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.

First detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission from a neutron star merger

17. October 2017

Astrophysicists all over the world are excited by the first detection of gravitational waves and electromagnetic emission from a single cosmic …

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Announcing Fourth Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm Meeting (BDBDB 4)

11. October 2017

Biological Diffusion and Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm 4 (BDBDB4) will, like the previous meetings (the last was BDBDB3), provide a forum for intensive …

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The science of forecasting: Models and data instead of crystal balls

6. October 2017

“Summer School” in Heidelberg in the framework of the “ScienceFore” Project, led by Tilmann Gneiting (HITS). The project is funded by …

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Prof. Volker Springel, group leader Theoretical Astrophysics, HITS (Photo: HITS)

HITS group leader Volker Springel will become Max Planck Director in Summer 2018

5. October 2017

Volker Springel, head of the Theoretical Astrophysics group (TAP) at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), accepted the offer to …

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Early light curves for Type Ia supernova explosion models

1. October 2017

Upcoming high-cadence transient survey programmes will produce a wealth of observational data for Type Ia supernovae. These data sets will contain …

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Frauke has been elected member of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee!

2. September 2017

Frauke has been elected member of the PRACE Scientific Steering Committee. The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) is an …

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No. 28 | 09-2017

1. September 2017

A new round of our HITS “Journalist in Residence” program, high honors for our HITS scientists and new discoveries of the …

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Job

Prof. Dr. Michael Strube

16. August 2017

Gruppenleiter „Natural Language Processing“ am HITS Honorarprofessor am Department für Computational Linguistics an der Universität Heidelberg Forschungsinteressen Semantik und …

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Job

Prof. Dr. Anna Wienhard

16. August 2017

Gruppenleiterin „Groups and Geometry“ am HITS Professorin für Mathematik an der Universität Heidelberg Forschungsinteressen Ich interesse mich für …

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HITS: Call for “Journalist in Residence” in 2018 and 2019

16. August 2017

Are you an experienced science journalist? Would you like a change of scenery and the chance to escape your daily routine? …

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