Season’s Greetings!
On the whole, a successful but busy year is coming to its end and we look forward to start into the …
Neutron Stars on the Brink of Collapse
Neutron stars are the densest objects in the Universe; however, their exact characteristics remain unknown. Using simulations based on recent observations, …
No. 29 | 12-2017
New research groups at HITS, high honors for our HITS scientists, noisy cell membranes as well as a portrait of HITS …
Second Workshop ‘Ethics in NLP’
Michael Strube will co-organize the second workshop on Ethics in NLP, which will take place at NAACL-HLT 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana, …
Michael Strube at NAACL-HLT 2018
Michael Strube, NLP group leader, will serve as one of the area chairs for Information Extraction at the next NAACL-HLT conference. …
Visitor: Raphael Hirschi
From November 7 to 8, 2017, Dr. Raphael Hirschi from Keele University (UK) visited the PSO group to discuss current topics in stellar evolution …
Again: Three “Highly Cited Researchers” at HITS
Three HITS scientists are named among the most cited researchers worldwide. This year’s “Highly Cited Researchers” ranking by Clarivate Analytics …
Tracking down the origins of gold
The European Research Council has awarded HITS astrophysicist Andreas Bauswein an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately 1.5 million euros. Using computer simulations, …
Jülich Supercomputing Centre grants 28 million CPU hours for simulations of thermonuclear supernovae
Together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, PSO scientists were awarded 28 million CPU hours on …
Noisy cell membranes
Rapid information transfer is vital for the inner workings of body tissues. With computer simulations, researchers from Colombia and Germany found …