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One leading idea is that RNA played a central role because it can act both as genetic material and as a catalyst. A major challenge has been that known RNA polymerase ribozymes, the catalysts of RNA copying, are large and complex, making them difficult to copy and unlikely to arise from prebiotic RNA sequence pools.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn this seminar, Edoardo Gianni will present QT45, a compact 45-nucleotide RNA polymerase ribozyme discovered from random RNA sequence pools. QT45 can catalyse the two essential reactions required for RNA self-replication: the synthesis of itself and the synthesis of its complementary strand. This work suggests that RNA-copying activity may be more common in sequence space than previously thought. 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Auditorium C</a><br>\r\n14:00 Katrin Beyer, ENAC Faculty Dean<br>\r\n14:15 Sophie Delhay, Section Director<br>\r\n14:45 Diversity Office <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Propedeutical Year Information (1st year)</strong><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==STCC%207%208025\">Swiss Tech Convention Center - Auditorium C</a><br>\r\n15:00 ALICE y1 (Professor Dieter Dietz)<br>\r\n15:30 Introducing the team (Laurent Chassot)<br>\r\n15:45 Agepoly (Association générale des étudiant·es de l’EPFL)<br>\r\n16:00 ASAR (Association des étudiant·es de la Section d'Architecture) <br>\r\n16:15 Coaching and moving towards the studios<br>\r\n16:30 Meeting in the studios<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Information Session for New Master Students,<br>\r\nExchange Students and Passerelle HES Students</strong><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240\">Room SG 0 211</a><br>\r\n15:30 - 16:30 Laure Kochnitzky Palluel, Section Deputy<br>\r\n16:30 - 16:45 Agepoly (Association générale des étudiant·es de l’EPFL)", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2024-08-22T16:05:56", "last_modification_date": "2026-02-11T11:50:09", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "", "organizer": "Section d'architecture", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">[email protected]</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": "futur·es étudiant·es, nouveaux·elles étudiant·es", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/113078/", "category": { "id": 4, "code": "DIVERS", "fr_label": "Autres types d’événement", "en_label": "Miscellaneous", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/391/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71879, "title": "Mathematics Colloquium", "slug": "mathematics-colloquium-15", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/mathematics-colloquium-15", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33203/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33203/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33203/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-09", "end_date": "2026-06-09", "start_time": "16:15:00", "end_time": "17:15:00", "description": "<strong>Title : </strong>On indefinite ternary quadratic forms<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract : </strong><br>\r\nWe describe the solution to two problems concerning indefinite integral ternary quadratic forms.<br>\r\nThe first about anisotropic forms was popularized by Margulis following his solution of the Oppenheim Conjecture.<br>\r\nThe second about the density of isotropic forms was raised by Serre.<br>\r\nJoint work with A.Gamburd, A.Ghosh and J.Whang.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Please register on the following form : </strong>https://forms.gle/w8PbDFZtRSs5V47Y8<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-13T13:52:46", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-20T10:23:16", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELD 020", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELD%20020", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Peter Sarnak (Institute of Advanced Study and Princeton University)", "organizer": "Institute of Mathematics", "contact": "Prof. Philippe Michel", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Sur invitation", "en_label": "Invitation required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120769/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - 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After a fixed number of steps, the left tail has a Gaussian profile under minimal assumptions. Remarkably, a similar phenomenon occurs when we consider a positive random walk on the cone of positive-semidefinite matrices. After a fixed number of steps, the minimum eigenvalue is described by a Gaussian random matrix model.<br>\r\nThis talk introduces a new way to make this intuition rigorous. The methodology addresses an open problem in computational mathematics about sparse random embeddings. The presentation targets a general mathematical audience.<br>\r\nPreprint: <a href=\"https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16578\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16578</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Please register on the following form : </strong>https://forms.gle/ppXwKo9HmTgFk3rc7", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-04-01T11:03:30", "last_modification_date": "2026-04-01T11:03:45", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BCH 2201", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%202201", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Joel A. 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To mark the occasion, the Archives de la Construction Moderne and Archizoom invite you to take a tour that begins with the ACM's original document storage facilities and ends with their display at Archizoom with the exhibition <em>Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l'école d'architecture</em>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>About the exhibition </strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nFocusing on architectural projects, both built and unrealised, kept in the archives of modern construction, the exhibition <em>Des Cèdres à Dorigny</em> tells the story of the birth and evolution of the Lausanne School of Architecture. 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L'Atelier Cantàfora à l'EPFL / ARCHIZOOM", "slug": "une-education-au-reel-l-atelier-cantafora-a-l-epfl", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/une-education-au-reel-l-atelier-cantafora-a-l-epfl", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32310/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32310/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32310/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-03-17", "end_date": "2026-06-05", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>UNE ÉDUCATION AU RÉEL <br>\r\nL’ATELIER CANTÀFORA<br>\r\n18.03-05.06.2026<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOpening! Tuesday 17 March 6.30 pm</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis exhibition explores the vast field of graphic representation in architecture through fifteen years of teaching architectural representation at EPFL at the turn of the 2000s. It presents around a hundred paintings on wood, didactic works produced between 1997 and 2007 in the teaching units of the painter Arduino Cantàfora. They suggest a possible way of making, between thought and <em>actio</em>, where drawing and painting structure a concept and become an essential language for expressing the founding idea of a project. Despite the transition to digital technology, the exhibition conveys the conviction that the artisanal culture of drawing and painting continues to play a fundamental and indispensable role in training architects.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<em>An exhibition produced in collaboration with the LAPIS laboratory at the EPFL’s Institute of Architecture and Urban Planning.</em>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-01-20T19:05:53", "last_modification_date": "2026-01-26T08:24:30", "link_label": "Une éducation au réel. 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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": 71932, "title": "Failure-Aware LLM Serving for Agentic Workloads", "slug": "failure-aware-llm-serving-for-agentic-workloads", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/failure-aware-llm-serving-for-agentic-workloads", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-17", "end_date": "2026-06-17", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "11:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Anastasia Ailamaki<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Anne-Marie Kermarrec<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Robert West<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>ReAct (<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03629</a>)</li>\r\n\t<li>Agentix (<a href=\"https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi26-luo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi26-luo.pdf</a>)</li>\r\n\t<li>Why do multi-agent systems fail? (<a href=\"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13657\" target=\"_blank\">https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.13657</a>)</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T13:11:09", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T13:12:05", "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": "Palak", "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/120839/", "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/48/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71591, "title": "Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty", "slug": "decision-making-under-risk-and-uncertainty", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/decision-making-under-risk-and-uncertainty", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32924/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32924/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32924/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-08", "end_date": "2026-06-08", "start_time": "10:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Emre Telatar<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Michael Gastpar<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Negar Kiyavash<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nIn real-world decision problems, human needs can differ widely in background, culture, and objectives, making it difficult to design a single universal value function for agents. To design a model dealing with specific tasks, a natural starting point is to specify an appropriate utility (reward) function and optimize it. However, in practice, there are many factors that require attention when making decisions. This work mainly considers two factors: risk and uncertainty, and aims to study decision making through an information-theoretic lens, developing algorithms and interpretations for optimizing risk-sensitive utility functions under uncertainty.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Selected papers</u><br>\r\n1. 1968 - Mossin - Optimal Multiperiod Portfolio Policies<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://www.jstor.org/stable/2351447\">https://www.jstor.org/stable/2351447</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n2. 1984 - Cover - An Algorithm for Maximizing Expected Log Investment Return<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1056869\">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1056869</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n3. 2019 - Bleuler-Lapidoth-Pfister - Gambling and Rényi Divergence<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8849800\">https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8849800</a><br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-04-14T14:29:53", "last_modification_date": "2026-04-20T21:12:06", "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": "Bo-Yu Yang", "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/120375/", "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" ] } ] }
