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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]

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]

Prof. Friedrich L. Bauer held the first informatics chair at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). On his 100th birthday, a bust was officially unveiled outside the lecture hall named in his honour in the building of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology in Garching. [read more]

TUM student Felix T. J. Dietrich has earned one of 350 coveted spots in Apple's Swift Student Challenge 2024. His project: an iPad app to improve financial health. The competition honors innovative projects by student developers worldwide. The Merkur reports. [read more]

The team of the Central Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory (ZEITlab) of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology receives the TUM Occupational Health and Safety Award 2023 from University Department 6 for its exemplary commitment to occupational health and safety. [read more]

With the start of lectures in the winter semester, chatbot Iris is also back in action. She offers computer science students personalized assistance with programming exercises. Several lecturers are currently using Iris in their courses. She thus supports several thousand students. [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]

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]