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Stay informed with our latest news and announcements on this page. For more in-depth content, we also encourage visitors to explore our bimonthly STRUCTURES Newsletter magazine, which features a variety of articles, interviews with members, and background information on our latest research and activities.
From 4th to 6th of October the Second Workshop on Topological Methods in Data Analysis will take place within the cluster of excellence STRUCTURES at Heidelberg University. The three-day workshop includes introductions into the powerful data analysis machinery of persistent homology, tutorial sessions held by Mathieu Carrière, and features invited colloquial talks by Nils Baas, Frédéric Chazal and Rien van de Weygaert. The workshop will take place online only.
Registration for the workshop is open until 1st of October via this form. More information including the detailed schedule can be found on workshop webpage.
We congratulate Fabian Schneider for being awarded the Ludwig-Biermann-Award! With this price, the German Astronomical Society (AG) acknowledges Fabian Schneider's work on the evolution of massive stars, binary stars and supernovae.
Since January 2021, Fabian Schneider started his research group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) and joined STRUCTURES in March 2021.
The award ceremonies will take place during the virtual annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society from September 13-17, 2021
See press release here.
“Exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle” finally goes online on September 1st! The German science podcast on current science topics reflects the research diversity of the Germany’s leading research institutions and Clusters of Excellence, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: from Africa Studies to Quantum Physics. In each episode, listeners can expect insights into the interdisciplinary work of one research network. The researchers of the clusters of excellence talk to podcaster Larissa Vassilian about how they want to find scientifically sound answers to relevant topics of our time - for the society of tomorrow.
Link: www.exzellent-erklaert.de.
We congratulate Giulio Beletti and Dieter Heermann! Giulio Belletti has been awarded with a Humboldt research stipent for postdocs. He is member of the STRUCTURES YRC and works with Beatrice Pozzetti at the Mathematical Institute on geometry and topology. Dieter Heermann, Institute for Theoretical Physics, is now member of the International Advisory Board of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (China).
We are very happy to welcome our three new members Dylan Nelson, Tilman Plehn and Björn Malte Schäfer to STRUCTURES. Dylan Nelson is an Emmy Noether Research Group Leader of the Computational Galaxy Formation and Evolution Group at the Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, within the Center for Astrophysics (ITA/ZAH). Tilman Plehn is Professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, working on particle phenomenology and machine learning. Björn Malte Schäfer leads the Statistics and Cosmology Group at the ARI (Astronomisches Rechen-Institut), within the Center for Astrophysics (ZAH).
We are happy to present the second volume of the STRUCTURES newsletter!
The STRUCTURES Office is happy to answer questions and to receive feedback.
The workshop will take place at the International Academic Forum in Heidelberg from July 12th to July 16th 2021. Further information can be found here.
