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Ceremony for Doctoral and Habilitation Graduates 2025

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The TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology bids farewell to its doctoral and habilitation graduates - with a ceremony followed by a get-together with free food and drinks. Because their achievements are an important foundation for our success.

All doctoral and habilitation graduates who took their oral examination between October 1, 2023, and December 31, 2024, are invited. You can bring up to three family members or friends with you.

Date and Location

When?

Friday, 28th Febraury 2025, 17:00

Where?

Friedrich L. Bauer Lecture Hall (MI HS1)

Boltzmannstraße 3

85748 Garching bei München

Program

1. Welcome by Prof. Hans-Joachim Bungartz (Dean of the CIT)
2. Short speech by the President of TUM
3. Presentation of certificates to doctoral and postdoctoral graduates
4. Presentation of prizes for outstanding work
5. Dinner in the Magistrale

2025 Award Winners

The award winners were selected by the CIT Award Committee from all doctoral candidates who completed their doctorates at our school between 15 July 2023 and 30 September 2024 with top marks. Congratulations!

Departmental dissertation prizes

Winner in Computer Engineering: Dr Karl Tasnad Kernetzky with his thesis ‘Numerical Optimisation of Ultra-Broadband Wavelength Conversion in Nonlinear Optical Waveguides’

Winner in Computer Science: Dr Patrick Lederer with his thesis ‘Strategic Manipulation in Social Choice Theory’

Winner in Electrical Engineering: Dr Lennart Weiß with his thesis ‘Stochastic Detection of Silver Nanoparticles for Sensing Applications’

Winner in Mathematics: Dr Konstantin Riedl with his thesis ‘Mathematical Foundations of Interacting Multi-Particle Systems for Optimisation’

Dr Georg Spinner High Frequency Prize for Doctoral Students

Winner: D., Christian Buchberger with his thesis ‘On the Scattering Behaviour of Dielectric Corner Reflectors in Distributed Radar Systems’

Doctoral Prize from Rohde & Schwarz

Winner: Dr Jonas Wurst with his thesis ‘Domain Knowledge Guided Representation Learning for Traffic Scenarios’

Kurt Fischer Dissertation Prize

Winner: Dr Kevin Yu with his thesis ‘Advanced 3D UI for Immersive AR/VR Medical Teleconsultation’

Walter Gademann Doctoral Award

Winner: Dr Christina Maria Mayr with her thesis “Crowd management based on direct communication technology”

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