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The mobile network operator E-Plus annually gives an award for the best PhD dissertation in the area of communications engineering at the RWTH Aachen University. This year Georg Böcherer received the award for his dissertation "Capacity-Achieving Probabilistic Shaping for Noisy and Noiseless Channels". [read more]

Joachim Hagenauer has been named the first recipient of the Science Prize of the German Information Technology Society (ITG). The prize is awarded every 4 years to honor outstanding technical and scientific achievements in the field of communications and information technology. The basis for judging is contributions that significantly expanded fundamental knowledge in the field of communications and information technology, and for promoting the field through a complete body of work. [read more]

Nicole Rossmann was awarded TUM's Karl Max von Bauernfeind Medal for her outstanding contributions as "Administrative Assistant" of the "Master of Science in Communications Engineering" (MSCE ) program, which is TUM's first international graduate program. [read more]

The Award of Excellence of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy was established by minister Dr. Johannes Hahn in 2008. It is awarded to the best dissertations of a given year, nominated by the presidents of the Austrian universities. In the academic year of 2013/2014, the award was granted to 40 candidates.&nb [read more]

Three young researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have won a prestigious Bell Labs Prize, tied for third place in a global competition in information and communications technology. They showed how a single type of transceiver could be used across the full range of digital communications systems, ensuring in each instance that its transmission rate will approach the theoretical limit. Their method could enhance flexibility and reduce costs in the engineering of wireless,… [read more]

On January 25, 2017 at 04:00 pm, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kaiser from Technische Universität München will be giving a talk in the LNT Seminar Room N2408 about "Als Wissenschaftler bei den Bell Labs in Murray Hill vor 60 Jahren". [read more]

On January 12, 2017 at 11:00 am, Frederic Guilloud from Telecom Bretagne will be giving a talk in the LNT Library N2405 about "Continuous Phase Modulation: a "new" waveform for 5G Massive Machine-Type Communications". [read more]

On November 21, 2016 at 11:00 am, Pierre Loidreau from University of Rennes will be giving a talk in the LNT Library N2405 about "Skew polynomials, Gabidulin codes, coding and cryptography". [read more]

Mari Kobayashi will receive a Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. This prestigious fellowship is granted to approximately 500 applicants annually across all fields of research and at all German universities. (The number 500 includes applicants for the Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers.) The fellowship will provide funding for Mari's sabbatical stay at TUM and LNT. [read more]

Gerhard Kramer has been listed by Thomson Reuters as a Highly Cited Researcher for 2016, as one of the most influential researchers in Computer Science. Influence is determined by analyzing citation data to identify those who published the highest-impact work during 2004-2014. Highly cited papers rank in the top 1% by citations for their subject field and year of publication. [read more]