ryon Rhine-Main-Universities Summer School 2024

From October 7 to 11, 2024, the ryon Summer School in Darmstadt and Gernsheim offers the opportunity to help shape the future of synthetic biology and biomaterials. Under the motto “From idea to start-up”, a platform will be created to offer young researchers the opportunity to develop and realize new business ideas. The event is part of the “CoM2Life” cluster project, which is in the running for a cluster of excellence in the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

Successful participation in renowned conference

Researchers from the “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI) project took part in this year's “Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition” (CVPR) and successfully presented the results of their work in workshops and conference papers. “RAI” is in the running for a Cluster of Excellence in the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

Clemens Hoch visits cluster project at Mainz University

On his summer trip this year, Rhineland-Palatinate Science Minister Clemens Hoch visited Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) last week and learned about the joint cluster project “CoM2Life” of TU Darmstadt, JGU Mainz and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.

Hessens Wissenschaftsminister Gremmels informiert sich zu Forschung und Ausgründungen

Der hessische Wissenschaftsminister Timon Gremmels (SPD) hat sich bei einem Besuch im Hessischen Zentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (hessian.AI) beeindruckt gezeigt von den Forschungsprojekten, die auch im Wettbewerb der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes eine herausragende Rolle spielen. Ebenso fand der Minister lobende Worte für die dynamische Vielzahl der mit KI verknüpften Ausgründungen.

With renowned international guest speakers

Researchers from the cluster project “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM) with the participation of TU Darmstadt have met for a two-day symposium. At the event in early June at Rauischholzhausen Castle in central Hesse, they discussed the topics of cognition, scene perception, maladaptation and sensory learning. TAM is competing for a Cluster of Excellence in the prestigious Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments.

TU researchers have deciphered the processes that take place in the human mind during navigation

How can human navigation behaviour and its uncertainty be understood? A team of researchers led by TU professor Constantin Rothkopf has provided answers to this question in an article now published in the journal “Nature Communications”. According to their computational analysis, the brain uses both information from body cues (such as the motor memory of the path already travelled) and an internal mental map for navigation. The brain takes into account that the available information is incomplete, imprecise and uncertain – and continuously recomputes the path while considering the respective uncertainties.

Bei einem Besuch hat sich der Bundestagsabgeordnete und Parlamentarische Staatssekretär im Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), Mario Brandenburg (FDP), über die Arbeit des Hessischen Zentrums für Künstliche Intelligenz (hessian.AI) informiert. Zentrale Themen waren unter anderem die laufenden Forschungsprojekte, die Projekte im Wettbewerb der Exzellenzstrategie des Bundes und das KI-Innovationsökosystem mit vielfältigen Ausgründungen aus hessian.AI.

TU Darmstadt research team presents innovative safety tool “LlavaGuard”

Researchers at the Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Lab (AIML) in the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt and the Hessian Center for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) have developed a method that uses vision language models to filter, evaluate, and suppress specific image content in large datasets or from image generators. The research is part of the “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)” cluster project, which has submitted a full application to the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments for the “Clusters of Excellence” funding line.

State programme supports application for Cluster of Excellence “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence”

Professor Dr. Carsten Binnig, an expert in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Management, has been awarded a LOEWE Top Professorship at TU Darmstadt. The state of Hesse is thus supporting the “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence (RAI)” research project as part of the Excellence Strategy of the federal and state governments. At the beginning of the year, the project successfully cleared the first hurdle on its way to becoming a Cluster of Excellence. The LOEWE Professorship will be funded over five years with around two million euros from LOEWE funds.

Research paper published in PNAS

Our heartbeat and also the function of our nerve cells are regulated by special ion channels – so-called HCN channels. A research team from Milan and Darmstadt has now deciphered how the substance ivabradine from a commonly used heart medicine influences these channels. This discovery, which has now been published in the renowned journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences”, could lead to the development of new, more precise medicines for the treatment of heart problems, without any undesired side effects in the brain.