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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]

The full professor for Biomathematics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has been honored for his pioneering work in the analysis, modeling and interpretation of genomic data, the German Research Foundation (DFG) announced. [read more]

The German Research Foundation (DFG) approved the new project TRR 352, which deals with the mathematical analysis of models from condensed matter physics. [read more]

With the Starting Grants of the European Research Council (ERC), the European Union supports scientists who are still at the beginning of their careers. [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]

The European Research Council (ERC) today awarded 37 particularly well-funded Synergy Grants across Europe. One of these interdisciplinary research awards went to Julien Gagneur, Professor of Computational Molecular Medicine, together with researchers from the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Microbiology (Belgium) and the Karolinska Institute (Sweden). In… [read more]

A research team working with Burkhard Rost, professor of bioinformatics, has investigated how the three-finger snake toxin emerged between 50 and 120 million years ago. The results could help with the development of better snakebite treatments and lead to new knowledge for the treatment of illnesses such as type 2 diabetes and hypertension. [read more]

Prof. Robert Wille and his team are already developing the quantum computing software of tomorrow today. In October, they are bringing the who is who of the software community together – for a forum to exchange ideas. In this interview, he explains what the forum is all about and what makes Munich such a unique research location. [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]