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.

Protected: Chaotically Magnetized Cloud Is No Place to Build a Star, or Is It?

14. June 2017

U.S. astronomers and astrophysicists found that stars can emerge from a wider range of conditions as previously thought. For their …

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“Auriga” project helps uncover the history of galaxies

7. June 2017

A research team led by HITS scientist Robert Grand ran 36 simulations of Milky Ways on German supercomputers, for the first time …

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PSO group supports workshop at the European Centre for Theoretical Studies (ECT*), Trento, Italy

5. June 2017

The PSO group at HITS supports the workshop “Bridging nuclear and gravitational physics: the dense matter equation of state”, which is …

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No. 27 | 06-2017

1. June 2017

A professorship in Potsdam for HITSter Christoph Pfrommer, the portait of astrophysicist and “Tschira fellow” Freeke van de Voort,  awards …

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Auriga Project

29. May 2017

The Auriga Project is a large suite of high-resolution magneto-hydrodynamical simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies, simulated in a fully cosmological environment …

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New TRAPP webserver for studying TRAnsient Pockets in Proteins

29. May 2017

Many drugs exert their therapeutic effects by binding in cavities or pockets on specific target protein macromolecules. The binding pockets on …

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Young Researcher´s award goes to HITS doctoral student

17. May 2017

Mehmet Ali Öztürk, PhD student at HITS and at the Hartmut Hoffmann-Berling International Graduate School of Molecular and Cellular Biology (…

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Visitor: Jakub Fišák

8. May 2017

From May 8 to 19, 2017, the PSO group hosts Jakub Fišák from the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences&…

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Jülich Supercomputing Centre grants 27 million core hours for Multidimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of Stars

5. May 2017

For simulations of physical processes in stars in the framework of project HWB07 “Multidimensional Hydrodynamic Simulations of Stars”, the PSO group …

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Against the odds: Indian science and science journalism (plus video)

3. May 2017

T.V. Padma (Delhi / India), science journalist and HITS Journalist in Residence 2017, will speak about the challenges and chances for scientists …

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