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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]

On July 26, 2024, the graduation ceremony for Bachelors and Masters of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology took place with more than 2000 guests in the Kulturhalle Zenith. A review with pictures and video. [read more]

Prof Stefanie Jegelka and Prof Suvrit Sra are the new Humboldt Professors at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Artificial Intelligence. The researchers moved together from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA to Bavaria. [read more]

According to the current “QS World University Rankings by Subject”, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) ranks among the top 25 universities worldwide in Electrical Engineering and Statistics / Operational Research, and among the top 50 in Computer Science and Mathematics. In Germany, the… [read more]

Under the slogan "Discuss. Network. Co-create.", experts from the world of science met with company representatives at the TUM Connect event series on 23 November 2023 to discuss current issues and challenges. [read more]

The dynamic of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is present in academia, industry, and society at large. Academics can help make sense of where and how to apply AI while explaining its effects. To this end, TUM Campus Heilbronn invited its partners in the AI hub to the first TUM Campus Heilbronn Global… [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]

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]