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Epidemics have immediate and long-term effects on people worldwide. In March 2023, young researchers from Africa and Europe will deepen their understanding of the mathematical fundamentals of infectious disease modeling. [read more]

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]

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]

Prof. Viktor Leis from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) receives the Early Career Research Contribution Award of the Very Large Data Base Endowment Inc. (VLDB). This is only the second time that the prize has gone to Europe, and the second time to the TUM. [read more]

People with a degree from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) are in high demand on the labour market - whether in electrical engineering and information technology or business informatics. This is confirmed by this year's WirtschaftsWoche university ranking. [read more]

Niki Kilbertus, Professor of Ethics in Systems Design and Machine Learning, became a member of the Junge Akademie on June 22, 2024. He is one of ten young researchers who have been appointed to the interdisciplinary research platform. [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]

Medical chatbots make hasty diagnoses, do not adhere to guidelines, and would put patients' lives at risk. This is the conclusion reached by a team from the Technical University of Munich. Despite the current shortcomings, the researchers see potential in the technology. [read more]

Chatbot Iris demonstrably improves understanding of programming concepts and complements human explanations: Researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed the chatbot, which offers computer science students personalized assistance with programming assignments. [read more]