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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]

Fifteen researchers from the Technical University of Munich belong to the world's most frequently cited scientists. Their names can be found in the latest Highly Cited Researchers rankings. Among them is Professor Fabian Theis. [read more]

Companies around the world consider graduates of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) to be exceptionally well qualified. This is seen in the latest edition of the Global University Employability Ranking. TUM is 13th worldwide and is number four in Europe. [read more]

TUM is among the top 10 universities in three subjects in the Shanghai Rankings. In remote sensing, agricultural sciences and biotechnology, the rankings place its research achievements at the very top of the global list. In five other subjects, TUM achieved excellent positions in the top 50. [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]

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]

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]