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class="news__meta"><div class="news__date"><time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2025-04-04"> April 4th, 2025 </time></div></div></header><!-- teaser --><div class="news-list-item__teaser"><div itemprop="description"><p>A total of 14 girls aged ten to sixteen visited the Saarbrücken MPIs on April 3.</p></div><a class="news-list-item__more-lnk link-more" title="Girls’Day 2025: Girls Dive into Computer Science at the Saarbrücken Max Planck Institutes" href="/news/detail/girlsday-2025-girls-dive-into-computer-science-at-the-saarbruecken-max-planck-institutes"> more </a></div></div></article><!-- ===================== Partials/List/Item.html --><article class="news-list-item news-list-item--0 " itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><div class="news-list-item__media-ct"><div class="news-list-item__media-preview"><a class="news-list-item__media-lnk" title="Computer Science Students from Saarland University Again Succeed in International Programming Competition" href="/news/detail/three-in-a-row-computer-science-students-from-saarland-university-again-succeed-in-international-programming-competition"><img loading="lazy" src="/fileadmin/_processed_/2/3/csm_siegerehrung_edit_e9805e0fd8.jpg" width="327" height="245" alt="" /></a></div></div><div class="news-list-item__cnt-ct"><!-- header --><header class="news-list-item__hd"><h3 class="news-list-item__ttl"><a class="news-list-item__ttl-lnk" title="Computer Science Students from Saarland University Again Succeed in International Programming Competition" href="/news/detail/three-in-a-row-computer-science-students-from-saarland-university-again-succeed-in-international-programming-competition"><span itemprop="headline">Computer Science Students from Saarland University Again Succeed in International Programming Competition</span></a></h3><div class="news__meta"><div class="news__date"><time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2025-03-20"> March 20th, 2025 </time></div><div 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class="news-list-item__media-ct"><div class="news-list-item__media-preview"><a class="news-list-item__media-lnk" title="Hannaneh Akrami receives PhD" href="/news/detail/hannaneh-akrami-receives-phd"><img loading="lazy" src="/fileadmin/_processed_/8/b/csm_hakrami_title_b4a19fd775.jpg" width="327" height="245" alt="" /></a></div></div><div class="news-list-item__cnt-ct"><!-- header --><header class="news-list-item__hd"><h3 class="news-list-item__ttl"><a class="news-list-item__ttl-lnk" title="Hannaneh Akrami receives PhD" href="/news/detail/hannaneh-akrami-receives-phd"><span itemprop="headline">Hannaneh Akrami receives PhD</span></a></h3><div class="news__meta"><div class="news__date"><time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2025-03-13"> March 13th, 2025 </time></div><div class="news__categories"><!-- categories --><ul class="news-categories"><li><a class="news-cat-lnk is-department department--d1" href="/departments/algorithms-complexity"> D1: Algorithms and Complexity 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href="/news/detail/girlsday-at-the-max-planck-institutes-in-saarbruecken"> more </a></div></div></article><!-- ===================== Partials/List/Item.html --><article class="news-list-item news-list-item--0 " itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><div class="news-list-item__media-ct"><div class="news-list-item__media-preview"><a class="news-list-item__media-lnk" title="PhD for Denis Sumin" href="/news/detail/denis-sumin-defended-his-phd-thesis"><img loading="lazy" src="/fileadmin/_processed_/7/0/csm_Sumin-Denis_3ef87a1c2f.jpg" width="327" height="245" alt="" /></a></div></div><div class="news-list-item__cnt-ct"><!-- header --><header class="news-list-item__hd"><h3 class="news-list-item__ttl"><a class="news-list-item__ttl-lnk" title="PhD for Denis Sumin" href="/news/detail/denis-sumin-defended-his-phd-thesis"><span itemprop="headline">PhD for Denis Sumin</span></a></h3><div class="news__meta"><div class="news__date"><time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2025-02-26"> February 26th, 2025 </time></div><div class="news__categories"><!-- categories --><ul class="news-categories"><li><a class="news-cat-lnk is-department department--d4" href="/departments/computer-graphics"> D4: Computer Graphics </a></li></ul></div></div></header><!-- teaser --><div class="news-list-item__teaser"><div itemprop="description"><p>On 18 February 2025 Denis Sumin successfully defended this PhD-thesis titled: "Data-driven methods for high-fidelity material appearance reproduction in additive 3D printing".</p></div><a class="news-list-item__more-lnk link-more" title="PhD for Denis Sumin" href="/news/detail/denis-sumin-defended-his-phd-thesis"> more </a></div></div></article><!-- ===================== Partials/List/Item.html --><article class="news-list-item news-list-item--0 " itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><div class="news-list-item__media-ct"><div class="news-list-item__media-preview"><a class="news-list-item__media-lnk" title="How Computer Scientists Study the Allocation of Parliamentary Seats" href="/news/detail/how-computer-scientists-study-the-allocation-of-parliamentary-seats"><img loading="lazy" src="/fileadmin/_processed_/8/2/csm_Javier_Cembrano_1_5770a262fd.jpg" width="327" height="245" alt="" /></a></div></div><div class="news-list-item__cnt-ct"><!-- header --><header class="news-list-item__hd"><h3 class="news-list-item__ttl"><a class="news-list-item__ttl-lnk" title="How Computer Scientists Study the Allocation of Parliamentary Seats" href="/news/detail/how-computer-scientists-study-the-allocation-of-parliamentary-seats"><span itemprop="headline">How Computer Scientists Study the Allocation of Parliamentary Seats</span></a></h3><div class="news__meta"><div class="news__date"><time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2025-02-25"> February 25th, 2025 </time></div><div class="news__categories"><!-- categories --><ul class="news-categories"><li><a class="news-cat-lnk is-department department--d1" href="/departments/algorithms-complexity"> D1: Algorithms and Complexity </a></li><li><a class="news-cat-lnk" href="/news/spotlights">Spotlights</a></li></ul></div></div></header><!-- teaser --><div class="news-list-item__teaser"><div itemprop="description"><p>A mathematical analysis of widely-used parliamentary seat apportionment methods provides detailed insights into their structural properties and possible adjustments.</p></div><a class="news-list-item__more-lnk link-more" title="How Computer Scientists Study the Allocation of Parliamentary Seats" href="/news/detail/how-computer-scientists-study-the-allocation-of-parliamentary-seats"> more </a></div></div></article><!-- ===================== Partials/List/Item.html --><article class="news-list-item news-list-item--0 " itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><div class="news-list-item__media-ct"><div class="news-list-item__media-preview"><a class="news-list-item__media-lnk" title="Reshaping Neural Networks for Their Improvement" href="/news/detail/reshaping-artificial-intelligence-for-better-performance"><img loading="lazy" src="/fileadmin/_processed_/9/7/csm_DSCF5436_edit_2_0d6d82346f.jpg" width="327" height="245" alt="" /></a></div></div><div class="news-list-item__cnt-ct"><!-- header --><header class="news-list-item__hd"><h3 class="news-list-item__ttl"><a class="news-list-item__ttl-lnk" title="Reshaping Neural Networks for Their Improvement" href="/news/detail/reshaping-artificial-intelligence-for-better-performance"><span itemprop="headline">Reshaping Neural Networks for Their Improvement</span></a></h3><div class="news__meta"><div class="news__date"><time itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2024-12-17"> December 17th, 2024 </time></div><div class="news__categories"><!-- categories --><ul class="news-categories"><li><a class="news-cat-lnk is-department department--d2" href="/departments/computer-vision-and-machine-learning"> D2: Computer Vision and Machine Learning </a></li><li><a class="news-cat-lnk" href="/news/spotlights">Spotlights</a></li></ul></div></div></header><!-- teaser --><div class="news-list-item__teaser"><div itemprop="description"><p>A new method makes neural networks more streamlined, more efficient, and easier to understand—impacting research across disciplines.</p></div><a class="news-list-item__more-lnk link-more" title="Reshaping Neural Networks for Their Improvement" href="/news/detail/reshaping-artificial-intelligence-for-better-performance"> more </a></div></div></article><!-- ===================== Partials/List/Item.html --><article class="news-list-item news-list-item--0 " itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><div class="news-list-item__media-ct"><div class="news-list-item__media-preview"><a class="news-list-item__media-lnk" title="Half a century in the service of science" href="/news/detail/half-a-century-in-the-service-of-science"><img alt="Volker Maria Geiß" loading="lazy" 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In a career spanning more than 50 years, he has been involved in the founding of four Max Planck Institutes, helped to establish a new research field within the Max Planck Society and provided many impulses for the scientific landscape in the Saarland. 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