Archive: News of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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Sustainable, safe, affordable: researching innovative magnets
2024/09/05
Dr. Pelin Tozman receives ERC Starting Grant totalling 1.5 million euros
Permanent magnets are crucially important for green technologies. However, their production requires expensive and environmentally harmful raw materials. That is why material scientist Dr. Pelin Tozman from TU Darmstadt is researching resource-friendly alternatives. Her project, MAG-TOOL, is now receiving a Starting Grant totalling 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for five years.
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The convincing digital doppelganger
2024/09/05
ERC supports TU professor Justus Thies with Starting Grant
TU professor Justus Thies is receiving a Starting Grant totalling 1.5 million euros from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project ‘Learning Digital Humans in Motion’. The exciting research goal: to develop AI-based image processing and graphic tools to create lifelike digital representations of people for the immersive digital world.
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Breaking new ground in nuclear physics
2024/09/05
ERC Starting Grant for physicist Alexander Tichai
Alexander Tichai is receiving a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project “DeformedNuclei – Ab initio pathway to deformed nuclei”. In the project the theoretical physicist is developing new methods for investigating deformed atomic nuclei and analysing the effects of interaction models on the predicted nuclear shapes. The funding totals 1.5 million euros.
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Giving AI a robotic body
2024/09/05
TU professor Georgia Chalvatzaki receives ERC Starting Grant for her project SIREN
The “SIREN” research project at TU Darmstadt has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). Professor Georgia Chalvatzaki will receive around 1.5 million euros of funding for five years. The computer scientist is researching innovative AI robot software architectures, which enable human-like robots to perform challenging tasks in unstructured and dynamic environments.
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Unite!-Start-up-Award
2024/09/02
Unite! honors start-ups for the first time
Unite! meets for the 10th time – and is growing. More members are taking part in the biannual Dialogue, more projects and ideas have emerged and more connections have been made: The Start-up & Innovation Day 2024 (InnoDay24) of the Innovation and Start-up Center HIGHEST at TU Darmstadt concludes the Dialogue and takes the opportunity to also give the start-up scene of the nine partner universities space and to network with each other. For the first time, an international jury of experts will present the Unite! start-up award to the two best start-ups.
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A feel for snow
2024/09/02
Publication in “Nature Communications” on the prediction of avalanches
Even a single person in the snow can exert enough pressure on it to cause a buried weak layer of snow to collapse and the snow cover to slide away. In this case, experts speak of anticracks. The fundamental fracture properties that can lead to powerful slab avalanches are still largely unknown, but crucial in order to accurately predict when avalanches will occur. In the journal “Nature Communications”, researchers led by TU scientist Dr.-Ing. Philipp Rosendahl are now presenting an innovative method that enables the fracture toughness of weak snow layers to be measured in the field under controlled conditions.
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„Ein Netzwerk von Stockholm bis Lissabon“
2024/08/30
Unite! and TU President in an FAZ interview
The X. Dialogue represents another milestone in the five-year history of Unite!. The university alliance is growing, more and more ideas and projects are being implemented and many more connections are being made. TU Darmstadt, coordinator of the university alliance, invites to Darmstadt in September – a good opportunity to take stock. Unite! and TU President Professor Tanja Brühl did just that in an interview with the FAZ.
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Unite! 21-Day Diversity & Inclusion Challenge
2024/08/27
A self-directed, online and free learning tool designed to deepen your understanding of diversity and inclusion
Do you sometimes feel the world we live in should be more inclusive? And do you feel that your social or work environment is accessible and safe? Can you identify situations that might make you feel uncomfortable or could be improved? Then the “21 Day Diversity and Inclusion Challenge” is for you!
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Biomaterials in the entrepreneurial focus
2024/08/15
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.
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“Studying at the TU was extremely effective for me”
2024/08/13
Prof. Peter Gruss began his international career as a microbiologist in Darmstadt
He is regarded as an American-style maker and the news magazine “Der Spiegel” once described him as “the humble high-flyer”. In fact, Peter Gruss is one of the world's leading cell biologists. He has successfully conducted research into tumour viruses and gene regulation at the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg and in the United States. As President for many years, he developed the Max Planck Society further and strengthened its internationalisation. The basis for his scientific career was a degree in biology at TU Darmstadt. “Studying there was a privilege,” says the alumnus today.
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Independent, complex thinking not (yet) possible after all
2024/08/12
Study led by the TU shows limitations of ChatGPT & co.
According to a new study led by TU Darmstadt, AI models such as ChatGPT are apparently less capable of learning independently than previously assumed. According to the study, there is no evidence that what are known as large language models (LLMs) are beginning to develop a general “intelligent” behaviour that would enable them to proceed in a planned or intuitive manner or to think in a complex way. The study will be presented in August at the annual conference of the renowned Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) in Bangkok, the largest international conference on automatic language processing.
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“RAI” researchers awarded
2024/08/08
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.
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Rhineland-Palatinate Science Minister at “CoM2Life”
2024/07/31
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.
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Donation for TU Darmstadt
2024/07/31
Alumnus Eginhard Jungmann expresses his thanks to his alma mater
Eginhard Jungmann came to Germany as a young man and late resettler from the former Upper Silesia in 1958. Since he had come across publications and books by two professors teaching in Darmstadt, his path led him to the Technical University. More than 60 years and a successful management career with Siemens later, he now expresses his thanks to his alma mater and his former department of Electrical Engineering by making a generous donation.
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Unite! Research School
2024/07/26
Registration is Open!
From 14th to 18th October 2024, the Unite! Research School will bring together MSc and PhD students, as well as researchers from across Europe, in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage, Industry 4.0, Nuclear Engineering and Sustainable Electronics.