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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]

People with a degree from the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) are in high demand on the labour market - whether in electrical engineering and information technology or business informatics. This is confirmed by this year's WirtschaftsWoche university ranking. [read more]

TUM student Felix T. J. Dietrich has earned one of 350 coveted spots in Apple's Swift Student Challenge 2024. His project: an iPad app to improve financial health. The competition honors innovative projects by student developers worldwide. The Merkur reports. [read more]

Prof. Friedrich L. Bauer held the first informatics chair at the Technical University of Munich (TUM). On his 100th birthday, a bust was officially unveiled outside the lecture hall named in his honour in the building of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology in Garching. [read more]

The team of the Central Electronics and Information Technology Laboratory (ZEITlab) of the TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology receives the TUM Occupational Health and Safety Award 2023 from University Department 6 for its exemplary commitment to occupational health and safety. [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]

The Robotics Institute Germany (RIG) is to become the central contact point for robotics in Germany. At the "AI-based Robotics 2024" conference, Prof. Angela Schoellig from the Technical University of Munich and Prof. Tamim Asfour from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology presented the concept. [read more]

Temporal and locational variations in power generation result in fluctuations in the power supply and power prices. Consequently, the EU Commission is assessing a possible split of the German uniform price zone into smaller price zones. According to researchers, this would have little effects. [read more]

Like JPEG for images or MP3 for audio files: After eight years of standardization work under the consortium leadership of the Technical University of Munich, a standard for the compression and transmission of the sense of touch has been published for the first time under the name "Haptic Codecs for the Tactile Internet" (HCTI). [read more]

Professor Daniel Kremers and his team have succeeded in generating precise 3D reconstructions of objects using images from only two camera perspectives. Previously, such reconstructions were possible only with hundreds of perspectives or under laboratory conditions. [read more]

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and SAP are deepening their intensive partnership at the Garching research campus: a new building complex was officially opened on June 19, 2024. In the future, 700 SAP employees and 120 TUM researchers will work together on software solutions there. [read more]