Archive: News of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Comprehensive knowledge and skills on soft matter
2023/04/17
New international Master's degree program „Soft Matter and Materials“
The practice-oriented and research-focused cooperative degree programme “Soft Matter and Materials” of the Rhine-Main Universities Mainz and Darmstadt will start in the coming winter semester. The programme is one of the first of its kind worldwide. Applications are possible until 1 September 2023.
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Career in nuclear physics
2023/04/11
The Ira Rischowski Programme supports international female Master's students on their way into academia
The Ira Rischowski Programme at TU Darmstadt supports international female students on their way into science. In addition to their Master's degree in physics, they gain practical experience with a particle accelerator and the data obtained there at the Institute of Nuclear Physics.
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Insect decline also occurs in forests
2023/04/04
Study of TU Darmstadt shows dramatic species decline
The number of insects has been declining for years. This has already been well documented for agricultural areas. Now, a research team led by the Technical University Darmstadt have studied the trends of very many insect species in German forests. The results showed: The majority of the studied species are declining.
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Industrial-scale magnetic cooling
2023/03/29
Magnetocaloric effect for more efficient hydrogen liquefaction
In the Horizon Europe project HyLICAL with a budget of about some five million euros, a team including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), TU Darmstadt and the start-up MAGNOTHERM wants to significantly improve the technologies for storing liquid hydrogen.
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“Hesse’s start-up ecosystem and middle class future-proof”
2023/03/20
AI Innovation Lab of hessian.AI opened at GSI Helmholtzzentrum in Darmstadt
Hesse’s Minister for Digital Affairs, Professor Dr Kristina Sinemus, opened the AI Innovation Lab of the Hessian Centre for Artificial Intelligence (hessian.AI) at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt today (March 20). The project of the TU Darmstadt, which is funded with around 10 million euros, serves as a contact point for companies, start-ups, and science with the central aim of providing access to an AI supercomputer infrastructure. In the laboratory, AI systems and applications can be developed, trained, tested, and evaluated.
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“Engagement far beyond the ordinary”
2023/03/17
TU Darmstadt’s DAAD Prize 2022 goes to a master’s student of Architecture
The prize of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) for outstanding achievements by international students at the TU Darmstadt goes to Omar Dwedary, a master’s student in the Department for Architecture. The award is endowed with 1000 euros.
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Unite! Seed Fund Initiative
2023/03/15
Financial boost for innovative ideas from the teachers, researchers and students across the Unite! alliance
The Unite! Seed Fund aims to achieve the maximum potential of Unite! It is envisioned to provide financial support to innovative, co-creative and collaborative ideas from teachers, researchers and students across the Unite! alliance. The Seed Fund intends to support exploration and development of attractive and diverse activities and projects, to help secure either the additional funds for a project or to carry out cooperation on joint, ambitious and innovative ideas within the alliance.
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Better interaction with artificial intelligence
2023/03/10
Published in “Nature Machine Intelligence”
A team of researchers from TU Darmstadt, hessian.AI and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence has presented a method that greatly simplifies the provision of human feedback to learning software. The work is published in the current issue of “Nature Machine Intelligence”.
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Freely accessible high-performance computing for researchers
2023/03/06
NHR4CES starts campaign “High-Speed 4 Science”.
With the campaign “High-Speed 4 Science”, NHR4CES – National High Performance Computing for Computational Engineering Science – is currently drawing nationwide attention to its freely accessible service offerings in high-performance computing. At TU Darmstadt, too, posters, flyers and info screens with the slogan can be found in many places.
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Sharing electricity in a crisis situation?
2023/02/24
Researchers of the LOEWE center emergenCITY investigate motivation for sharing
What about the willingness to share privately generated electricity during a prolonged power outage? Researchers from various departments at TU Darmstadt at the LOEWE center emergenCITY have investigated this. The recently published study yields surprising results.
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Research for trustworthy AI
2023/02/21
TU Darmstadt receives two new LOEWE professorships
The Technical University of Darmstadt continues to expand its leading international position in artificial intelligence (AI) research: The Department of Computer Science receives no less than two new LOEWE professorships for multimodal learning. One LOEWE Top Professorship is awarded to Dr Marcus Rohrbach, who is at the same time taking up his Humboldt Professorship at TU Darmstadt, and one LOEWE Start Professorship to Dr Anna Rohrbach. Both LOEWE professorships are funded with funds from the LOEWE research programme of the State of Hesse totalling five million euros.
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A voice for women in Afghanistan
2023/02/10
Environmental engineer Fatima Akbari is the second Hilde Domin scholarship holder at TU Darmstadt
With the support of the DAAD programme, Fatima Akbari has been able to start her doctoral degree in Darmstadt. TU Darmstadt's International Office supports at-risk academics like this young woman from Afghanistan.
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Tracking tumors with quantum optics
2023/02/08
Research team works on new tool for cancer diagnostics
Quantum imaging enables insights into previously invisible areas. Can tumour diagnostics also benefit from this? The TU Darmstadt, which has special expertise in quantum optics, is now investigating this question together with eight partners. The Quancer research project has a budget of 6.7 million euros and is being funded with 5.6 million euros in the framework programme “Quantum Technologies – from basic research to market” by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
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Basis for intelligent therapeutics
2023/02/06
Professor Heinz Koeppl involved in founding of new start-up Dirac Biosciences
A new start-up with significant participation of etit professor Heinz Koeppl is dedicated to the computer-aided design of innovative gene circuits in synthetic biology. In addition to Koeppl, partners of the new company Dirac Biosciences are the TU Darmstadt and the investment company eureKARE, which finances and develops innovations in the field of synthetic biology in Europe. The founding of the start-up was supported by the Innovation and Start-up Center HIGHEST of the TU Darmstadt.
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How and why Artificial Intelligence is transforming cities
2023/01/31
ERC Consolidator Grant for TU project “scAInce” by Professor Eva Kassens-Noor
Can technological change lead to a more sustainable life in our cities? This question is being addressed by the research project “scAInce”. Under the direction of Professor Eva Kassens-Noor, researchers at TU Darmstadt are investigating how cities that want to solve their economic, ecological and social problems with artificial intelligence are changing. The project is supported by a renowned ERC Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) to the tune of some two million euros over five years.