Event List
retrieve:
Return the details about the given Event id.
list:
List all Event objects.
GET /api/v1/events/?format=api&offset=190&ordering=-event__url_online_room
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Projects should demonstrate clear potential to improve accessibility, clinical implementation, and the reliability of diagnostic and prognostic approaches.</li>\r\n\t<li>The <strong>Transforming Research Award </strong>supports non-incremental, high-impact research that aims to drive transformative advances in reducing risk and preventing the development of AD/ADRD. Projects should demonstrate strong potential to accelerate prevention strategies and deliver meaningful improvements in patient outcomes and quality of life.<strong> </strong>All projects must respond to one of the focus areas listed <a href=\"https://ebrap.org/eBRAP/public/ViewFile.htm?fileId=36241238&fileType=pdf\">here</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Funding</strong>:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Care Award: $1.6M - $1.9M</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Diagnosis Award: $1.5M - $1.7M</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Research Award: max. $1M</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<sub>Note: Cost caps are <strong>total costs (direct plus indirect costs). </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<br>\r\n<strong>Duration</strong>: \r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Care Award: 4 years</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Diagnosis Award: 4 years</li>\r\n\t<li>Transforming Research Award: 3 years</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Eligibility: </strong>Applicants from international organizations or institutions are eligible to apply, and there are no citizenship restrictions. 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Through a blend of concise theoretical input and hands-on activities, we will explore both the benefits and the risks of generative AI in education in short 1-hour sessions on campus. The first two workshops in the series focus on quiz design and critical analysis skills.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Effective quiz design:</strong><br>\r\nIn this 1-hour workshop, we will focus on the design of effective quiz questions for your class with the assistance of LLM tools. 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We will explore both the ethical and practical questions associated with LLM use for this task through theoretical inputs and hands-on activities.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "human vs ai", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T09:33:15", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T09:38:09", "link_label": "BookWhen", "link_url": "https://bookwhen.com/epfl", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "On Campus", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Center for Digital Education (CEDE)", "organizer": "Center for Digital Education (CEDE)", "contact": "Cécile Hardebolle: [email protected]", "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": "Responsible AI, Education, Quiz, Critical Analysis, Skills", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120834/", "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/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/65/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/85/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/432/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71929, "title": "Workshop series “Responsible AI skills for education”", "slug": "workshop-series-responsible-ai-skills-for-educat-4", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/workshop-series-responsible-ai-skills-for-educat-4", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33244/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33244/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33244/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-06-18", "end_date": "2026-06-18", "start_time": "13:00:00", "end_time": "14:00:00", "description": "<p>Current research indicates that the role of generative AI in education is a double-edged sword: on one hand it can assist teachers for designing effective learning tasks and resources, on the other hand it can have negative effects on student learning and raises a range of ethical questions.<br>\r\nIn our new workshop series “Responsible AI skills for education” we will try to navigate these questions by focusing on specific teaching and learning activities and identifying practical skills you can develop for your everyday practice. Through a blend of concise theoretical input and hands-on activities, we will explore both the benefits and the risks of generative AI in education in short 1-hour sessions on campus. The first two workshops in the series focus on quiz design and critical analysis skills.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Teaching critical analysis:</strong><br>\r\nIn this 1-hour workshop, we will focus on how to help students develop critical analysis skills for reviewing LLM outputs in the context of learning tasks. The workshop will combine theoretical inputs and hands-on activities, drawing on your disciplinary expertise and fact-checking strategies.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "human vs ai", "creation_date": "2026-05-22T09:34:28", "last_modification_date": "2026-05-22T09:36:08", "link_label": "BookWhen", "link_url": "https://bookwhen.com/epfl", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "On Campus", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Center for Digital Education (CEDE)", "organizer": "Center for Digital Education (CEDE)", "contact": "Cécile Hardebolle: [email protected]", "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": "Responsible AI, Education, Quiz, Critical Analysis, Skills", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120836/", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/65/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/432/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/85/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/27/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71930, "title": "Generative models for black-box optimization of complex objectives", "slug": "generative-models-for-black-box-optimization-of-co", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/generative-models-for-black-box-optimization-of-co", "visual_url": null, "visual_large_url": null, "visual_maxsize_url": null, "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-07-09", "end_date": "2026-07-09", "start_time": "10:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<u>EDIC candidacy exam</u><br>\r\nExam president: Prof. Nicolas Flammarion<br>\r\nThesis advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua<br>\r\nCo-examiner: Prof. Alexander Mathis<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract</u><br>\r\nMany high-impact problems in science and engineering reduce to optimizing a complex objective, where each evaluation is costly and often unreliable: physical experiments fail, simulators diverge, and stochastic systems return noisy feedback. Classical black-box optimizers struggle in this regime, where evaluation budgets are tight and the feasible region is hard to characterize a priori. Our work investigates how the statistical expressivity of modern generative samplers can be leveraged in black-box optimization. We propose that these samplers enable efficient navigation of feasible sets and optimization of geometrically complex objectives under limited, unreliable observations. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nTwo complementary lines of work have already been studied. The main one, SPARROW, demonstrated that a sampler-driven optimizer can substantially reduce the number of function calls needed to maximize complex and unreliable objectives. A parallel line established that samplers can be steered to satisfy hard constraints without sacrificing the statistical diversity of the generated samples. Because SPARROW imposes minimal assumptions on the underlying sampler, these constrained samplers can drive it directly, opening a path to constrained black-box optimization.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBuilding on these results, two directions are planned. The first is theoretical: a deeper mathematical study of sampler-driven optimization, drawing on the broader literature on sample-efficient black-box optimization, in order to derive stronger guarantees and more efficient algorithms. 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With memory accounting for nearly 50% of server costs in modern data centres, provisioning large DRAM capacities significantly increases total cost of ownership (TCO). Tiered memory architectures combine memories with different capacities, latencies, and cost characteristics to improve cost efficiency while satisfying application performance requirements. Application performance in these architectures is highly sensitive to page placement decisions. Consequently, making informed placement decisions requires precise tracking of data access patterns and accurate identification of hot pages.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nExisting operating systems commonly rely on hardware-maintained access bits in page table entries to estimate memory access behaviour and identify hot data regions. They periodically scan the application's entire virtual address space to construct workload access profiles. However, linear scanning of page table access bits does not scale for modern applications with terabyte-scale memory footprints. Since scanning overhead scales with the memory footprint, a single full scan can take several seconds for workloads with large memory footprints. Reducing scanning frequency lowers monitoring overhead but also decreases profiling accuracy and responsiveness to changing access patterns, resulting in a fundamental tradeoff between profiling accuracy and monitoring overhead. Therefore, we need scalable, low-overhead mechanisms for access monitoring in next-generation memory management systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn this talk, I will discuss recent approaches to scalable memory access profiling in large-memory systems. 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