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In contrast to zero-sum games—which do not always capture conflict, even between two players—harmonic games may exhibit highly non-convex equilibrium configurations. In particular, if the game’s ambient dimension is odd, we show that the set of totally mixed Nash equilibria is a (typically non-convex) real algebraic variety of dimension at least one, which extends all the way to the boundary of the game’s strategy space. Despite the difficulties incurred by this complicated equilibrium structure, we provide an extrapolation-based variant of “follow-the-regularized-leader” (FTRL) which converges to Nash equilibrium with order-optimal regret guarantees: O(1) in self-play, and O( sqrt(T) ) against arbitrary play.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography</strong><br>\r\nDavide Legacci is a PhD candidate in Computer Science at Université Grenoble Alpes, CNRS and Inria, within the GHOST team, supervised by Panayotis Mertikopoulos and Bary S. R. Pradelski. His research lies at the intersection of game theory and online learning, with a focus on the geometric structure of competitive interactions and the design of no-regret learning dynamics for adversarial environments. His work has been presented at leading machine learning venues including ICML and NeurIPS. 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Leterrier,<br>\r\nAdvanced Manufacturing doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11368<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-30T16:43:18", "last_modification_date": "2026-04-02T10:56:41", "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": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/6725401665?pwd=Dkgztd80gaYCAtARrtY7BoyopLhhTn.1", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<strong>Alper BALKAN</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Alper BALKAN</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": "EDAM", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120232/", "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/8/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71494, "title": "A sum-over-pole framework for quantum embedding in dynamical mean-field theory", "slug": "a-sum-over-pole-framework-for-quantum-embedding--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/a-sum-over-pole-framework-for-quantum-embedding--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32836/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32836/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32836/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-05-29", "end_date": "2026-05-29", "start_time": "18:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. N. Marzari,<br>\r\nPhysics doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11552<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-30T16:51:04", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-30T16:51:06", "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": [], "speaker": "<strong>Alessandro CARBONE</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Alessandro CARBONE</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": "EDPY", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120235/", "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/5/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71495, "title": "Reprogramming GPCR Specificity: Engineering CXCR2 for Selective CXCL5 Binding and Cellular Signaling", "slug": "reprogramming-gpcr-specificity-engineering-cxcr2-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/reprogramming-gpcr-specificity-engineering-cxcr2-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32837/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32837/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32837/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-30", "end_date": "2026-04-30", "start_time": "17:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. P. D. Barth,<br>\r\nBiotechnology and Bioengineering doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11393<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-30T16:59:07", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-30T16:59:08", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CM 1 2", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CM%201%202", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<strong>Ana Paola RICO VILLARREAL</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Ana Paola RICO VILLARREAL</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": "EDBB", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120237/", "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/9/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71496, "title": "Sexual Harassment Awareness Day 2026", "slug": "sexual-harassment-awareness-day-2026-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/sexual-harassment-awareness-day-2026-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32838/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32838/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32838/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-21", "end_date": "2026-04-21", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Swiss higher education and research institutions are organising a fourth Sexual Harassment Awareness Day (SHAD) on 21 April 2026 to help build a harassment-free university environment.</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>At the national level:</strong><br>\r\nAn online event (link to come) will take place from 12:15 to 13:15 in English, under the title <strong><em><a href=\"https://www.unisg.ch/en/university/about-us/advisory-offices/diversity-equality-inclusion/respect/tag-gegen-sexuelle-belaestigung/\">From Awareness to Action: Together Against Sexual Harassment in Higher Education</a>.</em></strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nProf. <strong>Dirk Baier</strong> from the ZHAW School of Engineering will present empirical insights on the structural factors linked to sexual harassment in academic institutions. This will be followed by a discussion with <strong>Dr. Rachel Démolis</strong> from actionuni and <strong>Klara Sasse</strong> from VSS-UNES-USU, addressing the role of institutions, prevention, and dialogue despite power asymmetries.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n→ See also the <a href=\"https://universities-against-harassment.ch/en\">website of the national coordination</a> listing all events from partner institutions.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>At EPFL:</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>On campus, “<a href=\"https://sh2026.ch/en/ressourcen/discussion-cookies\">Discussion Biscuits</a>” (in the form of Chinese fortune cookies) will be distributed at various contact points and cafeterias to encourage dialogue among community members on these essential issues.</li>\r\n\t<li>An information and discussion booth will be set up in the corridor at the corner of EPFL buildings CE and BS, in front of <a href=\"https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CE%201%206\">room CE1 6</a>, from 11 am to 2 pm. Meet the Equal Opportunities Office and the Well-being and Inclusion team to discuss concerns related to sexual harassment and learn about available resources.</li>\r\n\t<li>Posters featuring statements from EPFL faculty members—including the President, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral—highlight the essential role of bystanders in combating harassment. 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In this context, this talk will focus on recent research advances on biomass and CO<sub>2</sub> conversion to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), chemicals and bio-based materials. Considering the challenges associated with low-carbon resources, including dispersed distribution, significant fluctuations in raw material composition, and high conversion costs, a distributed-centralized system utilizing alcohols as key platform molecules has been proposed. Alcohol synthesis from biomass and CO<sub>2</sub> will be presented with the focus on catalysis for methanol (thermocatalysis) and ethanol synthesis (electrocatalysis) from CO<sub>2</sub>. Conversion of alcohol to SAF will be introduced with discussions on the design of multifunctional catalysts for alcohol conversion, the dynamic evolution of catalytic sites, and the strategies for tuning product distributions. Additionally, a few examples of biobased materials, such as cellulose nanofiber-based biomaterials and bio-based nylon precursor and polyester precursor, will be presented.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio: Dr. Zhenglong Li is the “Qiushi” Chair Professor of Zhejiang University. He is the lead of the sustainable aviation fuels research of the State Key Laboratory of Bio-based Transportation Fuel Technology, director of the Biomass Value-Added Utilization Research Center, and the director of the Bio-based Chemicals Division in the Institute of Zhejiang University-Quzhou. His research is dedicated to the high-value utilization of biomass and carbon dioxide to synthesize sustainable aviation fuel, chemicals, and bio-based materials. He was the team lead in the biomass conversion area at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (United States) prior to joining Zhejiang University. He was the committee member for the Chemical Catalysis for Bioenergy Consortium under the United States Department of Energy (DOE). His group focus on in-depth understanding of the catalytic processes of biomass and carbon dioxide at the molecular level to guide catalyst design, process development, and industrial application, especially R&D of SAF, bio-based chemicals, key bio-based polymer building blocks. His research group has published many high-impact scientific papers in top journals such as <em>J. Am. Chem. Soc., Nat. Commun., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., ACS Catal., Appl. Catal. B.,</em> and others. In terms of technology commercialization, he has developed new core technologies such as bio-based alcohols conversion for sustainable aviation fuel and bio-based biodegradable materials.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-31T08:53:46", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-31T08:53:57", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/0021139", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MXF 312", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MXF%20312", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Zhenglong Li, Zhejiang University, China", "organizer": "Prof. Tiffany Abitbol", "contact": "Prof. Tiffany Abitbol", "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/120243/", "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": 71500, "title": "IMX Talks - Sustainable green bio-polycarbonates from bio-based feedstocks and CO2 toward carbon-neutral goals", "slug": "imx-talks-sustainable-green-bio-polycarbonates-f-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-talks-sustainable-green-bio-polycarbonates-f-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32842/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32842/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32842/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-16", "end_date": "2026-04-16", "start_time": "16:15:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<p>The growing challenges of plastic pollution, fossil resource depletion, and carbon emissions have accelerated the search for sustainable alternatives to polymers. This presentation will focus on the development of fully bio-based polycarbonates, synthesized through the polymerization of carbon dioxide with renewable epoxides. We will first detail our laboratory’s work in generating a diverse portfolio monomer from a wide range of bio-feedstocks including plant oils, terpenes, lignocellulosic biomass, and industrial byproducts. Another focus is the effect of monomer structure on resulting polymer properties and performance, and how post-polymerization modification strategies can be employed to tailor materials for specific applications. (2) Applications of bio-based polycarbonates will be then discussed in fields such as coatings, biomedical materials, adhesives, and their recycling pathways. (3) An outline of future directions will be explored, emphasizing the roles of advanced catalyst design, AI-driven manufacturing, and supportive policy frameworks to enable scalable and sustainable production. The integration of CO<sub>2</sub> utilization with renewable feedstocks presents a compelling route toward circular and carbon–neutral materials.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio: Shaoqing Cui, Ph.D., is a Principal Investigator under the Zhejiang University’s \"Hundred Talents Program\" and a recipient of China’s National High-level Talent Program - (Overseas Young Talent Project). She used to be an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville (United States) before joining Zhejiang University. Her research focuses on the valorization of agricultural waste and carbon dioxide conversion and utilization, including high-value utilization of agricultural straw, waste oils as well as microalgae biomass. She has led and participated in multiple research projects, including a U.S. Department of Energy project on the efficient catalytic conversion of waste-treatment microalgae and CO<sub>2</sub> into high-value plastic products, also two U.S. Department of Agriculture projects. 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