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months</strong> (June/September to October/November, depending on availabilities)</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Three full‑day retreats</strong> (≈ 7 hrs each, plus lunch) spaced a month apart (or with the summer break, if start in June)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Interim work</strong>: team and individual assignments, role‑model interviews, reflective journaling<br>\r\nDates: Retreat days will take place on <strong>Friday, September 25, Friday October 30 and Friday November 27.</strong><br>\r\nOther dates and information soon\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Core elements</strong></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"522\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 550px, 100vw\" src=\"https://foster-lead-promote.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CG_EPFL_2026.png\" srcset=\"https://foster-lead-promote.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CG_EPFL_2026.png 550w, https://foster-lead-promote.ch/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/CG_EPFL_2026-480x456.png 480w\" width=\"550\">\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><strong>Deliverables & Benefits</strong></li>\r\n</ol>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li><strong>Concrete career artefacts</strong>: polished CVs, LinkedIn profiles, motivation letters.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Eight alumni portraits</strong> published on the FLP site, raising programme visibility.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Clear ROI for participants</strong>: venue, meals, professional development, and networking opportunities.</li>\r\n\t<li><strong>Team‑building outcomes</strong>: interview buddies, collaborative projects, shared reflections.</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-07-07T11:06:34", "last_modification_date": "2026-07-07T11:13:38", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://foster-lead-promote.ch/our_services/coachinggroups/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "EPFL", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], 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"2026-11-09", "end_date": "2026-11-16", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<p>In all professions including academic careers, satisfaction and a sense of fulfillment are not always at hand, leading sometimes to questioning professional choices. Have you experienced not being completely sure of what is professionally right for you? Have you wondered how you could find it out? Do you feel you might be not well equipped to decide on the next step in your career, or to lack orientation? In this workshop, you will be provided with tools and orientation models that will guide you in your career decisions, and implement them. These are based on an authenticity-oriented perspective aiming at a fulfilling work and self-realization experience.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-07-14T11:21:21", "last_modification_date": "2026-07-14T11:23:17", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://foster-lead-promote.ch/our_services/coachinggroups/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "EPFL", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.fix-the-leaky-pipeline.ch/our_team/afi-sika-kuzeawu/\">Afi Sika Kuzeawu</a><br>\r\nWith a passion for creation, and a motivation for true fulfilment in life, I help people figure out what would be the right ingredients for them to experience an inspired and brilliant professional life. I draw on my knowledge and my personal experience to coach students, doctoral candidates and professionals in the course of their career decisions. As a creative consultant, I also work with entrepreneurs and public institutions to help them design and develop concepts out of their ideas, so that these can be implemented in the real world.", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://foster-lead-promote.ch/meet-our-experts/\">FLP</a> ", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Chantal Mellier</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": "", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/DescriptionDesignYourFuture.pdf", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121261/", "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/3/?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" ] }, { "id": 72232, "title": "REGARD Workshop: Pitching myself for industry: Honing my application skills", "slug": "regard-workshop-pitching-myself-for-industry-honin", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/regard-workshop-pitching-myself-for-industry-honin", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33511/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33511/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33511/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-20", "end_date": "2026-11-20", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<strong>Target audience: Women - PhD candidates, intermediate academic staff, professors</strong><br>\r\n <br>\r\nBridging the gap from academia to industry requires adapting our frame of mind, discourse and posture to a new and sometimes unfamiliar audience! We will together - in two stand-alone and complementary one-day workshops - build your road map for change from academia to industry.<br>\r\n In this Workshop, you will together: \r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li>Share application and networking successes and challenges</li>\r\n\t<li>Explore how to effectively communicate your uniqueness and talents</li>\r\n\t<li>Maximise your changes of securing that interview</li>\r\n\t<li>Role play the bilateral interview process : pitch and Q&A</li>\r\n\t<li>Decide on the next milestone of your roadmap for success</li>\r\n\t<li> Together we’ll refine your personalised strategy and action plan !</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n <br>\r\n<strong>Approach</strong><br>\r\nThis interactive workshop will, through a hands-on experiential learning approach, help you embrace your personal road map for change. You will explore the best practice approach to applying and networking and hone your pitch and interview skills as you bridge the gap from academia to industry. And build your network of peers in a safe and confidential framework.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-07-14T11:25:12", "last_modification_date": "2026-07-14T11:37:16", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://www.unifr.ch/regard/fr/ateliers/descriptifs-des-ateliers.html#:~:text=Pitching%20myself%20for%20industry%3A%20Honing%20my%20application%20skills", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ONLINE", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.johnstonebusinesscoaching.com/\"><strong>Romaine Johnstone</strong></a>, Coache Professionnelle certifiée ORSC™ - Formatrice - Consultante", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.unifr.ch/regard/fr/programme/equipe.html\">REGARD</a> ", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Chantal Mellier</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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121262/", "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/3/?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" ] }, { "id": 72233, "title": "REGARD Workshop: Self-empowerment: discover how to build your power to act", "slug": "regard-workshop-self-empowerment-discover-how-to-8", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/regard-workshop-self-empowerment-discover-how-to-8", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33512/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33512/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33512/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-07", "end_date": "2026-10-08", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<strong>Target audience: gender mixed, PhD candidates. intermediate academic staff</strong><br>\r\n <br>\r\n<strong>Description and objectives</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>How could you feel more competent, worthy, valuable, and capable of doing things? What would enable you to address adversity with calm and resolve?</li>\r\n\t<li>How could you create conditions around you that would foster your ideas and projects?</li>\r\n\t<li>How could you develop courage to fight for what is important to you and to say No to what is not?</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nAlthough these questions seem very personal, they are actually widely shared and universal. Most people have doubts and struggle at times with their self-image, self-acceptance and confidence. Research shows consistently that developing these aspects is highly correlated to coping with life challenges, and emotional well-being.<br>\r\nThis workshop is designed to help you identify ways to foster positive self-image, to transform limiting beliefs into self-compassion, and to increase your “power to act”.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Approach</strong><br>\r\nThrough experience sharing, discovery of tools like cultivating self-care and mindfulness, as well as via the analysis of concrete situations, each participant will be able to make another step on her/his path of professional and personal growth.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-07-14T11:38:03", "last_modification_date": "2026-07-14T11:41:03", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://www.unifr.ch/regard/fr/ateliers/descriptifs-des-ateliers.html#:~:text=and%20teacher%20feedback.-,Self%2Dempowerment,-%3A%20discover%20how%20to", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "EPFL", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.linkedin.com/in/nir-zalts-11786835/\"><strong>Nir Zalts</strong></a>, Leadership development & Team coaching", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.unifr.ch/regard/fr/programme/equipe.html\">REGARD</a> ", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Chantal Mellier</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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121263/", "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/3/?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" ] }, { "id": 72538, "title": "IMX Colloquium - Unravelling how atomic motion takes place in molecules and materials", "slug": "imx-colloquium-unravelling-how-atomic-motion-tak-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-colloquium-unravelling-how-atomic-motion-tak-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33789/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33789/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33789/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-12-07", "end_date": "2026-12-07", "start_time": "13:15:00", "end_time": "14:15:00", "description": "", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-08T11:44:57", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-08T11:45:30", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/mr2102", "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/1/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Mariana Rossi, University of Cambridge, UK", "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/121739/", "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": 72565, "title": "IMX Colloquium - Does H2O transmute to H2O2 or HO• + H• at the Air–Water Interface of Microscale Droplets / Bubbles?", "slug": "imx-colloquium-does-h2o-transmute-to-h2o2-or-ho--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-colloquium-does-h2o-transmute-to-h2o2-or-ho--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33816/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33816/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33816/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-26", "end_date": "2026-10-26", "start_time": "13:15:00", "end_time": "14:15:00", "description": "<p>Recent reports claim that hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is spontaneously generated – without external energy input or catalyst – at the air–water interface of microdroplets1, bubbles2, and soap films3. Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain this phenomenon, including: (i) ultrahigh instantaneous electric fields at the air–water interface driving HO− à HO• + e− radicals from hydroxide ions; (ii) water’s comproportionation into H2O•+ and H2O•−; and (iii) partial dehydration of interfacial H+ and HO− followed by radical formation. In contrast, our laboratory experiments reveal that H2O2 formation is due to the reduction of dissolved O2 at water– solid interfaces, i.e., with no role for the air–water interface beyond O2 mass transport4-6. Based on these findings, I will present four diagnostic criteria against which any existing or future mechanistic proposal should be assessed. Our approach reconciles the claims of spontaneous H2O2 formation within established physical chemistry and extends naturally to other claims of anomalous microdroplet reactivity. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nReferences:<br>\r\n(1) Mehrgardi, M. A.; Mofidfar, M.; Zare, R. N. Sprayed Water Microdroplets Are Able to Generate Hydrogen Peroxide Spontaneously. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2022, 144 (17), 7606-7609. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c02890.<br>\r\n(2) Nami-Ana, S. F.; Mehrgardi, M. A.; Mofidfar, M.; Zare, R. N. Sustained Regeneration of Hydrogen Peroxide at the Water-Gas Interface of Electrogenerated Microbubbles on an Electrode Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2024, 146 (46), 31945-31949. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c11422 From NLM PubMed-not-MEDLINE.<br>\r\n(3) Eldeeb, A. M.; Berbille, A.; Dick, J. E. No Microdroplets? No Problem. Soap Films Amplify the Interface and Produce Hydrogen Peroxide. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147 (37), 33325-33329. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05887.<br>\r\n(4) Eatoo, M. A.; Mishra, H. Busting the myth of spontaneous formation of H2O2 at the air-water interface: contributions of the liquid-solid interface and dissolved oxygen exposed. Chemical Science 2024, 15 (9), 3093-3103. DOI: 10.1039/d3sc06534k From NLM PubMed-not-MEDLINE.<br>\r\n(5) Eatoo, M. A.; Wehbe, N.; Kharbatia, N.; Guo, X.; Mishra, H. Why do some metal ions spontaneously form nanoparticles in water microdroplets? Disentangling the contributions of the air-water interface and bulk redox chemistry. Chemical Science 2025, 16 (3), 1115-1125. DOI: 10.1039/d4sc03217a From NLM PubMed-not-MEDLINE.<br>\r\n(6) Eatoo, M. A.; Mishra, H. Disentangling the Roles of Dissolved Oxygen, Common Salts, and pH on Spontaneous Hydrogen Peroxide Production in Water: No O2, No H2O2. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2025, 147 (39), 35392-35400. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c09028.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nPapers:<br>\r\n- <a href=\"https://pubs.rsc.org/sc/article/15/9/3093/828007/Busting-the-myth-of-spontaneous-formation-of-H2O2\">Busting the myth of spontaneous formation of H2O2 at the air–water interface: contributions of the liquid–solid interface and dissolved oxygen exposed</a> <br>\r\n- <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c09028\">Disentangling the Roles of Dissolved Oxygen, Common Salts, and pH on Spontaneous Hydrogen Peroxide Production in Water: No O2, No H2O2</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio: Himanshu Mishra is a scientist-entrepreneur from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. His team has significantly contributed to resolving scientific debates surrounding the spontaneous H2O2 formation in water microdroplets, the electrification at water-hydrophobe interfaces, and liquid–solid adhesion forces. Mishra’s team has also pioneered Carbosoil™ technology to transform desert soils for sustainable greening, food production, and carbon sequestration. His start-up Terraxy is now scaling up Carbosoil™ production to advance sustainability projects in the Middle East and beyond. Mishra’s efforts have been featured by the World Economic Forum, Geneva Inventions, and CNN (LINK).<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-14T09:02:26", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-14T10:31:03", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://interfaciallab.kaust.edu.sa/people/detail/himanshu-mishra-ph.d", "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. Himanshu Mishra, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia", "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/121776/", "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": 72571, "title": "IMX Colloquium - Designer Quantum Materials from Carbon", "slug": "imx-colloquium-designer-quantum-materials-from-c-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-colloquium-designer-quantum-materials-from-c-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33820/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33820/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33820/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-09", "end_date": "2026-11-09", "start_time": "13:15:00", "end_time": "14:15:00", "description": "<p>Atomically precise carbon nanostructures offer a new route to quantum systems built from the bottom up. By combining molecular design, on-surface synthesis and scanning probe microscopy, we can control atomic structure, electronic states and magnetic interactions within the same platform.<br>\r\nIn this talk, I will follow the path from bottom-up synthesized graphene nanoribbons [1,2] to open-shell nanographenes [3] and designer quantum spin systems [4]. I will discuss how atomic structure can determine electronic topology and how molecular spins can be coupled into well-defined quantum chains. Recent examples include Haldane chains [4], alternating-exchange spin chains [5] and antiferromagnetic Heisenberg chains [6], where collective and fractional excitations can be probed directly at the atomic scale.<br>\r\nMore broadly, this work illustrates a materials-science strategy in which structure, functionality and interactions are programmed at the level of molecular building blocks. Rather than optimizing properties in an existing material, the aim is to design the material and its quantum behavior together. Atomically precise carbon nanostructures therefore provide a model platform for exploring how synthesis, structure and emergent functionality can be linked in a predictive way, with implications for the future design of low-dimensional electronic, magnetic and quantum materials.\r\n</p><ol>\r\n\t<li>J. Cai, P. Ruffieux, R. Jaafar, <em>et al.</em>, <em>Nature</em> <strong>466</strong>, 470–473 (2010).</li>\r\n\t<li>F. Xiang, Y. Gu, A. Kinikar, <em>et al.</em>, <em>Nat. Chem</em>. <strong>17</strong>, 1356–1363 (2025).</li>\r\n\t<li>S. Mishra, D. Beyer, K. Eimre, <em>et al</em>., <em>Nat. </em><em>Nanotechnol</em>. <strong>15</strong>, 22–28 (2020).</li>\r\n\t<li>S. Mishra, G. Catarina, F. Wu, <em>et al</em>., <em>Nature</em> <strong>598</strong>, 287–292 (2021).</li>\r\n\t<li>C. Zhao, G. Catarina, J.-J. Zhang, <em>et al</em>., <em>Nat. </em><em>Nanotechnol</em>. <strong>19</strong>, 1789-1795<strong> </strong>(2024).</li>\r\n\t<li>C. Zhao, L. Yang, J. C. G. Henriques, <em>et al</em>., <em>Nat. Mater.</em> <strong>24,</strong> 722–727 (2025).</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nBio: Roman Fasel is a leading scientist in the field of atomically precise carbon nanostructures and surface-based quantum materials. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Fribourg in 1996 and then carried out postdoctoral research at La Trobe University in Melbourne and the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin before joining Empa. Today, he heads Empa’s nanotech@surfaces Laboratory and is Adjunct Professor at the University of Bern. He pioneered the bottom-up synthesis of graphene nanoribbons, establishing on-surface synthesis as a major new direction in nanoscience, and has since extended this work to topological states, open-shell nanographenes and quantum spin chains.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-14T10:43:28", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-14T10:43:41", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://www.empa.ch/web/s205/roman-fasel", "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. Roman Fasel, EMPA, Zürich", "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/121785/", "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": 72764, "title": "IMX Talks - Resolving Hierarchical Structure with X-ray scattering imaging", "slug": "imx-talks-resolving-hierarchical-structure-with-x", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imx-talks-resolving-hierarchical-structure-with-x", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33978/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33978/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33978/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-02", "end_date": "2026-11-02", "start_time": "16:30:00", "end_time": "17:30:00", "description": "<p>The function of many materials, from biological tissues to industrial polymers, depends on how their nanoscale building blocks are arranged and aligned within a macroscopic structure, which is essential to understand but difficult to resolve: established high-resolution techniques typically access only small sample volumes, limiting the ability to capture structural or biological variability across extended, heterogeneous samples.<br>\r\nSmall-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) imaging probes local nanostructure by raster-scanning a focused synchrotron beam across a sample. This can be extended to resolve nanostructure orientation voxel-by-voxel in three dimensions in a method called SAXS tensor tomography, which we implement in our open-source software package Mumott. In this presentation, I will show how this approach, and its continued development, can be applied across different material systems.<br>\r\nFor injection-molded polymer packaging, SAXS imaging has resolved the layered anisotropic nanostructure important for its mechanical properties, and, combined with industrial processing simulations, the structure formation during thermal processing. Another example is bone, where resolving structure requires both three-dimensional information and sufficient sampling to capture biological variability. Combining 2D and 3D SAXS imaging, we studied regional differences in the human femoral neck, an anatomical site relevant to hip fractures, and, at higher resolution, resolved alternating chirality between neighboring lamellae within individual osteons, a structural feature proposed on mechanical grounds over a century ago.<br>\r\nThese examples illustrate how tensor tomography, extended beyond X-ray scattering to wide-angle diffraction and visible-light polarimetry, provides a route to resolving hierarchical structure across a wide range of material systems.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nBio:<strong> </strong>Marianne Liebi studied food science at ETH Zurich, where she also completed her PhD in 2013, followed by postdoctoral research at the Paul Scherrer Institute and MAX IV Laboratory, Lund. In 2017, she started her own research group at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, and was appointed in 2021 as tenure-track Assistant Professor at EPFL, where she heads the Laboratory for X-ray Characterization of Materials (cam-X) within the Institute of Materials, in a joint position with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI). Her research develops advanced X-ray and optical imaging techniques, centered on small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) in 2D and 3D, to resolve the hierarchical structure of materials ranging from fiber composites to pharmaceutical formulations and bone.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-05T09:26:03", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-05T10:29:57", "link_label": "Website", "link_url": "https://www.psi.ch/de/lsc/people/marianne-liebi", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BM 5202", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BM%205202", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63884474245", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Marianne Liebi, EPFL STI IMX CAM-X", "organizer": "Prof. Michele Ceriotti", "contact": "Prof. Michele Ceriotti", "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/122060/", "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": 72760, "title": "AI Center Seminar - AI Fundamentals series - Ricardo Olmedo - \"Speedrunning SWE-bench, or the $1,000 coding agent\"", "slug": "ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-ricardo-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-ricardo-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33976/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33976/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33976/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-07", "end_date": "2026-10-07", "start_time": "15:00:00", "end_time": "16:00:00", "description": "<p>The talk is jointly organized by the <a href=\"https://ai.epfl.ch/\">EPFL AI Center</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/mlo/\">MLO</a> Lab as part of the AI fundamentals seminar series.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong><em>Hosting Professor: Prof. Martin Jaggi</em></strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Title</strong><br>\r\nSpeedrunning SWE-bench, or the $1,000 coding agent<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nSpeedrunning has become a popular engineering challenge in machine learning: achieve the best performance within a fixed compute budget. We use it as a scientific tool to study how models acquire specialized skills and how far those skills transfer. We speedrun SWE-bench by training coding agents from scratch on demonstrations from stronger models. With about $1,000 of training compute, we reach a 25% solve rate, outperforming GPT-4o. Compared to models with extensive pre-training, our speedrun models solve largely the same SWE-bench problems, and generalize about as well to new bugs and codebases. What, then, does pre-training buy for SWE-bench? Our experiments suggest a one-student hypothesis: pre-training helps a student imitate its teacher, but at matched imitation loss, pre-training choices barely matter. We stress-test this hypothesis by comparing a model trained on the web against a “vintage\" one trained only pre-1931 documents. Up to the SWE-bench scores we reach, pre-training is interchangeable with specialization data. We release nanoswe as an open project for studying specialization through speedrunning.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nRicardo Olmedo is a final-year PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen and a Google PhD Fellow. Advised by Moritz Hardt and Bernhard Schölkopf, he works on language model benchmarking and specialization. His research has earned three oral presentations at ICLR and NeurIPS. Most recently, he spent spring and summer 2026 visiting Sanmi Koyejo at Stanford University.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-04T16:12:34", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-04T16:19:40", "link_label": "Zoom Link", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62586405912?pwd=OffU3pokqFjxl6rj6cmbrdlLEg6LKc.1", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELE 117", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELE%20117", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62586405912?pwd=OffU3pokqFjxl6rj6cmbrdlLEg6LKc.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Ricardo Olmedo", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://ai.epfl.ch/\">EPFL AI Center</a> and the <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/mlo/\">MLO</a> Lab", "contact": "Nicolas Machado", "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/122056/", "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/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] } ] }
