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Welcome to the official account of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel!
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A special treat for my Software Engineering Students at @dmi.unibas.ch: today Michela Schorta and Dominik Berger (organizers of @baselone.bsky.social) gava a guest lecture about agile software development.
December 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Professor Ivan Dokmanić has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his research project PHASESHIFT – Phase-Space Foundations for Scientific Machine Learning. The aim is to establish a new foundation for Scientific Machine Learning: dmi.unibas.ch/en/news-even...
ERC Consolidator Grant for Professor Ivan Dokmanić: New Foundations for Scientific Machine Learning
Professor Ivan Dokmanić from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel has been awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant for his research project PHASESHIFT – P...
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December 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Neural implants can improve people's lives. But what happens when manufacturers stop supporting their own technology?

George Kouvas, a researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics @unibas.ch, is investigating the previously underestimated phenomenon of 'neuroabandonment'.
Help in a technological no-man’s land.
Neural implants improve the lives of many — until the manufacturers stop providing support for their own technology. A researcher in medical ethics from the University of Basel is investigating the pr...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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During the semester, the students of my software engineering course at @dmi.unibas.ch created extensions to the open source citation manager JabRef. Today we had the final presentations. I was impressed by their creativity, I saw some really cool features like gamifications and citation graphs.
December 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
For our German speaking audience: Welche Gefahren gehen von KI-Spielzeugen aus und wie können Eltern darauf reagieren? Diese und weitere Fragen beantwortet Prof. Isabel Wagner dem SRF in «News Plus»: www.srf.ch/audio/news-p...

#KI #Spielzeug #Datenschutz
KI-Spielzeug im Kinderzimmer: Wie gefährlich ist das?
Erstickungsgefahr gehört zu den grössten Gefahren, die von Spielzeug ausgehen. Doch US-Verbraucherschützer haben nun eine neue Quelle ausgemacht: KI-Spielzeug. Was es so gefährlich macht und wie es Ki...
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November 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
We invite applications for the position of a Professor in Deep Learning. Applicants are requested to submit their documents to the Faculty of Science at the University of Basel as specified in the job advertisement by 18.12.2025: jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
November 19, 2025 at 12:47 PM
From Lecture Hall to Research Lab✨Meet Lukas Schmidt, who turned his Bachelor in Computational Sciences into a full-on research role with the SPH-EXA project at @unibas.ch 👉 dmi.unibas.ch/en/news-even...

#science #physics #supercomputer #researchjobs
From Lecture Hall to Research Lab
Lukas Schmidt recently began his Master’s studies in Physics. Before that, he completed a Bachelor’s degree in Computational Sciences, where he soon found his way into research.
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October 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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State-of-the-art AI programs can support the development of drugs by predicting how proteins interact with small molecules. However, @unibas.ch researchers have shown that these programs often fail when it comes to new proteins that would be of particular interest for innovative drugs.
AI models for drug design fail in physics
State-of-the-art AI programs can support the development of drugs by predicting how proteins interact with small molecules. However, researchers at the University of Basel have shown that these progra...
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October 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
We are taking an innovative step! Our latest member is not a human being, but a #robot named DiMI. The robot opens up new possibilities in research & teaching while also challenging us to rethink the boundaries between humans and machines 👉 dmi.unibas.ch/en/news-even...
September 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Excited to share our new IEEE Access paper: A Comparative Study of #OpenMP #Scheduling #Algorithm #Selection Strategies

We show how combining expert-based & reinforcement learning improves #HPC scheduling, cutting overheads in apps (SPHYNX, STREAM Tri), even beating “Oracle”.

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A Comparative Study of OpenMP Scheduling Algorithm Selection Strategies
Scientific and data science applications are becoming more complex, with increasingly demanding computational and memory requirements during execution. Modern high performance computing (HPC) systems ...
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September 13, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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A new theoretical framework uses spring-block models from physics to describe how deep neural networks learn features, offering insights into data separation and generalization during training. doi.org/g9s5vm
Using geometry and physics to explain feature learning in deep neural networks
Deep neural networks (DNNs), the machine learning algorithms underpinning the functioning of large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) models, learn to make accurate predictions by analyzing large amounts of data.
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August 10, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Die @unibas.ch öffnete erneut ihre Türen fürs UniKidsCamp und wir waren dabei🌞In der letzten Sommerferienwoche bekamen Kids der 4.–7. Klasse Einblicke in die Forschung & Programmierung. Highlight: eigene Roboter in Scratch gestalten & animieren: primalogo.dmi.unibas.ch/2025/08/11/d...
Das UniKidsCamp ist auch 2025 bei uns zu Gast | primaLOGO
primaLOGO - Departement Mathematik und Informatik
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August 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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In his doctoral dissertation in psychology, Linus Hany focuses on statistics. As a volunteer, he is committed to helping people who are at risk of being forgotten by the system. In both areas, it’s important to avoid rushing to judgement.
In Focus: Linus Hany structures data and advocates for honesty in handling it
In his research, Linus Hany focuses on statistics, and as a volunteer, he is committed to helping people who are at risk of being forgotten by the system. It’s important to avoid snap judgments in bot...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Big congratulations Dr. Thomas Jakobsche on defending your dissertation: “Improving Transparency & Performance of HPC Systems through MODA"! 👏🎓 A great achievement in #HPC #systemsmonitoring, #observability #dataanalytics. @martinschulz.bsky.social
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August 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Rahel Arnold blends code and choreography: by day, she develops augmented reality tech at <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4kwoqnuvao2arjt7st5l72ze" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@unibas.ch; by night, she trains on roller skates. Her motto? Fall down, get up — in research and in sport. 🧠🛼
Part of our #InFocus series on early-career researchers. #XR #PhDLife

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In Focus: Rahel Arnold enhances mixed realities
As a doctoral student in computer science, Rahel Arnold is working on better integrating multimedia content and augmented reality. Meanwhile, ...
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July 17, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Grant success at @unibas.ch: Prof. Malte Helmert (AI research) shares how he secures major funding - from ERC to SNF and Innosuisse. He discusses his motivation, how he selects grants, key steps in proposal writing, and if AI might one day write proposals for us: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaGL...
Grant Application Experiences – Success Story with Prof. Malte Helmert
YouTube video by Universität Basel
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July 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Researchers led by Prof. Ivan Dokmanić at
@unibas.ch have developed a simple model that captures key features of deep neural networks and helps optimize their parameters. The results were published in the scientific journal “Physical Review Letters”: www.unibas.ch/en/News-Even...
What a folding ruler can tell us about neural networks
Researchers at the University of Basel have developed mechanical models that can predict how effectively the different layers of a deep neural network transform data. Their results improve our underst...
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July 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
#Input, #discussion & #freshperspectives at Monte Verità: 30 PhD students & professors from our PhD program Data Science came together for a retreat with guest talks, a Verzasca Valley hike & time for exchange, reflection, and new ideas.
July 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM
New professorship for AI & foundation models: Dr. Ilija Bogunovic will join the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel on 1 September 2025. His research focuses on generative AI, LLMs, foundation models & reinforcement learning.

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July 3, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Barbie & Co. könnten demnächst mit ChatGPT sprechen – doch Datenschutz, Spionagepotenzial & die Folgen für die kindliche Fantasie stehen auf dem Prüfstand 👉
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KI im Kinderzimmer: Spricht Barbie bald mit ChatGPT?
Soll Barbie mit ChatGPT sprechen? OpenAI und Mattel planen KI-Spielzeug – doch Experten sind alarmiert. Ein ähnliches Spielzeug wurde bereits als «Spionagewerkzeug» eingestuft.
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July 1, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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🧠 Stroke research meets AI – and bridges clinic & science.

Prof. Mira Katan’s team combines #biomarkers, #AI & multi-OMICS to advance precision medicine in #stroke #prevention.

Featuring the MOSES trial & real-world data approaches.

👉 Video & article in German:
www.dkforum.ch/post/portrae...
Porträt Prof. Dr. med. Mira Katan, MSc
«Auf diese Weise schlagen wir bewusst die Brücke von der Grundlagenforschung zur klinischen Umsetzung.»
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June 25, 2025 at 8:09 AM
"The differences are less clear in mathematics: While boys performed better in math on average in 40 of the 81 countries, in the other 41 countries there were either no significant differences, or the girls had the advantage." Read more 👉 www.unibas.ch/en/News-Even...
Girls are better at languages, boys are better at math — true or false?
The cliché holds that girls have an affinity for languages, boys for technology. Parents and teachers can help to prevent this becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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June 24, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Great turnout at our MS4F #ML Support for the Lifetime of Software minisymposium at #PASC25, co-organized with H. Menon & K. Parasyris!

Thanks O. Simsek, E. Vatai, T. Islam & P. Delgado for excellent talks, and the audience for great Qs.

Looking forward to ML4SW @ #PASC26!

#HPC #AI #ScientificSw
June 17, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Excited for our MS5A Breaking #HPC Silos for #Sustainable Development at #PASC25 today Jun 18, 9–11 am, Room 5.0A52.

Co-organized w/ M-C. Sawley, M. Girone, M.-G. Giuffreda & me.

Speakers: Asal Mehrabi, Hindumathi Palanisamy, Ewa Deelman & Ana Klimovic.

#IDEAS4HPC #Sustainability #PASC25
June 18, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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#PASC25 kicks off today in Brugg-Windisch!
Excited to speak at the MS1G minisymposium (Room 5.2D11) at 11:50 on “Performance & Portability for Sustainable Simulations” with #SPHEXA. Let's discuss #HPC, #portability #sustainability in #ScientificComputing.
#UniBasel
June 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM