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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.

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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Nacre in the supercomputer

2. May 2017

HITSter Frauke Gräter wins the 2nd PRACE Ada Lovelace Award for HPC Serge Bogaerts, Managing Director of PRACE aisbl is …

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Girls’ Day at HITS 2017

24. April 2017

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Welcome Max!

10. April 2017

A warm welcome to Max Simon that has just joined the MBM group as a bachelor student. Max is a …

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The Forecaster’s Dilemma: Evaluating forecasts of extreme events

10. April 2017

Accurate predictions of extreme events do not necessarily indicate the scientific superiority of the forecaster or the forecast method from which …

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Facts instead of Fake News: HITS supports the “March for Science”

4. April 2017

The international “March for Science” will take place on April 22nd, 2017. Demonstrations are currently planned in more than 400 cities worldwide in …

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The Dark Side of Natural Language Processing

4. April 2017

At the first “Ethics in Natural Language Processing” workshop in Valencia, scientists discussed the opportunities and dangers of automatic speech analysis. …

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HITS researcher Christoph Pfrommer is new professor at the AIP Potsdam

3. April 2017

As of April 1, 2017, the astrophysicist is leading the research group Cosmology and Large-scale Structure at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (…

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