New Frontier

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

By Victoria Stodden, Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, USA In the last 10 years colossal cloud infrastructure investments behind the rise of near-ubiquitous global mobile technologies have trickled down to scientific research through innovative infrastructure including cloud compute and storage, I/O tools, data analysis and modeling frameworks, […]

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

Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

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

Science, Fiction: Uncovering Research Misconduct Without Eroding Trust

Mathematikon Heidelberg University Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, Heidelberg, Germany

From accusations of plagiarism against Harvard's former president to the case of Stanford's Marc Tessier-Lavigne and over to the horrific case of Paolo Macchiarini's plastic windpipes -- scientific misconduct has exploded into the public eye in recent years. How can scientists and journalists cover such cases without undermining trust in the scientific process and our […]

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