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An annual scientific meeting organized by the Lausanne MD-PhD Commission UNIL and EPFL. Medical students interested in combining medicine and research are warmly welcome. 
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\r\nThe retreat brings together MD-PhD students and candidates, alumni, thesis directors and faculty members. Medical students interested in pursuing an MD-PhD are warmly welcome to discover the programme and meet its community. Attendance is mandatory for students currently enrolled in the MD-PhD programme.
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\r\nThe programme includes research presentations and posters by doctoral students, invited talks, interactive speed coaching with UNIL/EPFL principal investigators and MD-PhD alumni, and a roundtable with senior clinical and academic leaders on clinical career pathways and support for MD-PhD graduates. Prizes will recognise the best oral presentation and the three best posters.
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\r\nCoffee and croissants will be served from 08:45, with the opening at 09:00. The roundtable is scheduled from 15:00 to 16:00, followed by an apéritif and informal discussions. The event is expected to finish by 18:00, including the apéritif. The provisional programme is available below and remains subject to change.
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\r\nLunch and the closing apéritif are offered. To register, please download, complete and save the registration form available below, then email it as an attachment to md-phd@unil.ch, indicating whether you will attend lunch and the apéritif. Before sending, please reopen the saved PDF to check that your answers have been retained.
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\r\nThe talks will be held in English. 
\r\nRegistration deadline: October 31, 2026
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\r\nThe key insight is that a layered augmented GCS, built on an exact convex partition of the free space, simultaneously selects an optimal task completion sequence and computes an optimal continuous trajectory. A shortest path in the augmented GCS solves both problems at once, yielding an exact solution up to a finite Bézier curve parameterization. The layered structure of the augmented GCS turns out to implement precisely the Bellman-Held-Karp (BHK) dynamic programming algorithm for the Traveling Salesman Problem, establishing a formal correspondence between our framework and the combinatorial TSP literature. This makes augmented GCS a continuous-geometry generalization of BHK, achieving the same singly exponential worst-case complexity, an exponential improvement over general-purpose temporal logic tools. We further develop a library of mission specification variations (including ordered collection, disjunctive keys, conjunctive doors, timed constraints, and conditional logic) each with proven correctness, substantially expanding the range of expressible mission types. Numerical experiments confirm exponential speedups in practice and near-global-optimality on a large benchmark suite.
\r\nTime permitting, I will briefly discuss ongoing extensions, including spacetime augmented GCS for dynamic environments, safety-aware planning via conformal prediction sets, and a galactic survey benchmark inspired by space mission planning that stress-tests the framework at scale.
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\r\nBiography: Tyler Summers is an associate professor at the University of Texas at Dallas. Prior to joining UT Dallas, he was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich from 2011 to 2015. He received a PhD degree in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin in 2010. He was a Fulbright Postgraduate Scholar at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia in 2007-2008. He received the National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2021 and a Young Investigator Program award from the US Army Research Office in 2017. His research interests are in feedback control, optimization, and learning in complex dynamical networks, with applications in robotics and power networks.","image_description":"","creation_date":"2026-08-26T16:15:39","last_modification_date":"2026-08-26T16:19:15","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. Tyler Summers, Mechanical engineering, The University of Texas at Dallas","organizer":"Prof. Maryam Kamgarpour","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: From Motion to Mission Planning via Augmented Graphs of Convex Sets","file":null,"icalendar_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/121601/","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/8/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/1/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/232/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/270/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/6/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/417/?format=json","https://memento.epfl.ch/api/v1/mementos/394/?format=json"]},{"id":72524,"title":"[CANCELLED] MechE Colloquium: Engineering Net-Zero Transport: From Future Fuels to Carbon and Emissions Management","slug":"cancelled-meche-colloquium-engineering-net-zero-tr","event_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/cancelled-meche-colloquium-engineering-net-zero-tr","visual_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33763/200x112.jpg","visual_large_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33763/720x405.jpg","visual_maxsize_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33763/max-size.jpg","lang":"en","start_date":"2026-10-13","end_date":"2026-10-13","start_time":"12:00:00","end_time":"13:00:00","description":"Abstract: Transport systems underpin modern society, yet remain among the most challenging sectors to decarbonise. Achieving net-zero transport requires coordinated action across energy carriers, carbon flows and mitigation of other pollutants. This talk presents a multiscale engineering framework for sustainable mobility, organised around three complementary pathways: fuel development (F), greenhouse-gas management (G) and mitigating harmful emissions beyond CO2 (H). First, using solar-driven CO2 conversion as an example, I will show how the precise transport of light, heat and fluids enables the coordinated design of materials, devices and systems, maximising solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency. Second, I will explore on-board carbon capture for road and maritime transport, together with distributed carbon-removal networks that use existing vehicles, ventilation systems and transport infrastructure. Third, I will discuss particulate matter generated by brake and tyre wear, illustrating how materials engineering can balance filtration efficiency, pressure drop and energy demand. Finally, the talk considers how techno-economic assessment and the interplay between technology, business and policy can move laboratory innovations towards industrial deployment.
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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":72720,"title":"MechE Colloquium: Biomechanics and fluid dynamics of freshwater insects across walking, swimming, and flight","slug":"meche-colloquium-biomechanics-and-fluid-dynamics-o","event_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/meche-colloquium-biomechanics-and-fluid-dynamics-o","visual_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33937/200x112.jpg","visual_large_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33937/720x405.jpg","visual_maxsize_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33937/max-size.jpg","lang":"en","start_date":"2026-11-03","end_date":"2026-11-03","start_time":"12:00:00","end_time":"13:00:00","description":"Abstract: Many animals, including humans, can transition between multiple modes of locomotion between diverse environments (e.g., the transition from walking to swimming). Bimodality is common, but trimodality—that is, the ability to successfully navigate between aerial, aquatic, and terrestrial environments—is relatively rare.  Multimodality is also challenging to achieve in engineered devices, vehicles, and robots; however, several animals are capable of regularly (and easily) traversing environmental boundaries.  In this talk, we will outline several of the general adaptations that living organisms use to locomote between land, air, and water. We will then present recent work on the biomechanics and fluid dynamics of trimodal aquatic insects.  These insects exhibit hybrid walking-swimming gaits when transitioning from land to shallow water; they also leverage surface tension, buoyancy, fluid drag, and aerodynamic forces to take off into flight directly from the water surface. They also display underwater agility, using their legs as paddles to propel themselves rapidly as they seek prey and/or escape from predators. They also have interesting morphological features to enable these transitions, including superhydrophobic wings and hemelytra, as well as dense setae lining the metathoracic legs. These bristle-like features create shape-morphing appendages for efficient swimming, and are also used to lever the insect’s body off the deforming water surface during takeoff. In this talk, we will present data from all three locomotor modes and discuss their implications for both fundamental biology and ecology as well as bioinspired engineering and technology development.
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\r\nBiography: Dr. Margaret L. Byron is currently the Martin W. Trethewey Early Career Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Penn State University, and is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the Beckman Young Investigator Award, and the American Chemical Society Doctoral New Investigator Award. She earned her B.S. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University in 2010 and her MS/PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from the University of California Berkeley in 2012/2015. She works at the interface of biology, physics, and engineering, with interests including the fluid dynamics of animal locomotion and the transport of irregularly shaped inertial particles in turbulent flows (including sediment, aggregates, and microplastics). She is currently on sabbatical at EPFL as a Visiting Professor in the UNFoLD lab.","image_description":"","creation_date":"2026-09-29T15:49:49","last_modification_date":"2026-09-29T15:54:40","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. Margaret Byron, Institute of Energy and the Environment, The Pennsylvania State University","organizer":"Prof. Karen Mulleners","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: Biomechanics and fluid dynamics of freshwater insects across walking, swimming, and flight","file":null,"icalendar_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/export/122000/","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":72735,"title":"Nanomaterials and Device Engineering for Scalable Solar Fuels Production","slug":"nanomaterials-and-device-engineering-for-scalabl-2","event_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/event/nanomaterials-and-device-engineering-for-scalabl-2","visual_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33951/200x112.jpg","visual_large_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33951/720x405.jpg","visual_maxsize_url":"https://memento.epfl.ch/image/33951/max-size.jpg","lang":"en","start_date":"2026-10-14","end_date":"2026-10-14","start_time":"17:00:00","end_time":null,"description":"

Thesis Director: Prof. K. Sivula,
\r\nChemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11708
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\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker

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\r\n! This event is restricted to the EPFL community !
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\r\nTitle
\r\nLearning to Play at Human Speed: From Simulation to Expert-Level Robot Table Tennis
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\r\nAbstract
\r\nWhat does it take for a robot to compete with a human in one of the fastest and most dynamic sports?
\r\nTable tennis compresses many of the fundamental challenges of physical AI into just a few hundred milliseconds. The robot must perceive a ball travelling at high speed, estimate its position and spin, predict its trajectory, decide how to respond, and execute a precise motion, all while interacting with an intelligent and unpredictable opponent.
\r\nIn this talk, I will present Project ACE, an autonomous table tennis robot developed at Sony AI that progressed from learning basic racket skills to competing with elite human players. I will discuss the complete system behind this progression: high-speed visual perception, reinforcement learning, simulation, robot control, and the iterative sim-to-real process that enabled policies trained in simulation to perform on a real robot. Beyond table tennis, ACE provides a case study in what it takes to move from impressive robotic demonstrations to robust physical intelligence. I will share some of the lessons we learned about combining learning with control, using real-world failures to improve simulation, and designing AI systems that can adapt and act under the speed, uncertainty, and constraints of the physical world.
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\r\nBio
\r\nMireille El Gheche is a Lead Research Scientist at SoftBank Robotics, working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics. Her expertise spans reinforcement learning, computer vision and perception, simulation, optimization, and real-world robotic systems, with a strong focus on translating research advances into robust physical systems.
\r\nPrior to joining SoftBank Robotics, Mireille was a Staff Research Scientist at Sony AI in Zurich, where she led research on Project ACE, an autonomous table tennis robot developed to compete with elite and professional human players. Before joining Sony AI, Mireille conducted academic research at EPFL and the University of Bordeaux, working across computer vision, and applied AI, including applications in medical AI. Her broader research interests lie in physical AI and intelligent robotic systems that can perceive, learn, adapt, and act in complex real-world environments.
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Thesis Director: Prof. L. Zdeborová,
\r\nComputer and Communication Sciences doctoral program
\r\nThesis Nr. 11792
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\r\nTo take part in the public defense, please contact directly the speaker

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Innovation Forum for Regenerative Agriculture & Viticulture is back for year 2, in collaboration with Changins.‍
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\r\nMeasuring Nature at Work: ‍From Soil Life to Regenerative and Resilient Agriculture
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\r\nThis event will spotlight innovative startup solutions and pilot projects accelerating the transition to regenerative agriculture.
\r\nIt will also ignite discussions on the financial, regulatory, and structural shifts required to scale these innovations and align stakeholders around shared economic and environmental goals.
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\r\nWhat to expect:\r\n

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\r\nThe 2026 call focuses on three complementary technology areas critical to defence and secure mobility:\r\n

\r\nDual-use requirement: Flagship proposals must target innovations with clear civilian and defence applications. Projects with only civilian or only defence objectives are not eligible. Applicants must demonstrate the dual-use character in their (pre-)proposal.
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