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News from LMU
“Constantly mutating variants is not something we expect with monkeypox”
LMU virologist and vaccine researcher Gerd Sutter considers the probability of a monkeypox epidemic in Europe to be low – and sees numerous differences to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Quantum computing: central point of contact for potential users
The German Federal Ministry of Research is backing the construction of a nationwide network.
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“Science is always best when international collaboration is involved”
What does the war in Ukraine mean for science? We asked LMU economist Fabian Waldinger.
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Reliable knowledge about reliable AI
German Academic Exchange Service funds artificial intelligence: A Konrad Zuse School is being established in Munich to provide top emerging talent with training in reliable AI.
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Bees, bioinformatics and bacteria
Newly appointed to LMU, biologist Alexander Keller studies a three-way relationship in the ecosystem.
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9-Euro-Ticket: Fees for the winter semester are set
As announced by the Munich Student Union, due to the introduction of the 9-Euro-Ticket decided by the Bundestag and Bundesrat, the fees for the semester ticket will be reduced for one time for the winter semester 2022/23.
Read moreWar in Ukraine
Understanding what makes perpetrators tick
"Historical narratives often seek to justify mass violence": an interview with LMU literary scholar Juliane Prade-Weiss, who studies the discourses justifying mass violence.
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The German economy: “A huge shadow cast by war“
Professor Monika Schnitzer, economics expert at LMU, on the repercussions of the Ukraine conflict for the German economy.
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“We are anticipating a lot of mental problems”
Fleeing with your life in danger while some relatives have to stay behind: What does that do to refugees? We talked to a trauma expert.
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Events at LMU
31 May–1 June '22 | LMU Latin America Forum
Interdisciplinary conference organized by the LMU Latin America Network
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1 June '22 | Symposium on AI research at LMU
The newly appointed Bavarian AI chairs will introduce themselves and their research.
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2 June '22 | Linguistic and cultural diversity
Event within the framework of the initiative "Diversity4Research@LMU"
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„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.
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Hikikomori: Disappearing quietly
Alone in the room: There are hundreds of thousands of them, people who withdraw from the world at a young age. Japanologist Evelyn Schulz on a phenomenon of social withdrawal
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Living in the face of doom
“The society was constantly in motion": Ancient historian Martin Zimmermann on the spirit of optimism and sense of crisis in the Greek polis
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