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Held every week, alternating between <strong>Tuesdays and Thursdays</strong>, these sessions provide an opportunity for laboratories, platforms, centers, and units to receive guidance and support on implementing more sustainable laboratory practices.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe <strong>Sustainable Labs initiative</strong> is part of EPFL's <em>Climate & Sustainability Strategy 2030</em>, which aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an average of <strong>40% compared to 2006/2019 levels</strong> and achieve <strong>climate neutrality by 2040</strong>.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n→<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/about/sustainability/sustainability/green-labs_draft_ag/\"> </a><strong><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/about/sustainability/sustainability/green-labs_draft_ag/\">Learn more about the EPFL Sustainable Labs initiative</a>.</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nResearch activities are a key lever for achieving these ambitious goals. However, while cutting-edge research drives innovation, it also carries a significant environmental footprint. Laboratories consume large amounts of energy, generate substantial quantities of plastic, chemical, and biological waste, and contribute considerably to greenhouse gas emissions. At EPFL, we are committed to understanding and reducing this impact. Through the development and deployment of the <strong>EPFL CO₂ Calculator</strong>, we help researchers measure, understand, and improve the environmental performance of their activities.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nFrom <strong>October 8 to December 17, 2026</strong>, the <strong>Sustainable Labs: Get Involved</strong> sessions will focus on training and supporting users in the use of the <strong>EPFL CO₂ Calculator</strong>. This tool enables laboratories, platforms, centers, and central units to estimate their carbon footprint, identify major emission hotspots, and support informed decision-making to reduce their environmental impact through targeted actions.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nHere are the planned sessions : \r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Thursday October 8th 12:15-13:00 (online) </li>\r\n\t<li>Tuesday October 13th 12:15-13:00 (MA A0 364)</li>\r\n\t<li>Thursday October 22th 12:15-13:00 (online) </li>\r\n\t<li>Tuesday October 27th 12:15-13:00 (MA A0 364)</li>\r\n\t<li>Thursday November 5th 12:15-13:00(online) </li>\r\n\t<li>Tuesday November 10th 12:15-13:00 (MA A0 364)</li>\r\n\t<li>Thursday November 19th 12:15-13:00 (online) </li>\r\n\t<li>Tuesday November 24th 12:15-13:00 (MA A0 364)</li>\r\n\t<li>Thursday December 3rd 12:15-13:00 (online) </li>\r\n\t<li>Tuesday December 8th 12:15-13:00 (MA A0 364)</li>\r\n\t<li>Thursday December 17th 12:15-13:00 (online) </li>\r\n</ul>\r\nFor online sessions, here is the <a href=\"https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63013630338\">Zoom link</a>. 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For physical sessions, standing lunch will be provided!<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWhether you have questions about the EPFL CO₂ Calculator, need help interpreting your results, or would like advice on implementing more sustainable laboratory practices, our team will be happy to support you and answer your questions! <br>\r\n ", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-23T10:53:52", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-25T12:13:54", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "MA A0 364", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63013630338", "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": "", "organizer": "Mai-Phuong Dinh", "contact": "[email protected] ", "is_internal": "True", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "Sustainability, CO2 calculator, carbon footprint, Sustainable labs", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121908/", "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/1/?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/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/79/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72691, "title": "Apertus for NGOs: A Workshop on Running and Deploying Switzerland's Open-source LLM", "slug": "apertus-for-ngos-a-workshop-on-running-and-deplo-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/apertus-for-ngos-a-workshop-on-running-and-deplo-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33918/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33918/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33918/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-10", "end_date": "2026-11-10", "start_time": "09:00:00", "end_time": "12:30:00", "description": "<p>This workshop is for staff and researchers working in NGOs and non-profits who aim to bring AI into their workflows with an ethical, careful approach. Join us for a hands-on morning of using and deploying the flagship model of the Swiss AI Initiative, learn first hand from the engineers and scientists working on Apertus.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe workshop runs from <strong>9:30 to 12:30</strong> at the EPFL AI Center Lounge in Lausanne. Doors open at 9:00.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Background</strong>: Apertus is a fully open large language model built in Switzerland, which is fully reproducible and can run on your own infrastructure. As a Foundation Model, it has already been adapted to specific contexts through post-training and fine-tuning processes. In addition to open access at all Swiss academic institutions, a growing number of Swiss and international commercial providers support Apertus for production deployment.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis workshop is also designed as a two-way conversation: alongside learning how to use and deploy Apertus, we want to hear how your organization is already working with AI, and where today's tools still fall short for you. We would like to hear about the languages, legal contexts, and use cases you operate in. This input will give us the opportunity to prioritize improvements for non-profit organizations on the Apertus roadmap.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nAt this workshop, you will have the chance to:\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>See how Apertus, a fully open, Swiss-built LLM, can be deployed on your own infrastructure</li>\r\n\t<li>Get hands-on experience using the technology itself, not just a description of it</li>\r\n\t<li>Tell the team building Apertus where it's falling short for your work, and help shape where it goes next</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nThe morning will include:\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>An introduction to Apertus: what it is, how it works, and why self-hosting is possible</li>\r\n\t<li>A live walkthrough of deploying Apertus on your own infrastructure</li>\r\n\t<li>Hands-on exercises applying Apertus to tasks relevant to your organization</li>\r\n</ul>\r\nExact schedule will be sent to participants closer to the event.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u><strong>! <a href=\"https://luma.com/k910o3e1\">REGISTRATION REQUIRED !</a></strong></u>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-28T13:24:00", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-28T13:29:08", "link_label": "Registration required", "link_url": "https://luma.com/k910o3e1", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "ELE 117", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==ELE%20117", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://luma.com/k910o3e1\">See program</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.swiss-ai.org/\">Swiss AI Initiative</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://luma.com/user/usr-N7kyqdDP9T2cIhr\">Clara Meister</a> & <a href=\"https://luma.com/user/loleg\">Oleg Lavrovsky</a>", "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": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121957/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - 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This lecture will revisit the fundamentals of heterogeneous nucleation with emphasis on the role of surface cavities, trapped vapour embryos and contact angle in determining whether nucleation can occur and at what wall superheat. Classical nucleation concepts will be used to illustrate why cavity size alone is not sufficient to describe an active nucleation site, and why the geometry of the cavity and the amount of trapped vapour must be considered together with surface wettability. The discussion will then move toward real surfaces, where advancing and receding contact angles, contact-angle hysteresis, roughness and different wetting states influence vapour entrapment, bubble growth, contact-line motion and subsequent rewetting of the surface. Selected experimental examples from functionalised boiling surfaces will be used to demonstrate how controlled combinations of surface chemistry and microstructure can be applied to tailor nucleation behaviour and overall boiling performance. The lecture will conclude with approaches toward more durable boiling interfaces that retain favourable wetting and nucleation characteristics during prolonged operation, connecting the fundamentals of bubble nucleation with the broader challenge of developing reliable high-performance surfaces for practical thermal systems<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Biography: </strong>Matevž Zupančič is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (UL FME), where he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in heat transfer, heat exchangers, process engineering, thermodynamics of mixtures, and environmentally related technologies. To date, he has co-supervised more than 80 students at the bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD levels. He received his PhD from UL FME in 2017 for his research on the development of advanced surfaces with tailored wettability for enhanced pool boiling heat transfer. His research encompasses phase-change heat transfer, with particular emphasis on pool boiling, the long-term performance of heat transfer surfaces and heat exchangers, high-resolution temperature measurement techniques, surface functionalisation for phase-change applications, heat transfer under microgravity conditions, and processes related to hydrogen production.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-15T13:55:04", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-15T14:01:49", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "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/61360740951", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.fs.uni-lj.si/en/zaposleni/matevz-zupancic/\">Prof. Matevž Zupančič</a>, <a href=\"https://www.fs.uni-lj.si/en/\">Faculty of Mechanical Engineering</a>, <a href=\"https://www.uni-lj.si/en\">University of Ljubljana</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/zhengmao.lu\">Prof. Zhengmao Lu</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Institute of Mechanical Engineering</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": "MechE Colloquium: Bubble nucleation and related wettability effects: from fundamentals to durable interfaces", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122195/", "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/232/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/270/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72858, "title": "Imaging Seminar - Seeing the unseen: computational imaging across applications", "slug": "imaging-seminar-seeing-the-unseen-computational--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/imaging-seminar-seeing-the-unseen-computational--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34110/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34110/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34110/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-10", "end_date": "2026-11-10", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<a href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBlGvVcctqWpxaGRd_pV-ZD1zBZLZuTdsFVm9TTohhzLhB4w/viewform?usp=sharing&ouid=103032775921202169499\">Registration to attend in person</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66447819062\">Zoom link</a>\r\n<div>\r\n<div>\r\n<div><br>\r\n<strong>Abstract:</strong> Computational imaging combines mathematical modelling, inverse problems, optimisation, and machine learning to recover information from indirect and noisy measurements. In this seminar, I will present recent research on physics-informed reconstruction methods and learning-based approaches, illustrating how a common mathematical framework can address diverse imaging challenges. Applications will include reconstruction of ancient frescoes in cultural heritage, computational models of vision for understanding geometric optical illusions, and advanced reconstruction procedures for image deconvolution/super-resolution in advanced fluorescence microscopy<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio:</strong> Prof. Luca Calatroni is an Associate Professor at the University of Genoa (DIBRIS), where he leads the Computational Imaging & Learning unit at the Machine Learning Genoa Center (MaLGa). He received his PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 2015. He then held postdoctoral positions in Genoa and at the École Polytechnique, and was a CNRS researcher in Sophia-Antipolis from 2019 to 2024. He is the PI of the ERC Starting Grant MALIN. His research is in mathematical imaging and inverse problems, at the meeting point of variational methods, optimisation and machine learning. He is especially interested in learning-based reconstruction methods that stay interpretable and reliable because they keep the physics of the acquisition process in the model. His work ranges from biomedical imaging, where he pushes the resolution limits of fluorescence microscopy and medical scans, to mathematical models of human vision and visual illusions, and to the digital restoration of damaged artworks and ancient manuscripts.</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-10-15T15:23:33", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-03T13:37:13", "link_label": "Registration Required", "link_url": "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBlGvVcctqWpxaGRd_pV-ZD1zBZLZuTdsFVm9TTohhzLhB4w/viewform?usp=header", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "BC 420", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==BC%20420", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Luca Calatroni, Associate Professor, University of Genoa, Italy", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://imaging.epfl.ch/\">EPFL Center for Imaging</a>", "contact": "[email protected]", "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/122205/", "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/284/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/442/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 73052, "title": "AI Center Seminar - AI Fundamentals series - Dr. Frederik Kunstner", "slug": "ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-dr-freder", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/ai-center-seminar-ai-fundamentals-series-dr-freder", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34243/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34243/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34243/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-10", "end_date": "2026-11-10", "start_time": "14:00:00", "end_time": "15:00:00", "description": "<p>The talk is jointly organized by the <a href=\"https://ai.epfl.ch/\">EPFL AI Center</a> and the MLO 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\nWhy Adam work in optimizing language models: heavy-tailed data imbalance<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nAdam and related methods are the default optimizers in training language models because gradient descent is so slow it is thought it simply does not work. Many methods have been proposed to improve on Adam, but we have a poor understanding of why it works better in the first place. This talk will be about understanding what makes language models hard for gradient descent, and how Adam fixes it. We give evidence that the problem is due to imbalance in the data: in language, some words are very frequent but the majority are rare, following Zipf’s law; the kh most frequent word has frequency proportional to 1/k. This heavy-tailed imbalance leads to poor performance with gradient descent, while Adam and other sign-like methods do not suffer from the same slowdown. We show empirical evidence on language models, and prove a separation in the performance of gradient and a simplified form of Adam, sign descent, on a linear bigram model as we the vocabulary size grows.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio</strong><br>\r\nFrederik Kunstner is Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at INRIA, working with Francis Bach, and an incoming professor at the University of Waterloo. <br>\r\nHis research lies at the intersection of optimization and machine learning, with a particular focus on understanding the foundations of methods used in deep learning.<br>\r\nHe received his PhD from the university of British Columbia under the supervision of Mark Schmidt, following his undergraduate studies at EPFL.<br>\r\nHis work has received a Best Paper Award at AISTATS 2021, a Best Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Canadian AI Association in 2025, and an Honourable Mention from AAAI/ACM SIGAI in 2025.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-11-03T10:45:15", "last_modification_date": "2026-11-04T10:04:36", "link_label": "Zoom Link", "link_url": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63357554422?pwd=78nYhdNWmhKeRVL7ps31u6FHBi9xiv.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/63357554422?pwd=78nYhdNWmhKeRVL7ps31u6FHBi9xiv.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Dr. Frederik Kunstner", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://ai.epfl.ch/\">EPFL AI Center</a> & MLO 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/122536/", "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/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72547, "title": "AI Sovereignty: Charting Switzerland's Path Amid US and Chinese AI Dominance", "slug": "ai-sovereignty-charting-switzerland-s-path-amid--2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/ai-sovereignty-charting-switzerland-s-path-amid--2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33796/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33796/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33796/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-11", "end_date": "2026-11-11", "start_time": "09:30:00", "end_time": "18:30:00", "description": "<p>As the global AI landscape consolidates around US and Chinese dominance, every nation outside this duopoly faces an urgent question: how can countries retain meaningful control over a technology increasingly expected to shape their economic competitiveness, national security, and societal resilience? From the viability of sovereign cloud architectures and open-weight foundation models to the governance mechanisms needed to ensure AI systems reflect Swiss values and legal frameworks, this conference brings together industry leaders, researchers, legal experts, policymakers, and civil society actors to assess the concrete levers of AI sovereignty and work toward actionable recommendations for a Swiss sovereign AI strategy.<br>\r\n </p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-09T09:11:31", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-09T09:11:31", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://cryptpad.c4dt.org/form/#/2/form/view/Oj6W6+IN0bU7CIOcib5YRtxeuP5DRn1Z0hrR8bviLZw/", "canceled": "True", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "Starling Hotel", "url_place_and_room": "https://www.starling-hotel-lausanne.com/contact-location", "url_online_room": "https://c4dt.epfl.ch/c4dt-conference-on-ai-sovereignty/", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Antoine Bosselut (Professor, Natural Language Processing Laboratory NLP, EPFL) Rachid Guerraoui (Professor, Distributed Computing Laboratory DCL, EPFL) Robert West, (Professor, Data Science in AI Laboratory DLAB, EPFL) Carsten Maple (Professor of Cyber Systems Engineering, University of Warwick, UK) Lam Kwok Yan (Professor, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) Céline Castets-Renard (Full Professor of Law FDEF University of Luxembourg / ANITI Chair / EU AI Expert Scientific Panel @AI Office European Commission AI Act); Cristian Canton (Associate Director, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) Yves Pitton (Chief Business Solutions Officer and Executive Board Member, ELCA) Wallyson Lemes de Oliveira, Chief AI Officer, Giotto.ai, Yaniv Benhamou (Professor of Digital Law, University of Geneva)", "organizer": "This event is organized by the Center for Digital Trust (C4DT), EPFL.", "contact": "Viollier David, [email protected]", "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": "Sovereignty, Governance, Competitiveness", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121748/", "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/145/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/442/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72620, "title": "Inaugural Lectures SV - Paloma Navarro, Florian Schüder", "slug": "inaugural-lectures-sv-paloma-navarro-florian-schud", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/inaugural-lectures-sv-paloma-navarro-florian-schud", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33866/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33866/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33866/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-11", "end_date": "2026-11-11", "start_time": "17:15:00", "end_time": "19:30:00", "description": "<strong>Date</strong>: Wednesday November 11, 2026<br>\r\n<strong>Program: </strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>17:15 - 17:25 Introduction by the Dean and Director GHI</li>\r\n\t<li>17:25 - 17:55 Prof. Paloma Navarro - Giorgi-Cavaglieri Chair in Immunology of the Aging Brain</li>\r\n\t<li>18:00 - 18:10 Introduction by the Dean and Director IBI</li>\r\n\t<li>18:10 - 18:40 Prof. Florian Schüder</li>\r\n\t<li>18:40 - 18:45 Closure</li>\r\n\t<li>18:45 Apéritif in SV Hall</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Location: </strong><a href=\"https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717\">SV1717</a><br>\r\n<strong>Registration: </strong><a href=\"https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19YVR2xdBv4gBMi4XxhpOA5un_tXsvrm9NLebElAFQZc/edit\">Click here</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n============================================<br>\r\n<strong>Prof. Paloma Navarro</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Engineering Precision Immunotherapies for the Aging Brain</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nAs we age, our brains slowly change memory can falter, thinking can slow, and the risk of diseases like Alzheimer's rises. For decades, aging research has focused on the brain's own cells. But our bodies also carry a second, powerful system that changes with age: the immune system. Best known for fighting infections, the immune system also reaches into the brain and helps shape how it works. My research aims to answer a simple but underexplored question: as the immune system ages, does it stop protecting the brain and start harming it, and if so, can we intervene?<br>\r\n<br>\r\nI will share how I have used engineered proteins, delivered directly into the brain, to precisely target specific immune cells and rebalance their behavior. Building on this work, my lab is now developing a toolkit of precision tools, each aimed at a different brain immune cell type. The goal is to translate this work into \"aging immunotherapies\": treatments that restore balance to the aging immune system, strengthen the brain's resilience, and reduce the risk of neurodegenerative disease.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>About the speaker</strong><br>\r\nPaloma Navarro Negredo studied Natural Sciences with an emphasis in Pharmacology at St John's College, University of Cambridge, before earning her Master's and PhD in Clinical Biochemistry, also at Cambridge. In the laboratory of Prof. Margaret S. Robinson she studied how proteins are sorted and trafficked inside cells. She then moved to Stanford University for postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Prof. Anne Brunet, supported by a Human Frontier Science Program fellowship. At Stanford she investigated changes in the aging brain, with a particular focus on immune cells and strategies to target them using engineered proteins.<br>\r\nPaloma is now an Assistant Professor at the School of Life Sciences at EPFL, where holds the Giorgi-Cavaglieri Chair in Immunology of the Aging Brain, leading a research group investigating how the aging immune system contributes to the decline of brain function.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n============================================<br>\r\n<strong>Prof. Florian Schüder</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Programming DNA for Multiplexed Super-Resolution Microscopy</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Abstract</strong><br>\r\nFluorescence microscopy is one of the most widely used tools in biological research, allowing us to visualize the organization of cells and their molecular components. Over the past two decades, the development of super-resolution microscopy has revolutionized the field by making it possible to visualize structures far smaller than previously thought possible with light microscopy.<br>\r\nMy research combines these advanced imaging techniques with tools from DNA nanotechnology to further expand what we can see and measure inside cells. In this presentation, I will introduce recent developments in DNA-based super-resolution microscopy and show how these approaches can enable high-resolution imaging of many different molecular targets within the same sample, and discuss how these technologies can be used to address biological questions at the molecular scale.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>About the speaker</strong><br>\r\nFlorian Schueder studied Physics at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the Wyss Institute at Harvard University from 2009 to 2015. He then pursued a Ph.D. in Biophysics at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry from 2015 to 2020. From 2021 to 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Cell Biology and the Department of Microbial Pathogenesis at Yale School of Medicine. In 2025, he was a Visiting Scientist at ETH Zurich. In 2026, Florian started his own lab as an Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at EPFL.", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-18T11:27:16", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-28T09:49:39", "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": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "Prof. Paloma Navarro<br>\r\nProf. Florian Schüder", "organizer": "SV-DO", "contact": "[email protected]", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121860/", "category": { "id": 8, "code": "LI", "fr_label": "Leçons inaugurales - Leçons d'honneur", "en_label": "Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "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" ] }, { "id": 72700, "title": "The Case for Collaboration and a New Paradigm for Machine Learning", "slug": "the-case-for-collaboration-and-a-new-paradigm-for", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/the-case-for-collaboration-and-a-new-paradigm-for", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33928/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33928/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33928/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-11", "end_date": "2026-11-11", "start_time": "18:30:00", "end_time": "21:00:00", "description": "<p>Since 2006, the Erna Hamburger Prize is awarded by the EPFL-WISH Foundation (Women In Science and Humanities) and distinguishes influential, leading women scientists who are transforming their field and executing change.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe Erna Hamburger Prize 2026 will be awarded to Prof. Margo Seltzer. The award ceremony will be held on November 11th 2026 at 6:30 pm at SG 1138. On this occasion, the awardee will give a conference on the EPFL Campus. Don’t miss this exceptional opportunity to hear from one of the most influential figures in contemporary computer science.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Conference abstract</strong><br>\r\n<em>It's 2026, and the answer to every problem today seems to be a multiple choice exercise of selecting answers from: AI, Agents, LLMs or machine learning. Is our future really just all about prompt engineering?</em><br>\r\n<br>\r\nAt a time when artificial intelligence, autonomous agents and large language models seem to be presented as the answer to every challenge, <strong>Margo Seltzer</strong> offers a thought-provoking perspective on the value of simplicity in computer science and machine learning. She will demonstrate how simpler and more transparent approaches can deliver performance comparable to that of the most sophisticated models, while providing greater interpretability, more efficient use of resources and a more natural way of addressing issues of fairness and privacy. The lecture will also explore a theme that lies at the heart of her career: <strong>collaboration</strong>. Drawing on her own experience of collaborative research, Margo Seltzer will explain how working together can broaden one’s impact, help overcome imposter syndrome, and enable individuals to discover and develop their unique strengths.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>About Prof. Margo Seltzer</strong><br>\r\n<a href=\"https://www.seltzer.com/margo\">Prof. Margo Seltzer</a> is Co-Head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), where she moved after two decades as a Full Professor at Harvard University. She earned her Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1992 from the University of California, Berkeley. A pioneering computer systems researcher, she is the recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including the 2023 ACM Athena Lecturer Award and the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award. She is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering. Alongside her academic career, Margo Seltzer is an entrepreneur: she co-founded Sleepycat Software, maker of Berkeley DB, a widely used embedded database engine later acquired by Oracle. A recognized leader in her field, she is also a devoted mentor to young women in computer science and an early member of the \"Systers Lunch,\" the original diversity gathering at SOSP, the flagship conference of the systems research community.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-09-28T19:19:24", "last_modification_date": "2026-10-12T10:24:02", "link_label": "REGISTRATION", "link_url": "https://forms.cloud.microsoft/e/29LjxMdyae", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SG 1138", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%201138", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "Nicolas Hocq", "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/121974/", "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/145/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/416/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 72838, "title": "Practical Course by BIOP : Super Resolution Made Easy", "slug": "practical-course-by-biop-super-resolution-made-eas", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/practical-course-by-biop-super-resolution-made-eas", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34046/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34046/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/34046/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-11-11", "end_date": "2026-11-11", "start_time": "13:00:00", "end_time": "17:00:00", "description": "<p>During this afternoon, you will discover 3 Super-Resolution imaging methods, on 3 different optical microscopes. 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