Archive: News of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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An asset for society and the economy
2020/11/05
Interview with Vice President Jens Schneider
As Vice President of TU Darmstadt, Prof. Dr. Jens Schneider is responsible for the area of transfer and international affairs. In this interview he explains the significance of these areas for the university today, the position of HIGHEST, the start-up and innovation centre of TU Darmstadt, in the university’s ecosystem and what the future will hold for the “start-up university”.
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European Universities Initiative
2020/11/05
TU and UNITE! president Tanja Brühl speaks before the European Commission
For the first time, the European Commission met with the presidents and rectors of all European university alliances and the member states for a joint web conference. The aim of the conference was to reinforce the transformation potential of the “European Universities” initiative at institutional, regional, national and European level. As UNITE! president, TU President Professor Tanja Brühl was one of the keynote speakers. She emphasized that a strong long-term commitment of the European Commission and the member states was needed to turn the vision of European universities into reality.
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Simulations for a sustainable energy system transformation
2020/11/05
TU Darmstadt is part of a network of European top research institutions
The EU research project “Center of Excellence in Combustion” (CoEC), granted with a budget of over 5.6 Million Euro, has started. Eleven partners from eight countries are involved – including the “Institute of Simulation of reactive Thermo-Fluid Systems“ and “Institute for Energy and Power Plant Technology” from the department of Mechanical Engineering at TU Darmstadt.
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Computer Science at TU Darmstadt again among the Top 100
2020/10/30
Success in the THE Subject Rankings
In this year’s THE World University Rankings by Subject, TU Darmstadt was once again well represented with very prominent rankings internationally. The university was ranked in 61st place for the subject “Computer Science” and thus achieved its best result since the publication of the rankings, despite a further increase in the number of ranked universities.
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Qualification of tutors at TU Darmstadt
2020/10/28
“A digital orientation week cannot fully replace the in-person event but it works”
An important task for the Qualification for Studies and Careers Department in the Center for Educational Development and Technology (HDS) at TU Darmstadt is the qualification of tutors for the orientation events (OWO). Head of Department, Dipl.-Kffr. Christiane Reese and her employees Dr. Maria Clippard and Dr. Sandra Rieger talk in the following interview about their work during the digital winter semester – which is posing a special challenge both for those responsible for OWO qualification and also for student assistants.
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Magnets: Key materials for green energy
2020/10/21
New collaboration between TU Darmstadt and MPIE
The Technical University Darmstadt and the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung (MPIE) started a new Max Planck Research Group headed by Prof. Oliver Gutfleisch, Professor of Functional Materials at the TU and scientific director at the Fraunhofer IWKS Materials Recycling and Resource Strategies.
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Fodder for high-performance computing
2020/10/14
Working at the interface between mechanical engineering and mathematics: “Athene Young Investigator” Dr. Tomislav Maric
How can accurate, efficient and extremely robust numerical methods be developed to simulate the movement of curved, dynamically deforming fluid interfaces on high-performance computers? This is the main research field of Dr.-Ing. Tomislav Maric, a postdoc in the Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Group. As a mechanical engineer in the Mathematics Department, who is conducting research as part of the interdisciplinary Collaborative Research Centre 1194, Tomislav Maric has been chosen as one of the new Athene Young Investigators at TU Darmstadt.
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Race against the big code breaker
2020/10/13
Post-quantum methods to protect against quantum computers of the future
Quantum computers may be able to crack the encryptions common in the network in ten years – even retroactively. The Darmstadt cryptographer Dr. Juliane Krämer counters with mathematics.
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New team of young researchers gets to work
2020/10/12
Focus on the interaction between humans and artificial intelligence
A new group of young female scientists at TU Darmstadt funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research will be conducting research over the next four years into “Interactive AI for Domain Experts and Everyday Users” (IKIDA). The team will be headed by Dr. Dorothea Koert from the Intelligent Autonomous Systems Group in the Department of Computer Science. She was awarded the AI Newcomer Prize in 2019.
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Home office in a social conflict of interest
2020/10/05
International study provides first results
How does the property situation at home affect work success in the home office, what opportunities does it offer, and who will profit? A broad international study at the Technical University of Darmstadt is investigating these and other questions. The first results are now in.
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Diagnostics from a printer
2020/10/02
Research project for the control of multi-resistant germs
At the Merck Lab at the TU Darmstadt, researchers from Merck and the TU have simplified the diagnosis of bacterial infectious diseases. In doing so, they want to curb a global problem: the increase in multi-resistant germs that no longer respond to antibiotics.
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Computer science for peace
2020/09/28
Research group PEASEC: IT meets peace and conflict research
Professor Christian Reuter, head of the research group of „Science and Technology for Peace and Security“ (PEASEC), is conducting research and teaches on the interface between computer science and peace and conflict research. He explains in the following interview how IT can be used during war and to bring about peace.
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Quick facts
2020/09/22
Study: What rail passengers want to know about regional transport
Scientists from the Institute of Transport Planning and Traffic Engineering at TU Darmstadt shed some light on the theme of passenger information in trains operated by DB Regio AG.
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How WhatsApp, Signal & Co Threaten Privacy
2020/09/15
Billions of Users Vulnerable to Privacy Attacks
Researchers from the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Würzburg show that popular mobile messengers expose personal data via discovery services that allow users to find contacts based on phone numbers from their address book.
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TU Darmstadt in the European network for cutting-edge AI research
2020/09/15
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems launched
The European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) today officially inaugurated its network of 30 research units in a video conference. One of the research units is based at TU Darmstadt. Its spokesperson is the Computer Science Professor Stefan Roth, who has been awarded an ERC grant.