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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]

Twenty years ago today, the ix-quadrat – the hands-on mathematics exhibition in Garching – opened its doors to the public. On that first day, roughly 1500 people visited the ix-quadrat. [read more]

Humboldt Research Award Winner Bruno Nachtergaele is visiting Simone Warzel, Professor at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), as invited guest in the winter semester 2022/23. [read more]

TUM Emerita of Excellence, Claudia Klüppelberg receives an honorary doctorate, Doctor of Mathematics, from Waterloo University in Canada. The convocation ceremony took place on October 21, 2022. [read more]

20 Roland Berger Foundation scholarship holders visited the School of Computation, Information and Technology to learn more about computer science studies and future career prospects. [read more]

The focus of research will be expanded to include data science and AI. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) is celebrating the official launch of the Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI). As an integrative research institute, MDSI will pool the expertise of more than 60 professors in the fields of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence. [read more]

Prof. Eva Weig and Dr. Ahmed Barakat from the Chair of Nano and Quantum Sensors are investigating how the parametric amplification effect can significantly expand the functionality of sensors. Possible applications include improved location positioning with microelectromechanical sensors like those used in smartphones. [read more]

The US federal agency NIST has announced a competition calling on developers to submit proposals for new, quantum-resistant encryption standards. Antonia Wachter-Zeh, a Professor of Coding and Cryptography, and other researchers at TUM have submitted two proposals to the competition and feel optimistic about their results. [read more]

A group of researchers led by Prof. Berna Özkale Edelmann has developed the world's first microrobot (“microbot”) capable of navigating within groups of cells and stimulating individual cells. The professor of Nano- and Microrobotics sees potential for new treatments of human diseases. [read more]

Kristen Kozielski researches how neuroelectrodes can be utilized in the treatment of illnesses such as Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injuries. For this project, she will receive an ERC Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in 2023. [read more]