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Despite extensive experimental evidence, the underlying mechanisms of this coupling remain debated. Here, we will explore how chiral magnetic textures can be stabilized in altermagnets, a new class of magnetism. Turning to structurally chiral magnetic molecules, we will show that chirality is directly linked to their intrinsic magnetic moments. Bringing both together, we will discuss how molecular design can control spin phenomena at hybrid chiral molecule-magnet interfaces. 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Zoom is mainly for students on remote campuses; please notify <a class=\"text-link\" href=\"mailto:[email protected]\" target=\"_blank\">Fiorella Ghisays</a> in advance and join using your full name.<br>\r\nIf attending in person, have your sheet signed after the talk and keep the original, as no copy is retained.<br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-22T15:48:04", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-29T15:50:23", "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": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68746410793", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Invited Speaker and Student Speaker", "organizer": "Institute of Bioengineering", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=EPFL%20BioE%20Talks%20Series\">Fiorella Ghisays</a>, Institute of Bioengineering", "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": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/BioEngineeringTalkMemento_u0lzmcg.jpg", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121882/", "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/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/434/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72680, "title": "Novel modulators of paracrine activin signaling and their roles in mouse melanoma models", "slug": "novel-modulators-of-paracrine-activin-signaling--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/novel-modulators-of-paracrine-activin-signaling--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33906/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33906/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33906/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "18:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. D. Constam,<br>\r\nMolecular Life Sciences doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11085<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-25T15:00:29", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-25T15:00:31", "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": [], "speaker": "<strong>Olga EGOROVA</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Olga EGOROVA</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": "EDMS", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121939/", "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/9/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72685, "title": "IMX Colloquium - Towards life-inspired soft matter dynamics and functionalities", "slug": "imx-colloquium-towards-life-inspired-soft-matter-d", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-colloquium-towards-life-inspired-soft-matter-d", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33987/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33987/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33987/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "13:15:00", "end_time": "14:15:00", "description": "<p>Biological systems have already paved several routes for bioinspired materials, e.g., for structural colours, wetting, adhesion, and mechanical properties. They have largely involved equilibrium or kinetically trapped properties. By contrast, biological systems allowing multifunctional properties are characteristically dissipatively and dynamically adaptive and incorporate homeostatic feedback mechanisms to regulate the dynamic states. They also typically use signal transduction to mediate the signal from the sensory elements to the responsive sites, unlike the classic man-made stimuli responsive materials. These concept suggest avenues towards more complex life-like functions in soft matter. Herein, optically driven hydrogel systems are presented to drive homeostatically controlled thermal oscillations and to mediate signal transduction via thermal intermediate signalling (1). On the other hand, biological magnetoreception in elasmobranch organisms involves electromagnetic induction (EMI) and suggests avenues for bioinspired electrical signal transductions. We show magnetic profile recognition of translocated magnetically encoded soft matter objects using electrical intermediate signaling by EMI and decoding the magnetic information with machine learning (2). Combination of high stiffness and promoted dynamics for self-healing has turned challenging to combine. Self-healing hydrogels, still combining high tensile stiffness close to that of skin were shown by using polymers upon nanoconfinement in 2D-nanosheet layered confinements (3). Finally, we show trainable actuations in bilayer gel actuators (4). Ever more complex responses can be created, such as mimicking the Pavlovian classical conditioning (5), all paving ways for growingly life-like functions for soft robotics and interfacing with biology.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n1. H. Zhang, H. Zeng, A. Eklund, H. Guo, A. Priimagi, O. Ikkala, Feedback-controlled hydrogels with homeostatic oscillations and dissipative signal transduction, <em>Nat. Nano</em>, <strong>17</strong>, 1303 (2022).<br>\r\n2. Z. Miao, X. Hu, K. Liu, S. Hu, G. Yan, H. Tan, O. Ikkala, Z. P. Lv, B. Peng, Bioinspired sensory transduction for magnetic profile recognition and encryption, <em>Adv. Mat.</em> <strong>38</strong> e15994 (2026).<br>\r\n3. C. Liang, V. Dudko, O. Khoruzhenko, X. Hong, Z.-P. Lv, J. Breu, O. Ikkala, H. Zhang, Stiff and self-healing hydrogels by polymer entanglements in co-planar nanoconfinement, <em>Nat. Mater.</em> <strong>24</strong>, 599 (2025).<br>\r\n4. S. Hu, Y. Fang, C. Liang, M. Turunen, O. Ikkala, H. Zhang, Thermally trainable dual network hydrogels, <em>Nat. Commun.</em>, <strong>14</strong>, 3717 (2023).<br>\r\n5. H. Zhang, H. Zeng, A. Priimagi, O. Ikkala, Programmable responsive hydrogels with classical conditioning algorithm, <em>Nat. Commun.</em>, <strong>10</strong>, 3267 (2019).</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-28T09:13:29", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-06T10:29:12", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "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. Olli Ikkala, Aalto University, Department of Applied Physics, Espoo, Finland", "organizer": "Prof. Gregor Jotzu, Prof. Esther Amstad & Prof. Fabien Sorin", "contact": "Prof. Gregor Jotzu, Prof. Esther Amstad & Prof. Fabien Sorin", "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/121946/", "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/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/314/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72689, "title": "Apprentissage sur des graphes, modèles d'attention.", "slug": "apprentissage-sur-des-graphes-modeles-d-attentio-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/apprentissage-sur-des-graphes-modeles-d-attentio-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33915/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33915/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33915/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "15:15:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. L. Zdeborová,<br>\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11792<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-28T12:45:24", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-28T12:45:26", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BCH 2201", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BCH%202201", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Odilon DURANTHON</strong></a>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\"><strong>Odilon DURANTHON</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/121953/", "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/5/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72749, "title": "Gentle and Robust Dyes for Dynamic Super-Resolution Imaging", "slug": "gentle-and-robust-dyes-for-dynamic-super-resolutio", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/gentle-and-robust-dyes-for-dynamic-super-resolutio", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33977/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33977/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33977/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "14:15:00", "end_time": "15:15:00", "description": "<strong>Abstract:</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nLive-cell imaging technology is advancing into the era of dynamic super-resolution imaging of organelles and specific proteins, placing new demands on the optical properties of fluorescent probes. Traditional live-cell fluorescent probes face two critical technical challenges:\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>How to make fluorescent probes brighter and more photostable.</li>\r\n\t<li>How to make fluorescent probes gentler to minimize the photodamage of organelles.</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nBased on the fundamental principles of photochemistry and biochemistry, we have developed a new generation of live-cell imaging probes that far surpass traditional probes in brightness, photostability, and biocompatibility. These probes enable long-term super-resolution imaging of mitochondria, insulin vesicle secretion, plasma membrane dynamics, lysosomes, and more. Our representative achievements include: The PK Mito and PK Zinc dye series, widely used in mitochondrial and insulin secretion imaging. The BD series of novel fluorophores, in conjunction with self-labeling tags, offer general protein labeling strategies with superior optical properties compared to fluorescent proteins.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n==================================================<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Brief Biography:<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDr. Zhixing Chen, Associate Professor</strong><br>\r\n<strong>College of Future Technology</strong><br>\r\n<strong>Peking University</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nDr. Zhixing Chen is a tenured associate professor at the College of Future Technology, Peking University. He received his BS from Tsinghua University in 2008 and his PhD from Columbia University in 2014. He subsequently completed postdoctoral training at Columbia University in 2015 and at Stanford University from 2016 to 2018.<br>\r\nThe Chen Lab at Peking University was established in 2018. The lab endeavors to integrate chemistry and biochemistry to develop new imaging tools with high brightness, specificity, and biocompatibility, with the goal of advancing bioimaging technologies and enabling new approaches in cell biology, metabolism, and biophysics.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Website: </strong><a href=\"https://zhixingchenlab.mysxl.cn/\"><strong>https://zhixingchenlab.mysxl.cn/</strong></a>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-02T11:35:36", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-05T09:25:14", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BM 5202", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?baselayer_ref=grp_backgrounds&dim_floor=5&dim_lang=fr&lang=fr&map_x=2532981&map_y=1152490&map_zoom=12&room=%3DBM%205202&tree_group_layers_centres_nevralgiques=information_epfl%2Cguichet_etudiants&tree_group_layers_commerces_et_services=&tree_group_layers_enseignement=&tree_group_layers_mobilite_acces_grp=metro&tree_groups=centres_nevralgiques_grp%2Cmobilite_acces_grp%2Crestauration_et_commerces_grp%2Censeignement%2Cservices_campus_grp%2Cequipements_grp&tree_group_layers_centres_nevralgiques_grp=&tree_group_layers_restauration_et_commerces_grp=&tree_group_layers_services_campus_grp=information_epfl&tree_group_layers_equipements_grp=", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<strong><a href=\"https://zhixingchenlab.mysxl.cn/\">Dr. Zhixing Chen, Associate Professor,</a> College of Future Technology, Peking University</strong>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/leb/professor-manley/\">Prof. Suliana Manley</a>, <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/leb/\">Laboratory of Experimental Biophysics</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Qian Wang, Administrative Assistant for LEB</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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122038/", "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/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72789, "title": "South X Initiative Event: Lesego Bantsheng, \"The Material Costs of Performing Urbanisation\"", "slug": "south-x-initiative-event-lesego-bantsheng-the-mate", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/south-x-initiative-event-lesego-bantsheng-the-mate", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34004/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34004/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34004/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-12", "end_date": "2026-10-12", "start_time": "18:30:00", "end_time": "20:00:00", "description": "<u>Lesego Bantsheng (Rural Futurisms): \"The Material Costs of Performing Urbanisation\" </u><br>\r\nMonday, 12 October 2026; 18:30 <br>\r\nSG Foyer, EPFL <br>\r\n<br>\r\nAcross rural South Africa, materials such as red soil, clay, cement, corrugated metal, plastic and glass are assembled into spatial forms that exceed neat distinctions between traditional and modern, vernacular and industrial, rural and urban. These landscapes are frequently interpreted as incomplete urbanization or degraded vernacularism but may be better understood as material responses to conflicting aspirations and uneven development.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe lecture builds on the proposition that urbanization is not simply a material process but a demand to adopt particular aspirations. In many rural territories, inhabitants are compelled to perform urbanity through suburban house typologies, private mobility, certain material accumulation, enclosure and individual property imaginaries, while remaining excluded from promised infrastructures. Drawing on the work of Rural Futurisms in the Ngaka Modiri Molema region, the lecture proposes that craft should not be understood as the preservation of tradition, but as a technology of approximation: the material labour through which rural communities pursue, perform, negotiate and sometimes abandon the aspirations of urbanizing. <br>\r\nBy examining the uneasy coexistence of red soil and cement, communal land and enclosure, livestock and private mobility, organic and inorganic making materials, the lecture explores how aspiration becomes material, and how material practices reveal the contradictions, compromises and negotiations through which urbanity is performed.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>About the 2026 South X Craft Lecture Series:</u><br>\r\nCraft is often used to evoke nostalgia and has been employed in the language of othering and fetishizing ‘Global Southern’ communities. At the same time craft holds the potential to re-ground design in ecological and social specificities and attend closely to materiality. We thus seek to use it as a critical lens towards the built environment. We ask how craft can be engaged rigorously and ethically: attentive to the political economies of who makes, whose knowledge is valorized, and how traditional practices are being reshaped by contemporary conditions. <br>\r\n ", "image_description": "Poster", "creation_date": "2026-10-07T12:20:03", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-07T13:08:30", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Foyer SG", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<u>Lesego Bantsheng</u> is a South African researcher, urban designer and landscape architect whose work explores the material and spatial complexities of rural life across Southern Africa. She is the founder and co-director of Rural Futurisms NPC, a research and design platform that investigates how rural communities negotiate change through making, adaptation and collective knowledge. Bantsheng’s work examines how everyday materials, infrastructures and spatial practices shape contemporary rural life. Bantsheng holds a Master of Urban Design from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Cape Town.", "organizer": "<u>The South X Initiative,</u> housed within ENAC, aims to bring together voices from across the “Global South” to collectively think about our built environment. It reappropriates the phrase “Going South”—both an orientation and a colloquialism for worsening conditions—as a generative and creative exercise to understand how ecological systems, social inequalities, and histories of conquest have spatial manifestations at the building, urban, and territorial scales. Instead of taking the categorization of the Global North and South as given, the initiative puts it under pressure. In doing so it takes up Edouard Glissant’s call for “renewed perception”—to see, listen, discuss and understand otherwise—to think, fresh and different, about the place and their relationship to global questions of habitability: how climate justice, migration, resource use, housing, and labor are entangled in the making of the built environment.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThrough semester-themed guest lectures, reading discussions, and workshops, the initiative offers a platform for exploring alternative methods, processes, and narratives of spatial praxes.", "contact": "South X Initiative [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": "architecture, construction, heritage,", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/SouthXCraftRuralFuturismPoster_7tsn3V3.jpg", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122099/", "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/32/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72499, "title": "Musical Composition: Playing with the Verbier Festival Archives", "slug": "musical-composition-playing-with-the-verbier-festi", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/musical-composition-playing-with-the-verbier-festi", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33787/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33787/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33787/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-10", "end_date": "2026-10-10", "start_time": "16:00:00", "end_time": "20:00:00", "description": "<p>Thanks to a donation from the Claude Latour Foundation, the Pôle Culture (VPI) is organizing a master class followed by a public concert based on the Verbier Festival archives, which are being digitized at <a href=\"http://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/centre-innovation-patrimoines-culturels/\">EPFL by the EPFL Cultural Heritage & Conservation Platform (CHC)</a>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nDuring the masterclass, the selected students are invited to create a musical piece lasting no more than 5 minutes in the style, aesthetic, and genre of their choice (jazz, rap, rock, metal, classical, etc.). At the end of the day, the pieces will be presented to the public, accompanied by comments from a panel of experts. <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>PROGRAM:</strong>\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>10:00–16:00: Masterclass</strong> (<a href=\"https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/A0FMYfPjg1\">registration required</a>)<br>\r\n\t </li>\r\n\t<li><strong>16:00–16:15: Welcome for the audience</strong></li>\r\n\t<li>16:15–17:45: Listening to the compositions with commentary from experts</li>\r\n\t<li>17:45–18:15: Submit a music sample of your composition (max. 5 min, in MP3 format)</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>18:30: Aperitif with the audience</strong> (<a href=\"http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/z8TTfURvwX\">registration required</a>)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n---<br>\r\n<strong>MASTERCLASS:</strong><br>\r\nThe Verbier Festival is opening its archives and making audio tracks from classical music concerts available. Participants will be able to transform, reinterpret, and reinvent these tracks to create a personal, original 5-minute piece in any musical style.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThroughout the process, four experts will guide the participants, sharing their advice and helping each person bring their project to life.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>The Experts:</strong><br>\r\n<a href=\"http://people.epfl.ch/alain.dufaux\">Alain Dufaux</a>, Director of the EPFL CHC Platform—Cultural Heritage & Conservation<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://edpub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=64542&LanCode=37\">Constance Frei</a>, musicologist, professor at UNIL/EPFL<br>\r\n<a href=\"http://hem.hesge.ch/la-hem/alumniae/portrait-alumniae/charlotte-graber-musicologue-bibliothecaire\">Charlotte Graber</a>, musicologist at HEM, Geneva <br>\r\n<a href=\"http://verbierfestival.com/musician/mcholm-stephen/\">Stephen McHolm</a>, Director of the Verbier Festival Academy <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Practical Information:</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Open to a maximum of 6 EPFL students</li>\r\n\t<li>Saturday, October 10, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the Montreux Jazz Café</li>\r\n\t<li>Prerequisites: Submit a music sample of your composition (max. 5 min, in MP3 format)</li>\r\n\t<li>Technical requirements: bring your own computer and headphones</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<a href=\"https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/A0FMYfPjg1\"><strong>>>> Register for the Masterclass</strong></a> (deadline: October 5, at noon)<br>\r\n<br>\r\n---<br>\r\n<strong>EPFL CHC and the Verbier Festival:</strong><br>\r\nThe EPFL Cultural Heritage Conservation Platform (CHC) was established at EPFL in 2010 under the name “Metamedia Center.” For the past 16 years, it has pursued a dual mission: to digitize and preserve audiovisual collections and heritage of major significance in Switzerland and around the world, and to enrich and bring them to life through research and innovation projects conducted in EPFL’s laboratories, startups, and in collaboration with EPFL partners. The collections thus assembled become true research infrastructures: they provide a unique resource for education and research, accessible to students as well as to innovation communities at EPFL and around the world.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nIt was with this goal in mind that EPFL and the <a href=\"http://verbierfestival.com/\">Verbier Festival</a> launched the Verbier Festival Collection project in 2021. The project aims to preserve and promote the festival’s heritage, with the goal of rekindling younger generations’ interest in classical music.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nA pioneer since 1994, the Verbier Festival is the first festival in the world to have recorded all of its concerts. This exceptional collection now includes 3,000 hours of audio recordings, more than 1,000 hours of video, 12,000 historical photographs, archival documents, and a collection of annotated sheet music. It serves as a unique resource for research, innovation, and cultural transmission. As part of this collaboration, EPFL students are invited—upon registration and following a selection process—to participate in a master class during which they will draw on part of this heritage to create a musical work, which they will then present to an audience and a jury.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n---<br>\r\n<strong>Partners: </strong>Claude Latour Foundation, Verbier Festival, CHC Platform—Cultural Heritage & Conservation at EPFL, UNIL, Montreux Jazz Café, NAGRA <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>>>> Free admission; <a href=\"http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/z8TTfURvwX\">aperitif available with registration</a></strong><br>\r\n \r\n<figure class=\"image\"><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/fr/les-culturelles/les-culturelles-dautomne-2026/\"><img alt=\"Programme complet des Culturelles\" height=\"182\" src=\"https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/LES_CULTURELLES_1920x1080_programme_complet.png\" width=\"600\"></a>\r\n\r\n<figcaption>© 2026 EPFL, Laura Persat</figcaption>\r\n</figure>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-03T14:13:52", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-10T14:13:58", "link_label": "Inscription à l'apéritif", "link_url": "http://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/z8TTfURvwX", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Montreux Jazz Café", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ART%20C0%20100", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/alain.dufaux\">Alain Dufaux</a>, directeur de la Plateforme EPFL CHC - Cultural Heritage & Conservation ; <a href=\"https://applicationspub.unil.ch/interpub/noauth/php/Un/UnPers.php?PerNum=64542&LanCode=37\">Constance Frei</a>, musicologue, professeure UNIL/EPFL ; <a href=\"https://hem.hesge.ch/la-hem/alumniae/portrait-alumniae/charlotte-graber-musicologue-bibliothecaire\">Charlotte Graber</a>, musicologue HEM, Genève ; <a href=\"https://verbierfestival.com/musician/mcholm-stephen/\">Stephen McHolm</a>, directeur de la Verbier Festival Academy ", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/fr/les-culturelles/\">Festival Les Culturelles</a> (Pôle Culture VPI)", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/veronique.mauron\">Véronique Mauron Layaz</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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121682/", "category": { "id": 9, "code": "MANIF", "fr_label": "Événements festifs et culturels", "en_label": "Cultural events", "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/2/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?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/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/21/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/22/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/79/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/145/?format=api" ] } ] }
