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Good luck to Isar #Aerospace on the first test flight of its #rocket! 🚀 Watch the live stream to follow the launch.
Countdown begins for the first test flight of Spectrum. Subject to weather, safety and range infrastructure, the launch window opens 12:30pm – 03:30pm CEST. Public livestream via: piped.video/live/IKLQxe2MvpQ #goingfullspectrum Photo: Isar Aerospace | Robin Brillert, Wingmen Media
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TUM remains a University of Excellence! With a comprehensive reform package we have again been successful in the excellence competition of the German federal and state governments: go.tum.de/035536 #ExcellenceStrategy #Exzellenzstrategie #ExStra
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In #solidarity with the people of #Ukraine, our Thiersch tower is lit up in the Ukrainian national colors. #standwithukraine #peace Picture: Andreas Heddergott
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The latest edition of the @timeshighered World University Rankings once again rank us as the number one university in Germany and the EU, and among the TOP 30 worldwide: go.tum.de/099070🥳 #THEUniRankings #unirankings #researchenvironment @THEworldunirank 📷S. Woidig
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Today, #SamAltman, CEO of OpenAI, visited our university for a public discussion on #AI in our packed Audimax, moderated by Reinhard Heckel, our Professor of #MachineLearning. Watch the recap here: piped.video/uaQZIK9gvNo #ChatGPT @TUMSpeakers 📷L.Preiss 🎥@ProLehre
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Our #university ranks 22nd worldwide in the latest QS World University #Rankings – entering the top 25 for the first time and staying number one in Germany for the 11th year in a row: go.tum.de/974607🥳 #QSWUR @TopUnis @worlduniranking 📷A.Heddergott
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The new QS World #University #Ranking has ranked TUM as the best German university for the sixth time in a row: go.tum.de/280427 @worlduniranking #QSWUR
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The new Global #University #Employability #Ranking lists us 6th worldwide for the second time in a row! go.tum.de/615674 #THEunirankings
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The #Global #University #Employability #Ranking 2018 lists us 6th worldwide! This is again the top spot among the German universities in the ranking, for which #HR managers from 22 countries were asked to name the universities with the best #graduates: go.tum.de/322504
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We will establish 14 new professorships in the fields of #ArtificialInteligence and #MachineLearning as part of the Bavarian government's #HightechAgendaBayern: go.tum.de/550987
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Congratulations to David Baker on receiving the #NobelPrize in #Chemistry! 👏 As a Distinguished Affiliated Professor at our university, the #biochemist is being awarded the prize for his work in the field of computational #proteindesign: go.tum.de/230045 📷U.Benz
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On May 25, @HeckelReinhard, Professor of #MachineLearning at the Department of #ComputerEngineering, will talk about #AI with Sam Altman, founder of #ChatGPT, in the Audimax. Register now (seats are limited!): go.tum.de/583016 📷OpenAI
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Congratulations to our TUM Hyperloop team – winners of the 2019 SpaceX #Hyperloop #Pod Competition with a top speed of 463 km/h!
We are happy to announce that we have reached a top speed of 463 km/h today. Although we lost some parts on the way, we were able to successful finish our run and are proud to be the winners of the 2019 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. Break a pod :wink: @SpaceX @elonmusk
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The new @timeshighered ranking is the third major academic ranking in a year that lists us as No. 1 in Germany!🎉🥳Overall we climb to No. 30 worldwide and took the top spot in the EU: go.tum.de/418361 @worlduniranking @ShanghaiRanking #highereducation #WUR2023
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Replying to @elonmusk @Hyperloop
Congrats from Munich! 🎉
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Congratulations to our professor @UlrikeProtzer for being awarded the Bavarian #OrderofMerit! 🎉The virologist received this order for her research and educational work on #SARSCov2: mri.tum.de/news/prof-ulrike-… #coronavirus #COVID19 #virology Picture: Bayerische Staatskanzlei
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After 24 years, Wolfgang A. Herrmann just handed over the presidency of TUM to Thomas F. Hofmann. We thank him for one of the most successful presidencies in German university history: go.tum.de/435246
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We wish all students, staff, alumni and friends of our university #HappyHolidays! #SeasonsGreetings from TUM: go.tum.de/179030 📷A. Heddergott
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Our biomathematician @fabian_theis receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2023 from the @dfg_public for his work on #GenomicData.👏 Congratulations! go.tum.de/309315 #Biomathematics #AI #LeibnizPreis 📷A. Eckert
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Good morning from a snow-covered campus! Wishing you a great start to the weekend. ❄️ #university #campus #munich #wintervibes 📷 E.Totoeva
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Congratulations to our team WARR that just won the @Hyperloop #Pod Competition at @SpaceX for the third time in a row. Here is their run with a with a peak speed of 467 km/h (290 mph)!
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Our university is placed 26th worldwide in the @timeshighered rankings, making it the #topuniversity in the EU!🎉 With strong interdisciplinary research, we continue to lead the way in #teaching and #innovation: go.tum.de/847165 #THEunirankings #HigherEducation 📷A.Eckert
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Our student initiative #WARRHyperloop did it again! Congrats from Munich!! #Hyperloop #SpaceX #HyperloopPodCompetition
Congratulations to WARR team from Tech Univ Munich for winning 2nd @Hyperloop competition! Peak speed of 324 km/h, which is over 200 mph!!
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In the new edition of the #QS World #University #Rankings we climbed nine places to 28th worldwide! 🥳 Among German universities, we are placed number one: go.tum.de/715188 #QSWUR #HigherEducation @TopUnis @worlduniranking 📷D.Delang
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#Phosphorus is a very important nutrient for plants. @carogutj and her team have now demonstrated how a #RootSymbiosis with fungi is driven at the #MolecularLevel by the plant’s phosphate status: go.tum.de/930502 #sustainability #AgriculturalCrops #PlantGenetics
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On January 31, Caroline Gutjahr will talk about the interaction between microorganisms and plants in our #onlinelecture series TUM@Freising. The Zoom webinar starts at 7 pm: go.tum.de/026008 #plantgenetics #SustainableAgriculture #ectomycorrhizalfungi #lifesciences
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The #QS World University #Rankings once again rank us as the number one #university in Germany and among the top 40 universities worldwide: go.tum.de/921066 🎉 #QSWUR #HigherEducation @worlduniranking @TopUnis 📷S.Woidig
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Our Thiersch Tower is shining green today! @Seebruecke_intl has called for this campaign to draw attention to the #HumanitarianEmergency on the Polish-Belarusian border. The light is originally a sign of the Polish citizens to show a #safeharbor to people seeking #protection.💚
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For the 7th time in a row, we made the 1st place in Germany in the new "QS World University Ranking"! 🎉 Internationally, we are among the best 50 universities: go.tum.de/064436 @worlduniranking #QSWUR #rankings #scienceranking
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Today, we welcome a total of 48,000 enrollees, 38% of whom are #internationalstudents - both new all-time highs! We are particularly happy that #studying can take place on #campus again! go.tum.de/082343 #newsemester #welcome
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Our thoughts are with the victims of the earthquake in #Turkey and #Syria. Find here a statement of our President Thomas F. Hofmann as well as infos on how to donate: go.tum.de/633750 📷A. Eckert
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Within the international #KATRIN experiment located at @KITKarlsruhe researchers discovered that a #neutrino is lighter than 0.8 electron volts. This world record presicion is relevant for both #particlephysics and #cosmology: go.tum.de/449582 #neutrinomass
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We wish you and your families a happy and healthy new year! 🎇🥳 At the same time, we would like to thank everyone who has accompanied us through a challenging and successful year in 2022. #HappyNewYear #2023 📷A. Eckert
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Yesterday, the #Hyperloop test track at the #Ottobrunn campus was opened for the first passenger journeys by Bavaria's Minister President Markus Söder and Science Minister Markus Blume: go.tum.de/689165 👏 #hightechagendabayern #Mobility 📷A. Heddergott, @TUM_Hyperloop
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Congratulations to our @TUfast_eco Team on the #GuinnessWorldRecord for the longest-range #electriccar in the world! 🥳The team drove more than 2,573 kilometers on a single #batterycharge: go.tum.de/700252 #mobility 📷MCube/Viktoriya Zayika
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Congratulations to twelve of our #researchers who were awarded prestigious #StartingGrants worth up to 1.5 million euros each 🎉 : go.tum.de/256894 #ERCStG @ERC_Research
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Congratulations to our "TUM Autonomous Motorsport" team on the success in the #AutonomousChallenge @ #CES2022 in Las Vegas! 🏆Their #AI-controlled race car has won the second place and reached up to 270 kilometers per hour: go.tum.de/026902 #autonomousdriving #IAC2022
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Our TUM #Autonomous #Motorsport Team won first place at the Abu Dhabi #AutonomousRacing League! 🥳 Their #fullyautomated vehicle mastered spectacular overtaking maneuvers and speeds of up to 250 km/h. Congratulations! go.tum.de/923041 #AI 📷TUM Autonomous Motorsport
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The latest edition of the QS World University Rankings places us as number one among German universities for the eighth time in a row and among the top 50 universities in the world: go.tum.de/980985 🥳 #QS #QSWUR #University #HigherEducation @topunis @topuniranking
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Scientists, including @angelaqdai, Professor of 3D #ArtificialIntelligence, developed DriverAerNet++, the largest open-source database for #aerodynamic car design, to reduce costs, improve #fuelefficiency, and advance #electricvehicles: go.tum.de/560926 @MIT 📷A.Eckert
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Until 19 April 2020, we will not be holding any classroom courses at our university and the number of exams will be severely restricted. This is to stop the dynamic spread of the #coronavirus. Find current information here: go.tum.de/968533
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"Mia san g'impft" and therefore we join the German campaign #ZusammenGegenCorona. Only together can we defeat the pandemic. Our appeal is: Get vaccinated! Learn more at go.tum.de/982059 #covid19 #miasangimpft #tumuenchen #TogetherAgainstCorona
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The latest issue of the #THEUniRankings places TUM again among Europe's four best technical universities. Among German universities, we rank number 2 for the third time in a row. In the worldwide ranking we move up one spot on rank 43: go.tum.de/770682
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For the fifth time in a row, @worlduniranking ranks TUM as the best German #university: go.tum.de/038970 #QSWUR #Ranking
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Congratulations to our team from @TUM_Boring who won the #NotABoringCompetition yesterday in Las Vegas.🏆 They managed to drill 22 of the total 30 meters necessary and came away the undisputed winner: go.tum.de/020570 #innovation #tunneling #winner #ElonMusk
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We wish you and your families a good start to 2025! 🎆 Thank you to everyone who has accompanied us through a successful year. 📷 A. Eckert #TUMunich #HappyNewYear #NewYear2025 #Munich #campus #sunset
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Congratulations to @EResconi, @fabian_theis and @LickertHeiko, whose projects will be supported with ERC Advanced Grants - making it a total of 157 #ERCGrants for researchers at our university: go.tum.de/829310 #ERCAdG #medicine #astrophysics #MachineLearning @ERC_Research
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Congratulations to our Alumnus Prof. Dr. Joachim Frank on being awarded the #NobelPrize in #chemistry! go.tum.de/356101 #cryoelectron
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Microsoft CEO @satyanadella will visit our Munich School of #Robotics and #MachineIntelligence tomorrow during a virtual tour of Germany. Watch his talk with Director Sami Haddadin and students in the livestream starting 3.45 pm: go.tum.de/043004 #MSRM
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Here are some of last year's tumstudentpics. If you also took a great photo at a campus, send your #tumcampuspic to social-media@tum.de! We always share one of them at the beginning of a month. 📷E.Kissel, H.Hahne, S.Ling, A.Prasad
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As a sign of its historical responsibility, our #university is removing the names of buildings and rooms that bear the names of personalities associated with Nazi history. Also, a new place of #rememberance will be opened in July: go.tum.de/289206 #campus 📷A.Heddergott
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Congratulations to Julia Herzen, Karl Duderstadt and Job Boekhoven who receive the prestigious #ERC Consolidator Grants from @ERC_Research: go.tum.de/320269 🥳 #xrayimaging #dna #SupramolecularChemistry @MIBE_TUM @DuderstadtLab @BoekhovenLab 📷R.Lahn
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Congratulations to the new #IEEEFellow Nassir Navab! He was chosen for his outstanding achievements in #AugmentedReality-based applications in medicine and #computeraided interventions: go.tum.de/490357 @IEEEorg #fellowship #medicalresearch @MIRMI_TUM
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We wish you and your families a happy and healthy new year! 🎉🎇 #HappyNewYear #2024 📷L. Schmidt This #sunrise was shot at the #EnvironmentalResearch Station Schneefernerhaus on #Zugspitze, where our scientists conduct research.
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Twelve of our scientists were listed in the latest Highly Cited Researchers #rankings worldwide which analyzed #publications of the last 10 years. Congratulations 👏: go.tum.de/426707 #HighlyCited2022
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Welcome@TUM! More than 6,000 of our new #students joined us at yesterday´s first-years’ event with live music in Garching! 🤩🎉The #university board with president Thomas F. Hofmann as well as student representatives greeted our newcomers: go.tum.de/102936
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Researchers discovered a potentially promising link between persistent #COVID19 symptoms and changes in the #BloodVessels of the eye. This standardized eye exam could e.g. help diagnose #LongCovid: go.tum.de/681072 #Healthcare #ChronicInflammation 📷Dept. of #Nephrology
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We are happy to welcome Eleftheria Zeggini as #LieselBeckmann Professor at the new Chair of Translational #Genomics of our School of #Medicine! go.tum.de/405205 @EleZeggini #Genetics #BigData
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On Friday we celebrated the foundation of our Munich School of #Robotics and #MachineIntelligence (#MSRM) in the #PinakothekderModerne: go.tum.de/220520
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Outstanding new #rankings: The @worlduniranking again lists us as the best German #university and according to the #NatureIndex our #scientists nationwide publish the most in #academic #journals of the publishing groups @nature and @sciencemagazine : go.tum.de/602055
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The new "Academic Ranking of World Universities" ranks us first in Germany and 56th worldwide.🥳The annual #ranking evaluates the #researchperformance of the world´s #universities: go.tum.de/570512 #research #ARWU @ShanghaiRanking
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In a new #massspectrometry center we will work together with @LMU_Muenchen, @HelmholtzMunich and @MPI_Biochem on research into #multiplesclerosis, #Alzheimers, #stroke and #braintumors. The center will receive 6 million euros in federal funding: go.tum.de/234586
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The latest issue of the #THEUniRankings places TUM among the three best universities in the #EU. Among German universities, we again rank number 2, and in the worldwide ranking we move up two spots to rank 41: go.tum.de/349038
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Isar #Aerospace, a spin-off of our university, conducted the first #testflight of its rocket — marking the first launch of a #carrierrocket designed to transport loads into #orbit from Western Europe: go.tum.de/254754 👏 📷B.Kenniston, NASASpaceflight .com/Isar Aerospace
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1st place for our university in the #ImpactRanking of the British "Times Higher Education" magazine. We scored highest in the categories of #innovation, #infrastructure and #industry: go.tum.de/661320 #ranking #THEglobalimpact
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It's great to welcome 14,500 #newstudents at our #university! 🥳Yesterday, president Thomas F. Hofmann greeted the newcomers and introduced the board and some student clubs at our #firstyears' event in Garching: go.tum.de/305800 📷A.Heddergott
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In the latest edition of the QS Best Student Cities #Ranking, #Munich placed second-best #university #city in the world. A favorite with #students, excellent job opportunities for #graduates and outstanding quality of life: go.tum.de/610271 #BestStudentCities #StudentLife
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.@Google is new “TUM Partner of Excellence”! Furthermore we established a long-term partnership on #research and #innovation in the fields of #ArtificialIntelligence, #MachineLearning and #Robotics: go.tum.de/666166
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Fall outside..🍂 Wishing you a great start to the week from our Munich campus! #pictureperfect #fall
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Congratulations to "TUM Autonomous Motorsport" who won the #IndyAutonomousChallenge in Indianapolis and received a cash price of one million US dollars. 🏆 The race car made fastest time with an average speed of 218 kilometers per hour: go.tum.de/975812 #winner
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The new edition of QS World University Rankings lists us among the top 25 universities in five subjects. 🎉 We are rated particularly well in #physics, #chemistry, #architecture and #engineering: go.tum.de/238962 #QSWUR @TopUnis
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Our #university has again moved up in the renowned @THEworldunirank and now counts as one of the 10 best universities in #Europe. We're proud to have been ranked among the top 40 universities in the world: go.tum.de/404653 #THEUniRankings #ranking #HigherEducation
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Today, Chancellor Angela #Merkel and a delegation of the Bavarian State Government visited our Munich School of #Robotics and #MachineIntelligence #MSRM, had a look at research projects and discussed with our students and professors.
Kanzlerin #Merkel diskutiert mit Studenten der @TU_Muenchen über Künstliche Intelligenz und besichtigt zusammen mit Ministerpräsident @Markus_Soeder an der Munich School of Robotics and Machine Intelligence herausragende Beispiele aktueller Forschung und Wissenschaft.
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An application developed by TUM students uses #machinelearning techniques to predict who will be left standing in #GameofThrones : go.tum.de/409080 #Bioinformatics #javascript
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In the #QS Best Student Cities Rankings from @TopUnis, Munich once again ranked second place among university cities worldwide!🎉🥳From the #internationality of the universities to the quality of life, many factors were covered in the assessment: go.tum.de/466404 #QSWUR
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#ShanghaiRanking 2018 places TUM among #Top50 universities worldwide & best technical university in #Germany go.tum.de/657032 #university #ranking #science #research #ARWU2018 #ARWU
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Researchers found a subset of #Tcells which are crucial for maintaining the immune response against #chronicinfections and #cancer. Their findings could lead to better targeted #immunotherapies: go.tum.de/478190 #immunesystem @VeitBuchholz
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The new TUM Institute for #Ethics in #ArtificialIntelligence at our #MCTS will be supported by @facebook with 6.5 million euros in the first five years: go.tum.de/351663
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Happy International #WomeninScienceDay! 🎉👩‍🔬 Today we want to introduce you to the female researchers in our Cluster of Excellence ORIGINS, which investigates the origin of the #universe and life: piped.video/watch?v=6n0dk_5G… #cosmos #WomenInScience #femaleempowerment #WomenInSTEM
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Big shout out and congrats to our team from @TUM_Boring - your hard work has paid off! 🥳🎉
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We have founded the Munich Center for #MachineLearning (MCML) together with @LMU_Muenchen. Teams from #DataScience, #ComputerScience and #Statistics will work here on processing various types of data: go.tum.de/988008 #DeepLearning #ComputerVision #PatternRecognition
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The new "THE World University Rankings by Subject" list us among the Top50 worldwide in the subject groups #ComputerScience (14), #Engineering (24), #PhysicalSciences (25) and #LifeSciences (41), and three times among the Top10 in Europe: go.tum.de/975060 #THEUniRankings
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Angela Casini's research group works on #organometallic #gold complexes that open up a new approach to #cancertherapy and novel #metallacages for #drugstransport. Read more in the latest issue of our #research magazine "Faszination Forschung": go.tum.de/220037 #chemistry
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Our Institute for Advanced Study offers #Fellowship programs for international #scientists who would like to visit our university to collaborate with our researchers. Apply by January 31: go.tum.de/361124 #PhD #PostDoc 📷M. Buck
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Sami Haddadin, Director of our #Munich School of #Robotics and #MachineIntelligence (#MSRM), has been appointed by the Bavarian State Government to chair the newly established Bavarian AI Council: go.tum.de/877077 #AI #MachineLearning #Bavaria #HightechAgendaBayern
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TUM ranked among #Europe's Top 10 most innovative universities in new #ReutersRanking: go.tum.de/011081
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In a new research program our @TUM_Hyperloop team and scientists from our Department of Aerospace and Geodesy will work together on the realization of the #Hyperloop #transportation system. This will involve an own test #tube and a full-size #prototype: go.tum.de/766900
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#Happyholidays to you and your families! The picture by Astrid Eckert shows a #ChristmasTree inside the faculty building of our Department of Mathematics and our Department of Informatics. go.tum.de/829171 #merrychristmas
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We celebrate the opening of the "Center for Functional #Protein Assemblies" (CPA), the new complex for #interdisciplinary research in #biomedicine, subsidized with 40 million euros from the federal and state governments: go.tum.de/003128 👏 #molecules #proteininteractions
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Welcome back to campus! 🤩 We hope you have a great start to the new semester! 📷M. Kastl #newsemester #campus #students
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Today, @angelaschoellig and @DanielRueckert will receive #Humboldt Professorships for research in #ArtificialIntelligence. Read the interview about their work on making #robotics safer and using #AI against diseases: go.tum.de/605858 #AvHProfessor #MachineLearning
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Congratulations to our TUM Autonomous #Motorsport team on winning first place at the @IndyAChallenge in Las Vegas! 🎉Since 2021, the team has been competing against other universities with fully automated #racing cars: go.tum.de/294472 #AI #autonomousdriving 📷TUM
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This week we are welcoming 13,800 new students. These increase the total number to 42,000, of which one third comes from abroad: go.tum.de/096909 #wintersemester #studyingermany #internationalstudents
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To directly support students affected by the earthquakes, we launched an #emergencyrelief #scholarship and exams can be postponed without bureaucratic complications: go.tum.de/196001 #Turkey #Syria 📷A. Heddergott
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Welcome back! We wish our students a good start into the #SummerSemester and lots of fun on #Campus! 👨‍🎓📚 #semesterstart #lectureperiod Image: Andreas Gebert
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TUM ranks number 44 worldwide in #THEUniRankings and is among top 4 European technical universities: go.tum.de/018634
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With a #fundraiser for students and a #fellowshipprogram for researchers, we want to directly support people affected by the war in #Ukraine. Join us – every donation counts: go.tum.de/389077 #StandWithUkraine #HelpUkraine
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Today, Prof. Lothar H. Wieler, president of @rki_de, will speak at our Bavarian School of Public Policy's #MunichTalks on the fight against the #COVID19 #pandemic - follow the live stream from 9.30 am: go.tum.de/070006
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