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04.12.2025

World’s First Complete 3D Model of All Buildings Released

TUM News

A research team led by MCML PI Xiaoxiang Zhu has released the GlobalBuildingAtlas, the first global high-resolution 3D model of all buildings on Earth.Based on 2019 satellite data, the atlas includes more than 2.75 billion buildings worldwide. It offers a ground-breaking spatial resolution of 3×3 …

04.12.2025

When to Say “I’m Not Sure”: Making Language Models More Self-Aware

MCML Research Insight - With Yawei Li, David Rügamer, Bernd Bischl, and Mina Rezaei

Large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini are now everywhere, from summarizing text to writing code or answering simple questions. But there’s one thing they still struggle with: admitting uncertainty. Ask a fine-tuned LLM a tricky question, and it might sound quite confident, even when it’s …

01.12.2025

Research Stay at Princeton University

Abdurahman Maarouf – Funded by the MCML AI X-Change Program

From May to July, I spent three exciting months as a visiting researcher at the Computer Science Department of Princeton University, hosted by Prof. Manoel Horta Ribeiro. The visit grew out of a keynote Manoel gave at LMU. After his talk, we discussed potential joint projects at the intersection of …

Workshop  •  08.12.2025  •  LMU IEC Space

9:00 am - 5:30 pm

User – Market – Product Fit

Essentials Workshop

In this Workshop, participants learn how to uncover real user needs using Design Thinking methods such as empathy building, problem exploration, and rapid testing. They translate these insights into clear user and buyer personas and validate whether …

Colloquium  •  10.12.2025  •  LMU Department of Statistics, Room 144, Ludwigstraße 33, 80539 Munich

4:15 pm - 5:45 pm

Program Evaluation With Remotely Sensed Variables

Davide Viviano, Harvard University

Economists often use remote sensing variables (RSVs), such as satellite imagery, to estimate treatment effects in experiments when direct economic measurements are lacking. The usual method of training a predictor based on an observational sample and …

Open Lab Day  •  10.12.2025  •  Boltzmannstraße 1, 85748 Garching

5:30 pm - 7:00 pm

Open Lab Day 2025

Linked Dimensions

At the Open Lab Day 2025 on December 10th at the Center for Virtual Reality and Visualization (V2C) of the Leibniz Rechenzentrum (LRZ), the focus is on the presentation of projects by LMU and TUM students under the motto “Linked Dimensions”.During an …