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Important in industry and medicine, biofilms also represent a unique form of growing active matter with unique physical and material properties. In this talk, I will highlight our recent work on developing a platform for imaging live, growing biofilm at single-cell resolution, using <em>Vibrio cholerae </em>as the model organism. I will show how bacterial cells physically communicate with each other and the environment to form ordered architecture reminiscent of liquid crystals. Moreover, I will talk about our recent discovery that heterogeneity in gene expression leads to unexpected pattern formation in biofilm through a drag-based sorting mechanism. I will also highlight ongoing research in the lab on extending the imaging capability to more natural environments including marine animal hosts. 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Luterbacher, Prof. R. Marti<br>\r\nChemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11568<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-05T16:08:17", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-05T16:08:22", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "AAC 2 31", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==AAC%202%2031", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62829262527", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Maxime Alexandre Clément HEDOU</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Maxime Alexandre Clément HEDOU</strong></a><br>\r\n ", "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": "EDCH", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120664/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": "SOUTE", "fr_label": "Soutenances de thèses", "en_label": "Thesis defenses", "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" ] }, { "id": 71809, "title": "SERI – Leading House MENA | Research Partnership Grants 2026", "slug": "seri-leading-house-mena-research-partnership-gra-3", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/seri-leading-house-mena-research-partnership-gra-3", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33132/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33132/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33132/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-26", "end_date": "2026-06-26", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Aim:</strong><br>\r\nThis instrument aims to strengthen collaboration between researchers based in Switzerland and those in partner countries from the MENA region. 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What it meant by eligible institutions: \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>for <strong><em>Switzerland</em> - </strong>accredited higher education institutions (list provided by <a href=\"https://www.swissuniversities.ch/en/topics/studying/accredited-swiss-higher-education-institutions\" target=\"_blank\">swissuniversities</a>) and research institutions as defined in art. 4. and 5. of the <a href=\"https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2013/786/en\" target=\"_blank\">RIPA</a></li>\r\n\t<li>for <strong><em>MENA region</em>: </strong>accredited universities and public research institutes</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Please consider that The RPG 2026 will open soon and the detailed guidelines will be available on the <a href=\"https://www.hes-so.ch/en/hes-so/about-us/international/leading-house-mena/research-partnership-grants-2026\">main page</a> of the call</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>For more specific guidelines or questions about relevance, applicants are encouraged to contact <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Leading House MENA</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Any other questions may be addressed to the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a></li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-05T17:28:59", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-05T17:28:59", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</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/120665/", "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/3/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?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/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71816, "title": "Sources and chemical composition of natural and anthropogenic aerosols in the central Arctic", "slug": "sources-and-chemical-composition-of-natural-and--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/sources-and-chemical-composition-of-natural-and--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33139/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33139/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33139/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-31", "end_date": "2026-07-31", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. J. 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Since fixing all driver bugs is nearly impossible, isolation of drivers is necessary to be a fundamental mechanism for reducing the attack surface between system composition boundaries. Compared with hardware-based isolation(Xen, Nooks, etc) and software-based isolation (e.g. SFI), language-based isolation often gains fine-grained safety, such as type constraints and thread-safety properties. <br>\r\nSafeDrive was an early effort to protect Linux C drivers using type checks, memory-safety invariants, and recovery support, but it still had overhead and incomplete safety. RedLeaf, built in Rust completely, reduces runtime checks by relying on Rust's ownership system while enabling efficient communication through validated interfaces. As Rust enters mainline Linux, a new challenge appears: Rust components need to interact with legacy foreign-language code, where safety guarantees can break. Omniglot addresses this by enabling safe, zero-copy interaction between Rust and unmodified untrusted code using carefully designed memory isolation primitives.<br>\r\nGoing forward, my research will continue to focus on the intersection of operating systems and programming languages.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\n<strong>Paper 1: </strong>SafeDrive: Safe and Recoverable Extensions Using Language-Based Techniques [OSDI'06]\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1298455.1298461\">https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1298455.1298461</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Paper 2: </strong>RedLeaf: Isolation and Communication in a Safe Operating System [OSDI'20]\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/narayanan-vikram\">https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi20/presentation/narayanan-vikram</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Paper 3: </strong>Building Bridges: Safe Interactions with Foreign Languages through Omniglot [OSDI'25]\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/schuermann\">https://www.usenix.org/conference/osdi25/presentation/schuermann</a></li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-08T11:09:55", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-08T11:10:13", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 133", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20133", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "Yiwen Xu", "organizer": "", "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": "EDIC candidacy exam", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120700/", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/48/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71835, "title": "Testing the Hypervisor Boundary: Semantic Oracles and Adversarial Input Generation for pKVM", "slug": "testing-the-hypervisor-boundary-semantic-oracles-a", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/testing-the-hypervisor-boundary-semantic-oracles-a", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33155/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33155/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33155/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-22", "end_date": "2026-06-22", "start_time": "13:00:00", "end_time": "15:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Katerina Argyraki<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Mathias Payer<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Thomas Bourgeat<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nHypervisors underpin modern confidential computing stacks, yet their exposed interfaces - hypercalls, fault handlers, and device interactions - remain a large and under-tested attack surface. Existing approaches fall short: coverage-driven fuzzers (e.g., HYPERPILL) explore broadly but rely on crash oracles, missing non-crashing vulnerabilities, while specification-based systems (e.g., Ghost) detect semantic violations but constrain input generation and under explore adversarial cases.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis thesis focuses on systematic bug finding in pKVM by combining semantic oracles with coverage-guided, adversarial fuzzing. Executable interface specifications are used to flag behavioral inconsistencies, while mutation-based input generation deliberately produces both valid and model-violating inputs to reach boundary conditions and deep execution paths. 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