In mid-October, the international geospatial community met at Intergeo in Essen. For the first time since 2019, staff members of the Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying and the i3mainzwere on hand to talk to potential students, partners, and other interested parties. They were also pleased to seize the opportunity to gain their own impressions of global developments during the three-day trade show and conference for geodesy, geoinformation, and land management, which was held in hybrid for the second time.
In addition to the diverse selection of degree programs, Carina Justus, Songül Polat, Jonas Veller and Cedric Roussel also presented i3mainz projects. The latest is the interdisciplinary project TOPML - Trading Off Non-Functional Properties of Machine Learning, which is located at the nearby Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU). The aim is to establish an interdisciplinary research center where the interactions of the four subdomains of transparency, fairness, privacy, and resource efficiency in machine learning are investigated. At the AI-Lab at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, the findings from the JGU research center will be transferred to real-world industrial applications. At the Intergeo, exciting discussions were held on TOPML with companies that are interested in cooperating with Mainz University of Applied Sciences.
Hartmut Müller, who alternately spent his time between the booth of Mainz University of Applied Sciences and that of the International Federation of Surveyors (FIG), took part in the handover of the current FIG presidency from Germany by Rudolf Staiger to Diane Dumashie, UK, and had discussions with the new president about the FIG plans for the next period from 2023-2026.