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The New University of Cologne Rectorate Takes Office Under the Direction of Professor Mukherjee

As of October 1, 2023, DAAD President Professor Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee is the new Rector of the University of Cologne. In addition, a newly elected team of Vice-Rectors takes up the operational divisions.

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New Podcast on Explainable Artificial Intelligence

AI is now encountered by people in almost all areas of life. AI is supposed to support, advise and provide objective and optimized solutions for difficult decision-making. But how can people understand why and how an AI has arrived at its respective result? In the Collaborative Research Centre/Transregional Research Centre (SFB/TRR) 318 of Bielefeld and Paderborn Universities, an interdisciplinary research team is dealing with this problem.

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University of Cologne Economist Pia Pinger Wins Prestigious ERC Starting Grant

Pinger’s research project, supported with 1.5 million euros over five years, investigates why the socio-economic status of parents has such a strong influence on young individuals’ educational and occupational decision-making.

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When Artificial Intelligence Enters into Dialogue

Should a bank give a loan to someone? Where should patrol officers go to prevent a crime? And should a brain tumor be operated on or treated conservatively? Artificial intelligence can provide reliable answers to these questions in many cases. However, it usually remains unclear how the system arrived at its result. Researchers at the universities of Bielefeld and Paderborn are working in a sub-project of the Collaborative Research Centre and Transregio “Constructing Explanability” (SFB/TRR 318) to make such results explainable.

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NYU Tandon Honors DWIH New York Advisory Board Chair Kurt Becker with a Symposium

Symposium on on September 29, 2023 – Electron-driven Processes: From single collisions to high-pressure plasmas.

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University of Cologne Researchers Discover a Key Mechanism That Controls Human Heart Development

Writing in ‘Science Advances’ researchers of the University of Cologne describe a key mechanism that controls the decision-making process that allows human embryonic stem cells to make the heart. These discoveries enable better insights into how the human heart forms in an embryo and what can go wrong during heart formation, causing cardiac disease or, in the worst case, embryo termination.