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Two concerts:
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\r\nKnown for his unique, playful, and highly virtuosic approach to his instrument, internationally renowned drummer Julian Sartorius will present RLLRLRLLRRLRLRLRLLRLRLR, a score composed for a percussion ensemble in which “R” stands for right hand and “L” stands for left hand. Played continuously by the ensemble throughout the piece, the motif evolves under Julian Sartorius’s direction as he adapts the instrumentation (adding, substituting, or removing objects or instruments).
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\r\nA journey through minimalism, repetition, musical progression, and a deluge of sound. The concert stems from an experiment in which the addition, removal, or modification of basic elements generates new content. It also incorporates playfulness, the freedom to assemble elements, and the surprise of unexpected sound combinations. Much like many scientific protocols, this method—here applied to music—suggests avenues of convergence between scientific and creative practices.
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\r\nAt 7 p.m. that evening, as part of the opening reception for the installation NO/NC (Normally Open/Normally Closed), co-created with Archizoom, Julian Sartorius will give a solo concert.
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\r\nBiography of Julian Sartorius
\r\nDrummer, percussionist, and artist Julian Sartorius shapes sounds into unique forms. His precise and rich rhythmic patterns are true explorations of the hidden sounds of found objects and prepared instruments, bridging the gap between organic timbres and the language of electronic music. Julian Sartorius has released numerous solo albums, created audiovisual works, collaborated with musicians, writers, and artists, and performed in everything from intimate venues to festival stages.
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\r\nTrained at the jazz schools in Bern and Lucerne under the guidance of musicians such as Fabian Kuratli, Pierre Favre, and Norbert Pfammatter, Julian Sartorius developed a unique musical approach at a very early age. Fascinated by small-scale variations, the interplay of tension and release, density, and vibration, he has created projects such as the 12-vinyl box set *Beat Diary* (Everest Records, 2012), comprising 365 rhythmic pieces accompanied by a book of photographs; the daily series of eight-second loops “Morphblog” (2013–2019); and “Depot,” an audiovisual installation for 16 speakers and 16 screens, presented at the Kunstmuseum in Thun. For his album “Hidden Tracks: Basel – Geneva” (Everest Records, 2017), Julian walked more than 200 kilometers with his drumsticks and recording equipment, playing and capturing a multitude of sounds and textures from objects he encountered along the way.
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In recent years, Julian Sartorius has collaborated with numerous musicians, including Sophie Hunger, Sylvie Courvoisier, Gyda Valtysdottir, Dimlite, Shahzad Ismaily, and Dan Carey. His instantly recognizable percussion work also appears on recent albums by Kate Tempest, Matthew Herbert, and James Zoo. Julian Sartorius has toured and performed in North and South America, Asia, and Europe, sharing the stage with artists such as Marc Ribot, Deerhoof, Faust, Jaki Liebezeit, and Arto Lindsay.
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\r\nUsinesonore
\r\nThe Usinesonore association shares its passion for music by promoting it through various activities in the Canton of Bern and beyond. It was previously invited to EPFL in 2017.
\r\nFounded in 2006 by Julien Annoni and Olivier Membrez, two young Bernese Jura natives passionate about contemporary music, the Usinesonore association organizes events centered on today’s music.
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\r\nThe association’s activities focus on three main areas: organizing the Usinesonore Festival, the Ensemble We Spoke, and organizing parallel events (traveling concerts, custom-designed events, outreach activities, etc.).
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\r\nEach event is shaped by careful consideration of how to share it with the audience. Usinesonore devotes all its energy to ensuring that the audience can experience the artistic moment, that they do not leave indifferent, and that they feel heard and supported throughout their experience.
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\r\nPartner: Usinesonore
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© 2026 EPFL, Laura Persat
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Opening reception on October 13 at 6:30 p.m. (with a concert at 7pm)
\r\nExhibition on view October 13–24
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\r\nThe Pôle Culture (VPI) and Archizoom are collaborating on an installation by the artist duo Andrea Anner & Thibault Brevet (AATB) that extends Archizoom’s exhibition Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? and is part of the Les Culturelles festival.
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\r\nNO/NC is a new work by AATB featuring a swarm of inflatable barriers that move autonomously through the space to form temporary structures and barricades, preventing visitors from moving about and crossing the space freely.
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\r\nWhoever controls and decides where and for whom to build walls also decides how we form a cohesive society—a society cemented by fictitious boundaries—while fragmenting and dissolving those deemed undesirable.
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\r\nThe walls of the installation take on an almost ghostly quality. They are constantly changing, continually shifting. It seems as though today they possess a will of their own, a form of autonomy, their own logic, and their own survival instinct.
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\r\n> AATB website
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\r\nCo-organized with Archizoom
\r\nAs part of the exhibition *Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?* at Archizoom (guided tour of the exhibition at 5:30 p.m.)
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\"Programme\r\n\r\n
© 2026 EPFL, Laura Persat
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\r\nBiography: Dr Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao (https://profiles.imperial.ac.uk/elvis.cao) is currently an Assistant Professor at Imperial College London, holding joint appointments in Mechanical Engineering and the Grantham Institute. Cao leads the Laboratory for Integrated Green Harvesting & Transport, the LIGHT Lab, which seeks to engineer the physical systems for a sustainable future. Before joining Imperial, Cao was a Schmidt Science Fellow at MIT, where he pursued integrated carbon capture and utilisation under the guidance of Professor Ted Sargent. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, his MEng in Materials Engineering from McGill University, and dual bachelor’s degrees in Energy and Power Engineering and English Literature from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He has published more than 30 first- or corresponding-author papers in journals including Joule, Matter, Device and Advanced Materials. Cao was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 globally in 2024 and was previously recognised in Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for North America. His other honours include the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation’s German Chancellor Fellowship, the Activate Fellowship, the MIT Climate & Energy Prize, the Global Young Investigator Award in Separation Science, and the Carbon Capture Future Star Award, among others.","image_description":"","creation_date":"2026-09-04T10:07:53","last_modification_date":"2026-09-30T13:59:39","link_label":"","link_url":"","canceled":"False","cancel_reason":"","place_and_room":"MED 0 1418","url_place_and_room":"https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==MED%200%201418","url_online_room":"https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61360740951","spoken_languages":["https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/spoken_languages/2/?format=json"],"speaker":"Prof. Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao, The Grantham Institute for Climate Change, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London","organizer":"Prof. Zhengmao Lu","contact":"Institute of Mechanical Engineering","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":"MechE Colloquium: Engineering Net-Zero Transport: From Future Fuels to Carbon and Emissions Management","file":null,"icalendar_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121715/","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=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/232/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/270/?format=json"]},{"id":72553,"title":"Spin Polarization Studies for the Future Circular Collider e-e+","slug":"spin-polarization-studies-for-the-future-circula-2","event_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/spin-polarization-studies-for-the-future-circula-2","visual_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33803/200x112.jpg","visual_large_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33803/720x405.jpg","visual_maxsize_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33803/max-size.jpg","lang":"en","start_date":"2026-10-13","end_date":"2026-10-13","start_time":"14:00:00","end_time":null,"description":"

Thesis Directors: Prof. M. Seidel, Dr T. Pieloni
\r\nPhysics doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11803
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\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker

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Generative AI has become a part of students' everyday working life. If used without guidance, GenAI can cause over-reliance and leave students with a distorted sense of what they have actually learned. Most research and practice have focused on how we can scaffold students' GenAI use, for example through prompts, guardrails, or redesigned tasks. This talk asks a simpler question that has received far less attention. When should students be allowed to use AI so that it helps their learning?
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\r\nIn this lunch&LEARN session, Janne Rotter turns to a question that's been largely overlooked: not how, but when should students be allowed to use AI for it to actually support learning? Janne will present findings from a study of 105 university students comparing three conditions: unrestricted AI access, no access at all, and a \"timed\" condition where students could only turn to AI after first attempting the task on their own.
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\r\nDrawing on multiple pedagogical theories to build a decision rule for when access should open up, the results show that students in the timed condition outperformed those with unrestricted access on an objective post-test, and had a more accurate sense of their own understanding, without an explicit metacognitive prompting. Compared to withholding AI entirely, timed access also seemed to reduce task errors and time spent on task.
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\r\nJoin us to learn more about the topic and engage in further discussion. 
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\r\nThe spatiotemporal dynamics of frictional systems, ranging from engineering interfaces in mechanical joints to tectonic faults that host earthquakes, are governed by the propagation of interfacial rupture. A prominent rupture mode is self-healing slip pulses, which feature a finite slipping zone. The physics of slip pulses is qualitatively different from their expanding crack-like counterparts, as they involve the interplay between leading-edge contact breakage and trailing-edge re-strengthening (healing). The latter is intrinsically related to generic properties of frictional interactions at contacting interfaces, absent in ordinary fracture of bulk materials. In this talk, I will review a recently developed theory of two-dimensional slip pulses, which revealed intriguing dynamical properties of slip pulses and provided extensive predictions for their spatiotemporal evolution. The theoretical predictions are supported by large-scale numerical simulations and, more recently, by extensive laboratory experiments. The implications and potential applications of the theory will be discussed as time permits. 
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  1. The dynamics of unsteady frictional slip pulses [PNAS 120, e2309374120 (2023)]
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  2. An equation of motion for unsteady frictional slip pulses [EPSL 678, 119831 (2026)]
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  3. Lab earthquakes confirm the theory of frictional slip pulses [arXiv:2608.26065 (2026)]
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\r\nBiography:
\r\nEran Bouchbinder is a Professor at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. He leads a theoretical physics group who studies various non-equilibrium phenomena in spatially extended systems, addressing basic problems in statistical physic, condensed-matter physics, biophysics, materials physics, and geophysics. His work also involves close collaborations with computational and experimental groups.
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\r\nPRACTICAL INFORMATION:\r\n\r\nThey answered the call and will be exhibiting one or two works as part of the creapoly exhibition! The techniques used are almost as varied as the 30 participants themselves: acrylic, watercolor, ceramics, collage, ink, charcoal, oil, pastel, palette knife painting, drypoint, woodcarving, and even mixed media and digital techniques…
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\r\nThe participants are: Thibault Aryaksama[SS1] , Behnaz Bakhtiari, Zahra Basiri, Laurence Briola, Seyedmohamadjavad Chabok, Jeanne Fernandez, Inès Gotti, Martine Harmel, Yasaman Izadmehr, Laurent Jospin, Anisia Katinskaia, Yves Leterrier, Katherine Loh, Irina Lopez, Mabel Maucci, Pierre Merret, Wricha Mishra, Gianluca Pepe, Laura Persat, Bernadette Pianka, Jean-Daniel Roulier, Mathilde Saunois, Maria Sivers, Joan Suris, Rita Székely, Barbara Tinguely, Laure Vancauwenberghe, Mioara Vasile, Christian Vonarburg and Marie-Pierre Zufferey. 
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\r\nA scenic design will showcase these works, thanks to the efforts of Dimitri Kasparian, who also serves as the scenic designer for Archizoom’s exhibitions.
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\r\nThis project is organized as part of the 2026 Health days and Les Culturelles Festival by the VPI’s Culture Pole, in partnership with the VPH. 
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\r\nFeatured image: \"Overwhelming and Collective Murder\", by Katherine Loh
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\"Programme\r\n\r\n
© 2026 EPFL, Laura Persat
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THIS EVENT HAD TO BE CANCELED, UNFORTUNATELY
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\r\nBy and with the Plume Association
\r\nDuration: 1 hour
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\r\nPLUME is the UNIL-EPFL literature association. Its mission is to promote writing and literary activities among students. As part of the Les Culturelles festival, Plume presents a reading of the final texts from its “Carnets d’exploration” project.
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\r\nTHE PROJECT:
\r\nStudents are invited to write a text or create an illustration on the theme of “exploration and travel,” whether real or fantastical. A jury selects six authors, who are invited to spend a weekend in the mountains to write the next chapter of the adventure. The texts are read aloud during a public reading as part of the Les Culturelles Festival and then published in a final anthology.
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\r\nDates:
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PUBLIC READING:
\r\nMonday, October 12, at 12:00 p.m. in the MED Hall
\r\nAs part of the Les Culturelles festival, the texts will be read publicly during a dedicated event, followed by a complimentary snack (registration required). A publication containing all the texts will be released in late 2026.
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\r\nCarnets d’exploration is a project that received support from the Pôle Culture (VPI) as part of a competition held twice a year for student organizations involved in campus culture.
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\r\n>>> Unfortunately, the event had to be canceled...
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© 2026 EPFL, Laura Persat
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Video installation, 4K, color, loop, variable duration, 2024
\r\nRunning time: 1 hour 30 minutes
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\r\nScreening followed by a discussion with Pauline Julier and Eric Vautrin
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\r\nPauline Julier’s film is set in a mystical, misty landscape that could be Mars or an unknown planet, but it is actually a theater set. Three scientists discuss the challenges of space research, the latest discoveries, and imaginary worlds.
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\r\nDidier Queloz, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of exoplanets, speaks with Camille Bonvin, a cosmologist, and Violaine Sautter, a planetary geologist and member of NASA’s Curiosity and Perseverance missions. The conversation, centered around a thermos, camping mugs, and a picnic, draws a connection to Ray Bradbury’s short story A Million-Year Picnic (1946), part of his *The Martian Chronicles*: a family must leave Earth and finds its own reflection while searching for Martians.
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\r\nEven today, the question remains: What do we learn about ourselves when we look at Mars? What kind of life—past or future—are we searching for in space? This film is the result of a collaborative, interdisciplinary creative process that took place at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne in 2024.
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\r\nAFTER THE SCREENING:
\r\nFollowing the screening, there will be a discussion between director Pauline Julier and Eric Vautrin, playwright at the Vidy Theater.
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\r\nBiography of Pauline Julier
\r\nPauline Julier (b. 1981, Geneva) is an artist and filmmaker whose practice explores the connections humans forge with the world around them through stories, rituals, knowledge, and images. Weaving together documentary, theoretical, and fictional elements, her films and installations reflect the complexity of human relationships with their environments and foster a dialogue between science and myth to renew our perspective on the world.
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\r\nHis works have been exhibited at major contemporary art centers, institutions, and festivals around the world, including the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the IAC (Villeurbanne), the Loop Festival (Barcelona), Visions du Réel (Nyon), Wiels (Brussels), the Centre d’Art Contemporain (Geneva), the ZKM (Karlsruhe), Tokyo Wonder Site, the Museum of Modern Art (Tanzania), the Palazzo Grassi (Venice), as well as in New York, Madrid, Berlin, Zagreb, the TIFF Cinematheque (Toronto), and the Pera Museum (Istanbul).
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\r\nA two-time recipient of the Swiss Art Prize (2010, 2021) and the “Mondes Nouveaux” grant from the French Ministry of Culture (2022), her solo exhibition *Naturalis Historia* toured internationally after its opening at the Swiss Cultural Center in Paris (2017). She presented a major solo exhibition at the Aargauer Kunsthaus in 2024 and is currently completing her first feature-length fiction film, *Les Indes*, scheduled for release in the fall of 2026.
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© 2026 EPFL, Laura Persat
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Thesis Directors: Prof. C. R. Binder Signer, Dr M. Duygan
\r\nCivil and Environmental Engineering doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11896
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\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker 
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\r\nPlease register via the Google Form here:
\r\nhttps://forms.gle/e6UF2Sr9LdcgNLUn7

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