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Digitalization for a more sustainable agriculture of the future: Successful conclusion of the LANDNETZ joint project

Over the past five years, the joint project LANDNETZ, funded by the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL), has conducted intensive research into comprehensive communication and cloud networks for the agriculture of the future. A digital experimental field was set up in a selected model region of Saxony. Scientists from TUD, Fraunhofer Institute for Transportation and Infrastructure Systems IVI and employees of the Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology (LfULG) tested various technologies for nationwide wireless data transmission using 5G in rural areas. At the end of the project, the current status of developments was presented at the regional conference "Digital applications for agricultural practice" on June 13.

Maike Heitkamp-Mai (ING School), Dr. André Lindner (BU School) and Dr. Claudia Müller (University Executive Board) represented the TUD at the GSD Congress in Bangkok. © TUD

Major success for TUD in the latest “THE Impact Ranking”

In the renowned Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Ranking 2024, TUD has made it into the top group in the sustainability category "Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure". TUD has once again improved on its already excellent results from 2023 and achieved full points in this Sustainable Development Goal in the current ranking round. This makes it one of the top five universities in this category at national level. From June 10 to 13, TUD presented itself with a stand at the Global Sustainable Development Congress (GSD) in Bangkok, where the ranking results were announced. Representatives from the University Executive Board, the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the School of Engineering Sciences were on site as contact persons. In addition to research projects from both areas, TUD's sustainability efforts in terms of teaching, research and transfer were also presented.

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Dr. Markus Vorrath is new TUD Young Investigator

In spring, the University Executive Board awarded Dr. Markus Vorrath (née Henke) the status of TUD Young Investigator. Vorrath is Junior Research Group Leader of the Emmy Noether MEiTNER Group. His research focuses on compliant, biomimetic robotic systems. The MEiTNER project is investigating multifunctional, flexible dielectric elastomers (DEs), so-called artificial muscles, for such robots. Markus Vorrath received his diploma in Mechatronics and his doctorate in Electrical Engineering from TU Dresden in 2010 and 2014. From 2015 to 2017, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Biomimetics Lab at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute in New Zealand as an MSCA and DAAD scholarship holder of the European Union. In September 2017, Dr. Vorrath returned to the Chair of Microsystems at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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Promoting gender equality in the School of Engineering Sciences: Python workshop publishes conference proceedings

The event "Python for Female Engineers" has already taken place twice as a successful remote format in the School of Engineering Sciences. As an interdisciplinary project, it was organized by Dr. Sabine Apelt (Mechanical Engineering), Dr. Carsten Knoll (Electrical Engineering and Information Technology) and Antje Kazimiers (Computer Science) and carried out together with Dorothea Piko Koch from Hamburg. The School of Engineering Sciences provided financial support from the equal opportunities budget, which, in addition to the expected impact of increasing the number of Research Associates, also resulted in a publication. The SPRING 2022 conference proceedings contain the exercises of the beginner and advanced sections and a field report on the organization and implementation for potential imitators as well as the contributions of the symposium. We would like to thank all contributors for their commitment!

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Exhibition "Shaping Futures Together – Visionary Realities" at the COSMO Science Forum

Until July 18, the exhibition "Visionary Realities" offers the opportunity to experience and explore transformative visions of science and research. To this end, the COSMO Science Forum in the Kulturpalast Dresden has become a hub for the variety of topics, collaborations and partnerships of the TUD's Department of Speculative Transformation – which planned and implemented the exhibition. 15 exhibition modules enable visitors to get to know and try out current scientific activities and methods designed to make the future tangible and understandable today. The exhibition can be visited Tuesdays to Thursdays from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free of charge.

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TUD Impuls ideas platform launched

TUD's new participation format, the digital ideas platform TUD Impuls, has been up and running since the beginning of June. Here, employees and students can submit suggestions for improvement in order to initiate positive changes at TUD with their solutions. We are looking for concrete and economically viable solutions to the challenges facing the university. Anyone can submit ideas anonymously and vote transparently on the platform to decide which ideas should be pursued. In addition, everyone can participate in the discussion about the ideas and support the further development of ideas with individual (specialist) knowledge. Take the opportunity to help shape the TUD and register on the ideas platform. You can register using your ZIH access data.

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Childcare during the summer vacations 2024

As a family-friendly university, the TUD would like to support its employees and students in reconciling work and family responsibilities. The childcare program is available to children in 5th to 8th grade of TUD employees and students. It takes place in the 5th vacation week from July 22 to 26. In principle, this is a free offer, only the costs for lunch, which are expected to total 40 euros, are to be paid by the parents. In the morning, the children visit laboratories and Institutes at TU Dresden and can carry out their own research. The afternoon is organized in cooperation with the Dresden University Sports Center with sports and games.

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Simon Razniewski is new holder of the Chair of Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence

Simon Razniewski has held the Chair of Knowledge-Based Artificial Intelligence at the Faculty of Computer Science since June 1. He completed his degree in Computer Science at the TUD in 2010 and obtained his doctorate at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano in 2014, where he subsequently worked as a Junior Professor for Big Data Quality until 2017. In 2017, Razniewski moved to the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken and took over the "Knowledge Base Construction and Curation" research area as a senior researcher. Since 2023, he has been conducting research in the field of natural language processing and neurosymbolic AI at the Bosch Center for AI in Renningen. His core research areas are language models, knowledge bases, information extraction and common-sense knowledge.

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Jakob Runge appointed Chair of Data Science

Jakob Runge has held the Chair of Data Science at the Faculty of Computer Science since June 1. Runge completed his Physics studies at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin with distinction in 2010 and received his doctorate in 2014 on the topic of "Detecting and Quantifying Causality from Time Series of Complex Systems". For his pioneering contributions, he was awarded the Carl Ramsauer Prize of the Berlin Physical Society and received the Postdoctoral Fellowship Award in Studying Complex Systems from the James S. McDonnell Foundation, which took him to the Grantham Institute of Imperial College London. In 2020, he received an ERC Starting Grant for his interdisciplinary project CausalEarth. Prof. Runge sees his research goals in the development of theories, methods and software for causal inference with a strong application focus.

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Martin Weigert heads Chair of Machine Learning for Spatial Understanding

Martin Weigert has been Professor of Machine Learning for Spatial Understanding at the Faculty of Computer Science since June 1. After completing his Physics degree, Weigert worked as a Research Associate and doctoral student in the research group of Prof. Eugene W. Myers and received his doctorate from him in 2019. Since 2019, the physicist has worked as a group leader at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His main research interests lie in the exploration of robust and efficient machine learning methods for image-based life science applications with a focus on scalable and problem-adapted methods that enable quantitative extraction of information from large microscopy data.

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6th Lessons Learned Conference at the TUD

From August 7 to 9, teachers, those interested in teaching and students at the TUD will be exchanging ideas on the digitalization and modernization of teaching for the sixth time. This year's conference will focus on research-based teaching materials for a better understanding of concepts, gamification and the question of how AI systems can be used effectively for final theses. Lessons Learned will be used in all areas to present concepts, discuss successes and failures, provide suggestions and adapt examples for your own courses. Register for Early Bird until July 8!

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StuFoExpo 2024 "Creative Minds – Ethical Research"

Exciting final theses, seminar papers or other student research projects are still being sought for the 7th exhibition of student research, StuFoExpo 2024. The event will take place on November 7 from 2.30 p.m. to 7.30 p.m. in the Dülfersaal at TU Dresden. Students can still apply until July 19. Please spread the word!

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International excite Summer School "Patents in Search of New Business"

From August 25 to 31, TUD invites young scientists from TUD and the DRESDENconcept partners, from universities in the neighboring European countries Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Poland as well as the EUTOPIA university network to design product ideas and business models based on patented inventions. Applicants will have the opportunity to work in international and interdisciplinary teams, learn new methods of idea generation and business model development and develop their own career prospects. Experienced scientists, entrepreneurs and experts from the TUD network support the entire process. Application is possible until June 30 via the following form: Application excite Summer School.

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Badge of Honor of TUD for employees from the School of Engineering Sciences

Dr. Anja Blüher, Equal Opportunities Officer of the School of Engineering Sciences, Nick Dannenberg, Andreas Hauffe, Matthias Rack and Markus Sontowski as representatives of the IT ING 2023 crisis response team, and Prof. Stefan Gumhold, Chair of Computer Graphics and Visualization at the Faculty of Computer Science, were awarded the TUD Badge of Honour on June 13. Dr. Anja Blüher has been helping to improve the situation of female students and academics in the qualification phase since 2019. She is actively involved in measures of the Equality Concept of the TUD, developed the Equality Plan 2020 to 2030 in the School of Engineering Sciences and proactively initiates formats at the level of subject cultures. The IT ING 2023 crisis response team demonstrated outstanding crisis management during the IT security incident. This performance is exemplary both for the cooperation across departmental and departmental boundaries and for the high level of individual commitment of the IT staff. Prof. Stefan Gumhold has put his heart and soul into promoting sustainability and environmental protection at TUD for many years. He has been Chairman of the Environment Commission since 2018 and has played a key role in shaping the university's strategic direction in this area. Congratulations!

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Prize for outstanding doctorate in systems medicine goes to TUD scientist Simon Syga

Simon Syga has been researching at the Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH) in the Innovative Methods of Computing department since 2018. The mathematician was awarded the prestigious MTZ^® Award for Systems Medicine at the Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells (SBMC) in Leipzig in May 2024 for his dissertation on the effects of genetic and phenotypic heterogeneity on the evolution of tumors.

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Workshop on "Energy and Sustainability at TU Dresden"

With the aim of promoting the linking of the energy research strategy with the sustainability strategy and the future development of an Emerging Field "Energy Systems", the workshop on "Energy and Sustainability at TU Dresden" took place on May 30. Organized and supported by Dr. Nicolle Seifert (Project Scout School of Engineering Sciences) and Dr. Anja Blüher (Science Manager School of Engineering Sciences), there was an intensive exchange between the moderating members of the Vice-Rectorate, scientists and students at the topic tables 1. strategy with a view to campus, mobility and sustainability, 2. strategy with a view to energy research and 3. teaching strategies, interdisciplinarity and Master's programmes. This enabled a wide range of perspectives and opinions to be collected on the topics of excellent energy research, modern teaching formats and content with the cross-cutting topics of sustainability, internationalization and interdisciplinarity. A follow-up is planned for 2024.

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Scientists from the School of Engineering Sciences organized Junior Engineering Academy with Tschirnhaus Gymnasium

Whether making ice cream from liquid nitrogen, soldering a converter to charge a smartphone or testing resource-saving lightweight structures: During the block week from May 27 - 31 at the TUD, the 28 students in grade 8 of the Ehrenfried-Walther-Tschirnhaus-Gymnasium were able to deal with technical sciences, ask questions directly to researchers and become active themselves. With the support of the TUD, the entire school year was filled with curriculum-integrated excursions, lectures and experiments in and outside of school.

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Prof. Ercan Altinsoy as a guest on the "Acoustics & Drinks" podcast

Prof. Ercan Altinsoy holds the Chair of Acoustics and Haptics at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Once a month, the two acoustics experts Johannes Scheyerle and Louis Geerken invite a third person from the field of acoustics to join them for an informal conversation in a relaxed atmosphere. In the 21st episode of their podcast "Acoustics & Drinks", the two talk to Prof. Altinsoy about his personal career, his research, general topics from the field of acoustics and drink Altinsoy's favorite drink, Turkish coffee.

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Podcast "Exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle": Virtual Touch: Bringing the sense of touch to the internet

What would it be like to feel the handshake of a distant colleague or the hug of a loved one over the Internet? How close are we to making this a reality? Two experts from the CeTI Cluster of Excellence talk about their research in the podcast "Exzellent erklärt": Katja Krug is a doctoral student at the Interactive Media Lab Dresden and researches mixed reality at CeTI. Junior Professor Merle Fairhurst is a neuroscientific researcher in the field of acoustics and haptics and focuses on the interaction between sensory signals that enable us to perceive the world around us and interact successfully with others.

Conference

Designing Developing Experiencing – People, technology and methods in product development and design
The teams from the Chair of Virtual Product Development and the Chair of Industrial Design Engineering invite interested parties to discuss current issues, innovations and challenges in product development and design in a proven yet new way.

Messe Dresden

Nobel Prize winner as a guest at TU Dresden

Anne L'Huillier: Attosecond light pulses for the study of electron dynamics
In this lecture in English, some of the most important steps in the field of attosecond research will be presented.

Hörsaalzentrum, Audimax, TU Dresden

Networking event

ConnectING regulars' table: Cross-divisional summer party with FUN (FrauenUmweltNetzwerk)
The regulars' table for female students and employees of the ING School

Meadow in front of the Potthoff-Building

Workshop

Mother-child workshop on robotics
Interested mothers and children can immerse themselves in the world of robotics together with CeTI experts. Registration by mail until July 1, 2024.

TU Dresden, CeTI Cluster of Excellence

Summer School

Internationale excite Summer School „Patents in Search of New Business"

Hoyerswerda

Celebration event

TUD Family Festival
TU Dresden invites young and old to the family festival in the courtyard of the Fritz Foerster Building. Join us and experience a great family afternoon with music, hands-on circus, treats and much more.

courtyard of Fritz Foerster Building

Autumn School

Scientific exploration of the Green Hydrogen Future: Join the Boysen TU Dresden Autumn School 2024
The Boysen TU Dresden Research Training Group invites researchers to the Autumn School on green hydrogen energy value chains. The event is open to master’s students, PhD candidates, and early career professionals. The application deadline is July 12.

TU Dresden, Dülfer-Saal (M13/DÜLF/U)

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