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href=\"https://tinnefeld.cup.uni-muenchen.de/publications/group-theses/https-tinnefeld-cup-uni-muenchen-de-members/philip-tinnefeld/\">Prof. Dr. Philip Tinnefeld</a>,</strong> LMU Munich<br>\r\nHost: <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/aleksandra.radenovic?lang=en\">Prof. Aleksandra Radenovic</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u><strong>Abstract:</strong></u><br>\r\nGraphene-on-glass coverslips are an emerging microscopy platform as resonant energy transfer to graphene offers an axial ruler in the 5-40 nm range. I present single molecule biophysics experiments of protein/DNA interactions using Graphene Energy Transfer (GET) in combination with the discovery that dsDNA adopts a vertical orientation on graphene. Axial information of DNA structure and protein positions is deduced from GET-efficiency and xy-information is obtained e.g. by photon-efficient pMINFLUX revealing simultaneous bending and torsion of enzyme induced DNA conformations. Finally, I discuss how multi-color smFRET with dark quenchers probes states of DNA nanorobots and Brownian DNA computers that work close to the thermodynamic optimum.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u><strong>Bio:</strong></u><br>\r\nPhilip Tinnefeld is a Professor of Physical Chemistry at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, leading a highly interdisciplinary NanoBioSciences research group that brings together molecular biology, biophysics, nanophotonics, and physical chemistry. He specialises in single-molecule detection and super-resolution microscopy, and he uses DNA origami to build modular nanoscale devices—such as force sensors, fluorescence amplifiers, and molecular robots—that can sense, compute, and respond autonomously. Under his leadership, the lab is also developing advanced biosensing platforms and imaging tools by combining DNA nanotechnology with 2D materials like graphene, pushing the frontiers of how we observe and control biological processes at the molecular level.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>STUDENT SPEAKER:</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Understanding oxidative stress response in animals - a case study of the essential enzyme adenosylhomocysteinase, AHCY</strong><br>\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/yong-qi.gao?lang=en\">Yong-Qi Gao</a>, </strong><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/upzenk/\">Zenk Lab</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>BioEngineering Talks mandatory EDBB Seminar Attendance (1st-Year PhD Students)</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li> Attendance sheet to print <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kusGxCFPAvWaRD8eUGEBkSVzD1ppMf1g/edit\" target=\"_blank\">HERE </a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>The BioEngineering Student Seminar Series</strong> is an official course for which students can register and earn credits.<br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Register <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"https://edu.epfl.ch/studyplan/fr/ecole_doctorale/biotechnologie-et-genie-biologique/coursebook/bioengineering-student-seminar-series-BIOENG-613\" target=\"_blank\">HERE</a></li>\r\n\t<li>Attendance sheet to print <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZGrPnt8LlLuWOApzx32s6L5UPPH8Hyoo/edit\" target=\"_blank\">HERE</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>General information:</strong><br>\r\nIn-person attendance is preferred to support your fellow students. 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This can be extended to resolve nanostructure orientation voxel-by-voxel in three dimensions in a method called SAXS tensor tomography, which we implement in our open-source software package Mumott. In this presentation, I will show how this approach, and its continued development, can be applied across different material systems.<br>\r\nFor injection-molded polymer packaging, SAXS imaging has resolved the layered anisotropic nanostructure important for its mechanical properties, and, combined with industrial processing simulations, the structure formation during thermal processing. Another example is bone, where resolving structure requires both three-dimensional information and sufficient sampling to capture biological variability. Combining 2D and 3D SAXS imaging, we studied regional differences in the human femoral neck, an anatomical site relevant to hip fractures, and, at higher resolution, resolved alternating chirality between neighboring lamellae within individual osteons, a structural feature proposed on mechanical grounds over a century ago.<br>\r\nThese examples illustrate how tensor tomography, extended beyond X-ray scattering to wide-angle diffraction and visible-light polarimetry, provides a route to resolving hierarchical structure across a wide range of material systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio:<strong> </strong>Marianne Liebi studied food science at ETH Zurich, where she also completed her PhD in 2013, followed by postdoctoral research at the Paul Scherrer Institute and MAX IV Laboratory, Lund. In 2017, she started her own research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and was appointed in 2021 as tenure-track Assistant Professor at EPFL, where she heads the Laboratory for X-ray Characterization of Materials (cam-X) within the Institute of Materials, in a joint position with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). 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We use it as a scientific tool to study how models acquire specialized skills and how far those skills transfer. We speedrun SWE-bench by training coding agents from scratch on demonstrations from stronger models. With about $1,000 of training compute, we reach a 25% solve rate, outperforming GPT-4o. Compared to models with extensive pre-training, our speedrun models solve largely the same SWE-bench problems, and generalize about as well to new bugs and codebases. What, then, does pre-training buy for SWE-bench? Our experiments suggest a one-student hypothesis: pre-training helps a student imitate its teacher, but at matched imitation loss, pre-training choices barely matter. We stress-test this hypothesis by comparing a model trained on the web against a “vintage\" one trained only pre-1931 documents. Up to the SWE-bench scores we reach, pre-training is interchangeable with specialization data. We release nanoswe as an open project for studying specialization through speedrunning.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nRicardo Olmedo is a final-year PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and a Google PhD Fellow. Advised by Moritz Hardt and Bernhard Schölkopf, he works on language model benchmarking and specialization. His research has earned three oral presentations at ICLR and NeurIPS. 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While safety is paramount, guarantees on sufficient exploration are also crucial for ensuring autonomous task completion. To address these challenges, we propose a novel safe guaranteed exploration framework using optimal control, which achieves first-of-its-kind results: guaranteed exploration for non-linear systems with finite time sample complexity bounds, while being provably safe with arbitrarily high probability. The framework is general and applicable to many real-world scenarios with complex non-linear dynamics and unknown domains. For efficient implementation, we exploit goal-directed exploration, and receding-horizon replanning while preserving the framework’s guarantees, and demonstrate safe, efficient exploration in challenging unknown environments using a car model.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography</strong>: <br>\r\nManish Prajapat earned his Ph.D. in reinforcement learning and control from ETH Zurich in May 2026. He was a Doctoral Fellow at the ETH AI Center working with Prof. Melanie Zeilinger and Prof. Andreas Krause. Previously, he earned his master’s degree in Robotics, Systems, and Control from ETH Zurich and was a visiting scholar at Caltech. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras in 2017. At IIT Madras, he was honored as the Best Graduating Student (Co-curricular) in 2017 and received the Sivasailam Merit Prize for the best thesis. His research interests are sequential decision-making under complex scenarios, e.g., non-Markovian objectives, unknown constraints or unknown dynamics of non-linear systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-02T16:39:32", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-02T16:47:13", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ME C2 405", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ME%20C2%20405", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69006439273", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr Manish Prajapat Ph.D. reinforcement learning and control from <a href=\"https://control.ee.ethz.ch\">ETH Zurich</a>\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https://ieee.ch/chapters/control-systems-society/\">Winner of the IEEE CSS Young Author Best Journal Paper Award 2026</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/giancarlo.ferraritrecate\">Prof Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate</a> The seminar is sponsored by the Swiss chapter of the <a href=\"https://ieee.ch\">IEEE-CSS</a>", "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/122052/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/15/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/394/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72754, "title": "Exploring the ∞-categorical semantics of homotopy type theory", "slug": "exploring-the-categorical-semantics-of-homotopy--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/exploring-the-categorical-semantics-of-homotopy--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33968/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33968/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33968/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-15", "end_date": "2026-10-15", "start_time": "10:00:00", "end_time": "11:00:00", "description": "<p>This talk is meant to give an overview of the semantics of HoTT in (∞,1)-categories, tackling the key challenge of rigidification: the process of bridging homotopy-coherent notions phrased in models of higher categories such as quasicategories, and their type-theoretical counterparts that must account for the inherent strictness of type theory.<br>\r\nAfter quickly recalling the usual categorical semantics of extensional Martin-Löf type theory within locally cartesian closed category, the plan is to present some useful ideas to carry over some of the argument to the higher setting. Specifically, I will discuss the process of turning an elementary higher topos into a model of HoTT, and sketch important ideas used to prove the internal language conjecture for locally cartesian closed (∞,1)-categories.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-02T13:54:27", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-02T13:54:47", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CM 1 517", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%20517", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "El Mehdi Cherradi, IRIF", "organizer": "Virgile Constantin", "contact": "Maroussia Schaffner", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122047/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "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/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/7/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72751, "title": "BMI Seminar // Peter Rupprecht: How to interpret neuronal calcium imaging data", "slug": "bmi-seminar-peter-rupprecht-how-to-interpret-neuro", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/bmi-seminar-peter-rupprecht-how-to-interpret-neuro", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33965/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33965/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33965/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-23", "end_date": "2026-10-23", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "10:00:00", "description": "<p>How can we meaningfully interpret neuronal calcium imaging data? Calcium imaging is one of the key methods used to record neuronal activity from the brain of animals. I will outline why the interpretation of calcium signals remains a major bottleneck in understanding neuronal activity and plasticity. I will trace the origins of this problem and how partial solutions have been provided by my own and by others' work, and how these issues are affected by recording conditions and different calcium indicators (e.g., OGB-1, GCaMP6, GCaMP8). I will propose a conceptual path forward that could make calcium imaging a more powerful tool than it currently is.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-02T13:38:43", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-02T13:38:43", "link_label": "Web Page", "link_url": "https://www.hifo.uzh.ch/en/research/helmchen/Junior-Group-Peter-Rupprecht.html", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 2510", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%202510", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Peter Rupprecht, University of Zürich, CH", "organizer": "LSENS, BMI, SV\r\n\r\nHost: Carl Petersen", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122041/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/19/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72749, "title": "Gentle and Robust Dyes for Dynamic Super-Resolution Imaging", "slug": "gentle-and-robust-dyes-for-dynamic-super-resolutio", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/gentle-and-robust-dyes-for-dynamic-super-resolutio", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33977/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33977/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33977/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "14:15:00", "end_time": "15:15:00", "description": "<strong>Abstract:</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nLive-cell imaging technology is advancing into the era of dynamic super-resolution imaging of organelles and specific proteins, placing new demands on the optical properties of fluorescent probes. Traditional live-cell fluorescent probes face two critical technical challenges:\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>How to make fluorescent probes brighter and more photostable.</li>\r\n\t<li>How to make fluorescent probes gentler to minimize the photodamage of organelles.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nBased on the fundamental principles of photochemistry and biochemistry, we have developed a new generation of live-cell imaging probes that far surpass traditional probes in brightness, photostability, and biocompatibility. These probes enable long-term super-resolution imaging of mitochondria, insulin vesicle secretion, plasma membrane dynamics, lysosomes, and more. Our representative achievements include: The PK Mito and PK Zinc dye series, widely used in mitochondrial and insulin secretion imaging. The BD series of novel fluorophores, in conjunction with self-labeling tags, offer general protein labeling strategies with superior optical properties compared to fluorescent proteins.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n==================================================<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Brief Biography:<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDr. Zhixing Chen, Associate Professor</strong><br>\r\n<strong>College of Future Technology</strong><br>\r\n<strong>Peking University</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nDr. Zhixing Chen is a tenured associate professor at the College of Future Technology, Peking University. He received his BS from Tsinghua University in 2008 and his PhD from Columbia University in 2014. He subsequently completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University in 2015 and at Stanford University from 2016 to 2018.<br>\r\nThe Chen Lab at Peking University was established in 2018. The lab endeavors to integrate chemistry and biochemistry to develop new imaging tools with high brightness, specificity, and biocompatibility, with the goal of advancing bioimaging technologies and enabling new approaches in cell biology, metabolism, and biophysics.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Website: </strong><a href=\"https://zhixingchenlab.mysxl.cn/\"><strong>https://zhixingchenlab.mysxl.cn/</strong></a>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-02T11:35:36", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-05T09:25:14", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BM 5202", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?baselayer_ref=grp_backgrounds&dim_floor=5&dim_lang=fr&lang=fr&map_x=2532981&map_y=1152490&map_zoom=12&room=%3DBM%205202&tree_group_layers_centres_nevralgiques=information_epfl%2Cguichet_etudiants&tree_group_layers_commerces_et_services=&tree_group_layers_enseignement=&tree_group_layers_mobilite_acces_grp=metro&tree_groups=centres_nevralgiques_grp%2Cmobilite_acces_grp%2Crestauration_et_commerces_grp%2Censeignement%2Cservices_campus_grp%2Cequipements_grp&tree_group_layers_centres_nevralgiques_grp=&tree_group_layers_restauration_et_commerces_grp=&tree_group_layers_services_campus_grp=information_epfl&tree_group_layers_equipements_grp=", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<strong><a href=\"https://zhixingchenlab.mysxl.cn/\">Dr. Zhixing Chen, Associate Professor,</a> College of Future Technology, Peking University</strong>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/leb/professor-manley/\">Prof. Suliana Manley</a>, <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/leb/\">Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Qian Wang, Administrative Assistant for LEB</a>", "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/122038/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72747, "title": "2 Billion years of shelterin and t-loops: from telomere protection to tumor suppression", "slug": "2-billion-years-of-shelterin-and-t-loops-from-telo", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/2-billion-years-of-shelterin-and-t-loops-from-telo", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33962/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33962/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33962/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-26", "end_date": "2026-11-26", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:15:00", "description": "<strong>A Lola and John Grace Distinguished Lecture in Cancer Research</strong>\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-98cefd8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\r\n<div class=\"vita\">Dr. Titia de Lange received training in molecular biology and biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam. As an undergraduate, she did research in Richard Flavell’s lab at the MRC in Mill Hill, UK. She was a graduate student in Piet Borst’s lab in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Amsterdam and moved with Borst to the Dutch Cancer Center where she first developed an interest in telomeres. After receiving her PhD in 1985, de Lange joined Harold Varmus at UCSF for postdoctoral studies. With Varmus, she isolated human telomeric DNA and was the first to show that human telomeres shorten during tumorigenesis. In 1990, she moved to the Rockefeller to take a position as a University Fellow and was appointed as Assistant Professor in 1991. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 1994 and to Professor in 1997. She currently is the Leon Hess Professor and the Director of the Anderson Center for Cancer Research at the Rockefeller University.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nShe is a member of EMBO, the US National Academy of Science, both Dutch Royal Academies, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the US National Academy of Medicine. She is an foreign member of the Royal Society of London and received honorary degrees from the University of Utrecht, the University of Chicago, and the University of Groningen.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDe Lange’s awards include the inaugural Paul Marks Prize for Cancer Research in 2001, the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center Prize, the Judd award from MSKCC, the AACR’s Charlotte Friend and G.H.A. Clowes Awards, the 2011 Vilcek Prize, the 2012 Vanderbilt Prize, the 2012 Dr. Heineken Prize for Biochemistry and Biophysics, the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2013, the 2014 Canada Gairdner International Award, the 2018 Lewis S. Rosenstiel Award, and the 2024 Pezcoller AACR International Award.\r\n<div> </div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-e552a16 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\">\r\n<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\"> </div>\r\n</div>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-02T09:46:26", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-02T10:44:54", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/97039045251?pwd=WDFjUGV3Y1FxeG9rTUIrOGpiUXhLQT09", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<strong>Dr Titia De Lange, </strong>Leon Hess Professor and Director, Anderson Center for Cancer Research, Rockefeller University, USA", "organizer": "Prof. Joachim Lingner", "contact": "Lisa Smith, ISREC Administrative Assistant", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Grace Lecture, cancer", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122035/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/26/?format=api" ] } ] }
