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Harvesting more solar energy with supercrystals
Hydrogen is a building block for the energy transition. To obtain it with the help of solar energy, LMU researchers have developed new high-performance nanostructures.
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Studying diseases and healing people
Germany Scholarship holder Tobias Ellinger spends his days researching new therapeutic methods for cardiovascular diseases in the laboratory.
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Transplantation medicine: Hearts and minds
Pigs are used as model organisms for studying diseases, and they could also become organ donors for humans. We visit LMU’s Center for Innovative Medical Models to find out more.
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7 December 2023 | Climate Change, Conflict, and Cooperation
Lecture at the Center for Advanced Studies given by Professor Miranda Schreurs and Professor Vally Koubi.
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until 4 December 2023 | Exhibition: Friends and Foes
Researchers from TRR356 at the Faculty of Biology use their photographs to provide a microscopic view of biological processes.
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until 10 April 2024 | A visit to the Philologicum: TUM archive and collections
Some 30 selected exhibits depicting the history of the TUM plus items from its current and historical collections will be on display at the library.
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“There is no 100% protection”
LMU computer scientist Dieter Kranzlmüller, Managing Director of the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, about cybersecurity in the era of the first quantum computers – a portrait
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"Like a stage, platform by platform”
Railway stations symbolize the onset of modernity. They stand for connections and encounters. We join Margit Dirscherl, a Germanist who studies the fascination that railway stations have held for writers, on a whistle-stop tour through literary history.
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Structures in the fog
AI tools such as the Stable Diffusion model developed by Björn Ommer are teaching computers how to see and paint. A portrait
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