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Does our professional identity determine our needs and methods? By comparing the measuring traditions of different actors, the lecture will clarify objectives and characteristics of the ruling tools in use. The idea is to show how measuring has always responded to multiple instrumental ideas of accuracy, which have in turn affected the production of information and the organization of work.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Paolo Tombesi</strong><br>\r\nAn architect by training and a collector by nature, Paolo Tombesi has a long-nurtured interest in the relationship between the intellectual dimension of building and the socio-technical aspects of its construction. Several decades ago, upon the completion of a PhD on the distribution of technical knowledge in building, he started to collect rulers – a compulsion maintained while working at EPFL as professor of construction and architecture since 2016. Between 2017 and 2020, he directed the university’s Institute of Architecture and the City. Prior to his appointment in Lausanne, he held the Chair in Construction at Melbourne University. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Part of School Lecture Series, Autumn 2026, Learning Vol.1</strong><br>\r\nWe are told that learning is no longer confined to the school or the university, but it has become a continuous process that involves the totality of life. Yet in accepting this reality, we take for granted several questions that loom large within the contemporary idea of learning. In a time when technology and information are ubiquitous, does it still make sense that for learning to happen or be confined within a place? Is learning still an asymmetrical relationship where there are teachers and a student? And above all, is learning accessible, or has it become too expensive a commodity? In this lecture series, we’ll attempt to answer these questions by investigating learning on different levels such as technology, construction systems, educational spaces, and above all, making architecture. 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From a thesis to an academic paper, Zotero can spare you a huge amount of time.</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nAt the end of this workshop, which will be <strong>held on Zoom only</strong>, you will be able to:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Collect bibliographic references from different sources.</li>\r\n\t<li>Organize your references in a neat manner.</li>\r\n\t<li>Get to know what a reference style is and how to switch it easily.</li>\r\n\t<li>Create a bibliography with a few clicks.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"https://bookwhen.com/fr/epfl_library/e/ev-se08m-20261124140000\">Registration</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nMore information about <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/campus/library/training/\">EPFL Library Training offer</a></div>", "image_description": "CC-BY-NC-SA EPFL Library", "creation_date": "2026-08-20T10:29:15", "last_modification_date": "2026-08-20T15:52:21", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://bookwhen.com/fr/epfl_library/e/ev-se08m-20261124140000", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65700816940", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "EPFL Library Training Team", "organizer": "EPFL Library", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121522/", "category": { "id": 15, "code": "FORM", "fr_label": "Formations internes", "en_label": "Internal trainings", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/3/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/145/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/275/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72476, "title": "Cost savings in Mutual Funds", "slug": "cost-savings-in-mutual-funds-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/cost-savings-in-mutual-funds-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33721/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33721/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33721/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-24", "end_date": "2026-11-24", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:15:00", "description": "<p>Investors can obtain systematic exposure through mutual funds or tradable factors. Standard performance measures compare after-cost fund returns with before-cost factor returns, omitting the trading costs of the factors. I derive cost-aware benchmarks that trade off replicating a fund’s exposure against the costs of trading the factors. The average mutual fund generates up to $9.81 million in value per year, of which $7.40 million comes from recognizing benchmark trading costs. 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May be non-permanent employees.</li>\r\n\t<li>The number of collaborators is not limited.</li>\r\n\t<li>Co-PIs and collaborators from non-listed countries are permissible.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Funding and Duration </strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>CHF 75,000</strong>/year</li>\r\n\t<li>Projects can run for <strong>up to 4 years</strong></li>\r\n\t<li>Eligible budget categories include:\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Salaries (for research staff – salaries for PI or other senior contributors to be covered through their employment)</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Consumables</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Knowledge transfer</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Stakeholder engagement</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Equipment</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Overhead is not Eligible</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Deadlines</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Internal deadline to express interest: </strong>28 September 2026</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Submission deadline: </strong>24 November 2026, 23:59 CET</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Final decision: </strong>June 2027</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>More Information</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Submission portal</strong>: <a href=\"https://portal.veluxstiftung.deskone.ch/login\" target=\"_new\">https://portal.veluxstiftung.deskone.ch/login</a></li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Full call document</strong>: <a href=\"https://veluxstiftung.ch/wp-content/uploads/HealthyAgeing-Call-for-proposals.pdf\">Call for proposals: Healthy Ageing PDF</a></li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Contact</strong>: <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-02T09:50:06", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-09T12:20:13", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>[email protected]</strong></a><strong> </strong>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121655/", "category": { "id": 16, "code": "PROP", "fr_label": "Appel à proposition", "en_label": "Call for proposal", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72957, "title": "MechE Colloquium: From Insights into Phase-Change Heat and Mass Transfer to Meeting Basic Human Needs", "slug": "meche-colloquium-from-insights-into-phase-change-h", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/meche-colloquium-from-insights-into-phase-change-h", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34157/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34157/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34157/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-24", "end_date": "2026-11-24", "start_time": "12:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<strong>Abstract: </strong>The thermal sciences are at the heart of just about every human need and activity. Burgeoning worldwide energy demand and its impact on global climate, have further brought the importance of heat transfer to the fore. In the push toward decarbonization, electrification alone may not yield immediate reductions in carbon emissions because fossil-free renewable options are still in the ramp up phase. Insights into phase change heat and mass transfer and innovations in heat driven cycles provide a suite of options to complement renewable electricity and progress toward this goal. The role of sorption in space-conditioning through innovative heat and mass transfer processes driven by renewable energy sources or waste heat will be presented. Waste heat driven sorption heat pumps to provide cooling in severe ambient conditions will be shown to reduce the carbon footprint at kW to MW scales. Applications of heat pumping, including enhancing the performance of commercial dryers, and the development of diurnal and seasonal thermal storage systems, will be discussed. Likewise, thermochemical adsorption-based thermal storage to augment the performance of vapor compression heat pumps and better utilize intermittent renewable energy or address varying electricity costs will be discussed. Adsorption chillers driven by biomass, solar or waste heat for use in the cold chain to reduce food spoilage in areas with uncertain electricity infrastructure will also be presented. Simultaneous space-conditioning and water purification systems at the residential scale, power plant cooling without water-intensive cooling towers, innovative designs for next generation nuclear reactors, sorbent-loaded microchannel fibers for carbon capture from power plants, and water and energy conservation in aluminum ingot casting are other heat transfer related technologies that will be briefly discussed. These representative applications demonstrate the vast potential for innovations and the impact of phase-change heat and mass transfer as the backbone for meeting essential human needs such as food, water, clothing, thermal comfort, and the environment.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography: </strong>Dr. Srinivas Garimella is the Hightower Chair in Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Thermal Systems Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the ASME and of ASHRAE. He is Editor of the Int. J. Air-conditioning and Refrigeration, and past Associate Editor of the ASME J. Heat Transfer and ASME J. Energy Resources Technology, and of the ASHRAE SBTE Journal. He is Past Chair of the Advanced Energy Systems Division of ASME and was on the ASHRAE Research Administration Committee. He has mentored ~100 students pursuing their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, postdoctoral researchers, and research engineers, with his research resulting in over 400 archival journal and conference publications, a textbook on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Minichannels and Microchannels (2nd Ed., Elsevier 2014), and books on Condensation Heat Transfer (World Scientific Publishing, 2015) and Adsorption Heat Pumps (Springer Nature, 2021.) He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (1999), the ASHRAE New Investigator Award (1998), the SAE Ralph E. Teetor Educational Award for Engineering Educators (1998). He received the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2024) and the Georg Alefeld award (2024) for outstanding and lifelong contributions to the field of sorption chillers and heat pumps. He also received the ASME Award for Outstanding Research Contributions in the Field of Two-Phase Flow and Condensation in Microchannels (2012) and the Prominent Researcher Award at the Micro Flow and Interfacial Phenomena Conference 2022 for sustained and outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of phase change heat transfer at mini‐ and micro‐scales and coupled heat and mass transfer in binary fluids. He is a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil, 2026-2027. 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The request times out after the supplier has already accepted it. The agent retries, two orders ship, and most benchmarks today score this a success. Every step was reasonable, so it is genuinely hard to argue that the model made a mistake. And yet the outcome is clearly wrong.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe usual answer to failures like these is training a better model to lower the failure rate. However, lowering a rate and making a guarantee are not the same thing. A number of applications cannot be built just on the failure rate. This talk starts from a different question: what should the system around the model be required to guarantee instead?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOver the past two years my group has been working on four contracts, each stating guarantees the system must keep. First, effect, which says when an action becomes real and whether it can happen twice. Second, state, which says what an agent must not forget and what must happen when it does. Third, composition, which asks whether guarantees that hold for one agent still hold once several agents and many steps are involved. Finally, intent, which asks what plays the role of source code when agents generate and execute it on the fly. The four sit at different stages of maturity.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nI will present them alongside the mechanisms we have been developing: typed agent memory that raises a fault instead of forgetting silently, a mediator that admits an effect only when the specification allows it, and a tamper-evident record of what an agent actually did. Writing the contracts down is a first step toward a shared standard, a kind of POSIX for agents, though it is not the last. Systems in use today almost certainly violate these properties: retries that the supplier sees as new orders, rules dropped at compaction with no fault raised, and approvals reused after the reviewed code has changed. The next steps will be working out what to enforce and refining the properties as we build more systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nMy goal for this talk is to convince you that training agents to be safe and reliable will need a complementary systems approach.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nLaurent Bindschaedler leads the Data Systems Group at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems and is an Associate Fellow at Saarland University. He builds systems for AI agents, with current work on agent runtimes, trustworthy code generation, efficient LLM serving, and data systems for AI. He holds a PhD from EPFL and was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT CSAIL, with earlier work on operating systems, databases, and distributed systems. 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Individual mutations can therefore affect several dimensions of enzyme fitness, including folding stability, catalytic activity and substrate specificity. Understanding these effects and their relationships is essential for engineering enzymes for applications in industry and biomedicine. However, systematically mapping how sequence changes reshape these properties at scale remains challenging for many enzyme classes. A key difficulty is measuring enzyme activity at high throughput while maintaining a reliable link between each variant’s sequence and its function. This seminar will present the development and applications of Enzyme Proximity Sequencing (EP-Seq), a yeast-based platform that combines enzyme surface display with proximity-based, activity-dependent cell labeling. EP-Seq enables thousands of enzyme variants to be profiled across multiple functional properties and substrates. 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I connect them to opportunities for adaptive robot behavior, accessible interaction, and shared control, including how robots might recognize when assistance is welcome and make their actions easier to interpret or interrupt. The talk positions older adults as active contributors to robotics research, whose lived expertise can shape both future robot companions and the broader systems of support surrounding them.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography</strong><br>\r\nChorong Park, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Presidential Frontier Faculty at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design, where she leads the Empathetic Lifespan AI & Robotics for Aging (ELARA) Lab. Her research connects human–robot interaction, human-centered AI, and participatory design to develop social robots and supportive technologies with older adults and caregivers.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDrawing on studies in rural Indiana and urban Houston, she investigates how robots’ physical forms and interactions can fit older adults’ needs, surroundings, and everyday lives. Her work centers older adults’ perspectives on companionship, support, privacy, personal boundaries, and dignity, including how caregiver involvement can preserve individual choice and control.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nHer research is informed by more than 500 hours of volunteer technology support with older adults and people with disabilities and has appeared at ACM CHI, ACM ASSETS, and IEEE robotics venues. 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