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HGS MathComp - Where Methods Meet Applications

The Heidelberg Graduate School of Mathematical and Computational Methods for the Sciences (HGS MathComp) at Heidelberg University is one of the leading graduate schools in Germany focusing on the complex topic of Scientific Computing. Located in a vibrant research environment, the school offers a structured interdisciplinary education for PhD students. The program supports students in pursuing innovative PhD projects with a strong application-oriented focus, ranging from mathematics, computer science, bio/life-sciences, physics, and chemical engineering sciences to cultural heritage. A strong focus is put on the mathematical and computational foundations: the theoretical underpinnings and computational abstraction and conception.

HGS MathComp Principal Investigators are leading experts in their fields, working on projects that combine mathematical and computational methodology with topical research issues. Individual mentoring for PhD candidates and career development programs ensure that graduates are fully equipped to take up top positions in industry and academia.

News & Current Opportunities

Guest Program

Call for proposals for the Romberg Visiting Professor and Romberg Visiting Scholar 2026

Deadline: June 30, 2025

Mentoring Program

Call for applications for the SSC Fellows Program 2025

Deadline: June 15, 2025

23.06.2025 - 27.06.2025
09:00 - 13:00
Theory & Methods
Scientific Software Development
Compact Courses

Speaker: Dr. Inga Ulusoy, Research Software Engineer, Scientific Software Center (SSC)
Location: Mathematikon • Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg
Registration: Please register via this form
Organizer: Scientific Software Center (SSC)
ECTS: 1
This compact course is part of the course program of the Scientific Software Center (SSC) at Heidelberg University.

The latest information and a registration link are available on the course website.

Prerequisites
Basic Python knowledge is required. Participants need a laptop.

Summary
In this course, you will learn how to develop scientific software in a way that enables reproducible research and sustainable software. Sustainable scientific software leaves room for further, subsequent implementations and method development, and saves time and effort in the long run; additionally, a sustainable approach follows good scientific practice through making results reproducible. This course is aimed at researchers, doctoral and master students who develop scientific software to carry out their research.

Learning Objectives
After the course participants should be able to
• Use the git version-control system and collaborate on GitHub
• Use an integrated development environment (IDE)
• Use a linter and code formatter
• Understand the best practices for planning a piece of software
• Write Pytest unit tests
• Use Sphinx to build a documentation
• Ensure reproducibility through automated testing with GitHub actions
• Understand the basics of publishing a Python package
 
24.06.2025
14:00 - 15:40
Theory & Methods
HGS MathComp Membership Colloquium
Colloquium

Speaker: New HGS MathComp PhD fellows
Location: Mathematikon • Conference Room, Room 5/104, 5th Floor • Im Neuenheimer Feld 205 • 69120 Heidelberg
Organizer: HGS MathComp
ECTS: 0
Introduction of new HGS MathComp members and their PhD projects.

The BlueSheet Meeting for all new members of HGS MathComp will be held online on June 25, 2025 between 15:00 - 16:00.

14:00 Jawad Alaa Edeen (Supervisor D. Schapiro)
„Leveraging Spatial Omics Technologies to Elucidate Rare Disease Progression and Tissue- Specific Pathobiology“

14:20 Aroj Hada (Supervisor D. Schapiro)
“Advancing Computational Methods for Spatial Omics: Cell Phenotyping and Spatial Niche Mapping”

14:40 Giuseppe Viterbo (Supervisor T. Buck)
“Simulation Based Inference for Galactic Archaeology”

15:00 Feroz Karim (Supervisor R. Wade)
“Explainable Predictions of Histone-Protein Interactions”

15:20 Jona Novljan (Supervisors M. Modic/A. Sasse)
“Uncovering Post-Transcriptional Regulation Through Signal Deconvolution of Global iCLIP Data“
 
25.06.2025 - 27.06.2025
Practicals & Schools
4EU+ PhD Workshop: 2nd Sorbonne-Heidelberg Workshop on AI in medicine: Machine Learning for multi-modal data
Workshop

Location: Mathematikon • Conference Room, Room 5/104, 5th Floor • Im Neuenheimer Feld 205, 69120 Heidelberg
Registration: Please apply here • Application open until May 12, 2025
Organizer: Mannheim Institute for Intelligent Systems in MedicineSorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence
ECTS: 2
This workshop is funded by Université franco-allemande/Deutsch-Französische Hochschule and co-funded through the 4EU+ 1CORE Project. It is organized under Flagship 3 of the 4EU+ European University Alliance. It brings together junior and senior researchers from Sorbonne University, Heidelberg University, and their partner universities in 4EU+. Scientific exchange will take center stage through participants' presentations & posters, keynotes by invited speakers, and discussions. Key techniques will be trained during hands-on sessions, and social events invite you to network while experiencing the unique setting of the oldest German university and the environment of a vibrant student city.

We invite you to apply and present your PhD project or other research work including, but not limited to:
- Multimodal data integration and analysis
- Deep learning architectures and techniques
- Medical data analysis

More information on the course website

Machine Learning is transforming science, especially the way we do research in medicine. It can analyze non-linear dependencies of structured clinical data, and it is starting to support in the huge amount of existing text and other unstructured information to extract useful information using recent techniques based on large language models. There is also an increasing amount of specific omics data for each patient, which makes it hard to manually inspect all the details. This is where multimodal data analysis comes in, which is the focus of this year's AI in Medicine workshop. Researchers from Sorbonne and Heidelberg will give keynote speeches to provide insight into their research field, which will fuel discussions.