First of all, I want to talk a little bit about FAU and then I want to talk a little

bit about AI and mathematics and what we have done in the past and where we are currently

in research.

So FAU in short, this is the best university you never heard of maybe.

It's the slogan we are quite heavily using.

FAU has done major achievements in the past, but not that many people are aware of that.

Now my marketing block starts.

Of course, you all have your mobile phone, your smartphone.

This would not exist without the MP3 standard for encoding speech and music.

That was the breakthrough for the iPod that time and also the basis of the modern smartphone.

MP3 was developed by our local Fraunhofer Institutes and all the directors have been

professors at our university.

So the first statement is without MP3 and the developments here from Erlangen, our smartphone

would not be the way it is today.

Our team for instance was the only German team mentioned in the copyright notes of the

first iPhone.

Very nice, very important.

Then something to remember, you might know Dr. House.

I didn't know that before, I have to admit, but there is one meme in the series.

Dr. House, he's taking care of patients with highly complicated diseases and if he does

not know what's that, what's actually happening and he has no idea how to diagnose the disease,

his meme statement is, I hope it's not lupus because lupus is the most complicated disease

in the world.

And we at FAU found a way to set up a therapy that holds for patients with lupus.

This is patient number one that we healed and here on the right hand side you see my

vice president for research.

He was one of the chief scientists developing this CAR T cell therapy that is now applied

to many people suffering the autoimmune disease lupus and we have been the first in the world

to come up with a therapy that keeps the patient healthy by just one injection.

He got the highest German research award for this, our vice president and in November he

also was on the stock market with one of the startups.

They made 300 million dollars during the IPO in October last year.

320 million euros and now you see the impact of the research that we have with the technology

that we develop here in our local hospital.

But we also are working on the, you might know the German term Energiewende, to get

rid of fossil energy.

We have developed one technique to chemically bind hydrogen to transport it over long distances

and currently we are with one of the largest research institutions in Europe where we try

to build up the first industrial applications of using chemical storage technology for hydrogen

with the Forschungsinstitut in Jülich.

What people don't know, there are 10 Googlers that are very famous and have had major achievements.

Franz Och, he grew up here in Pretzfeld, he is the chief scientist and he is the developer

of Google Translate.

He got a call from Larry Page, can you come over and build a Google Translate and he went

over and he is still there and he built Google Translate.

He is a former student of our university and is now with Facebook in Menlo Park, Palo Alto

and one of the most successful speech recognition researchers in the world.

He did his first steps in AI at my chair.

Or if you talk about JetGPT, Sam Altman is quite famous.

Sam is quite often here in Erlangen actually because he has a company that is located here