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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.

No. 15 | 06-2014

1. June 2014

This summer, HITS will present digital research on the floating science center “MS Wissenschaft”, as an event in Year of Science “…

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In “Nature”: Galaxies out of a Supercomputer

8. May 2014

A new computer simulation shows the formation of galaxies with unprecedented precision, allowing astrophysicists from Heidelberg, the U.S. and England …

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No. 14 | 04-2014

1. April 2014

Everything about our next HITS “Journalist in Residence” Michele Catanzaro, a Milky Way out of the supercomputer and HITS mathematicians who …

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Dazzler Blog online

25. March 2014

The Dazzler Blog is about algorithms and software for DNA sequence assembly, specifically for next, next gen long-read sequencers such as …

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Andreas Reuter at the ACM Europe Council Meeting

24. March 2014

In March, the ACM Europe Council Meeting was held at the British Royal Society in London. HITS Managing Director Prof. Andreas …

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Mathematik hilft Umweltschutz

11. March 2014

This content is only available in German. Wie mathematische Ansätze umweltrelevante Arbeitsprozesse, wie zum Beispiel Recycling optimieren können, diskutierten …

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A Milky Way out of the Supercomputer

10. March 2014

The formation of disk galaxies has long been a conundrum for cosmologists: computer simulations produced typically far too massive and too …

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Charts Special | 03-2014

1. March 2014

In 2013, the HITS grew by four new research groups. In a “Charts Special” issue, we will introduce briefly the new group …

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Habilitation for HITSter Christoph Pfrommer

3. February 2014

On January 29, 2014, Dr. Christoph Pfrommer (TAP-Group) successfully completed the habilitation process at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. …

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Michele Catanzaro to be new “Journalist in Residence” at HITS

21. January 2014

The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies gives science journalists the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of computer-based, data-driven science with a …

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