The project aims to further investigate the structural, architectural, environmental, and social dimensions of TRC and its applications, particularly in the context of a new Multi-Purpose Space for the Department of Architecture & Interior Design Kenyatta University Campus, Nairobi, Kenya in collaboration with Urko Sanchez Architects. The space is intended to support academic, social, and experimental activities while serving as a living laboratory for sustainable and alternative construction methods. The pavilion should function not only as a usable academic space but also as a pedagogical tool, demonstrating climate-responsive design, material innovation, and adaptability over time. \r\n
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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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The Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle empowers operational, technological, and social innovations developed with and for the Swiss Fashion and Lifestyle sector.
\r\nLeveraging the Leading House community and network, the Innovation Booster Fashion & Lifestyle creates a unique ecosystem enabling the dissemination of radical solutions to the challenges of the sector.\r\n
The Federal Office of Transport (FOT) provides financial support for projects that contribute to the objectives of the Energy Strategy 2050 in Public Transport (ESPT 2050) programme.
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\r\nEvery year in January and June, the FOT issues a call for projects.
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\r\nThe programme takes into account a wide range of project types:\r\n
The EPFL Photonics Chapter is happy to invite you for a summer hike in the beautiful region of Leysin!
\r\nThe hike is planned to take place on Sunday June 14th 2026.
\r\nWe hope to give you a chance to meet and chat with your Photonics colleagues working across many different departments.
\r\nFor organizational purposes, please register for the event using this form before June 11h, 2026.
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\r\nThe travel costs starting from EPFL will be fully covered by the chapter, for those who have registered.
\r\nNote that if you register but eventually do not come*, we might ask you to reimburse the train ticket.
\r\n*Unless you cancel before June 11h at 23:59, by sending us an email.
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\r\nThe planned route will take us around the peak of Le Riondaz, offering beautiful views of the surrounding mountains.
\r\nThe hike is of moderate difficulty, with a few steeper sections along the way. However, the goal is for everyone to enjoy the day together, so we will keep a comfortable pace and make sure no one is left behind.
\r\nFurther details about the itinerary will be announced before the hike.
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\r\nFor any questions, please contact us at epc-committee@groupes.epfl.ch.
\r\nWe thank the Doctoral Program in Photonics (EPDO), the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE.), Optica and SwissPhotonics for their support.
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The ELLIS Lausanne Unit and the EPFL AI Center are pleased to host the EPFL Pre-ICML 2026 Poster Session, an informal research gathering highlighting recent contributions from the EPFL community to ICML 2026 and other leading machine learning conferences and workshops.
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\r\nThis poster session is a great opportunity for researchers to showcase their work, discover ongoing projects across EPFL’s machine learning ecosystem, and connect with fellow researchers ahead of ICML.
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\r\nRegistration required, present your poster: HERE
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\r\nThe session will primarily feature posters of papers accepted to ICML 2026. Priority will be given to:\r\n
The Doctoral School is glad to invite all first-year PhD candidates to join the annual PhD Welcome Event!
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\r\nWhat to expect:
\r\n- Meet the EPFL doctoral community, the administrators of the doctoral school and programs, the PhD associations
\r\n- Discover the many EPFL services dedicated to supporting and counseling students and researchers
\r\n- Get useful insights about your doctoral journey at EPFL, and the resources available to help you
\r\n- Enjoy free food & drinks, and connect with PhD candidates from all our programs and campuses!
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\r\nWho is it for?
\r\n- The event is open to EPFL PhD candidates who enrolled after November 2025. Registration is required.
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\r\nPhD candidates working outside Lausanne are especially encouraged to join. This event is a golden opportunity to discover the Lausanne campus and meet your peers! You may request travel support: please contact us via the registration form.
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\r\nDirect link to the registration form
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\r\nWe look forward to meeting you on November 5th!
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\r\nThe Doctoral School Administration Team (EDOC)
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The development of new materials from renewable resources represents a win-win for humanity, allowing us to create useful products while also addressing critical ecological and environmental challenges. Proteins are particularly promising building blocks for this purpose. From a material science perspective, they offer immense potential for developing novel structures, composites, and other advanced materials. In this talk, I will present our research on the use of proteins and marine biomass to create a wide range of new materials. I'll discuss our bottom-up technologies and demonstrate how we have applied them to develop materials for various applications, including the controlled green syntheses of various nanoparticles and metallic structures, Light-emitting devices, Photothermal materials, Smart Wound dressings, Antibacterial coatings, and more. I will also highlight the significant role that Jellyfish have played as a renewable resource in many of these applications and the unique collaboration of our group with the Israel Electric Corporation, aiming to collect Jellyfish which is clogging the cooling turbines of the electrical power stations.
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\r\nBio: Prof. Shachar Richter is a faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tel Aviv University, Israel, and the head of the department. He earned his PhD in Materials Science and Chemical Physics from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. After graduation, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship and was later appointed an independent staff member (MTS) at Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems in New Jersey, USA.
\r\nIn 2001, he joined the School of Chemistry at Tel Aviv University, and in 2013, he moved to the newly established Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He was a visiting professor at Monash University in Australia in 2017 and a distinguished visiting scientist at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). His diverse research area focuses in developing innovative materials from renewable resources, such as jellyfish-based composites for medical and cosmetic uses, as well as working in molecular and bioelectronics, bio-nanocomposites, and new patterning technologies.
\r\nProfessor Richter has held several public roles, including serving as department head, chair of the \"Advanced Materials\" Cathedra, leading the MSc program in Materials Science and Engineering at Tel Aviv University, acting as President of the Israel Vacuum Society (IVS), and chairing the chemistry committee of the Standards Institute of Israel. He also serves on the editorial boards of various journals. Some of his patents have been licensed and are in the process of being commercialized, and he has co-founded two startups.
The availability, diversity, and function of biological matter are inherently shaped by geography. Climate, ecosystems, agriculture, and food systems determine not only which biomass resources emerge across regions, but also the biological architectures and material opportunities they embody. In this presentation, biological matter is explored as a materials platform spanning plant tissues, fungal networks, marine organisms, and biomass-derived colloidal systems, with emphasis placed on how the organization and composition of such natural precursors can guide their engineering into sustainable material systems.
\r\nThemes of (i) biofabrication, using microbial precursors to generate guided assemblies across scales, (ii) natural fiber and bio-colloidal systems, considering their isolation and assembly into functional materials, and (iii) ecosystem integration, considering opportunities to address climatic and other environmental challenges, will be covered. Regarding the latter, examples including arid soil restoration, marine infrastructure remediation, and hybrid living materials are presented as case studies toward deployable systems. For bio-colloidal systems, their inherent advantages and limitations relative to synthetic colloidal systems will also be discussed.
\r\nUltimately, introducing sustainability into the material sector extends beyond precursor selection alone, as ecosystem integration and supply-chain considerations become increasingly critical – particularly as the regionalization of biomass circularization gains importance. The seminar concludes with a brief perspective on technology transfer and innovation as extensions of scientific research toward broader societal impact.
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\r\nDr. Blaise Tardy joined Khalifa University in January 2022 as an Assistant Professor. After graduating from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2009, he obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering from The University of Melbourne in 2015 and was subsequently a research fellow at Aalto University from 2016 to 2022. His research bridges colloidal and interfacial sciences, bioengineering, and sustainable materials, with an emphasis on biological matter as a platform for engineering multiscale material systems. His work spans biofabrication, biomass-derived colloids, natural fibers, and sustainable materials obtained from biotechnology, agriculture, aquaculture, and food-system side streams, with applications linked to the growing circular bioeconomy. This interdisciplinary combination of expertise has led to highly recognized publications featured in international press releases and published in leading journals in materials and nanoscience. His broader objective is to connect fundamental science, innovation, and technology transfer toward deployable material systems with impact beyond the laboratory.
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The Future of Health Grant is a support program dedicated to accelerating early‑stage digital health startups developing solutions relevant to the Swiss healthcare system.
\r\nCreated by CSS and the EPFL Innovation Park, it combines equity‑free funding, expert guidance and access to healthcare stakeholders to help founders progress from prototype to real‑world validation.
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