Issue 2016/01 Allianz endows Professorship „Highest Linpack“ for TUMuchPhun To better tap the huge potential that digita- In November 2015 six Bachelor students lization has for society the Allianz SE endows from TUM Informatics participated as team our department with a professorship for „Lar- „TUMuchPhun“ in the Student Cluster ge-scale data analytics and machine learning“. Competition at the Supercomputing It will focus on the automated analysis of Conference in Austin, Texas, USA. very large amounts of data. The resulting With a Xeon Phi cluster provided by the insights will be used to help identify patterns, Russian vendor and sponsor RSC Group, create forecasts and generate new knowledge. they won the „Highest Linpack“ category and achieved the excellent overall third place in https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/news/ the contest. In a real-time, non-stop, 48-hour Visiting Grace Hopper in India challenge, the teams of six undergraduates raced to complete a real-world workload. From December 2 - 4, 2015 the students Ve- http://www.studentclustercompetition.us/2015/ ronika Besner, Clotilde Guinard, Lou Kramer and Angelina Mooseder travelled to Bangalore, Prof. D. Cremers Photo: Heddergott/TUM India. The IFF Student Scholarship recipients Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for participated in the „Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015“ conference. Prof. Daniel Cremers This annual event takes place in different coun- Prof. Daniel Cremers has been awarded tries and focuses on the research and career the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2016 of interests of women in computing and technolo- the German Research Foundation (DFG), gy. The theme for 2015 was #OurTimeToLead. the most important German science prize. http://ghcindia.anitaborg.org Cremers is being recognized for his trend-setting research on mathematical International Internship Program: image processing and pattern recognition. This research aims to endow machines Big in Japan with the ability to analyze and interpret In 2015 the Japanese National Institute Team TUMuchPhun Photo: Kannengiesser/TUM visual data. The awards ceremony will of Informatics (NII) had received many be held on March 1, 2016 in Berlin. applications from high quality candidates https://www.tum.de/en/about-tum/news/ wishing to take part in the „NII International TUMonline Consultation-hour Internship Program“. Each year NII provides Welcome aboard! two opportunities for PhD and Master‘s Since the start of winter semester candidates to engage in research activities 2015/16 Informatics students have the Dr. Julien Gagneur was appointed Assistant and receive guidance at the NII Laboratories opportunity to discuss current issues Professor for Computational Biology to our which are situated in the heart of Tokyo. relating to the Campus Management System Bioinformatics and Computational Biology One of the successful candidates was TUMonline in a special consultation-hour. Department with effect January 1, 2016. TUM-student Florian Gröger. From March It takes place without appointment every The France-born Gagneur most recently 12 to September 4, 2016 he will have the Monday between 11:30 and 12:30 at the spent three years as a junior group leader at opportunity to gain new experience in the Informatics Infopoint. Please contact Theresa the Gene Center of the Ludwig-Maximilians- research area of „Gamification, Motivation“. Mühringer from „Servicebüro Studium“. University in Munich. He conducts research in the area of computational http://scholarship-positions.com/ http://www.in.tum.de/en/current-students/ genomics which combines computational and experimental approaches to further Trip to Texas Congratulations! understand genetic and phenotypic variation. Last October students of the Android Prof. Gudrun Klinker: http://bioinformatics.informatik.tu-muenchen.de Practical Course at the Division for Operating „The Teaching Excellence Prize at State Universities Systems (Prof. Uwe Baumgarten) got the in Baveria“ great opportunity for a meet-up with their https://www.tum.de/en/ American teammates and professors. Prof. Bjoern Menze: Altogether joined a cooperation project. Also „Young Scientist Publication Impact Award 2015“ our students had the pleasure to get an insight http://campar.in.tum.de/ to Texas A&M University as well as Texas itself. The interdisciplinary cooperation allowed Markus Rempfler/Prof. Bjoern Menze et al.: the students a closer look into the other „Medical Image Analysis Best Paper Award 2015“ major, besides collecting further skills http://campar.in.tum.de/ (Informatics vs. Engineering/Mechatronics), too. Furthermore the exursion offered a Ernst A. Graf: huge variety of visited locations including „Karl Max von Bauernfeind-Medaille“ the Space Center Houston, the capital Information available in German only of live-music Austin as well as the world- https://www.in.tum.de/ famous Stockyards in Fort Worth near Dallas. Rafael Fedler: http://www.os.in.tum.de/studium-und-lehre/ „CAST-Förderpreis IT-Sicherheit 2015“, master thesis („Code Transformations and Software Diversity for Improving Software Attack and Analysis Resilience“) Information available in German only Prof. J. Gagneur Photo: Herrmann/TUM https://www.in.tum.de/forschung/auszeichnungen/