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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 Technical University of Munich (TUM) has achieved its highest ever position in the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings. It has improved again, moving up four positions to 26th place in the world. This once again puts it at the top in the European Union. [read more]

Science is exciting and interests people - the Open Day at the Garching research campus proved this impressively. Thousands of guests took the opportunity to take a look inside otherwise closed laboratories and research facilities and have the work of the researchers explained to them. [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]

An AI-controlled construction robot, a CO2 conversion process and a test to detect head and neck tumors: three promising start-up ideas from researchers have been honored with the TUM IDEAward. First place goes to a team from the Department of Computer Engineering. [read more]

Major global challenges can only be mastered through collaboration between different disciplines. In the “Interdisciplinary Science Ranking” of the British magazine “Times Higher Education (THE)”, the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is at the top in Germany and in 12th place worldwide. [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]

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]