Jan’s group strengthens our activities in machine learning and thus also our pursuit of data-driven science (see Chapter 2.7). The great freedom of research that is available at our Institute was also one of the reasons that Jan Stühmer followed our call both to HITS and as a junior professor at KIT after having worked in industry for several years. We were also able to recruit Rajika Kuruwita as the first HITS Independent Postdoc, who will work on a problem in astrophysics for 2–3 years in close collaboration with Fabian Schneider and his Stellar Evolution Theory group (see Chapter 2.15). Two further visits by guests from Oxford University (UK) and Carnegie Mellon University (USA) are planned for 2023. In 2022, we welcomed Antonis Rokas from Vanderbilt University and Sarbani Basu from Yale University (both from the USA) as our first Klaus Tschira Guest Professors. Our hope is that the programs will spark new research initiatives and collaborations. The aim of both programs is to promote mutual scientific exchange, to give scientists the opportunity to advance their research during their time at HITS without any bureaucratic “red tape,” and to enable networking with other HITSters in the process. To that end, we launched two new programs last year: the Klaus Tschira Guest Professorship Program and the HITS Independent Postdoc Program (see Chapter 6). Accordingly, in our HITS Strategy, we explicitly state that the Institute should be a place for creative thinking, for new ideas, and for lively scientific exchange. Indeed, both men recognized the magic of the location and the park. Klaus Tschira Guest Professorship ProgramĪs a scientist recently said upon visiting HITS, “This place invites you to think!” It is thus no coincidence that Klaus Tschira and Andreas Reuter chose “this place” as the location for the Klaus Tschira Stiftung (Klaus Tschira Foundation) and later also for their scientific institute, HITS.Scientific Databases and Visualization (SDBV).Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (MLI).Data Mining and Uncertainty Quantification (DMQ).Computational Molecular Evolution (CME).
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