Com­puter Sci­ence News

The tenth IdeenExpo will take place at the Hanover Exhibition Centre from 20 to 28 June.

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Wei­er­strass Lec­ture 2026: Pro­fess­or Peter Clive Sarnak comes to Pader­born

Dr Peter Clive Sarnak, internationally acclaimed mathematician and number theory expert, is this year's keynote speaker at the Weierstrass Lecture at Paderborn University. On Friday, 12 June, the scientist will give an insight into current topics of his research. Anyone interested can attend the event at 4 p.m. in lecture theatre O1; prior registration is not necessary. The lecture will be held in English.

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Our Fac­ulty’s Gradu­ation Ce­re­mony on 26 June 2026

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics (EIM) at the Paderborn University cordially invites its graduates to the 2026 graduation ceremony. On Friday, 26 June 2026, this year’s graduates will be given a ceremonial send-off in the university’s main lecture theatre, together with family, friends and staff.

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Photo (Paderborn University, Christopher Kolbe): NRW Science Minister Ina Brandes and University President Professor Dr Matthias Bauer.

Quantum computing, cloud services, artificial intelligence: data centres are of crucial importance when it comes to storing, processing and providing large amounts of data. They not only form the basis for state-of-the-art IT infrastructures, but also play a major role in digital sovereignty. With Noctua 2 and Otus, Paderborn University has two supercomputers through which the site is a member of the National High Performance Computing Centres…

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Symbolic image (Paderborn University, Besim Mazhiqi): Artificial intelligence is one of Paderborn University's key research areas.

Paderborn University becomes a founding member of the "ELLIS Unit NRW" research unit. ELLIS ("European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems") is a European network of excellence that brings together leading AI researchers and aims to strengthen Europe's international competitiveness in AI research. The network is organised in units, the so-called "ELLIS Units". The ELLIS Unit NRW, whose co-director is professor Dr Axel-Cyrille Ngonga…

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Plen­ary lec­ture at TQC 2026 by pro­fess­or Dr Sevag Ghari­bi­an

Dr Sevag Gharibian will be this year's plenary speaker at the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC) 2026.

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Rose Sunil, a graduate of the Computer Science master's programme at Paderborn University, was awarded the Paderborn University Society's prize for outstanding theses for her outstanding master's thesis in the field of software engineering and artificial intelligence.

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Every year, the DAAD Prize for International Students is awarded to students who, in addition to very good academic achievements, are particularly committed to society.

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Paderborn University is once again represented in the subject rankings of the World University Rankings of the British higher education magazine "Times Higher Education" (THE) and has once again achieved very good results in several disciplines in the 2026 edition.

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In­aug­ur­al lec­tures by Prof Dr Mar­cel Campen and Prof Dr Mar­tin Ulirsch

On 20 January 2026, the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics hosted the inaugural lectures of Prof. Dr Marcel Campen and Prof. Dr Martin Ulirsch in lecture hall O2.

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The Paderborn University achieved outstanding results in the field of mathematics and computer science by the renowned CWTS Leiden Ranking.

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High-per­form­ance com­put­ing in Pader­born: new ‘Otus’ su­per­com­puter put in­to op­er­a­tion

A computer that can calculate hundreds of scientific tasks simultaneously and thus helps provide a solution to key social challenges: this is the new IT heart of Paderborn University.

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In the winter semester 2025/2026, 125 international students started their Master's degree programme at the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics. To welcome them to Paderborn University, the Welcome Days were held from 8-9 October.

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The Institute of Computer Science at Paderborn University is presenting six new films that provide specific information about teaching at the institute. The first films are "Designing Code Analyses for Large-Scale Software Systems" by Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden, "Introduction to Human-Centered Machine Learning" and "Machine Learning for Biometrics" by Dr.-Ing. Philipp Terhörst and "Quantum Networks" by Dr. Zahra Raissi.

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