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In this talk, I will present our latest findings on the role of neuropeptides in neural circuit function, uncovered through the use of novel genetically encoded sensors and silencers designed specifically for peptidergic transmission. By applying these innovative tools, we have identified key pathways and mechanisms by which neuropeptides regulate neuronal activity and orchestrate complex behavioral responses. This presentation will highlight the biological insights gained from these studies, offering a deeper understanding of how neuropeptide signaling shapes brain function and behavior.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-01-30T16:01:35", "last_modification_date": "2026-02-10T16:25:35", "link_label": "Web Page", "link_url": "https://www.salk.edu/scientist/sung-han/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64813563657", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Sung Han, Salk Institute for Biological Studies", "organizer": "<strong>BMI LSYM</strong> <strong>Host: Ralf Schneggenburger</strong>", "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/119537/", "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/19/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71147, "title": "RIOT Lecture Series: The Construction of Architecture. Clients, Contractors, and Capital, with Davide Spina", "slug": "riot-lecture-series-the-construction-of-architec-5", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/riot-lecture-series-the-construction-of-architec-5", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32519/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32519/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32519/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-13", "end_date": "2026-04-13", "start_time": "14:30:00", "end_time": "16:00:00", "description": "<p>Who develops, finances, and commissions architecture—and in whose interest? This lecture series examines the often-invisible forces that shape architectural production—the clients who commission, the contractors who build, and the capital flows that determine what gets realized. While architects are trained to focus on design, the political economy of construction is largely absent from architectural education—sustaining a disciplinary insularity that obscures architecture's deep entanglement with capital, labor, and power. Yet building is fundamentally contingent: dependent on forces beyond the designer's reach, shaped by actors whose decisions constrain and enable architecture far more than design intentions. The series invites scholars and practitioners whose research illuminates these dependencies: the bureaucratization of architectural practice through corporate management systems, the client as a Mephistophelean figure key to the attainment of projects, the contractor as a decisive agent in determining how architecture is produced, and the entanglement of real estate development, finance, building, and urban form. By exposing the structural conditions of construction's political economy, we seek not to lament architecture's lack of autonomy but to work productively within its contingencies—essential groundwork for reimagining how practice might be organized otherwise.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDavide Spina (University of Hong Kong, online) Spina's award-winning dissertation examined the Vatican-controlled real estate developer and contractor SGI (Società Generale Immobiliare), which emerged as a major force in postwar Italy's reconstruction. His research on what journalist Antonio Cederna called \"the Leviathan\" reveals how SGI coordinated 10,000 employees, bureaucratized architectural production, exploited planning regulations, and delivered schemes from residential developments to industrial infrastructure. Currently working on real estate development in 1960s-70s Hong Kong, Spina examines how developers and contractors shape architectural culture through corporate management systems.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-02-16T15:20:01", "last_modification_date": "2026-02-23T14:42:31", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "AAC 1 14", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==AAC%201%2014", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67118003322?pwd=Rxn0N5RNHdUNwg0HhBRkRZzWPm8UlX.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Davide Spina ", "organizer": "RIOT ", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/elif.erez?lang=en\">Elif Erez Henderson</a> / <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/antoine.iweinsdeeckhoutte\">Antoine Iweins </a>/ <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/nathalie.marj\">Nathalie Marj</a> ", "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": "Architecture, Clients, Contractors, Capital", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/119744/", "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/32/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71215, "title": "IMX Colloquium - Surface engineering for phase change heat and mass transfer: controlling nucleation and bubble dynamics", "slug": "imx-colloquium-surface-engineering-for-phase-chang", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-colloquium-surface-engineering-for-phase-chang", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32580/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32580/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32580/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-13", "end_date": "2026-04-13", "start_time": "13:15:00", "end_time": "14:15:00", "description": "<p>Boiling is one of the most efficient modes of heat transfer, underlying many energy-intensive processes. Advancements in surface engineering have enabled significant enhancement of boiling heat transfer. However, performance gains rarely transfer across conditions or geometries. Two challenges illustrate why: bubble nucleation behavior is poorly reproducible; and increasing nucleating density to raise the heat transfer coefficient typically lowers the system’s maximum achievable heat flux. This talk presents our efforts in addressing each challenge by identifying the governing mechanism and designing for it.<br>\r\nIn the first part, micro-engineered silicon surfaces isolate two governing length scales: the hydrodynamic boundary layer thickness, which controls nucleation stability through inter-site shielding, and the bubble departure diameter, which governs vapor removal after full activation. We experimentally show that nucleation stability responds to the former length scale (~0.24 mm); heat transfer in the activated regime responds to the latter length scale (~2.5 mm).<br>\r\nThe second study addresses the high-heat-flux limit, where large vapor structures block liquid return. Capillary wicking through copper inverse opals (~10 μm pores) supplies liquid beneath the vapor. Crucially, the pore cavities are themselves the nucleation sites, so wicking capacity and nucleation density derive from the same structure. Further, CuO nanograss on the pore walls suppresses vapor penetration into the porous layer, enabling thicker structures and greater capillary head. The result is simultaneous enhancement of heat transfer coefficients and maximum heat fluxes.<br>\r\nTogether, the two works show that mechanism-targeted surface design yields gains that empirical topography optimization does not. They point toward a broader design principle: that nucleation and interfacial transport, treated as controllable rather than given, offer a promising path to engineering phase change processes across applications.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20520?ref=pdf\">https://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b20520?ref=pdf</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10209-w\">https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10209-w </a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio: Zhengmao Lu is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at EPFL. Prior to joining EPFL, Zhengmao was a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT with Prof. Jeffrey Grossman. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from MIT, both advised by Prof. Evelyn Wang. At EPFL, Zhengmao leads the Energy Transport Advances Laboratory (<em>η</em>-Lab), aiming to deepen our understanding of phase change phenomena and develop more sustainable energy and water technologies by optimizing interfacial transport. Zhengmao is a recipient of the ERC Starting Grant, MicroFIPS Outstanding Early Career Award, Keck Travel Award in Thermal Sciences, and the Outstanding Graduate Research Award from MIT Mechanical Engineering.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-02-24T10:37:19", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-30T08:42:06", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://www.epfl.ch/labs/eta-lab/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MXF 1", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%201", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Zhengmao Lu, EPFL", "organizer": "Prof. Gregor Jotzu, Prof. Fabien Sorin & Prof. Esther Amstad", "contact": "Prof. Gregor Jotzu, Prof. Fabien Sorin & Prof. Esther Amstad", "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/119849/", "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/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/314/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 69379, "title": "Clinical Research & Product Development in Pharma and Biotech [CAS Management in Life Sciences 2026]", "slug": "clinical-research-product-development-in-pharma-an", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/clinical-research-product-development-in-pharma-an", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/30892/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/30892/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/30892/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-14", "end_date": "2026-04-16", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Module 4: Clinical Research & Product Development in Pharma and Biotech</strong><br>\r\nOur Clinical Trial module addresses how to manage clinical trials within the appropriate legislative frameworks. We review the regulations that govern medical devices & therapeutics, and cover good practices in managing clinical trials.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n*************<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong><u>About the CAS Managament in Life Sciences:</u><br>\r\nLeading multi-disciplinary projects in BioTech, MedTech and Pharma</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe world of therapeutic development is becoming increasingly complex. Competition is diversifying and innovating across industries, just as new regulations and multi-stakeholder engagements disrupt the competitive landscape. Challenge or opportunity? It is up to you!<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis program explores the entire development process of therapeutic interventions, from initial planning all the way to commercialization, allowing our participants to deepen their expertise. They also learn the leadership qualities and management tools required to lead multi-disciplinary projects in Biotech, Medtech and Pharma ventures.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) runs every year, from January to June at the EPFL Campus in Lausanne.\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>7 modules</li>\r\n\t<li>Flexible format</li>\r\n\t<li>Part-time</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2025-06-30T09:27:50", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-30T10:03:50", "link_label": "Webpage", "link_url": "http://go.epfl.ch/mls", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ODY -1 0021", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ODY%20-1%200021", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "", "organizer": "<a href=\"http://executive.epfl.ch\">EPFL Executive Education</a>", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "Life Sciences", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/117003/", "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/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/3/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/437/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 69803, "title": "Higher moments for the SHE in high dimensions and their phase transitions", "slug": "higher-moments-for-the-she-in-high-dimensions-and", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/higher-moments-for-the-she-in-high-dimensions-and", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/31288/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/31288/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/31288/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-14", "end_date": "2026-04-15", "start_time": "10:10:00", "end_time": "11:00:00", "description": "<p>We consider regularized versions of the stochastic heat equation (SHE) in high dimensions $d\\geq 3$ and analyze their higher moments in the limit as the regularization is removed, for varying coupling constants that describe the strength of the driving noise. Motivated by recent results on the higher moments of the SHE in two dimensions at $L^{2}$-criticality, a natural question is whether the higher moments of the SHE in high dimensions also converge at the $L^{2}$-critical point. Our main result gives a negative answer: in high dimensions, the higher moments diverge when the coupling constant belongs to a nontrivial right-closed interval whose upper endpoint is the $L^{2}$-critical point. In particular, we obtain a sharp bound for the critical coupling constant at which the corresponding limiting higher moment undergoes a phase transition. As an application to the continuous directed polymer, we derive a sharp estimate for quantity believed to be closely related to the tail probability of the limiting partition function.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2025-09-12T13:47:07", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-30T15:59:29", "link_label": "Working-Reading Seminar", "link_url": "https://www.epfl.ch/labs/stoan/reading-working-seminar/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MA B2 485", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr Te-Chun Wang (EPFL)", "organizer": " <a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/xue-mei.li\">Xue-Mei Li</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/xue-mei.li\">Xue-Mei Li</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Expert", "en_label": "Expert" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Reading-Working Seminar", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/117635/", "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/403/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/7/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 70945, "title": "Une éducation au réel. 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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><br>\r\n<br>\r\nGuided tours are available upon <a href=\"https://forms.gle/gev6sJt7sk9V4xFP9\">registration</a>. <br>\r\nGuided tours can be organized upon request for groups and schools. ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-01-26T08:31:05", "last_modification_date": "2026-01-26T08:31:05", "link_label": "Visite guidée", "link_url": "https://forms.gle/gev6sJt7sk9V4xFP9", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Archizoom", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201212", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/1/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Nicola Braghieri", "organizer": "Archizoom ", "contact": "Solène Hoffmann", "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": "Architecture, urbanisme, représentation, dessin, peinture", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/119431/", "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/32/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/45/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/22/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71064, "title": "School Lecture Series: Truwant+Rodet+ / EPFL Architecture", "slug": "school-lecture-series-truwantrodet-epfl-architectu", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/school-lecture-series-truwantrodet-epfl-architectu", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32442/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32442/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32442/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-14", "end_date": "2026-04-14", "start_time": "18:30:00", "end_time": "20:00:00", "description": "<strong>TRUWANT+RODET+ </strong><br>\r\n<em>Increasing the Leak</em><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<em>Water has always shaped territories and cities, both visibly and invisibly. In mythology and storytelling, rivers and fountains bring life, healing, and uncontrollable power. Since modernism, we have pursued watertight environments, sealing interiors while buried streams and pipes persist beneath our streets and walls. When a leak appears, this fiction collapses. Forgotten infrastructures surface, and suppressed ecologies emerge—moss, humidity, micro-habitats. Leaks become reminders of water’s formative power, suggesting possible futures for architecture and urban space.</em><br>\r\n<br>\r\nTruwant + Rodet + is a Basel-based architecture practice founded in 2017. The diverse background of its partners informs a curious and interdisciplinary practice connecting architecture with landscape, furniture design, research and teaching. Their work focuses on the transformation of existing structures and on the relationship between building, context and landscape, understanding architecture as part of a broader territorial framework.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIn 2017, they received the Swiss Art Award for “A Pavilion.” In 2018, they co-founded the Basel cultural platform dasVerein with Melissa Freudiger. In 2020, together with ASBR, they won the competition for the renovation of the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris, completed in 2026. In 2023, they won the competition for the adaptive reuse of the former Nauentor postal center in Basel with Bruther and Jan Kinsbergen, as well as the competition for affordable housing in Basel with Clauss Kahl Merz. Since 2023, they have been guest teachers at EPFL Lausanne.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis lecture is part of the School Lecture Series<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>COMMUNITY VOL.2</strong><br>\r\nSeven exemplary projects and case studies<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCommunity is an ambivalent concept. It involves both gathering through shared customs and exclusion. Some claim that inclusive communities do not exist. Recent history shows people more often unite through exclusion than inclusion. However, communities are not sealed. Philosopher Roberto Esposito explains that community ‘is not a property or territory to defend but a void, a debt, and a gift to others’, reminding us of our otherness.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis lecture series explores the topic of community through architecture. How does architecture explore, define, or enable communities? Can architects collaborate directly with communities, bypassing institutional entities? How can design convey a collective experience? Seven emerging and established architectural figures respond to these questions through their work, which spans film, exhibitions, and communitarian buildings.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nSave the dates and join us on Tuesday evenings!<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-02-06T16:49:50", "last_modification_date": "2026-02-27T15:05:54", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Foyer SG", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://truwantrodet.ch/\">Truwant+Rodet+</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/education/architecture/\">EPFL Architecture</a>", "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": "school lecture series", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/119611/", "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/32/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71250, "title": "MechE Colloquium: When Materials Bend the Rules: Buckling Response of Slender Structures Born of Constitutive Nonlinearities", "slug": "meche-colloquium-when-materials-bend-the-rules-buc", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/meche-colloquium-when-materials-bend-the-rules-buc", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32609/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32609/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32609/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-14", "end_date": "2026-04-14", "start_time": "12:00:00", "end_time": "13:00:00", "description": "<strong>Abstract: </strong>Buckling of slender structures, such as perforated columns and cylindrical shells, underpins a wide range of systems and processes, from the structural failure of rocket fuselages and grain silos to engineered devices such as shock absorbers and crumple zones. Historically, research has primarily focused on predicting the onset of buckling—that is, the loss of the original configuration under excessive loading—rather than on understanding how structures evolve in the post-buckling regime. Recently, however, the study of buckling has experienced a renaissance, with post-buckling mechanical responses increasingly exploited to achieve new functionalities, for example enhancing fracture resistance in stretchable electronics and flexible displays.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWhile most existing studies consider elastically deforming systems whose behaviour arises primarily from geometric nonlinearities, this talk presents examples in which geometric effects are coupled with nonlinear constitutive responses, giving rise to new post-buckling mechanisms. First, we investigate the buckling of hard, perforated (“holey”) structures that exhibit auxetic behaviour but, unlike their purely elastic counterparts, undergo post-buckling softening. The resulting negative stiffness is captured using a pseudo-plastic constitutive model that describes nonlinearities emerging from the structural microarchitecture.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWe then apply a similar framework to examine the buckling of beverage cans largely filled with liquid under axial compression. Whereas empty cylindrical shells typically develop periodic buckling patterns that break both axial and circumferential symmetry, liquid-filled cylinders buckle axisymmetrically. The resulting ring-shaped buckles are localized and emerge sequentially, progressively covering the can surface. We show that this behaviour arises from nonlinear, spatially anisotropic hoop stresses that soften and subsequently re-stiffen during compression.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography: </strong>Draga Pihler-Puzovic is a Reader in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester and a core member of the Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics. 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Their intersection is therefore not an overlap but a relational field in which placement and movement continuously reify one another. This perspective invites complex mixed methods approaches based on methodological mapping across different forms of evidence, which can show how movements cluster or stretch, while narrative interviews, participatory mapping, and field observation can uncover how actors interpret routes, obstacles, and anchors in everyday life. The aim is not merely conventional triangulation, but conceptual integration: Using different methods to move between patterns in systems and interpretation of experience. Mixed methods research can theorize space-mobility while also exploring how they are experienced, governed, and contested.<br>\r\n <br>\r\nManfred Max Bergman is Chair of Social Research and Methodology at the University of Basel and Director of the Social Transitions Research Group. He works on methodological innovations to the study of sustainability transitions, inequality, health, corporate responsibility, and social change, with particular expertise in mixed methods research and case study design. He has contributed to scholarship on mobility, inequality, and public space through international comparative and interdisciplinary projects, and previously served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. His current international engagements include service on the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Indo-Swiss Joint Scientific Board, collaboration with ICSSR in India on an innovative research methods training programme, and a visiting professorship at NUS in Singapore focused on implementation science and transdisciplinary research.</p>", "image_description": "Manfred Max Bergman", "creation_date": "2026-03-16T10:01:43", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-16T10:04:46", "link_label": "LASUR Seminars - Registration Form", "link_url": "https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=alXC9vvEsUqix54iDfEcQ3PTg577wEBBlN6JZUPBKBlUQjdYSlJNOVBCVDRBUllZSVZNSlgxVkEzVC4u", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CO 121", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CO%20121", "url_online_room": "https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32507756900795?p=l9fiCGsHEHnq2JaUE0", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://soziologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/manfred-max-bergman/\">Manfred Max Bergman</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lasur/en-productions/en-productions-event/lasur-seminars/\">Laboratory of Urban Sociology</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/leonardo.conte?lang=en\">Leonardo Conte</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Sur inscription", "en_label": "Registration required" }, "keywords": "space-mobility nexus, mixed methods research, methodological integration, narrative interviews, participatory mapping, field observation", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/FlyerRencontresLASURPrintemps2026_oj7ZzLK.pdf", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120086/", "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/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/439/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/32/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 70899, "title": "Challenges in modelling ion channels: simulations meet experiments", "slug": "challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-m", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-m", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32288/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32288/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32288/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-15", "end_date": "2026-04-17", "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/challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-meet-experiments-1369\">https://www.cecam.org/workshop-details/challenges-in-modelling-ion-channels-simulations-meet-experiments-1369</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\nThe human genome includes more than 300 genes coding for ion channel proteins, representing approximately 2% of the total number of genes. This abundance of ion channels highlights their critical role in numerous biological processes and their involvement in diseases, underscoring their importance as potential drug targets. Ion channels exert their biological roles through three main functional characteristics: the highly efficient selective conduction of ions; the capacity to open and close in response to chemical/physical stimuli (gating); and the decrease in conductance upon sustained stimuli (inactivation). In the last 20 years, the number of experimental atomic structures of ion channels has increased from a few units to hundreds, now including representative structures for most of the ion channel families. Simulations based on these experimental structures have significantly contributed to the current understanding of conduction, selectivity, gating, and inactivation [1-2]. Strengthening the quantitative agreement between simulations and experiments is now essential for advancing in this field. This effort is currently hampered by common issues in biomolecular simulations, such as the limited timescales for observing biologically relevant events and the sub-optimal accuracy of the underlying physical models. Both of these shortcomings are expected to be mitigated by recent methodological developments. For instance, atomic simulations of ion channels with polarizable force fields have been recently reported [3]. Lack of polarization is a well-known limitation of classical force fields, especially when describing ion-protein and ion-water interactions in a crowded environment like the pore cavity. Consequently, the usage of polarizable force fields is considered a promising strategy for improving the agreement with experimental data about ion conduction and selectivity. An alternative strategy for enhancing the model accuracy in critical channel regions is to combine molecular mechanics with quantum approaches. Thanks to the ever-increasing computational resources, now combined with advancements in codes for hybrid QM/MM models, this approach is becoming feasible for ion channel research [4]. Increasing computational resources, coupled with improved algorithms for accelerating rare events and potentially harnessing machine learning, are also opening new possibilities in the study of state transitions. Gating and inactivation events of ion channels are finally becoming accessible to atomic simulations, offering important insights into the mechanistic functioning of this important protein superfamily [5]. The proposed workshop will foster further developments in the field by bringing together leading scientists in the experimental methodologies and computational techniques used in ion channel research in a stimulating and collaborative environment.<br>\r\n <br>\r\n<strong>References</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00630\" target=\"_blank\">[1] E. Flood, C. Boiteux, B. Lev, I. Vorobyov, T. Allen, Chem. Rev., <strong>119</strong>, 7737-7832 (2019)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2022.2080587\" target=\"_blank\">[2] C. Guardiani, F. Cecconi, L. Chiodo, G. Cottone, P. Malgaretti, L. Maragliano, M. Barabash, G. Camisasca, M. Ceccarelli, B. Corry, R. Roth, A. Giacomello, B. Roux, Advances in Physics: X, <strong>7</strong>, (2022)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00968\" target=\"_blank\">[3] V. Ngo, H. Li, A. MacKerell, T. Allen, B. Roux, S. Noskov, J. Chem. Theory Comput., <strong>17</strong>, 1726-1741 (2021)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.2c01494\" target=\"_blank\">[4] F. Schackert, J. Biedermann, S. Abdolvand, S. Minniberger, C. Song, A. Plested, P. Carloni, H. Sun, J. Chem. Inf. Model., <strong>63</strong>, 1293-1300 (2023)</a><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/elife.88403.1\" target=\"_blank\">[5] S. Pérez-Conesa, L. 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