Snippets of the Network

What is the conductor's test and who has one of the best views in all of Munich? During our look behind the scenes, the theater at Gärtnerplatz in Munich revealed many a secret.

About 350 guests at­tend­ed the tradi­tional New Year's recep­tion in Mu­nich at the LMU’s Great Hall in the anni­ver­sary year of the Max We­ber Pro­gram. The festive event kicked off the new annu­al theme "Drive".

The Inter­na­tional Doc­torate Pro­gram “Um(Welt)Denken” met for inspir­ing soft skills semi­nars at the Schneefernerhaus. This loca­tion pro­vided a unique plat­form for ob­serva­tions of the im­pres­sive moun­tain land­scape. An­ne-So­phie Balzer cap­tured the spe­cial at­mosphere in a poem writ­ten dur­ing her stay there.

The MWP Ljubljana Sum­mer Academy of 2024 fo­cused on the Dan­ube region. Guid­ed by Dr. Edit Kirá­ly and Dr. Olivia Spiri­don, participants developed the impressive virtual exhibition "Along the Danube – Between Myths and Moments".

“You’re simp­ly the best” – En­joya­ble cere­mony for the grad­uates of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia in Re­gens­burg, in­clud­ing the presentation of certif­icates and con­gratu­la­tions by Minis­ter of State Blume.

On 9 No­vem­ber 2024, around 400 new mem­bers had the op­por­tunity to get to know the wide range of offer­ings of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia and to estab­lish first con­tacts at the Get To­gether in the Au­dimax of the TU Mu­nich.

Prof. An­dreas Kipf, grad­uate of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Soft­ware Engi­neer­ing", gave a lec­ture in the lec­ture series of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram. In his lec­ture, Prof. Kipf pre­sent­ed re­search on using ma­chine learn­ing for data­bases.

In the mul­ti-part 6 months ESA Chal­lenge, the SATEC stu­dents were able to pre­vail against strong com­peti­tion and con­vince the jury with flexi­bility, re­source effi­ciency and au­tono­my in the opera­tion of the simu­lated satel­lite Mel­vin.

A stu­dent group from Mu­nich de­veloped a mo­lecu­lar re­cord­ing tool at the RNA level with a fluo­rescent readout, earn­ing a Gold Medal at the iGEM syn­thetic biolo­gy com­peti­tion, com­peting against over 400 teams worldwide.

As part of the sec­ond Sum­mer School of the Inter­national Doctorate Pro­gram Phi­lology, PhD stu­dents were offered a plat­form to dis­cuss their dis­serta­tions and were given indi­vidual per­spec­tives in career talks with their su­pervi­sors.