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Tech Challenge, lectures by founders or Businessplan Basics - Europe's biggest center for entrepreneurship, UnternehmerTUM, offers programs for students in the winter semester. Register now! [read more]

Franconians together with Upper Bavarians, political scientists working with mathematicians, completely different socialization and professional cultures. Is that possible? Can it be fruitful? Students started the experiment. [read more]

Science is exciting and interests people - the Open Day at the Garching research campus proved this impressively. Thousands of guests took the opportunity to take a look inside otherwise closed laboratories and research facilities and have the work of the researchers explained to them. [read more]

The European Research Council is funding a project by Alexander Fraser, Professor of Data Analytics & Statistics at TUM Campus Heilbronn, with an ERC Advanced Grant. Fraser and his team want to improve the integration of less common languages into so-called Large Language Models (LLMs). [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has appointed a new Vice President to manage and further develop the TUM Campus, Heilbronn. Effective 1 October 2024, Prof. Ali Sunyaev has assumed the role of Vice President TUM Campus Heilbronn. [read more]

From September 3 to 6, 2024, the international conference "Operations Research" (OR) took place at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Every year, experts from science and practice come together to discuss the fields of operations research, management science, data science and analytics. [read more]

Two talented researchers at TUM have been awarded ERC Starting Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) this year. The EU provides this financial support to scientists who are at an early stage in their careers. [read more]

Sebastian Steinhorst, Professor of Embedded Systems and Internet of Things, conducts research as part of the Siemens Research and Innovation Ecosystem Munich. In an interview with Siemens, he talks about how he is shaping the future of the Internet of Things. [read more]

Prof. Chunyang Chen conducts research at the TUM Campus in Heilbronn on how software development can be simplified and automated by artificial intelligence (AI), especially Large Language Models. In this interview, he explains how he aims to make software more accessible for people with visual impairments or other disabilities. [read more]

Robotic arms require advanced algorithms to perform dexterous manipulation such as assembly and servicing tasks in space. Recently, a research team successfully tested methods developed for the robotic assembly of small square satellites, known as CubeSats, in orbit under zero-gravity conditions during a parabolic flight. [read more]

Global positioning systems (GPS) have become a routine part of everyday life for most people. Until now, however, the minimum number of GPS satellites needed to determine an exact position has remained a matter of conjecture. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) have now provided the… [read more]

Large language models like ChatGPT are trained with data from the internet. But how do we avoid distortions in the models, and how do we ensure that data are protected? Reinhard Heckel, professor for machine learning, takes the time to answer these questions. [read more]