News and Events

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]

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]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) has appointed a new Vice President to manage and further develop the TUM Campus, Heilbronn. Effective 1 October 2024, Prof. Ali Sunyaev has assumed the role of Vice President TUM Campus Heilbronn. [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]

Humans and animals move - unconsciously - particularly economically by using the natural vibrations of their bodies. A new tool developed by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is now able to use this knowledge for the first time to make robots move more efficiently. [read more]

Michael Jungmair from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) has been awarded one of the coveted Google PhD Fellowships 2024 in the field of Software Systems. He wants to develop a new, powerful method to integrate and optimize user-defined code in database queries. [read more]

Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed robotic trousers that enable people to walk more easily while expending measurably less energy. The aim is to keep frail individuals and in particular the elderly mobile and healthy for longer. “You can walk slowly with the shorts but you can also jog,” says TUM Professor… [read more]

Three students from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology want to use innovative technology to make life easier for people who are hard of hearing. They will be presenting their student project Sonovision at the electronica trade fair in November 2024. [read more]

Professor Gudrun Klinker and Professor Nassir Navab from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology receive the Career Impact Award of the International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR) 2024 of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). [read more]