Published on Tue, 02 Jul 2024 in PRESS RELEASES
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Public transport systems vary widely around the world. Developed countries in the Global North usually have centrally-planned public transport systems with fixed routes and timetables. In contrast, in the developing countries of the Global South, making up more than 80 % of the world's population, public transportation is mostly provided by informal transport services featuring ad hoc routes, e.g. in the form of privately organized minibus services. Due to their seemingly chaotic operation, such informal transport services are often considered as inefficient from an outside perspective. Due to a lack of data a systematic comparison was not possible so far.
In a new scientific paper recently published in Nature Communications, Kush Mohan Mittal, Marc Timme and Malte Schröder from the Chair of Network Dynamics at TU Dresden analyze and compare the structural efficiency of more than 7,000 formal and informal bus lines across 36 cities and 22 countries. One of the central, surprising findings is that the routes of informal transport self-organize in a way that reaches or even exceeds the efficiency level of centralized services.
Read more … Evidently Efficient: Self-organization of Informal Bus Lines in the Global South
Published on Wed, 19 Jun 2024 in NEWS
Please join us welcoming Dr Tim Erdmann, one of the first generation cfaed alumni, now working with IBM Research in San Jose! He will talk about ChemChat.
In recent years, advancements in computational chemistry and machine learning have produced sophisticated tools and AI models, but their potential is underutilized due to complexity and accessibility barriers for experimental scientists. Large-language models like GPT have limited effectiveness in chemistry because they lack domain-specific knowledge and accurate referencing. To address this, ChemChat, a web application powered by non-GPT/OpenAI LLMs, integrates cheminformatics tools and AI models to assist chemists in various tasks such as molecule investigation, retrosynthesis, data visualization, and literature research. The presentation will showcase ChemChat's capabilities, its architecture, and workflow compared to similar applications.
See full abstract and bio.
Monday, 01.07.2024, 15:00 - 16:30, TU Dresden, Barkhausen Building
Published on Mon, 03 Jun 2024 in NEWS
Triple success for the TU Dresden: The DFG awards millions in funding for Collaborative Research Centers at TUD. One of them is the Collaborative Research Center 1415 "Chemistry of Synthetic Two-Dimensional Materials" which will be granted to start the second funding period.
CRC 1415 is dedicated to the controlled "bottom-up" synthesis and development of novel synthetic two-dimensional materials (2DM) with high structural precision. In view of a multitude of technological developments such as energy applications, electronics and biotechnology, our society is more dependent than ever on advanced materials. Two-dimensional materials are particularly promising in this context due to their properties. In the second funding phase now starting, the scientific focus of CRC 1415 will be on understanding and adapting the functional properties of synthetic 2DM. It will also investigate how these properties develop in 2D heterostructures. The aim is to develop novel synthetic 2D materials that can be used as unique materials of tomorrow for applications in electronics, sensor technology and much more.
Read more … Congratulations: Second funding period for SFB 1415 Chemistry of Synthetic 2D Materials (Prof Xinliang Feng)
Published on Mon, 27 May 2024 in NEWS
Congratulations to Shaoling Bai from the Chair of Organic Devices (Prof. Stefan Mannsfeld) for defending her PhD thesis! Let's see her own statement :-) "🎓 Thrilled to announce that I've successfully defended my PhD thesis on "Organic Planar Heterojunction Phototransistor Devices" at TU Dresden! 🌟 Now, I'm excited to transition into the next chapter of my career and explore opportunities in Semiconductor/Chemical Industry.
Read more … Defended! Congratulations to Shaoling Bai for defending her PhD thesis
Published on Thu, 23 May 2024 in NEWS
This year’s cfaed Summer School “Dresden Microelectronics Academy (DMA’24)” will by steered by Prof. Stefan Mannsfeld and supported by the Dresden companies Bosch, Globalfoundries, Infineon, and X-Fab. The one-week event will take place from 9-13 September 2024. Registration is now open and we kindly invite students, PhD students and postdocs to register here:https://eveeno.com/226306712
All information including a preliminary program can be found here: https://cfaed.tu-dresden.de/dma
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