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Work is progressing on the establishment of Munich Quantum Valley

Pioneering network in quantum science has already commenced work and has now been formally founded as an association.

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New entrepreneurship program at LMU and the University of Augsburg

The “impACTup!” program will foster the development of business ideas on how to solve issues of pressing concern for society.

A playful way to overcome learning disorders

Dyslexia and dyscalculia can cause children to fail at school. Early detection is just as important as focused support. Both aspects are at the heart of a research project at LMU University Hospital.

Breathing: the master clock of the sleeping brain

LMU neuroscientists have shown that breathing coordinates neuronal activity throughout the brain while sleeping and resting.

Statistics: Novel approach at LMU allows to transfer survey results across contexts

LMU statistician Frauke Kreuter has developed a method for reliably adapting data from a given sample to a different context.

LMU researcher Dmitri Efetov: Exotic physics in the second dimension

New appointment at LMU Munich: Professor Dmitri Efetov holds the Chair of Experimental Solid State Physics at the Faculty of Physics

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Where is artificial intelligence headed? Where do the challenges lie? At the KI Lectures, researchers provide answers from a variety of disciplines.

LMU astrophysicist sees AI as essential to exploring the universe

In cosmological research, advances in telescopes and cameras are generating enormous amounts of data. Classical algorithms are not up to the task of processing this flood of data — new methods are needed.

The photo shows Professor Enrique Jiménez, Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Literatures at the Institute for Assyriology and Hethitology in the Faculty for the Study of Culture at LMU

Artificial intelligence offers great potential for the study of ancient literature

In the LMU’s “KI Lectures” series, Professor Enrique Jiménez explains how artificial intelligence can enable people to read some of the oldest known scripts.

LMU statistician sees great potential for AI in the social context

At the "KI Lectures" Frauke Kreuter shows how AI and Big Data are used to automate administrative processes and study demographic changes – and what the pitfalls are.

Dynamics of mega earthquakes and tsunamis unraveled
Palaeogene: Low CO2 concentrations favoured grasslands
Laser physics: Exploration of new frequency frontiers

Events at LMU

Porgrammcode ist siluettenhaft vor technischem Hintergrund zu sehen.

7 Feb 2022 | Limitations of AI

The workshop relates to the interdisciplinary analysis of the relationship between AI and human intelligence.

14 Feb 2022 | Green Visions: Taste of hope

Film screening and discussion by the Rachel Carson Center in cooperation with the Deutsches Museum and the Münchner Volkshochschule

Ongoing exhibit: Art at CAS

Until 28 February, the Center for Advanced Studies presents art by Alexandra Hendrikoff and Thomas Sebening.

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INSIGHTS. Magazine

„Releasing Pressure“

What do young people need in the wake of Covid-19? Learning sciences expert Anne Frenzel, child and adolescent psychiatrist Gerd Schulte-Körne, and Sabine Walper, director of the German Youth Institute (DJI), on a post-lockdown generation.

Paleogenomics: Tracing tangled threads through time

When and where did wolves become dogs? LMU geneticist Laurent Frantz uses modern genome sequencing methods to trace the process of animal domestication.