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Kathrin Gerling, Professor of Human-Computer Interaction at the Institute of Anthropomatics and Robotics (IAR), aims to make virtual reality accessible to people with physical disabilities with her project "AccessVR".

Virtual reality holds enormous potential for leisure, education and work. But currently most VR systems are designed for non-disabled people. Prof. Gerling's goal is to remove physical, digital and experiential barriers.

The European Research Council supports outstanding young researchers with Starting Grants.

Professor Michael Grossniklaus from the University of Konstanz will give a talk about "Advances in Cardinality Estimation for Database Systems" on Wednesday, July 26, 2023 at 13:15 in Room -102, Bldg. 50.34.

Michael Grossniklaus is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer and Information Science at the University of Konstanz since 2017. His research area is database and information systems, focusing on query optimization. Apart from relational database systems, Prof. Grossniklaus and his team are also interested in non-relational database systems, particularly graph database systems.

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We are proud to announce, that our dear colleague, Honorary Professor Dr. med. Dr. h.c.  Uwe Spetzger has been awarded with the Order of Merit of the State of Baden-Württemberg by Minister President Winfried Kretschmann for his efforts during the COVID pandemic. On this occasion Minister Kretschmann pointed out, that the core of Professor Spetzger’s tireless commitment in research and in everyday clinical practice is the humanitarian obligation of a medical doctor to place his life in the service of humanity.

We congratulate Professor Spetzger for this great honor.

Clara Stegehuis, Associate Professor at the University of Twente will give a talk on "Networks and epidemics" on Monday, June 26, 2023 at 9:45 (Bldg. 50.31, Room 107).
The research of Stegehuis is located in the areas of probability theory and stochastic networks. Her scientific investigations are inspired by applications in network science, physics and computer science.

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Dragan Djurdjanovic, Associate Director of the NSF Engineering Research Center on Nanomanufacturing Systems for Mobile Computing and Mobile Energy Technologies, at the University of Texas at Austin, gave a lecture on "Data Analytics and Process Control in Semiconductor Manufacturing - When Big Data Gets Physical" in building 50.36, room 010 (KIT) on Tuesday, June 06, 2023 at 16:00.

Ziad Al-Halah, Assistant Professor of Computer Science in The University of Utah, gave a talk on "Mastering New Visual Understanding Tasks in 3D Scenes with Efficient Learning" on Tuesday, May 25, 2023 at 10:00 in bldg. 50.20 room 148.

His work has been recognized with a best paper award (ICPR’14) and as the first place winner of the Habitat Challenge (PointNav) at CVPR'20 and the Textbook Question Answering Challenge (TQA) at CVPR'17.