#WednesdayCoffeeTalk
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: “Converting chemical energy into motion” by @boekhovenlab.bsky.social!

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December 9, 2024 at 12:39 PM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Niklas Boers from @tum.de on "Destabilizing Earth System Components".

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A study shows that four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's #climatesystem are losing stability. Their interactions could cross #tippingpoints, causing abrupt, irreversible global changes: go.tum.de/354660

#climatechange

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Four central climate components are losing stability
Four of the most important interconnected parts of the Earth's climate system are losing stability. This is shown by an international scientific study.
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December 15, 2025 at 1:28 PM
1st #WednesdayCoffeeTalk of 2026:
@elawprof.bsky.social Dirk Heckmann on "Beyond Blackletter Law: Creative Legal Thinking for the #DigitalAge”.

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January 12, 2026 at 11:11 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Alumnus #Philosopher in Residence Roberto Giuntini (University of Cagliari) on "When is a #Quantum Computer Really Quantum?”

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April 27, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The last #WednesdayCoffeeTalk of this summer semester: Florian Egli @tum.de on "The challenge of creating value for all in the global transition towards sustainability".

Part of the IAS Seminar Series of European Universities on Sustainability! DM us for more info.

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July 21, 2025 at 9:45 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Angela Casini @medbioinorgchem.bsky.social on "A #LEGO-like Strategy to Assemble the Next Generation of #Radiopharmaceuticals.”

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January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Michael Knap of @tum.de will talk about “Shedding Light on the Building Blocks of Nature: Simulating Fundamental Physics with #QuantumComputers.”

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#QuantumPhysics #FundamentalPhysics
June 23, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Alumnus Philosopher in Residence Rico Gutschmidt on “Against the system. Marcuse’s Heidegger-Marxism”.

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#Marcuse #Heidegger #Marxism #philosophy

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July 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: #LeibnizPreis winner and @tum.de Humboldt Professor @danielrueckert.bsky.social will talk about "AI and the Future of Medicine".

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#AI #Medicine @humboldt-foundation.de
AI pinpoints stroke timing with high accuracy
Researchers have developed an algorithm that can determine the timing of a stroke with exceptional precision, outperforming current approaches.
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June 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Illia Savchenko from the National University of Ukraine on "Modified morphological analysis-based tool set for mastering underground space of metropolises."

Tomorrow at 1 p.m. - DM us for Zoom info!

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#UkraineScience
May 27, 2025 at 7:48 AM
#WednesdayCoffeeTalk is back for the summer semester! Join us and @adai.bsky.social to find out about how to teach machines to craft 3d.

Hosted this week by @awykowska.bsky.social!

All talks are online, so just DM us for the Zoom info.
Two more weeks until our #WednesdayCoffeeTalk is back! We are starting the summer semester on April 30 with @adai.bsky.social talking about "Teaching Machines to Craft 3D."

Join us via Zoom at 1 p.m.! DM us for Zoom info.

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April 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Two more weeks until our #WednesdayCoffeeTalk is back! We are starting the summer semester on April 30 with @adai.bsky.social talking about "Teaching Machines to Craft 3D."

Join us via Zoom at 1 p.m.! DM us for Zoom info.

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April 16, 2025 at 8:20 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Hussam Amrouch (AI Processor Design @tum.de) will talk about “Silicon Diplomacy: Chips, Power, and the Politics of AI Compute.”

Join us at 1 pm online - DM us for Teams access info!
First university-designed 7-nanometer AI chip
The EU's first AI chip with modern 7-nanometre technology has been developed at TUM. Prof. Hussam Amrouch aims to develop three new designs each year.
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July 6, 2026 at 1:08 PM
Next week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Dieter Schwarz Fellow Kejia Hu from Saïd Business School @ox.ac.uk on "Digital Transformation Pathway: The Value of Hybrid Talent."

1 p.m. on Wednesdays - DM us for Teams access info!

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June 12, 2026 at 9:22 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Anna Boyksen Fellow Nathalie from @unihannover.bsky.social will be talking about “From City to System: Computational Thinking in Postwar Urbanism”

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June 30, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Today's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Veronika Schlosser from the @tum.de Chair of Sustainability Assessment of Food & Agricultural Systems: “Biodiversity impacts of recent land-use change driven by increases in agri-food imports”

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May 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Cathleen Zeymer from @tumuenchen.bsky.social on the #NobelPrize2024 in Chemistry: "From protein structure prediction to de novo #proteindesign.”
Join us tomorrow at 1 p.m.!

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December 17, 2024 at 8:26 AM
Next week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Hans Fischer Senior Fellow Heather Kulik @kulikgroup.bsky.social will talk about "The Evolution of Discovery: Mapping Chemistry’s Family Tree”.

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July 10, 2026 at 9:25 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Markus Siewert from @tum.de and the Munich School of Politics and Public Policy will talk about "“From Ideas to Impact: The TUM Think Tank in Action.”

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May 12, 2025 at 8:59 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk will again focus on the #NobelPrize2025: Benjamin Lienhard will talk about "2025 Nobel Prize in Physics: From Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena to Superconducting #QuantumComputing."

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Nobel Prize in Physics
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November 24, 2025 at 12:50 PM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Jürgen Hauer, professor for #DynamicSpectroscopies @tum.de, will talk about "Fast, Faster, #Photosynthesis: Tracking ultrafast light harvesting dynamics with multidimensional spectroscopy"

Tomorrow at 1 p.m. - DM us for Zoom info!

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Quantum mechanics helps with photosynthesis
In photosynthesis, plants rely heavily on quantum mechanical effects for loss-free energy transport.
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May 20, 2025 at 8:12 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Rebecca Preller from the University of Bayreuth's Institute for #Entrepreneurship & #Innovation: "Inventions, Innovations, and Entrepreneurial Action: How Scientists Can Translate Scientific Discovery into Innovations with Impact”

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Scientists Meet Scientists – TUM-IAS Wednesday Coffee Talk “Inventions, Innovations, and Entrepreneurial Action: How Scientists Can Translate Scientific Discovery into Innovations with Impact” by Rebe...
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December 8, 2025 at 1:04 PM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk will be about the #NobelPrize2025 in Medicine and Physiology: Christian Peschel will talk to us about "The role of regulary T cells in #adaptiveimmunity."

Join us on Wednesday at 1 p.m. - it's online, so please send us a DM if you would like the Zoom access info.
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded jointly to Mary E. Brunkow, Frederick J. Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi "for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance"
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November 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Mathias Wilhelm, co-founder of @msaid-de.bsky.social, will talk about “From #MassSpectrometry to Market: The Story of AI-Driven #Proteomics”.

The talk will be online! Join us at 1 p.m. while enjoying your after-lunch #coffee - DM us for Teams access info!
The interactions of #proteins play a key role in the #medicine of the future. To understand this interplay, MSAID, a spin-off of our university, developed #AI -powered software that helps identify proteins through a registry-like system: go.tum.de/286359

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Using artificial intelligence to track proteins
A TUM spin-off has developed AI software that can analyze "fingerprints" of peptides. This enables better investigations.
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June 22, 2026 at 10:17 AM
This week's #WednesdayCoffeeTalk: Angelika Harbauer @harbauerlab.bsky.social on "Mitophagy in axons".

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January 26, 2026 at 10:42 AM