Archive: News of Technical University of Darmstadt

The start-up Lylu opens up the digital world to older people

Maintaining contact with family, shopping, taking an adult education course, watching films or arranging a vaccination appointment: Everyday life for older people has also been increasing shifting over into the digital world, especially since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The start-up company Lylu – which is coached by the HIGHEST Startup and Innovation Center – has launched a new app on the market to help these people gain more digital confidence. It standardizes the use of common websites and services – an innovation that will enable greater digital participation.

Part 2: Research project "PHI-Factory"

If industry wants to face up to the challenges of the energy transition, it must rethink production – a complex transformation process that TU Darmstadt supports with new digital and AI-based solutions. The scientists behind it are application-oriented, interdisciplinary and holistic. Their common goal: to promote emission reductions, resource conservation and flexible energy use technologically. And in doing so, also to contribute to more companies putting environmentally and economically sustainable production on their strategic agendas. In the ETA Factory, researchers and their practical partners have a model factory on the Lichtwiese campus where they can validate their innovations and make them ready for practice.

International Research Team: Inverse kinematics opens unperturbed insight into atomic nuclei

By employing inverse kinematics, an elegant reversion of an established research method, and by choosing appropriate measurement conditions, an international research team has opened a path for a detailed study of properties of the nucleon-nucleon interaction in the atomic nucleus. The experiment has been carried out by a large international collaboration (BM@N Collaboration) led by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), the Tel Aviv University, the TU Darmstadt, as well as the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) at the accelerator facility of JINR in Dubna close to Moscow and published in the latest issue of “Nature Physics”.

A research group led by TU Darmstadt is looking for answers

Over the next four years, the DFG (German Research Foundation) is to finance a consortium that wants to know how nature renews itself. This is nothing less than the script for the natural regeneration of the rainforest and how this process can be strengthened from the outside.

Part 1: Research project "Agile resource-efficient production network"

Intelligent and networked machines with the lowest possible carbon footprint protect the environment and save resources. Researchers at TU Darmstadt reveal how this works.

Research project "REScala"

The world is turning into a global “supercomputer” consisting of sensors, smart devices, laptops, desktops, and (cloud) servers all connected via the Internet. A team led by computer sciences professor Mira Mezini is developing new programming approaches that automatically deal with the complexity of this “world supercomputer” so that software developers can focus on solving real problems.

Research at the Institute for Production Engineering and Forming Machines

Normally, Andreas Wächter and Lukas Kluy deal with titanium alloys for dental implants. Almost as an aside, they developed a model for increasing the energy efficiency of production processes.

3rd Dialogue of the European University Alliance Unite!

Unite! convened online for its big event, the Unite! Dialogue from 8th to 10th March 2021. The biggest Unite! event yet – gathering more than 350 guests from all over Europe for the public session – was hosted virtually by Grenoble INP-UGA. Furthermore, the third Dialogue had three premieres to offer: a public session, the inauguration of the Student Forum SURE! and an open call for the thematic parallel sessions – resulting in 18 lively workshops to bring Unite! further ahead.

German and Russian scientists join forces to improve performance tuning on supercomputers

To better understand the efficiency of programs on supercomputers, scientists rely on performance measurements. The performance of the actual algorithm is difficult to evaluate. In a German-Russian joint project partners from Darmstadt, Jülich and Moscow are working on less sensitive analysis methods.

"Science" publication with participation of TU Darmstadt

A team of international researchers, including Dr. Marius Eichler and Prof. Almudena Arcones from the TU Darmstadt and GSI, went back to the formation of our Solar System, 4.6 billion years ago, and gained new insights into the cosmic origin of the heaviest elements on the periodic table, as reported in a study published in Science.

Publication in „Nature“ under participation of TU Darmstadt

A team from the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt has contributed to an international research collaboration aiming to clarify the way the angular momentum („spin“) of the two fragments, resulting from the splitting of an atomic nucleus, is generated.

TU Darmstadt occupies top positions in international ranking

TU Darmstadt has once again proven its internationally outstanding position in the field of computer science. Professor Oskar von Stryk is listed in 21st place in the ranking of the Top 25 Influential Computer Scientists Today. In addition, Professor Kristian Kersting recieved an "honorable mention“. In the ranking of the most influential universities in the field of computer science, the TU also reached an excellent result with 35th place as the only German university among the top 50. The ranking was compiled by the Academic Influence platform.

The TU spin-off etalytics utilizes an AI-based cloud platform

Efficient and sustainable? Conventional control processes for energy systems are extremely limited when it comes to these criteria. This is why etalytics GmbH has developed a data and AI-based energy management system that supports users with the optimisation of their energy systems. And their business model is as innovative as the technology: This spin-off from TU Darmstadt – which is being supported by the HIGHEST Startup and Innovation Center at TU Darmstadt and a broad network of contacts – plans to launch its product on the market this year and then distribute it as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution.

TU9 celebrates its birthday with launch of new website

On January 26, 2006, an informal exchange between the heads of nine leading Technical Universities became the TU9 Alliance. For 15 years now, TU9 has embodied forward-looking, creative research in engineering and the natural sciences and has been acting as an advocacy group among partners from science, industry and politics.

The TU spin-off NanoWired is ready to make its breakthrough on the market

Products made by NanoWired GmbH – a recent “winner” at the Falling Walls conference – can be used in anything that requires connections from PCs, mobile devices, televisions or cars through to heart catheters and washing machines. For this purpose, the start-up – which was founded in 2017 – relies on conductive metal wires measuring just a few nanometres. Managing Director Olav Birlem explains why the company’s technology is so successful and how it will grow on the market. The electrical engineer and consultant is optimistic about the future despite the coronavirus pandemic.