Bentley CEO: "Extraordinary – From 1919 To Today"
In a guest lecture, Dr. Frank-Steffen Walliser shared interesting insights into Bentley’s sophisticated brand strategy and the dynamics of the automotive industry. Besides discussing craftsmanship, heritage, and the true meaning of luxury, he also gave valuable career advice to the students in the room.
Visit of Sam Oh to the University of Innsbruck
The visit of Sam Oh, professor at South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, opened up new perspectives for academic exchange and research collaboration.
A 120-year-old puzzle made visible in a helium droplet
How do like electrical charges arrange themselves on the surface of a sphere? Joseph J. Thomson asked this question in 1904, and it remains a hard mathematical problem to this day. A team led by ion physicist Paul Scheier at the University of Innsbruck has now imaged such charge arrangements directly for the first time. The researchers used tiny droplets of superfluid helium as spherical laboratories.
BeyondIceFutures: Workshop in Obergurgl
What happens after the glacier retreats? This was the main question of the BeyondIceFutures workshop held at the Universitätszentrum Obergurgl. 34 scientists from 15 countries met to discuss pathways to positive futures in deglaciating areas worldwide.
AI: The price of remembering
AI systems operate using accumulated knowledge. However, they are subject to physical limitations, as researchers from the University of Innsbruck demonstrate in a recent study. Within a framework describing the thermodynamic limits of information processing, they provide mathematical proof that, in some cases, agents who interact with their environment can only operate as energy-efficiently as possible if they forget information—even information that would improve their predictions.
Innsbruck-Munich Empirical Economic Research Workshop 2026
From September 18 to 19, 2026, the annual “Innsbruck–Munich Workshop on Empirical Economic Research” took place in Maria Waldrast amid perfect fall weather. The workshop was jointly organized by Andreas Steinmayr (University of Innsbruck) and Joachim Winter (LMU Munich) and brought together 13 participants from the University of Innsbruck and LMU Munich.
Special issue highlights threatened fish of European wetlands
A new issue of Nature Conservation brings together contributions from the international conference “The Fish of Muddy Waters” in Vienna.
When the Hydra Loses Its Immortality
The freshwater polyp Hydra oligactis is essentially immortal and reproduces asexually by cloning itself. Except when it gets too cold: then the animal switches to sexual reproduction, begins to age, and eventually dies. A research team at the University of Innsbruck has now investigated the metabolic changes that accompany this process. One of the findings: the aging process is accompanied by a sharp decline in taurine.