Come to SPOT on the first Thursday of every month to repair your damaged and broken items instead of throwing them away! This Repair Cafe aims to combat overconsumption and waste production by extending the life of objects and showing how we can move towards a circular economy. We want to promote the reuse of everyday items of all kinds, from appliances to clothing, by providing easy access to repair experts while teaching people how to fix things themselves.
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\r\nThe summer school will cover both introductory and advanced topics on numerical methods in the following areas: high-dimensional approximation, Gaussian processes, reduced order modeling for scientific machine learning, and mathematical finance. The up-to-date program of the summer school can be found at
\r\nhttps://numrad.epfl.ch/scientific-program/
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\r\nThe school is addressed to young mathematicians (PhD students, early postdoc researchers, and highly motivated master students), and it will consist in lectures delivered by world-wide renowned experts. Participants will have the chance to share their research during a poster session.
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\r\nThere are no registration fees, but the number of participants is limited. You can apply to the summer school by submitting the application form by February 13th 2026 at:
\r\nhttps://numrad.epfl.ch/registration/
\r\nApplicants will be informed of the admission decision by email within three weeks after the application deadline.
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\r\nFor more details, please visit:
\r\nhttps://numrad.epfl.ch
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\r\nThe event is funded by the Bernoulli Center at EPFL, the EDOC EPFL, and by the CSQI Chair.
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\r\nLooking forward to seeing you in Lausanne next June!
This event is free and open to everyone. It aims to raise awareness of various issues concerning the ocean through workshops, exhibitions, conferences, and a roundtable discussion. The day will end with a convivial gathering over drinks and appetizers.
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\r\nTo approach these extreme timescales, we can use short pulses of light to excite small quantum systems. For instance, the impulsive interactions between a light field and a quantum system can induce time-dependent oscillations in the charge density. Such electronic wavepacket motion (in the absence of nuclear motion) has come to be referred to as charge migration [1]. While the initial charge dynamics following impulsive excitation (or ionization) begins as purely electronic motion, this wavepacket will couple to other degrees of freedom in the system (i.e. nuclear motion or chemical dynamics) and lead to localization of the charge. The transfer of electronic charge across molecular bonds is fundamental to an understanding of charge transfer phenomena.
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\r\nThe study of these fundamental phenomena requires state-of-the-art light sources, such as the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS), an X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) facility which produces high-brightness, ultrashort pulses, with wavelength continuously tunable across the x-ray regime. Schemes to provide isolated, sub-femtosecond pulses from an FEL are being explored at facilities world-wide, and recently we have demonstrated such pulses at the LCLS [2]; opening the door for time-resolved measurements of ultrafast electron dynamics on their natural timescale. In my talk, I will highlight our recent developments in probing electronic motion in small molecular systems. We have employed sub-femtosecond pulses from the XFEL to study ultrafast charge dynamics in both core-excited [3,4,5] and low-lying cationic systems [6]. We are also developing nonlinear x-ray spectroscopies [7,8] to initiate and control electron dynamics. The control of coherent electron motion represents a significant step towards achieving charge-directed reactivity [9], a grand challenge for the field of attosecond science.
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\r\n[1] Cederbaum and Zobeley 1999 Chemical Physics Letters 307 205–210
\r\n[2] Duris and Li et al. 2020 Nature Photonics 14 30-36
\r\n[3] Li and Driver et al. 2022 Science 375 285-290
\r\n[4] Driver et al. 2024 Nature 632 762-767 (2024)
\r\n[5] Wang and Driver et al. Phys. Rev. X 15 011008 (2005)
\r\n[6] Driver et al. ArXiv:2411.01700
\r\n[7] O’Neal et al. 2020 Phys. Rev. Lett. 125 073203
\r\n[8] Biggs et al. 2023 Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 110 15597-15601
\r\n[9] F. Remacle, R. D. Levine, and M. A. Ratner 1998 Chem. Phys. Lett. 285, 25
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