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  • 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

    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 […]

  • Colloquium Nicholas G. Reich: The Computational Science of Real-time Influenza Forecasting

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

    By Nicholas G. Reich, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Massachusetts, School of Public Health and Health Sciences, Amherst, USA Seasonal 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 […]

  • COMBINE & de.NBI Tutorial: Modelling and Simulation Tools in Systems Biology

    Okinawa Insitute of Science and Technology Graduate University 1919-1 Tancha, Onna-son, Kunigami-gun, Okinawa, Japan 904-0495, Okinawa, Japan

    This tutorial workshop is a satellite of the 20th International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB). Participants will learn how to set up computer models of biological systems (e.g. metabolic or signalling networks) using experimental kinetic data and how to simulate them in different systems biology platforms. Hands-on sessions, lectures and software demonstrations will be included, […]

  • Workshop: Molecular Stresses

    This workshop aims at discussing and devising new and unifying concepts to calculate and understand molecular stresses in complex materials. Such molecular stresses can stem from quantum chemical calculations, atomistic or coarse-grained Molecular Dynamics simulations. They could be inherent to the system, i.e. reflect intrinsic tension or pre-stress, or build up upon applying external mechanical […]

  • HITS at “Astronomy on Tap”

      "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. The event is held in O’Reilly’s Irish Pub on Brückenkopfstraße (just across the river from Bismarckplatz). Entrance is free! "Astronomy on Tap" is a series of monthly astronomy events […]

  • Colloquium Keith A. Crandall: Computational Approaches for Characterizing Microbiome Diversity

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

    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   Microbiome 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 […]

  • HITS at “Astronomy on Tap”

    “Can crowdsourcing be replaced by machine learning” – the pub talk by HITS researcher Erica Hopkins from the Astroinformatics (AIN) group. The event is held in O’Reilly’s Irish Pub on Brückenkopfstraße (just across the river from Bismarckplatz). Entrance is free! “Astronomy on Tap” is a series of monthly astronomy events held in Heidelberg. Each event […]

  • Integrative Modeling of Allosteric Modulation in Pentameric Ligand-Gated Ion Channels

    By Erik Lindahl, Stockholms universitet, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Stockholm, Sweden Ligand-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, […]

  • Simulation of deep convective clouds under various meteorological and microphysical impacts

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

    By Prof. Dr. Corinna Hoose, Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Deep 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 […]

  • Future Compute Paradigms

    Studio Villa Bosch Schloss-Wolfsbrunnenweg 33, Heidelberg, Germany

    By Wolfgang Maier, Director HW Development, IBM R&D - Systems & Technology Group, Böblingen The 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 […]