Event List
retrieve:
Return the details about the given Event id.
list:
List all Event objects.
GET /api/v1/events/?format=api&offset=60&ordering=description
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Medical students interested in combining medicine and research are warmly welcome. <br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe retreat brings together MD-PhD students and candidates, alumni, thesis directors and faculty members. Medical students interested in pursuing an MD-PhD are warmly welcome to discover the programme and meet its community. Attendance is mandatory for students currently enrolled in the MD-PhD programme.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThe programme includes research presentations and posters by doctoral students, invited talks, interactive speed coaching with UNIL/EPFL principal investigators and MD-PhD alumni, and a roundtable with senior clinical and academic leaders on clinical career pathways and support for MD-PhD graduates. Prizes will recognise the best oral presentation and the three best posters.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nCoffee and croissants will be served from 08:45, with the opening at 09:00. The roundtable is scheduled from 15:00 to 16:00, followed by an apéritif and informal discussions. The event is expected to finish by 18:00, including the apéritif. The provisional programme is available below and remains subject to change.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nLunch and the closing apéritif are offered. To register, please download, complete and save the registration form available below, then email it as an attachment to [email protected], indicating whether you will attend lunch and the apéritif. 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Whether you already have a technology or problem you want to explore, are looking for co-founders, or simply want to discover what building a startup could look like, Talent Kick can help you take the next step.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<a href=\"https://www.talentkick.ch/\">Talent Kick</a> is a free, cross-university entrepreneurship program that supports students and researchers in exploring promising ideas and technologies, finding co-founders and developing a startup alongside their studies.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nParticipants can benefit from:\r\n</p><ul>\r\n\t<li>up to CHF 5,000 in non-dilutive funding to test and validate their ideas</li>\r\n\t<li>support to find co-founders with complementary skills</li>\r\n\t<li>individual leadership coaching and expert mentorship</li>\r\n\t<li>connections to Switzerland's entrepreneurship and startup ecosystem</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>Spring 2027 applications</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nApplications for the Spring 2027 batch are open until <strong>22 November 2026</strong>. <a href=\"https://www.talentkick.ch/apply?utm_campaign=tk_s27_partners&utm_source=email&utm_medium=link\">Learn more and apply</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Discover Talent Kick at Immersion Day</strong><br>\r\n<br>\r\nCurious about the program before applying? 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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": "2026-09-09T09:29:19", "link_label": "Registration", "link_url": "https://cryptpad.c4dt.org/form/#/2/form/view/Oj6W6+IN0bU7CIOcib5YRtxeuP5DRn1Z0hrR8bviLZw/", "canceled": "False", "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/121747/", "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": 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": 72194, "title": "Neuro-X seminar: Prof Tim O'Shea - Engineering astrocytes to promote wound repair and modulate foreign body responses in the CNS", "slug": "neuro-x-seminar-prof-tim-o-shea-engineering-astroc", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/neuro-x-seminar-prof-tim-o-shea-engineering-astroc", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33474/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33474/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33474/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-10-09", "end_date": "2026-10-09", "start_time": "11:00:00", "end_time": "12:00:00", "description": "<p>Astrocytes are the predominant glial cells in the mammalian central nervous system (CNS) and play essential roles in maintaining neural circuit activity and tissue homeostasis. In response to CNS insult, including traumatic injury or implantation of a medical device, astrocytes undergo a conserved, temporally regulated reprogramming that reshapes their prioritized functions to protect adjacent neural tissue. The nature and extent of astrocyte reprogramming critically influences outcomes after CNS insult. For example, regeneration after traumatic CNS injury in adult mammals is limited by local responding astrocytes lacking sufficient self-renewal capacity. By contrast, the CNS of neonate (newborn) mammals possesses exceptional parenchymal repair capacity owing to immature astrocytes with elevated proliferative and migratory potential. In the context of an implanted medical device, the spatial extent of astrocyte reprogramming and how impacted astrocytes respond to any further device micromotion, latent infection, or other persistent device-derived stimuli, dictates device performance and longevity. Engineering astrocyte responses to promote targeted functional gains while preserving key capabilities of healthy neural tissue astrocytes will be critical to enabling effective neural regeneration therapies and improving long-term performance of implanted devices. In this talk, I will outline our emerging understanding of how adult astrocytes adaptively reprogram in response to CNS injury and implanted foreign bodies, drawing insights from innovative astrocyte-specific transcriptomic bioassays. I will also provide an overview of biomaterial and cell-grafting strategies that we are exploring to direct astrocyte responses in preclinical models of stroke, spinal cord injury, and foreign body responses.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Bio:</strong><br>\r\n<strong>Dr. Timothy O’Shea, PhD</strong> is an Assistant Professor in the Biomedical Engineering department at Boston University (BU). Tim grew up in Brisbane, Australia and completed a Bachelor of Medical Engineering (First Class Honours) and a Masters in Engineering Management at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) before moving to the US for graduate school. He completed his PhD study in Medical Engineering and Medical Physics within the collaborative Health Sciences and Technology program of the Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where we conducted PhD thesis research with Institute Professor Robert Langer. As a Postdoctoral Fellow in Neurobiology at UCLA, he worked with Professors Michael Sofroniew (Neurobiology) and Timothy Deming (Bioengineering) developing and testing novel bioengineering tools to study biological mechanisms involved in CNS injury and repair as well as the CNS foreign body response to implants. Since Fall 2020 he has been leading the Glia Engineering Lab at BU where he has received numerous awards including the Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (MIRA) from NIH and grants from several spinal cord injury research foundations such as Craig H Neilsen, Paralyzed Veterans of America, Bryon Reisch, and Wings for Life.</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-07-01T12:06:17", "last_modification_date": "2026-09-29T15:26:49", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "B1-6", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==B1%206%20272.043", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62394730036?pwd=jz0K4NPrEtbqswaGBRIOJ0Kf64PwYm.1", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://www.bu.edu/eng/profile/timothy-oshea-ph-d/\">Tim O'Shea</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"http://people.epfl.ch/mark.anderson\">Mark Anderson</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/niels.lion?lang=en\">Niels Lion</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 2, "fr_label": "Public averti", "en_label": "Informed public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121206/", "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/19/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/392/?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. 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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. 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