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Co-organised by EPFL and the UNEP-hosted Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction, the Summit aims to accelerate the transition to a resilient built environment worldwide, with particular focus on emerging markets and developing economies where built environment growth is most significant.The Summit will include thought-evoking keynotes, cross-disciplinary workshops, academic showcases, and solution-focused roundtables on themes such as upfront embodied emissions, climate resilient construction, circularity, affordable housing, and sustainable urban planning. </p>", "image_description": "Sustainable Buildings & Construction Summit announcement", "creation_date": "2026-03-16T14:04:45", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-16T14:04:45", "link_label": "Sustainable Buildings & Construction Summit", "link_url": "https://sustainable-construction.org/", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SwissTech Convention Centre", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "", "organizer": "EPFL Centre for Worldwide Sustainable Construction, UNEP, Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction.", "contact": "Anne Dekeukelaere: [email protected];\r\n\r\nCarolien van der Voorden: [email protected];", "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": "sustainable construction; built environment; build for climate", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120090/", "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/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/8/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/79/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/32/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71383, "title": "Simons Foundation - 2026 Pivot Fellowships", "slug": "simons-foundation-2026-pivot-fellowships", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/simons-foundation-2026-pivot-fellowships", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32731/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32731/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32731/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-05-14", "end_date": "2026-05-14", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Aim: </strong>The program provides funding for today’s brightest minds to apply their talent and expertise to<strong> a new field in mathematics or the natural sciences</strong>. Pivot Fellows receive support for one year of mentored training in their new discipline, followed by the opportunity to apply for up to five years of research funding in their new field. Successful applicants will have a strong track record of success and achievement in their current field and a deep interest, curiosity and drive to contribute to a new discipline. The program is open to faculty in the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, data science and computer science at academic institutions or equivalent positions elsewhere.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Duration:</strong> 12 months<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Funding</strong>: Salary support for the fellow + $10K for fellow’s research/travel + $50K for mentor’s research <br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Eligibility: </strong>Fellows and mentors must hold a Ph.D., M.D. or equivalent degree in the natural sciences (astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth sciences, neuroscience and physics), engineering, mathematics, data science or computer science — and all subdisciplines therein — and be faculty at an academic institution or hold an equivalent position. Fellows must demonstrate that the fellowship will take place in a new discipline, distinct from their current field of study. In order to receive the fellowship, fellows must be approved by their institution for a full year of leave. Fellows must not hold any other fellowship that will provide them with salary support during the training year of the Pivot Fellowship.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>How to Apply</strong>: Applicants must apply through Simons Award Manager (<a href=\"https://sam.simonsfoundation.org/\">SAM</a>). Fellows and mentors will each submit a unique application in SAM independently of each other.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Application Deadline: </strong>14 May 2026<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Institutional approval will be required, please reach out to the Research Office</li>\r\n\t<li>More information about the program is available <a href=\"https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-fellowship\">here</a> and the FAQ is <a href=\"https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/pivot-fellowship/?tab=faq\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>The application portal can be found <a href=\"https://sam.simonsfoundation.org/\">here</a>.</li>\r\n\t<li>For any other questions, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a>.</li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-16T13:05:05", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-16T13:05:12", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Simons%20Foundation%20pivot%20fellowship\">Research Office</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120089/", "category": { "id": 16, "code": "PROP", "fr_label": "Appel à proposition", "en_label": "Call for proposal", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71374, "title": "Quantitative Holographic Imaging for Single-Cell Phenotyping in a Microfluidic System", "slug": "quantitative-holographic-imaging-for-single-cell-p", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/quantitative-holographic-imaging-for-single-cell-p", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32720/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32720/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32720/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-09", "end_date": "2026-04-09", "start_time": "17:00:00", "end_time": null, "description": "<p>Thesis Director: Prof. B. Deplancke,<br>\r\nBiotechnology and Bioengineering doctoral program<br>\r\nThesis Nr. 11521<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker</p>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-13T14:00:35", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-16T10:41:22", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "SV 1717", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SV%201717", "url_online_room": "https://epfl.zoom.us/j/6047763826?pwd=M2dEMHhuVFRUVDdZdW8yeW45TXdXdz09", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "<strong>Jose Antonio VASQUEZ PORTO VISO</strong>", "organizer": "", "contact": "<strong>Jose Antonio VASQUEZ PORTO VISO</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/120075/", "category": { "id": 12, "code": "SOUTE", "fr_label": "Soutenances de thèses", "en_label": "Thesis defenses", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/9/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/111/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/284/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71382, "title": "LASUR Seminar - Manfred Max Bergman: \"Methodological Mapping of the Space-Mobility Research Nexus\"", "slug": "lasur-seminar-manfred-max-bergman-methodological-m", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/lasur-seminar-manfred-max-bergman-methodological-m", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32728/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32728/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32728/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-14", "end_date": "2026-04-14", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:45:00", "description": "<p>This presentation treats space and mobility as inseparable, where space is produced through movement, coordination, and pause, while mobility is always spatially formatted by routes, nodes, and boundaries. Their intersection is therefore not an overlap but a relational field in which placement and movement continuously reify one another. This perspective invites complex mixed methods approaches based on methodological mapping across different forms of evidence, which can show how movements cluster or stretch, while narrative interviews, participatory mapping, and field observation can uncover how actors interpret routes, obstacles, and anchors in everyday life. The aim is not merely conventional triangulation, but conceptual integration: Using different methods to move between patterns in systems and interpretation of experience. Mixed methods research can theorize space-mobility while also exploring how they are experienced, governed, and contested.<br>\r\n <br>\r\nManfred Max Bergman is Chair of Social Research and Methodology at the University of Basel and Director of the Social Transitions Research Group. He works on methodological innovations to the study of sustainability transitions, inequality, health, corporate responsibility, and social change, with particular expertise in mixed methods research and case study design. He has contributed to scholarship on mobility, inequality, and public space through international comparative and interdisciplinary projects, and previously served as Editor in Chief of the Journal of Mixed Methods Research. His current international engagements include service on the Swiss National Science Foundation’s Indo-Swiss Joint Scientific Board, collaboration with ICSSR in India on an innovative research methods training programme, and a visiting professorship at NUS in Singapore focused on implementation science and transdisciplinary research.</p>", "image_description": "Manfred Max Bergman", "creation_date": "2026-03-16T10:01:43", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-16T10:04:46", "link_label": "LASUR Seminars - Registration Form", "link_url": "https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=alXC9vvEsUqix54iDfEcQ3PTg577wEBBlN6JZUPBKBlUQjdYSlJNOVBCVDRBUllZSVZNSlgxVkEzVC4u", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "CO 121", "url_place_and_room": "https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==CO%20121", "url_online_room": "https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/32507756900795?p=l9fiCGsHEHnq2JaUE0", "spoken_languages": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=api" ], "speaker": "<a href=\"https://soziologie.philhist.unibas.ch/de/personen/manfred-max-bergman/\">Manfred Max Bergman</a>", "organizer": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lasur/en-productions/en-productions-event/lasur-seminars/\">Laboratory of Urban Sociology</a>", "contact": "<a href=\"https://people.epfl.ch/leonardo.conte?lang=en\">Leonardo Conte</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": "space-mobility nexus, mixed methods research, methodological integration, narrative interviews, participatory mapping, field observation", "file": "https://memento.epfl.ch/public/upload/files/FlyerRencontresLASURPrintemps2026_oj7ZzLK.pdf", "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120086/", "category": { "id": 1, "code": "CONF", "fr_label": "Conférences - Séminaires", "en_label": "Conferences - Seminars", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/4/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/439/?format=api", "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/32/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71375, "title": "Schmidt Sciences | AI for Actionable Matter Modeling", "slug": "schmidt-sciences-ai-for-actionable-matter-modeling", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/schmidt-sciences-ai-for-actionable-matter-modeling", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32723/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32723/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32723/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-30", "end_date": "2026-04-30", "start_time": null, "end_time": null, "description": "<strong>Aim:</strong> Fields that manipulate matter (chemistry, materials science, biology) face a persistent gap between computational models and the lab bench. Conventional simulation emphasizes idealized systems: perfect crystal structures, static snapshots, vacuum environments. Yet the functional properties of foundational technologies (catalysts, semiconductors, drugs, batteries) are governed by precisely the features these methods cannot capture: defects, interfaces, disorder, and dynamics operating across multiple length and time scales. This RFP asks whether AI can now close that gap by predicting such phenomena more accurately, or across multiple length or time scales.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThis RFP is for you if:\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>You are developing AI methods to predict non-idealities (defects, interfaces, disorder, dynamics) and/or multi-scale phenomena in technologically relevant materials or molecules</li>\r\n\t<li>You have a specific materials or molecular system in mind where conventional simulation underperforms</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Funding & Duration: </strong>Track 1 - Up to $100K for 6-12 months<br>\r\n Track 2 - Up to $500K for 12-18 months<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Eligibility:</strong> Schmidt sciences invites individual researchers, research teams, research institutions, and multi-institution collaborations across universities, national laboratories, institutes, and non-profit research organizations. They are open globally and encourage collaborations across geographic boundaries. However, the recipient of funding must hold a 501(c)(3) designation or equivalent.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>How to Apply</strong>: Requests for proposals can be submitted via the <a href=\"https://schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/2026_ai_for_actionable_matter_modelling_rfp/\">Application Portal</a>. You will be asked to provide Background information, Team CVs, a Project abstract, a statement on Bigger ambition, as well as a Project narrative and Budget. Budgets should include overhead of 11.1% of indirect costs (or 10% of the total budget).<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Deadline:</strong> <strong>30 April 2026</strong> (11:59 AoE)<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Further information</strong>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>More information about the program is available <a href=\"https://www.schmidtsciences.org/focus-area-ai/\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>An FAQ document is provided <a href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1czi1Za7yngUt780OAhW82s0O4PfwpEywuoj9H0meQJM/edit?usp=sharing\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>The application portal can be found <a href=\"https://schmidtsciences.smapply.io/prog/2026_ai_for_actionable_matter_modelling_rfp/\">here</a></li>\r\n\t<li>For any other questions, please contact the <a href=\"mailto:[email protected]\">Research Office</a></li>\r\n</ul>", "image_description": "", "creation_date": "2026-03-13T14:41:36", "last_modification_date": "2026-03-13T14:42:16", "link_label": "", "link_url": "", "canceled": "False", "cancel_reason": "", "place_and_room": "", "url_place_and_room": "", "url_online_room": "", "spoken_languages": [], "speaker": "", "organizer": "", "contact": "<a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=Schmidt%20Sciences%20-%20AI%20for%20Actionable%20Matter%20Modeling\">Research Office</a>", "is_internal": "False", "theme": "", "vulgarization": { "id": 1, "fr_label": "Tout public", "en_label": "General public" }, "registration": { "id": 3, "fr_label": "Entrée libre", "en_label": "Free" }, "keywords": "", "file": null, "icalendar_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/120077/", "category": { "id": 16, "code": "PROP", "fr_label": "Appel à proposition", "en_label": "Call for proposal", "activated": true }, "academic_calendar_category": null, "domains": [], "mementos": [ "https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/140/?format=api" ] }, { "id": 71092, "title": "EPFL BioE Talks SERIES \"Toward Ubiquitous NanoBiosensing: Sustainable Devices Powering the Future of Point-of-Care Diagnostics\"", "slug": "epfl-bioe-talks-series-toward-ubiquitous-nanobio-2", "event_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/event/epfl-bioe-talks-series-toward-ubiquitous-nanobio-2", "visual_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32715/200x112.jpg", "visual_large_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32715/720x405.jpg", "visual_maxsize_url": "https://memento.epfl.ch/image/32715/max-size.jpg", "lang": "en", "start_date": "2026-04-20", "end_date": "2026-04-20", "start_time": "12:15:00", "end_time": "13:15:00", "description": "<a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/bioengineering/epfl-bioe-talks-series/\"><strong>WEEKLY EPFL BIOE TALKS SERIES</strong></a> <em>(sandwiches provided)</em><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Abstract:</u><br>\r\nNanobiosensors have long promised to move advanced diagnostics beyond centralized laboratories and into the hands of users, communities, and environments where they are most urgently needed. After decades of rapid progress in nanomaterials and sensing performance, the field now stands at a pivotal moment: the challenge is no longer whether we can detect with extraordinary sensitivity, but whether we can do so in ways that are sustainable, scalable, and globally accessible.<br>\r\nThis talk envisions a future in which point-of-care biosensing becomes an integral part of everyday life through the coupling of advanced nanomaterials with sustainable platforms. Paper-based substrates and environmentally friendly fabrication methods, such as inkjet printing and stamping, enable a new paradigm of decentralized manufacturing, one that supports rapid deployment during global health emergencies, continuous environmental monitoring, and personalized, wearable healthcare.<br>\r\nBy integrating biorecognition elements, including antibodies and nucleic-acid–based receptors such as DNA probes and aptamers with functional nanomaterials, including metallic nanoparticles, quantum dots, and two-dimensional materials, these biosensors achieve high sensitivity and specificity while remaining robust outside traditional laboratory settings. REASSURED-guided design, focusing on real-time connectivity, ease of use, affordability, sensitivity, specificity, rapid and user-friendly results, minimal equipment, and deliverability, ensures devices are intuitive, cost-effective, and provide actionable information in real time, often via visual or smartphone-based readouts.<br>\r\nSpanning applications from infectious disease surveillance and cancer diagnostics to neurodegenerative disease monitoring and water quality assessment, this work highlights a transformative shift: from isolated diagnostic tools to ubiquitous sensing ecosystems. Ultimately, sustainable nanobiosensors offer a pathway toward more resilient healthcare systems, empowered communities, and a future where access to critical information is no longer constrained by infrastructure or geography.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Bio:</u><br>\r\nICREA Research Professor and leader of the ICN2 Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Group, Arben Merkoçi obtained his PhD at the University of Tirana (Albania) working with in ion selective electrodes. Since 1992 he has carried out research as postdoctoral fellow and research professor at the Polytechnic University of Budapest (Hungary), University of Ioannina (Greece), Università degli Studi di Padova (Italy), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and New Mexico State University (USA). His research is focused on the integration of biological molecules and other species with micro- and nanostructures to design novel (bio)sensors.<br>\r\nProf. Arben Merkoçi is member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania and director and coordinator of NANOBALKAN (www.nanobalkan.al) the Regional Center of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He is member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC, 2024), Member of Institute of Catalan Studies and Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute.<br>\r\nProf. Merkoçi has been Member of the ALLEA Working Group on the European Research Area and Chair of the ERA’s Working Group of the European Federation of Academies of Sciences. He is Member of Advisory Council of Research Expertise from the Academic Diaspora (READ), founded in 2021 by the Albanian-American Development Foundation. He has been member of The Accreditation Board of Quality Assurance Agency in Higher Education of Albania during 4 years.<br>\r\nHe is Co-Editor in Chief of Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Elsevier journal, the most important international journal in biosensors. Also, he is member of W&T3 Project panel on Condensed Matter of Research Foundation Flanders (FWO, Belgium, 2024); of FIS 2 Selection Committee - sector PE4 (Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca”, Italy, 2024); of the ERC Starting Grant Call 2021-2024 (EU Commission, Brussels); of the External Scientific Advisory Committee of The Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC, Barcelona, Spain, 2022-now); of the Scientific Board of Regional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials (RCPTM/CATRIN Olomouc, Check Republic, acting every year since 2018 to now)<br>\r\nProf. Merkoçi has published 375 scientific articles and supervised 40 PhD theses. He is also involved in teaching PhD courses in the field of nanomaterial- based biosensors in several Spanish and international centres. He has been a member of the commission for establishing the new Nanoscience and Nanotechnology undergraduate academic curriculum at the UAB, the first one in Spain, which started during the academic year 2010- 2011. He is a member of the Academics Working Group of BIST and coordinator of the Nanodiagnostics module of the Nanotechnology Master at the UAB.<br>\r\nHe has got several national and international grants related to nanomaterials application in biosensors and his group is collaborating with several worldwide leading labs in the field of nanobiosensors. Prof. Merkoçi serves also as scientific evaluator and member of panels of experts of various international governmental and nongovernmental agencies (EU-FP and EU-ERC panels and other panels in Europe, USA and other countries), as a scientific committee member of many international congresses, director of several workshops and other scientific events and have been invited to give plenary lectures, keynote and invited speeches in more than 250 occasions in various countries. Prof. Merkoçi is the co-founder of two spin-off companies: GraphenicaLab, devoted to graphene patterning, and PaperDiagnostis, dedicated to clinical diagnostics.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nRead more about Prof. Merkoçi’s CV at:<br>\r\nhttps://www.icrea.cat/community/icreas/17615/arben-merkoci/<br>\r\nhttps://www.nanobiosensors.org/group-leader/ <br>\r\nhttps://icn2.cat/en/nanobioelectronics-and-biosensors-group/arben-merkoci<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<u>Zoom link</u> (with one-time registration for the whole series) for attending remotely: <a href=\"https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks\">https://go.epfl.ch/EPFLBioETalks</a><br>\r\n<br>\r\n<br>\r\n<strong>Instructions for 1st-year Ph.D. students planning to attend this talk, who are under </strong><a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/education/phd/programs/edbb-biotechnology-and-bioengineering/edbb-internal-regulations/\"><strong>EDBB’s mandatory seminar attendance rule</strong></a><strong>:</strong><br>\r\n<u>IN CASE</u> you cannot attend in-person in the room, please make sure to\r\n<ol>\r\n\t<li><a href=\"mailto:[email protected]?subject=1st-yr%20EDBB%20student%20attendance%20at%20BioE%20seminars\">send Fiorella Ghisays a note</a> <strong>well ahead of time</strong> (ideally before seminar day), informing that you plan to attend the talk online, and, <strong>during seminar</strong>:</li>\r\n\t<li>be signed in on Zoom with a <strong>recognizable</strong> user name (not any alias making it difficult or impossible to identify you).</li>\r\n</ol>\r\nStudents attending the seminar in-person should collect a confirmation signature after the talk - please print your own signature sheet beforehand (69 kB pdf available for download <a href=\"https://www.epfl.ch/research/domains/bioengineering/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/EDBB-seminar-attendance-sheet-blank.pdf\">here</a>). 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I then introduce a regularised fracture model, akin to the phase-field regularisation used for softening plasticity, that we recently proposed in [1]. Unlike standard gradient damage or phase-field fracture models, in this approach damage affects the material strength rather than its stiffness.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nThrough analytical and numerical examples, I show how this model, within a consistent variational framework, provides a path toward reconciling several key concepts developed over the centuries, including Griffith and cohesive crack models, damage mechanics, plasticity, strength criteria, and limit analysis.<br>\r\n<br>\r\n[1] B. Bourdin, J.-J. Marigo, C. Maurini, C. 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