News

What´s new at HITS? On this page you can find the latest news from and about HITS, including the latest scientific discoveries, personal achievements by our researchers or general changes at HITS.

Season’s Greetings!

13. December 2017

On the whole, a successful but busy year is coming to its end and we look forward to start into the …

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Neutron Stars on the Brink of Collapse

4. December 2017

Neutron stars are the densest objects in the Universe; however, their exact characteristics remain unknown. Using simulations based on recent observations, …

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No. 29 | 12-2017

1. December 2017

New research groups at HITS, high honors for our HITS scientists, noisy cell membranes as well as a portrait of HITS …

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Second Workshop ‘Ethics in NLP’

27. November 2017

Michael Strube will co-organize the second workshop on Ethics in NLP, which will take place at NAACL-HLT 2018 in New Orleans, Louisiana, …

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Michael Strube at NAACL-HLT 2018

27. November 2017

Michael Strube, NLP group leader, will serve as one of the area chairs for Information Extraction at the next NAACL-HLT conference. …

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Visitor: Raphael Hirschi

16. November 2017

From November 7 to 8, 2017, Dr. Raphael Hirschi from Keele University (UK) visited the PSO group to discuss current topics in stellar evolution …

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Again: Three “Highly Cited Researchers” at HITS

16. November 2017

Three HITS scientists are named among the most cited researchers worldwide. This year’s “Highly Cited Researchers” ranking by Clarivate Analytics …

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Tracking down the origins of gold

8. November 2017

The European Research Council has awarded HITS astrophysicist Andreas Bauswein an ERC Starting Grant worth approximately 1.5 million euros. Using computer simulations, …

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Jülich Supercomputing Centre grants 28 million CPU hours for simulations of thermonuclear supernovae

1. November 2017

Together with colleagues from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, PSO scientists were awarded 28 million CPU hours on …

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Noisy cell membranes

25. October 2017

Rapid information transfer is vital for the inner workings of body tissues. With computer simulations, researchers from Colombia and Germany found …

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