Thesis Director: Prof. W. A. Jakob,
\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11469
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The ISIC Faculty retreat will be replaced by an on-site ISIC Council followed by a lunch and Faculty discussion.
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\r\n09:00 – 9:30 Welcome Coffee
\r\n09:30 – 11:00 ISIC Council
\r\n11:00 – 12:00 Faculty Discussion
\r\n12:00 – 13:30 Standing lunch
\r\n13:30 – 17:00 Faculty Discussion
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tbc
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\r\n12:10 – 12:30 Session
\r\n12:30 – 14:00 Standing Lunch
The 2026 Journée Georges de Rham will take place on Wednesday 03 June 2026 in the Polydôme at EPFL, from 15:00 to 17:30 followed by an apéritif.
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\r\nProfessor Wang will deliver a talk titled “Kakeya sets in R^3″. A Kakeya set is a compact subset of R^n that contains a unit line segment pointing in every direction. Kakeya set conjecture asserts that every Kakeya set has Minkowski and Hausdorff dimension n. We prove this conjecture in R^3 as a consequence of a more general statement about union of tubes. Joint work with Josh Zahl.
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\r\nProfessor Candès will deliver a talk titled “What Statistics and AI Offer Each Other?“, exploring how thinking carefully about AI inputs and outputs yields more powerful, safer AI. By examining several vignettes, we shall answer questions such as: how do we train language models under cost constraints? What happens when we’ve exhausted all available data? If I start a clinical trial using the drug AI thinks is best, will it pan out? How can we ensure high-quality products when AI is used in a larger workflow? That is, how do I know whether AI automated a task correctly? AI powered imputations are beginning to substitute for real data when collection of the latter is difficult, slow, or costly. How then should we leverage machine learning predictions both as a substitute for high-quality data and as a tool for guiding real data collection?
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\r\nBernoulli Center for Fundamental Studies
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Thesis Directors: Prof. A. Chiesa, Prof. M. T. Göös
\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11413
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The 2026 Romandie Scaleup Cruise will bring the Swisspreneur community together on June 10 for an evening dedicated to meaningful conversations, high‑value connections and the vibrant energy of the Romandie startup ecosystem.
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\r\nThis edition is curated for established founders, experienced entrepreneurs, active investors and ecosystem leaders shaping Switzerland’s innovation landscape.
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Thesis Directors: Prof. R. Bernier-Latmani, Dr O. X. Leupin
\r\nCivil and Environmental Engineering doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11563
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