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TUM San Francisco: New Year's reception at the German residence

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It has already become a tradition that the German Residence in San Francisco opens its doors and invites friends, alumni and partners of German science institutes to its annual New Year's Reception. When the TUM North America Office and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) jointly organized the New Year's Reception for the first time three years ago, it was not yet clear how popular this event format would become in the German community within a few years.
The German Residence in San Francisco was again the gathering place for many TUM Alumni.
Numerous guests accepted the invitation to start the new year together.
Dr. Dolores Volkert welcomed the guests in the name of TUM and gave an outlook on the activities of the liaison office in 2019. (Photos: Barak Shrama)

For the second time, other German research institutions such as the German Research Foundation (DFG), the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AVH) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) joined in the New Year's Reception of TUM San Francisco and the DAAD, and together welcomed more than 230 guests.

How quickly the event has established itself as a popular get-together for TUM Alumni in the Bay Area shows how much TUM graduates value the close connection with their alma mater.

"We are delighted to welcome more and more alumni to this networking event every year," said Dr. Dolores Volkert, Liaison Officer of TUM San Francisco since 2015.

"This reception creates an ever closer network for TUM in the Bay Area and a constantly growing exchange with industry and science in the region. We are delighted to see that our office acts as a connecting element promoting transnational exchange between top scientists and at the same time bringing the widely scattered members of the TUM family closer together."

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