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Many real-world missions, however, require satisfying logical precedence constraints: collecting resources before accessing restricted zones, completing subtasks in a prescribed order, or acquiring tools before they can be used. This talk presents the augmented graph of convex sets (augmented GCS) framework, which unifies continuous trajectory optimization and combinatorial task sequencing within a single optimization problem.<br>\r\nThe key insight is that a layered augmented GCS, built on an exact convex partition of the free space, simultaneously selects an optimal task completion sequence and computes an optimal continuous trajectory. A shortest path in the augmented GCS solves both problems at once, yielding an exact solution up to a finite Bézier curve parameterization. The layered structure of the augmented GCS turns out to implement precisely the Bellman-Held-Karp (BHK) dynamic programming algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem, establishing a formal correspondence between our framework and the combinatorial TSP literature. This makes augmented GCS a continuous-geometry generalization of BHK, achieving the same singly exponential worst-case complexity, an exponential improvement over general-purpose temporal logic tools. We further develop a library of mission specification variations (including ordered collection, disjunctive keys, conjunctive doors, timed constraints, and conditional logic) each with proven correctness, substantially expanding the range of expressible mission types. Numerical experiments confirm exponential speedups in practice and near-global-optimality on a large benchmark suite.<br>\r\nTime permitting, I will briefly discuss ongoing extensions, including spacetime augmented GCS for dynamic environments, safety-aware planning via conformal prediction sets, and a galactic survey benchmark inspired by space mission planning that stress-tests the framework at scale.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography: </strong>Tyler Summers is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining UT Dallas, he was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich from 2011 to 2015. He received a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. He was a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia in 2007-2008. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2021 and a Young Investigator Program award from the US Army Research Office in 2017. 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Corporate debt is not a standard asset with fixed supply and exogenous cash flows. Its market valuation affects debt issuance, which in turn affects aggregate debt supply, default risk, and the cash flows delivered by debt. The model shows how debt demand is an important determinant of leverage dynamics and the cross-sectional distribution of leverage. Importantly, stronger debt demand is entirely absorbed by issuance and leads to lower long-run bond prices in equilibrium. I then extend the framework to allow for imperfect substitutability across bonds. Credit rating segmentation generates leverage dynamics around rating boundaries that are consistent with empirical evidence. When investors have preferred habitats, endogenous demand and supply jointly determine maturity premia. Correlation across cash-flow shocks affects the speed of leverage adjustment and can induce firms to repurchase debt optimally.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-01T11:07:17", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-25T15:43:17", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "UNIL, Extranef, room 126", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Darius Nik-Nejad - PhD, SFI@EPFL", "organizer": "", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "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/121643/", "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/3/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/39/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/105/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/116/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72506, "title": "Essays in Asset Pricing with Trading Frictions", "slug": "essays-in-asset-pricing-with-trading-frictions-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/essays-in-asset-pricing-with-trading-frictions-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33752/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33752/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33752/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-06", "end_date": "2026-10-06", "start_time": "16:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Directors: Prof. P. Collin-Dufresne, Prof. A. Fuster<br>\r\nFinance doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11152<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-03T14:06:48", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-03T14:06:55", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Extranef, UNIL", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Federico BALDI LANFRANCHI</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Federico BALDI LANFRANCHI</strong></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": "EDFI", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121681/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": 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Technologies)</strong> with Executive Director Ms. Elaine Moran.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nLearn how this program empowers professionals to drive sustainable innovation with AI, IoT & Digital Twins - and get all your questions answered.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>> <a href=\"https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/FPwsHW4-QTSmN8kUVse2Mw\">Register here</a></strong></p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-04T08:34:56", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-14T08:27:37", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/FPwsHW4-QTSmN8kUVse2Mw", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/FPwsHW4-QTSmN8kUVse2Mw", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "- Elaine Moran, <em>SRVC Executive Director</em>", "organizer": "EPFL Executive Education", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", 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1717</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Register <a href=\"https://forms.gle/tT8QcCJMMNhgmGzAA\">here</a></strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Speakers</strong>:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http://joanaccarvalho.com\">Joana Carvalho</a>, designer and scientific illustrator currently working at AITHYRA Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence in Vienna.</li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http://www.klarasoukup.com\">Klara Soukup</a>, a freelance science journalist who also works in research communication at UNIL.</li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http://marcogarbelli-sciviz.com/about/\">Marco Garbelli</a>, a Switzerland-based researcher creating impactful graphical work to communicate science effectively. </li>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"http://ch.linkedin.com/in/sophie-rivara-624024189/en\">Sophie Rivara</a>, a science writer and editor responsible for scientific communication at the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\nIf you are a researcher who enjoys communicating science 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October 6th, from 12:15 to 13:45, in <a href=\"https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%202\">CM 1 2</a>.</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nLanguage: English<br>\r\nDoors open from 12:05<br>\r\nFree lunch bag for registered participants. Water not included: please bring your reusable bottle to help reduce environmental impact.\r\n<div> </div>\r\n<strong>PROGRAM </strong><br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Welcome and introduction</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/chiara.gabella?lang=en\">Dr. Chiara Gabella</a><strong> </strong>– Head of team, Research data management, Academic and research support at EPFL Library.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Talk 1 | Beyond the Dataset: Turning One Project into an Open Research Ecosystem</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/robert.fonod\">Dr. Róbert Fónod</a> – Machine Learning and Computer Vision Engineer at senseFly (an EPFL spin-off, now EagleNXT) in Lausanne. Formerly Research Associate at EPFL's Urban Transportation Systems Laboratory (LUTS) and an EPFL Data Champion.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n\"In October 2022, a fleet of ten drones spent four days filming traffic across the smart city of Songdo, South Korea, producing terabytes of 4K aerial video. This talk follows what happened next: how that raw footage became a connected set of openly available research outputs. The project released two datasets (vehicle trajectories and annotated aerial imagery), three reusable software tools, a ready-to-use machine learning model, an interactive online demo, and a peer-reviewed open access paper tying everything together, each one cross-linked, citable, and archived for the long term. Using this as a worked example, I will share practical lessons on making research outputs findable, reusable, properly licensed, and cited, including a few surprises about which parts the community valued most.\"<br>\r\n<br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Talk 2 |</strong> <strong>DISDRODB: a decentralized data base of drop size distribution observations, and much more</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/alexis.berne\">Prof. Alexis Berne</a> – Associate Professor, Head of Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory, EPFL ENAC<br>\r\n<br>\r\n\"The raindrop size distribution is a crucial information for atmospheric sciences, remote sensing and communications. Its current observations (from disdrometers) are rather spread between countries and institutions with heterogeneous variables and formats, hampering easy and broad access to public analysis-ready data sets. DISDRODB is an infrastructure (with associated softwares) aiming to provide a unified framework for the systematic sharing, standardization, and processing of disdrometer data. I will introduce DISDRODB and discuss the challenges to develop such tools.\"<br>\r\n<br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Talk 3 | Open data for better science policy</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nBy <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/gaetan.derassenfosse?lang=fr\">Prof. Gaétan de Rassenfosse</a> – Associate Professor, Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Laboratory, EPFL CDM<br>\r\n<br>\r\n\"This talk will present several Science,Technology and Innovation Policy Laboratory initiatives aimed at producing open datasets to support more evidence-based policymaking in science and innovation.\"<br>\r\n<br>\r\n \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Panel for Q&A, open discussion</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\nModeration by <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/francesco.varrato?lang=en\">Dr. Francesco Varrato</a> – Research data management specialist, Academic and research support at EPFL Library.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-10T12:30:13", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-11T08:45:45", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://bookwhen.com/fr/epfl_library/e/ev-sy7q5-20261006121500", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CM 1 2", "url_place_and_room": "http://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%202", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/gaetan.derassenfosse?lang=fr\">Gaétan de Rassenfosse</a>; 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In this talk, I will explore scientific autonomy as a process of hill climbing: identifying the capabilities that limit autonomous research, addressing those gaps, and evaluating progress on increasingly demanding chemistry tasks.<br>\r\nDrawing on the El Agente family of systems, I will discuss how hierarchical teams of agents coordinate quantum chemistry workflows and how molecular structure generation addresses a critical gap between chemical reasoning and computational execution. I will consider how these capabilities could contribute to longer-term research goals, such as automated reaction pathway exploration. These examples illustrate how a single missing capability can interrupt an otherwise sophisticated research workflow.<br>\r\nI will also discuss the open challenge of enabling agents to learn continually from scientific literature, computational results, and failed attempts, and to acquire capabilities as new problems demand them. By examining current capabilities and remaining bottlenecks, I will outline a path toward AI systems that formulate and test chemical hypotheses with increasing independence.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-30T16:11:47", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-30T16:21:18", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68447908297?pwd=OU5JUGJUSUhZc0ZNYjQ2WENvYINRdz09", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Yunheng (Jackie) Zou", "organizer": "Philippe Schwaller", "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": "MLSeminar1", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122003/", "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/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/14/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 70762, "title": "Agir sur le stress et l'anxiété: des clés pour le quotidien", "slug": "agir-sur-le-stress-et-l-anxiete-des-cles-pour-le-4", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/agir-sur-le-stress-et-l-anxiete-des-cles-pour-le-4", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32174/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32174/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32174/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-07", "end_date": "2026-10-07", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<p>Le stress et l’anxiété font aujourd’hui partie intégrante du quotidien, d’autant plus dans un cadre professionnel. Pression de performance, surcharge d’informations, incertitudes et distractions digitales, nous affectent toutes et tous. Lorsqu’ils deviennent chroniques, ces états impactent la santé mentale, le sommeil, la concentration, la motivation, les relations sociales et la qualité du travail.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nComprendre ces mécanismes, apprendre à les réguler, et surtout identifier ses propres déclencheurs et ressources devient alors essentiel pour évoluer dans un cadre professionnel et promouvoir un travail stable et une qualité de vie plus saine.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCette formation vise à renforcer votre résilience, vous permettre d’identifier vos déclencheurs personnels, et d’activer des ressources internes et externes pour retrouver calme, clarté mentale et stabilité au quotidien.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-01-05T10:27:31", "last_modification_date": "2026-01-12T09:12:58", "link_label": "Inscription", "link_url": "https://epfl.eu.crossknowledge.com/site/m/public_training/856", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/1/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Forrest van Uchelen", "organizer": "KeepLearning", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/119157/", "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/145/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/431/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 70956, "title": "G protein-coupled receptors functional dynamics revealed by experimental and computational structural data", "slug": "g-protein-coupled-receptors-functional-dynamics-re", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/g-protein-coupled-receptors-functional-dynamics-re", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32345/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32345/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32345/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-07", "end_date": "2026-10-09", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<p>You can apply to participate and find all the relevant information (speakers, abstracts, program,...) on the event website: <a href=\"https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/g-protein-coupled-receptors-functional-dynamics-revealed-by-experimental-and-computational-structural-data-1488\">https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/g-protein-coupled-receptors-functional-dynamics-revealed-by-experimental-and-computational-structural-data-1488</a>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nRegistration is required to attend the full event, take part in the social activities and present a poster at the poster session (if any). However, the EPFL community is welcome to attend specific lectures without registration if the topic is of interest to their research. Do not hesitate to contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">CECAM Event Manager</a> if you have any question.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Description</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nG protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) represent a vast and diverse class of transmembrane proteins that orchestrate a wide range of physiological processes by responding to both endogenous and exogenous ligands [1,2]. These receptors are essential to critical functions such as metabolism, immune regulation, neuronal signaling, and sensory perception - including vision and olfaction. Due to their physiological relevance and membrane accessibility, GPCRs are the targets of approximately 34% of all prescribed medications, accounting for nearly 27% of the global pharmaceutical market [3]. <br>\r\nDespite their pharmaceutical importance, key aspects of GPCR function remain elusive. The canonical activation model posits that agonist binding to the extracellular orthosteric site triggers allosteric changes - most notably, the outward displacement of transmembrane helices 5 (TM5) and 6 (TM6) on the intracellular side - ultimately leading to receptor activation [2-4]. However, recent evidence suggests a more nuanced mechanism. In several GPCRs, activation appears to involve cooperative engagement between the agonist and the G protein. For example, the G protein may disrupt an \"inactivating ionic lock\" - a salt bridge between TM3 and TM6 - while the agonist stabilizes the active conformation. In some receptors, this is complemented by the formation of an “activating ionic lock” between TM5 and TM6 [5-8]. These dual contributions are considered thermodynamically essential for full activation [7].<br>\r\nAdding further complexity, GPCR activity is regulated by conformational microswitches and finely tuned intra-protein interaction networks. These dynamic rearrangements are difficult to capture and often elude direct correlation with functional outcomes. Moreover, allosteric ligands - which bind sites distinct from the orthosteric pocket - are being increasingly identified [9-12], along with small molecules capable of biased signaling, i.e., preferential activation of specific intracellular pathways [11-13, 16, 17]. These findings reveal a rich and underexplored conformational landscape that governs GPCR signaling. In addition, native membrane components—such as lipids and interacting proteins, including GPCR oligomers—are known to significantly modulate receptor function [11, 18-22].<br>\r\nTo disentangle these intricacies, computational modeling has become indispensable, offering atomistic insight into GPCR conformational dynamics and mechanistic understanding [1-2, 7, 11, 14, 16–21, 23]. Nevertheless, key questions remain - particularly regarding the structural basis of biased signaling, strategies for leveraging allosteric networks in pharmacology, and the modulatory role of the lipid environment. Addressing these gaps is crucial for both fundamental biology and the rational design of next-generation GPCR-targeting drugs with improved selectivity and safety profiles. <br>\r\nThese scientific challenges form the foundation of our upcoming workshop, which will focus on the latest experimental and computational approaches for studying the functional dynamics of GPCRs. Given the profound health, economic, and societal implications of modulating these receptors with precision, we aim to strengthen the interdisciplinary nature of the event by increasing the representation of experimental research and integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence applications into the program.<br>\r\nBuilding upon the success of the 2022 and 2024 editions - which led to new collaborations and a landmark publication in <em>Nature Reviews Drug Discovery</em> [24] - our goal is to further enhance communication and collaboration between experimentalists and theoreticians. The workshop will serve as a reference point for young scientists and students, offering a platform to interact with leading international experts. 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