Conferences - Seminars
06FEB
03DEC
03DEC
11:00-13:00
smart living lab, Fribourg room
smart living lunches
The smart living lunches take place once a month from 11am to 1pm at the EPFL Fribourg to present the research activities of the smart living lab. A lunch is served after the presentation. These events are designed for the smart living lab's community.
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20FEB
05MAR
05MAR
08:00-18:00
EPFL
Radio Hack Europe 2019 (29-31 March, EPFL) – Register Now!
Are you interested in shaping the future of radio and media? Registration to Radio Hack Europe is now open and is FREE for EPFL / UNIL employees, researchers, and students using the discount code HKSPO19LS. Register here Radio Hack Europe by Radiodays Europe is a 48-hour hackathon around the theme “Radio and media of tomorrow”, ...
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21FEB
09:00-16:00
Microcity Amphi, Neuchâtel
EDAM DAY
This annual meeting day has multiple objectives. One objective is to give our doctoral students a chance to get to know each other better and to network with other people interested in their research topic (the day is opened to a broader audience than EPFL). A second objective is to hear about other disciplines of ...
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21FEB
12:00-13:30
ODY -1 0020
Seminar by Prof. Frank Dobbin, Harvard University
Seminar organized in collaboration with UNIL-HEC "Does Diversity Management Increase Diversity? Evidence from Industry and Academia " Abstract U.S. companies and universities have been building elaborate diversity management programs since the 1980s. Have their innovations increased diversity among corporate managers and academic faculty? Data from hundreds of companies and universities, over several decades, provide answers. ...
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21FEB
14:00-15:00
SV2615
Vision & Cognition Seminar // Marzia da Luca - Neural processing of statistical regularities in the absence of consciousness: evidence from comatose patients
By Marzia da Luca Laboratoire de recherche en Neuroimagerie - LREN, Département ...
21FEB
14:00-16:00
BC 329
Visible and infrared image fusion
EDIC candidacy exam Exam president: Prof. Pascal Fua Thesis advisor: Prof. Sabine Süsstrunk Co-examiner: Prof. Wenzel Jacob Abstract Image fusion is the process of joining complementary information as well as common features from a set of images. The challenge in image fusion is to construct images that are appropriate, understandable and more informative to the ...
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By Fayez Lahoud
21FEB
16:30-17:30
INM 203
Reasoning in Bayesian Opinion exchange Networks is Computationally Hard
Bayesian models of opinion exchange are extensively studied in economics, dating back to the work of Aumann on the agreement theorem. An important class of such models features agents arranged on a network (representing, e.g., social interactions), with the network structure determining which agents communicate with each other. It is often argued that the Bayesian ...
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By Dr. Jan Hazla, MIT Jan Hązła is a Postdoctoral Associate ...
21FEB
17:10-20:00
CO 2
IMAGINE IF! Local Finals
IMAGINE IF! is a fantastic opportunity to accelerate a scientific idea towards a business and unlike other competitions, it is the first truly global competition for healthcare science ventures. On December 12th we had announced the Swiss 10 finalists who entered the accelerator program. Since then, they have been working with their mentors to go ...
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By Marc Gruber - Vice President for Innovation at EPFL Diego Dupouy ...
21FEB
17:15-18:00
GCA3 30
Synergie entre transition énergétique et protection des eaux : le cas d’étude du renouvellement de concession de l’aménagement hydroélectrique de Dietikon
Cycle de conférences PL-LCH & SCCER-SoE 2019
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By Andrea BALESTRA, Ingénieur, Lombardi SA
22FEB
23FEB
23FEB
Swiss Digital Humanities Exchange
“dhelta” is the association for students and researchers in the field of Digital Humanities at EPFL. They are organising the Swiss Digital Humanities Exchange event that will take place on 22 & 23 February 2019 in Basel, Switzerland. The goal of this event is: To discover fellows working in the field of Digital Humanities at ...
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22FEB
10:30-12:00
Unil, Extranef building, room 126
Innovation and informed trading: Evidence from industry ETFs
We hypothesize that industry exchange traded funds (ETFs) encourage informed trading on underlying firms through facilitating hedging of industry-specific risks. We show that short interest on industry ETFs, reflecting part of the “long-the-stock/short-the-ETF” strategy, positively predicts returns on these ETFs and the percentage of positive earnings announcements of underlying stocks. We also show that hedge ...
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By Maureen O'HARA, Cornell University
22FEB
12:15-13:00
GC B3 30
CESS Seminar: About the Origin of Cities
Abstract We provide a barebones framework that uncovers the circumstances which lead either to the emergence of equally-spaced and equally-sized central places or to a hierarchy of central places. We show how these patterns reflect the preferences of agents and the efficiency of transportation and communication technologies. With one population of homogeneous individuals, the economy ...
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By Prof. André de Palma, ENS Cachan - University Paris-Saclay
22FEB
13:15
ELA 002
Distinguished Speakers Seminar Series: Nanoscale III-V Electronics: InGaAs FinFETs and Vertical Nanowire MOSFETs
Abstract In the last few years, as Si electronics faces mounting difficulties to maintain its historical scaling path, III-V compound semiconductors have received a great deal of attention as possible alternatives. Sub-10 nm CMOS require high-aspect ratio 3D transistors with a fin or nanowire geometry. The enhanced degree of channel charge control of advanced 3D ...
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By Jesús A. del Alamo, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director ...
22FEB
By Prof. Konrad Tiefenbacher, University of Basel
22FEB
By Prof. Éric SÉRÉ (université de Paris-Dauphine, France)
22FEB
By Prof. Michaele J. Hardie, University of Leeds (UK)
22FEB
15:15-16:00
MA A1 10
Quantifying the uncertainty of contour maps
Statistics seminar
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By Dr. Finn Lindgren, The University of Edinburgh
22FEB
16:15-17:30
BCH 2201
Chemical Engineering Seminar - Thinking outside the flask - how to do something useful with algal metabolism
There is enormous potential to use microalgae as feedstocks for everything from recombinant proteins and high value chemicals to biofuels, but to implement this technology in a sustainable and economic manner, it will be necessary to optimize many parameters, and metabolic engineering strategies will be essential. However, in comparison with the well-developed molecular biology tools ...
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By Prof. Alison Smith, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge ...
25FEB
09:30
SV 3715
"LSENS Seminar // Niccolò Calcini - Information transfer in fast and regular spiking neurons and its modulation by dopamine.”
By Niccolò Calcini, Donders Institute, Netherlands
25FEB
10:00-12:00
ELD 120
Provable and Practical Methods for Nonconvex Optimazation
EDIC candidacy exam Exam president: Prof. Martin Jaggi Thesis advisor: Prof. Volcan Cevher Co-examiner: Prof. Daniel Kuhn Abstract Due to its capability of handling large scale problems, nonlinear and nonconvex optimization has increased in popularity in the last decade. Modern applications in signal processing, statistics and machine learning exhibits distinguished performance with the nonconvex models. ...
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By Fatih Sahin
25FEB
13:15-14:15
MXF 1
A sustainable materials system research agenda
Modern society is unsustainable: biodiversity loss is occurring at an unprecedented rate; anthropogenic activities dominate material cycles, putting upward pressure on resource supply; and the industrial system is forcing Earth’s climate towards the brink of a critical transition, on a scale never before experienced by humans. Facts such as these highlight the imperative for transformational ...
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By Dr Rupert Myers, Chemical Engineering: Industrial Ecology, University of Edinburgh
25FEB
14:00-15:00
BSP 727
A new perspective on resurgence in quantum theory
The building blocks of quantum observables are collections of asymptotic series in the coupling constant, corresponding to perturbative and non-perturbative sectors. According to the theory of resurgence, these series are related to each other in a non-trivial way, and these relations are encoded in the so-called Stokes automorphisms of the theory. In this seminar we ...
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By Marcos Marino
25FEB
17:00-19:00
SG Foyer
Book Launch PORTUGAL Lessons
Join us for the book launch of laba's PORTUGAL Lessons: Environmental Objects! Feb 25, 2019, 17.00 h EPFL, Project Room, SG Building, 1015 Lausanne Followed by an apéro. We look forward to seeing you. Harry Gugger and the laba team
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By The event will be framed by a conversation on Environmental ...
25FEB
18:15-19:15
MA A0 364
PolyMac TV Replay
The ephemera "Replay" of television documentaries cause immense frustration, since their publication is restricted to 1 month at most. And it seems impossible to record them... So this PolyMac is made to forget those bad memories, by recording all the desired video streams!
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By Francois Roulet
26FEB
27FEB
27FEB
09:00-05:00
Hyatt Regency Osaka, 1-13-11 Nanko-Kita, Suminoe-Ku, Osaka, Japan, 559-0034
Global Annual Midwifery Congress
Conference Series llc Ltd invites all the participants across the globe to attend the Midwifery-Annual Congress 2019 going to be held on February 26-27, 2019 Osaka, Japan. Midwifery-Annual Congress 2019 directs towards the main issues as well as future strategies of Pregnancy and women health. This is going to be the largest and most promising ...
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26FEB
12:15-13:00
GR C0 01
EESS talk on "Well-being and climate change mitigation: the Living Well Within Limits approach"
Abstract: The challenge of achieving universal human development and climate change mitigation requires careful consideration of (1) the definition of a “good”, happy or decent life; (2) analytic clarity in conceptualising the consumption requirements of well-being; (3) the context surrounding intra- and inter-national inequality, and the political dynamics and social processes that could enable the ...
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By Dr Julia K. Steinberger, Professor of Social Ecologiy and Ecological ...
26FEB
12:15-13:00
DIA 005
High-end accelerometer platforms for demanding applications
Abstract: While most of the MEMS developments have been focused on low cost and low performance markets, driven by the automotive, consumer electronics and smartphone businesses, Safran Colibrys has taken up the challenge to develop medium cost and high performance MEMS inertial sensors dedicated to high reliability, harsh environment applications. A versatile accelerometer platform sensor ...
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By Dr. Christophe Kergueris
26FEB
12:15-13:15
MED 0 1418
IGM Colloquium: Tools and Processes for Printed Electronic Systems
Abstract: In recent years, there has been significant interest in the applications of printed electronics in the realization of a range of low-cost, large area, flexible electronic systems such as displays, distributed sensors, and low-cost disposable tags. To make printed electronics a viable technology, however, there is a need for significant innovations across all aspects ...
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26FEB
17:15-18:15
BCH 2218
dNTPs and maintenance of genome stability
The four dNTPs (dATP, dTTP, dCTP, and dGTP) are the building blocks of DNA. A balanced supply and a correct overall concentration of dNTPs are key prerequisites for faithful genome replication. These requirements, along with the fact that the concentrations of dNTPs fluctuate during the cell cycle, mean that the production of dNTPs must be ...
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By Professor Andrei Chabes Dept. of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics Umeå ...
27FEB
10:00-12:00
Research Data Management workshop
"From plan to action" workshop In this personalized workshop, you will check the consistency of your data management plan (DMP) and how to implement it in your lab. Before you attend the workshop, you will need to fill a form about your current practices. If you are not familiar with research data management already, we ...
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27FEB
11:00
SV 1717
Laurence Van Melderen // Bacterial persistence to antibiotics: can we distinguish persisters from non-persister cells?
By Laurence Van Melderen, Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics and Physiology, Institute ...
27FEB
11:00-12:00
Martigny, room 106
Gaussian process optimization with simulation failures
We address the optimization of a computer model, where each simulation either fails or returns a valid output performance. We suggest a joint Gaussian process model for classification of the inputs (computation failure or success) and for regression of the performance function. We discuss the maximum likelihood estimation of the covariance parameters, with a stochastic ...
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By Dr. François Bachoc
27FEB
13:00-14:00
ME B3 31
Human Autonomy through Robotics Autonomy
It is a paradox that often the more severe a person's motor impairment, the more assistance they require and yet the less able they are to operate the very assistive machines created provide this assistance. A primary aim of my lab is to address this confound by incorporating robotics autonomy and intelligence into assistive machines---to ...
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By Prof. Brenna Argall Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science ...
27FEB
15:00-16:00
CE 06
Beyond Lithium-Ion: Conversion Electrodes, Solid State and Aqueous Batteries
Energy density and cost of Li-ion batteries (LIBs) based on conventional intercalation compounds are closely approaching their limits. The reliance of conventional cathodes on the use of toxic metals additionally endangers health and safety of miners in developing countries. Conversion-type active materials offer an opportunity to double energy stored in LIBs, reduce their cost by ...
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27FEB
15:00-16:00
CE 1 6
Chemical Engineering Seminar - Beyond Lithium-Ion: Conversion Electrodes, Solid State and Aqueous Batteries
Energy density and cost of Li-ion batteries (LIBs) based on conventional intercalation compounds are closely approaching their limits. The reliance of conventional cathodes on the use of toxic metals additionally endangers health and safety of miners in developing countries. Conversion-type active materials offer an opportunity to double energy stored in LIBs, reduce their cost by ...
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By Prof. Gleb Yushin, School of Materials and Engineering, Georgia Institute ...
27FEB
18:15-19:15
BC 420
Systems Engineering and Design of a Mars Polar Life Research Base
Mars’ ice caps hold the secret to the planet's climate, hydrological processes and is a likely place to contain traces of life, should they exist. A crewed mission to the surface of Mars, with the objective of drilling into the Northern ice cap and analysing the samples in-situ would therefore advance our knowledge of the ...
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By Anne-Marlene Rüede