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Jakob,<br>\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11469<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-13T15:01:14", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-13T15:01:30", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 420", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi ZHANG</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi ZHANG</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": "EDIC", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120774/", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71885, "title": "Eveline Mayner's Public Defense", "slug": "eveline-mayner-s-public-defense", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/eveline-mayner-s-public-defense", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-05-29", "end_date": "2026-05-29", "start_time": "04:00:00", "end_time": "22:00:00", "description": "<p>Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a versatile platform at the intersection of fundamental physics and applied science. Their atomically thin nature gives rise to distinctive electronic and optical properties, while simultaneously enabling them to function as highly sensitive, readily integrable probes of their local environment. Advanced optical techniques, such as super-resolution microscopy, have opened new opportunities to interrogate these materials at the nanoscale, providing optical access to individual defect behaviors, exciton diffusion and recombination dynamics, and charge transport pathways. Such approaches not only deepen our understanding of intrinsic material behavior but also position 2D systems as powerful sensors capable of resolving local dielectric variations, electric and magnetic fields, and other environmental perturbations.<br>\r\nCentral to this work is hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a transparent, wide bandgap semiconductor that serves as a host for optically active defects. These defects function as reaction centers, single-photon emitters, and spatially resolved nanoscale sensors that can be readily integrated into electronic and photonic architectures. Owing to its optical transparency, chemical stability, and compatibility with diverse material platforms, hBN provides an exceptional foundation for optical sensing. Building upon this foundation, we explore material properties and present new methods for spatially resolved in situ optical imaging with hBN to advance dynamic, wide-field optical sensing.<br>\r\nWe investigate a previously reported class of emitters that arise from interactions between native hBN and organic solvents. These emitters are believed to originate from defect sites that bind transiently to solvent molecules. To study their behavior, we develop a platform for imaging the dynamics of these transient emitters while varying the electrochemical potential and applying electric fields with controlled orientations. By tracking the spectra of individual emitters, we enable multiplexed measurements that allow spatially resolved electrochemical imaging. Through systematic analysis, we rule out modulation mechanisms based on direct electric field effects or charge transfer. Instead, we identify a mechanism driven by changes in H⁺ concentration, which is modulated during the oxidation of trace water present in the solvent. This finding opens the possibility of using this platform for sensitive detection of H⁺ and trace water in methanol fuel cells, where such species critically influence operational efficiency.<br>\r\nIn the final part of the thesis, we focus on a well-characterized spin defect in hBN, the negatively charged boron vacancy, and explore strategies to enhance its photoluminescence (PL) through heterostructure engineering that facilitates energy and exciton transfer. We demonstrate the coupled structure’s improved utility in optical magnetometry compared to the defect by itself and discuss how improvements in PL could advance the development of wide-field optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) imaging using this spin defect. Using a defect in hBN would leverage 2D materials’ exceptional sensing capabilities and planar integrability.<br>\r\nOverall, this thesis aims to highlight the strengths of integrating 2D materials with optical sensing and to develop transferable techniques for introducing controlled stimuli, such as electrochemical potentials, electric fields, or electromagnetic waves, with high fidelity and minimal artifacts. These advances not only demonstrate the potential of hBN as a versatile sensing platform but also establish methodologies applicable to a wide range of low-dimensional material systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nFor zoom:<br>\r\n Meeting ID: 611 3428 2068 Passcode: 952027</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-13T16:07:39", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-13T16:07:39", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELA 1", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELA%201", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61134282068?pwd=zurg0qXVsUx4ln0hxCcrvjDCiHhwSx.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Eveline Mayner\r\n\r\nAleksandra Radenovic", "organizer": "Eveline Mayner", "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": "Public Defense", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120775/", "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/8/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71888, "title": "Optimization of on-demand shared mobility: passenger and freight applications", "slug": "optimization-of-on-demand-shared-mobility-passen-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/optimization-of-on-demand-shared-mobility-passen-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33207/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33207/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33207/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-05-28", "end_date": "2026-05-28", "start_time": "10:30:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. N. Geroliminis,<br>\r\nCivil and Environmental Engineering doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11281<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-18T08:45:08", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-18T08:45:10", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SG 0211", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%200211", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<strong>Min Ru WANG</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Min Ru WANG</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": "EDCE", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120779/", "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/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71891, "title": "Kilian's Protocol and Beyond: On Constructions and Limitations of Succinct Arguments", "slug": "kilian-s-protocol-and-beyond-on-constructions-an-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/kilian-s-protocol-and-beyond-on-constructions-an-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33209/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33209/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33209/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-03", "end_date": "2026-06-03", "start_time": "17:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Directors: Prof. A. 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Göös<br>\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11413<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-18T10:32:31", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-18T10:32:33", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 420", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi GUAN</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Ziyi GUAN</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": "EDIC", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120784/", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71892, "title": "Bacterial Immune Systems: From Molecular Mechanisms to Next-Generation Biotechnology", "slug": "bacterial-immune-systems-from-molecular-mechanisms", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/bacterial-immune-systems-from-molecular-mechanisms", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33210/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33210/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33210/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-05-26", "end_date": "2026-05-26", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:15:00", "description": "<p>Immense evolutionary pressure has driven bacteria to innovate a diverse arsenal of immune systems that defend against parasitic mobile genetic elements, including bacteriophages and plasmids. The study of these systems has proven extraordinarily fruitful for biotechnology: CRISPR-Cas9, originally discovered as a bacterial defense mechanism, has revolutionized genome editing and demonstrated the transformative potential of mining bacterial immunity for molecular tools.<br>\r\nYet the diversity of bacterial defense extends far beyond CRISPR. Bacteria have evolved numerous strategies to recognize and destroy foreign DNA, many of which remain poorly understood at the mechanistic level. A central question is how these systems distinguish self from non-self — and how the underlying molecular logic of DNA targeting is encoded in protein structure and biochemistry. We combine cryo-electron microscopy, quantitative biochemistry, and in vivo genomics to characterize newly discovered defense systems and dissect their targeting mechanisms. This work is revealing unexpected principles of foreign DNA recognition, with implications both for our understanding of bacterial immunity and for the development of next-generation biotechnological tools for genome editing and beyond.</p>", "image_description": "Bravo", "creation_date": "2026-05-18T10:59:28", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-18T10:59:28", "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": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Jack Bravo, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA)", "organizer": "Melanie Blokesch", "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/120785/", "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/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/53/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71900, "title": "U.S. CDMRP – Breast Cancer Research Program | Research Funding", "slug": "us-cdmrp-breast-cancer-research-program-research-5", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/us-cdmrp-breast-cancer-research-program-research-5", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33218/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33218/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33218/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-12", "end_date": "2026-06-12", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Aim</strong>: Through the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP), the Department of Defense is announcing the 2026 <strong>Breast Cancer Research Program</strong> <strong>(BCRP)</strong> Awards. Several award programs are available:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Breakthrough Awards</strong> supports promising research that has high potential to lead to or make breakthroughs in breast cancer. The Breakthrough Award is structured with four different funding levels. Each level has a defined research scope :\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 1</u>: Innovative, high-risk/high-reward research that is in the earliest stages of idea development or is an untested theory that addresses an important problem.</li>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 2</u>: Research that is already supported by substantial preliminary or published data and strongly validates clinical translation in a well-defined context within the breast cancer landscape.</li>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 3</u><strong>: </strong>Advanced translational studies with a high degree of project readiness.</li>\r\n\t\t<li><u>Funding Level 4</u><strong>: </strong>Large-scale projects that will transform and revolutionize the clinical management and/or prevention of breast cancer. Human clinical trials are required.</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Clinical Research Extension Award</strong> aims to extend the data collection, follow-up, and analysis of breast cancer clinical research studies. Proposed research may entail a deeper molecular analysis of clinical samples, initiation of new correlative studies, biomarker validation, or continuing clinical follow-up of patients currently/previously enrolled in an open/ongoing or completed clinical trial.</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Era of Hope Scholar Award</strong> supports individuals early in their careers who have demonstrated significant potential to effect meaningful change in breast cancer. These individuals should be exceptionally talented scientists who have shown that they are the “best and brightest” in their field(s)</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award</strong> is designed to support large-scale, multidisciplinary and multi-institutional consortia that address major challenges in breast cancer through tightly integrated and collaborative research efforts. It enables up to five Principal Investigators, including a Consortium Director, to work within a coordinated framework where all project components are aligned toward a shared central hypothesis. The award specifically aims to foster innovative and paradigm-shifting approaches that go beyond the capabilities of individual laboratories, requiring strong integration across scientific, administrative, and logistical aspects, as well as the active involvement of breast cancer advocates and cross-disciplinary expertise.</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award</strong> is intended to provide successful applicants the time and resources needed to bring investigators and breast cancer advocates together to establish a consortium framework and conduct preliminary research to support application to a future, full Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award (pending availability of funds). This is a development award and is a separate mechanism from the full consortium award. Recipients of the FY26 Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award are expected to submit an application to compete for the full Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award anticipated to be offered in a future fiscal year(s).</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\nAll applications must align with at least one BCRP Overarching Challenge. The FY26 BCRP Challenges are listed at the end of this announcement.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Funding</strong>: <br>\r\nBreakthrough 1: $750K - $1.25M<br>\r\nBreakthrough 2: $1.65M - $3.35M<br>\r\nBreakthrough 3: $5.6M - $7M<br>\r\nBreakthrough 4: max. $21M<br>\r\nClinical Research Extension: $7M - $8.4M<br>\r\nEra of Hope: max. $4.9M<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award: max. $35M<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award: max. $140K<br>\r\n<sub>Note: Cost caps are <strong><em>total costs (direct plus indirect costs).</em> </strong>In accordance with EPFL guidelines, budgets should include a 20% overhead, and the total budget must remain within the grant’s maximum allowable funding.</sub><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Duration</strong>: <br>\r\nBreakthrough 1: 3 years<br>\r\nBreakthrough 2: 3-4 years<br>\r\nBreakthrough 3: 4 years<br>\r\nBreakthrough 4: 4 years<br>\r\nClinical Research Extension: 4 years<br>\r\nEra of Hope: 4 years<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award: 4 years<br>\r\nTransformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award: 1 year<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Eligibility: </strong>Applicants from international organizations or institutions are eligible to apply, and there are no citizenship restrictions. Programme-specific seniority levels are further defined <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241307&fileType=pdf\">here</a>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>How to Apply</strong>: Pre-applications are submitted through the <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/index.htm\">eBRAP platform</a>. They should contain contact information, a letter of intent, and a list of collaborators and key personnel as suggested on the platform. Full applications will be made via a Grants.gov workspace.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Pre-Application Deadline: </strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>12 June 2026, </strong>5:00 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 3</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 4</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>24 June 2026, </strong>5:00 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 1-2</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Clinical Research Extension Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Era of Hope Scholar Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Full Application Deadline</strong>: \r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>08 July 2026, </strong>11:59 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 1-2</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Clinical Research Extension Award</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Era of Hope Scholar Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>30 September 2026, </strong>11:59 p.m. Eastern time\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 3</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough Award Level 4</li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award</li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information:</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>To find the full program announcements and to start your pre-application see <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ProgramFY.htm?programFYId=705101\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>A useful summary of each call can be found <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241307&fileType=pdf\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>For questions about the eBRAP or Grants.gov platforms, contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a>.</li>\r\n\t<li>Grants.gov Funding Opportunity Numbers:\r\n\t<ul>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 1: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855304&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA12</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 2: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855304&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA12</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 3: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855250&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA3</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Breakthrough 4: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855218&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPBTA4</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Clinical Research Extension: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855261&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPCREA</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Era of Hope: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855289&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPEOHS</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Award: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35853313&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPTBCCA</a></li>\r\n\t\t<li>Transformative Breast Cancer Consortium Development Award: <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=35855260&fileType=doc&otherMimeType=application/msword\">HT942526BCRPTBCCDA</a></li>\r\n\t</ul>\r\n\t</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>FY26 BCRP Overarching Challenges</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Prevent breast cancer (primary prevention)</li>\r\n\t<li>Identify determinants of breast cancer initiation, risk, or susceptibility</li>\r\n\t<li>Distinguish deadly from non-deadly breast cancers</li>\r\n\t<li>Conquer the problems of overdiagnosis and overtreatment</li>\r\n\t<li>Identify what drives breast cancer growth; determine how to stop it</li>\r\n\t<li>Identify why some breast cancers become metastatic</li>\r\n\t<li>Determine why/how breast cancer cells lie dormant for years and then re-emerge; determine how to prevent lethal recurrence</li>\r\n\t<li>Revolutionize treatment regimens by replacing them with ones that do all of the following: improve survival, are more effective, and are less toxic</li>\r\n\t<li>Eliminate the mortality associated with metastatic breast cancer</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAlternatively, with adequate justification, applications may identify and address another overarching challenge related to <a href=\"https://cdmrp.health.mil/bcrp/pdfs/BreastCancerLandscape2025.pdf\">The Breast Cancer Landscape</a>. 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Obtaining such guarantees is often difficult and both time consuming and error-prone. Starting with the work of Drori and Teboulle (2014), novel techniques have been used to gain numerical insights, leading to the release of various performance estimation (PE) software. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn this talk, I will show how various computer-aided techniques can be used to study first-order optimization methods in a systematic way. From performance estimation problems with automated Lyapunov discovery, to symbolic regression and computer algebra systems, novel tools completely reshape the way we approach theory of optimization. <br>\r\nAs a main example, I will focus on error feedback methods used with compressed communication in distributed optimization. While error feedback has been widely studied, existing theory often provides untight (thus unreliable) bounds. I will present tight analyses with matching lower bounds that allow a fair comparison between error feedback schemes and standard compressed gradient descent, and help explain when error feedback is useful and when it is not.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nOverall, the talk aims to show how various computer-aided proofs can lead to clearer and more reliable insights into first-order optimization methods.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBased on :<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://icml.cc/virtual/2026/poster/62713\" target=\"_blank\">A Tight Theory of Error Feedback Algorithms in Distributed Optimization,</a> DB Thomsen, A Taylor, A Dieuleveut<br>\r\nInternational Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2026)<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=ge-OinUAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=ge-OinUAAAAJ:q3oQSFYPqjQC\" target=\"_blank\">Tight analyses of first-order methods with error feedback</a>, DB Thomsen, A Taylor, A Dieuleveut<br>\r\nAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) (2025).<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=ge-OinUAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=ge-OinUAAAAJ:L8Ckcad2t8MC\" target=\"_blank\">PEPit: computer-assisted worst-case analyses of first-order optimization methods in Python</a><br>\r\nB Goujaud, C Moucer, F Glineur, JM Hendrickx, AB Taylor, A Dieuleveut<br>\r\nMathematical Programming Computation 16 (3), 337-367 (2024)<br>\r\n(eventually - as a detour) <a href=\"https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=fr&user=ge-OinUAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate&citation_for_view=ge-OinUAAAAJ:wbdj-CoPYUoC\" target=\"_blank\">Provable non-accelerations of the heavy-ball method</a> B Goujaud, A Taylor, A Dieuleveut, Mathematical Programming, 1-59 (2025)<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-05-19T09:20:45", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-19T09:22:37", "link_label": "", "link_url": "https://www.epfl.ch/schools/sb/research/math/research/statistics/", "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": "Aymeric Dieuleveut, Ecole Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris", "organizer": "Myrto Limnios ", "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/120800/", "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/7/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/288/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71906, "title": "Workshop for Postdocs on the Creative Scientific Process", "slug": "workshop-for-postdocs-on-the-creative-scientific-p", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/workshop-for-postdocs-on-the-creative-scientific-p", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33223/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33223/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33223/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-25", "end_date": "2026-06-25", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Are you finding it difficult to come up with a truly innovative idea for your next grant application? Do you ever feel stuck in an experiment, in familiar ways of thinking, even when you <em>know</em> there must be new angles to explore?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nScience progress moves between two complementary modes: <em>Day Science</em>, the rigorous testing of ideas, and <em>Night Science</em>, the creative process where those ideas first emerge. Indeed, what we call the scientific method tells us what to do once we have a hypothesis – but where do these hypotheses come from in the first place? François Jacob famously called this part the realm of ‘<em>Night Science’</em>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDrawing on the <a href=\"https://night-science.org/home/learn/\">Night Science training framework</a> developed by Profs Itai Yanai and Martin Lercher, this workshop will introduce thinking tools and exercises to help you foster exploratory thinking, interdisciplinarity and a general attitude of openness towards new ideas applied to your own research challenges. This course is provided by a certified Night Science trainer from the <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/research/services/units/research-office/\" target=\"_blank\">EPFL Research Office</a>. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>This interactive workshop is designed specifically for postdoctoral researchers who want to:</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>Generate novel, high-risk/high-reward ideas for grants and publications</li>\r\n\t<li>Overcome conceptual or experimental roadblocks</li>\r\n\t<li>Expand their thinking beyond conventional frameworks</li>\r\n\t<li>Reconnect with the creative side of the scientific process</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><em>When and Where</em></strong><strong>:</strong> June 25, 2026, 08:30-14:00. 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