Archive: News of Technische Universität Darmstadt
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The future of artificial intelligence
2024/02/02
The cluster project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI)
Although deep learning (DL) has enabled important advances in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) over the last ten years, current AI systems have displayed some significant weaknesses, such as an inability to reason, difficulty handling new situations and a need for continuous adjustments. Last but not least, current AI systems also require substantial resources. The aim of the Cluster of Excellence project “Reasonable Artificial Intelligence” (RAI) is thus to develop the next generation of reasonable AI.
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Between stability and adaptation: How humans respond to changes
2024/02/02
The cluster project “The Adaptive Mind” clears the first hurdle in its application for Cluster of Excellence funding
The research project “The Adaptive Mind” (TAM), in which TU Darmstadt is participating, was successful in the first round of the Excellence Strategy. The researchers are now able to submit a full application – and hope that they will ultimately be awarded a prestigious Cluster of Excellence grant. The project aims to understand how the human mind is able to adapt.
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“Think beyond and create a sustainable impact” – The IX Unite! Dialogue at TU Graz
2024/02/01
As part of a Unite! seed funded project, researchers and scientists from KTH Stockholm, TU Darmstadt and TU Graz focus on joint training, hands-on collaboration and new insights in the field of renewable biotechnology.
Graz University of Technology is hosting the upcoming Unite! Dialogue, titled "Think Beyond: Unite! for Collective and Sustainable Impact”, scheduled to take place from the 27th to the 29th of February 2024.
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Contributing to the European Research Area
2024/01/29
UNITE.H2020 comes to an end – UNITE!Widening begins
The UNITE.H2020 project has shaped an integrated R&I strategy for the European University Alliance Unite!, concluding in December 2023. The follow-up UNITE!Widening project, starting in January 2024, aims to strengthen scientific capabilities in Portugal and Poland, highlighted in a Lisbon meeting on February 1st and 2nd.
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The internal clock of materials
2024/01/26
Publication in “Nature Physics”
Physicists in Darmstadt are investigating ageing processes in materials. For the first time, they have measured the ticking of an internal clock in glass. When evaluating the data, they discovered a surprising phenomenon.
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“Sometimes it's a bit like detective work”
2024/01/23
Interview with Eric Maercker from Energy Management
Eric Maercker is working on reducing the TU's energy consumption and paving the way for a CO₂-neutral university. In an interview, the 39-year-old explains, among other things, how the TU is supplied with energy and what his most urgent tasks are at the moment.
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New characterization equipment for 6G communication
2024/01/18
TU professor Sascha Preu receives Proof of Concept Grant from the European Research Council
With his “Photonic Vector Network Analyzers” (PhoVeNA) project, TU professor Sascha Preu (Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) has received a Proof of Concept Grant for 150,000 euros from the European Research Council ERC. The project focuses on developing photonic characterization systems for the next generation of communication technology, which operates in the terahertz range.
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Dataset bias in machine learned theories of economic decisions
2024/01/12
Study finds biases in behavioral economic theories learned with artificial intelligence
Researchers at the Centre for Cognitive Science at TU Darmstadt and hessian.AI investigate the properties of behavioral economic theories automatically learned by AI in a publication in “Nature Human Behaviour”.
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Second Call: Unite! Seed Fund 2024
2024/01/04
Matchmaking event helps with team building
This time those interested can participate in a virtual matchmaking event to connect with potential partners, so that more Unite! projects can become a reality. The next call will start on 15 January 2024.
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Sustainability in Teaching Pedagogical Course
2023/12/21
Now Open for Unite! Faculty
The course “Sustainability in Teaching” provides theoretical knowledge about sustainability education and practical examples that help to integrate sustainability into your own teaching. Registrations are possible until 2 February 2024.
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CoDaS Master’s Programme in Communications and Data Science
2023/12/19
Application period open
CoDaS, one of the first joint degree programmes offered by the Unite! alliance, has been granted the prestigious Erasmus Mundus funding by Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union in 2023. The application period for studies starting in autumn 2024 is currently ongoing from 4 Dec 2023 to 19 Jan 2024.
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Evaluating Brain Tumours with Artificial Intelligence
2023/12/19
Best Paper Award: Outstanding Publication by TU Researchers Recognised
One application area of artificial intelligence (AI) is in medicine, especially in medical diagnostics. For instance, scans can be analysed automatically with the help of algorithms. An international and interdisciplinary team led by researchers from TU Darmstadt recently investigated whether AI can better evaluate images of brain tumours. For this publication, the team won the Best Paper Award at the world’s largest information systems conference ICIS, prevailing over more than 1,300 other publications.
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Unite! workshop drives collaborative progress in renewable biotechnology
2023/12/12
As part of a Unite! seed funded project, researchers and scientists from KTH Stockholm, TU Darmstadt and TU Graz focus on joint training, hands-on collaboration and new insights in the field of renewable biotechnology.
Sustainable processes for the utilization of carbon dioxide and biomass as future resource base of the industry will highly influence the circular bioeconomy. TU Graz, KTH and TU Darmstadt already hold a strong position in the field of renewable biotechnology, including microbial and enzymatic CO2 utilization and the biocatalytic synthesis of high-value products and commodities. Together they want to unite and expand the biotechnology division within European universities.
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Building up a European Open Science and Innovation University
2023/12/05
The research work led by Rubén Vicente Sáez for Unite! European University Alliance culminated on October 24-25,2023 at Aalto University with the final Open Science Policy Forum.
In the Unite! H2020 project strategic tools and policy guidelines have been developed to advance the modernization of R&I governance models at universities in the digital era. The research work led by Rubén Vicente Sáez for Unite! European University Alliance culminated on October 24-25,2023 at Aalto University with the final Open Science Policy Forum that also gathered stakeholders from the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and the Federation of Finnish Learned Societies. This was the fifth and final policy forum that have taken place in different Unite! universities around Europe involving researchers, staff, university managers, and decision makers. The aim of the final policy forum was to explore how the new university open science and innovation governance model developed in the project can contribute to the solving of grand societal challenges and be scaled-up at European level.
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Research at TU Darmstadt selected as breakthrough in optics in 2023
2023/12/01
Scientists at TU Darmstadt extend research on quantum computing to new dimension
December of each year, OPTICA, the U.S. optical society, selects scientific breakthroughs of particular interest to the broad optics community that have emerged over the past year. In this year, research conducted in the group of Prof. Gerhard Birkl at the Institute of Applied Physics at Technische Universität Darmstadt has been highlighted in this exclusive list. The special issue “Optics in 2023” of the journal „Optics & Photonics News” (OPN) reports on work conducted by Malte Schlosser, Dominik Schäffner, and their colleagues, towards advancing unique architectures for quantum computing and quantum simulation.