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SUMMARY:Final of the competition "My Thesis in 180 seconds"
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DESCRIPTION:MT180 Finalists\nThe 14 PhD Students finalists of the competit
 ion My Thesis in 180 seconds (MT180) will present their research in simp
 le\, straightforward terms in 3 minutes exactly\, in English or in French\
 , using humour\, metaphores and examples.\nA jury made up of people from t
 he scientific community and the broader science world\, the business world
  and the media will decide between the doctoral candidates and award a pri
 ze to the three best candidates. The prizes are CHF 1000\, CHF 700 and CHF
  400 for the 1st\, 2nd and 3rd places.\n\nA special audience prize of CHF
  400 will also be awarded by the public on site (no online voting): come t
 o learn more about EPFL research and vote for your favorite candidate !\n\
 nThe 7th Edition of the EPFL Final My Thesis in 180 seconds is free and o
 pen to the public !\n\n	17h30: Opening of the doors\, free entrance\, reg
 istration\n	18h00: Beginning of the Final\n\nMT180 EPFL Finalists Running 
 Order:\n\n\n	Eugénie Mas\, «Impact of tree species interactions on tree 
 water relations under warmer and drier climate»\, Labo écologie végéta
 le (Prof. Charlotte Grossiord)\, Français\n	Armand Kurum\, «Cancer biome
 chanics in immunotherapy»\, Biomaterials for Immunoengineering Lab (Prof.
  Li Tang)\, English\n	Gaétan Raynaud\, «Characterization and control of 
 slender flexible structures interacting with flows»\, Labo de diagnostic 
 des écoulements instationnaires (Prof. Karen Mulleners)\, Français\n	Luc
 ie Chanvillard\, «Balancing NAD+ Metabolism and Senescence in Chronic Kid
 ney Disease»\, Institute of Health Sciences\, Nestlé Research (Dr. Jero
 me Feige)\, Français\n	Anna McCann\, «Finding information-rich electroca
 rdiographic biomarkers to characterize atrial fibrillation»\, Labo traite
 ment des signaux 2 (Dr Jean-Marc Vesin)\, Français»\n	Yamin Sepehri\, «
 Smart Edge in Hierarchical Vision Systems»\, Signal Processing Lab 4 and 
 CSEM (Prof. Pascal Frossard and Dr Andrea Dunbar)\, English\n	Outman Akoui
 ssi\, «Advanced peripheral nerve interfaces»\, Chaire Fondation Bertarel
 li en neuro-ingénierie translationnelle (Prof. Silvestro Micera et Stéph
 anie Lacour)\, Français\n	Dorian Herle\, «NEMS optomechanical switches f
 or reflective display applications»\, Advanced Nano-electromechanical Sys
 tems Lab (Prof. Guillermo Villanueva)\, English\n	Loris Di Natale\, «Phys
 ics-inspired Deep Learning for Building Modeling and Control»\, Automatic
  Control Lab 3 (Prof. Colin Neil Jones)\, English\n	Chuen-Ru Li\, «Select
 ively permeable microcapsules»\, Soft Materials Lab (Prof. Esther Amstad)
 \, English\n	Anita Bodac\, «Targeting innate immunity aging to fight lung
  cancer»\, Labo Approches moléculaires du vivant et ISREC (Prof. Etienne
  Meylan & Freddy Radtke)\, Français\n	Nils Kalbfuss\, «Dissecting centri
 ole fate during C. elegans development»\, Cell and Developmental Biology 
 Lab (Prof. Pierre Gönczy)\, English\n	Eva Baur\, «Granular elastomers fo
 r 3D printing applications»\, Labo de la matière molle (Prof. Esther Ams
 tad)\, Français\n	Sara Behjati\, «Designing DNA wrapped single-walled ca
 rbon nanotube optical biosensors for cancer biomarker detection»\, Nanobi
 otechnology Lab (Prof. Ardemis Boghossian)\, English\n\nJury Composition:\
 n\n\n	Gisou van der Goot\, President of the Jury\, Professor at the Facult
 y SV and Vice President for Responsible Transformation at EPFL\n	Ambrogio 
 Fasoli\, Jury Member\, Professor at the Faculty SB and Associate Vice Pres
 ident for Research at EPFL\n	Marilyne Andersen\, Jury Member\, Professor a
 t the Faculty ENAC and President of the Committee EPFL Fribourg\n	Mauro La
 ttuada\, Jury Member\, Technology Transfer Manager à l'EPFL\n	Jelena Kova
 cevic\, Jury Member\, Responsible for the foundation Chamber of Commerce a
 nd Industry (CVCI)\n	Bastien Confino\, Jury Member\, Scientific Journalist
  RTS\n\nSpeaker:\n\n\n	Anne-Laure Gannac\, Journalist\n\nWelcoming Words:\
 n\n\n	Kahryn Hess Bellwald\, Associate Vice President for Student Affairs 
 and Outreach\n\n\nThe CVCI Foundation reflects the support of the economy 
 for research\, education and innovation in the canton de Vaud.\n 
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