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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lectures - Prof. Charlotte Bunne and Prof. Thomas Vidick
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Charlotte Bunne\, Prof. Thomas Vidick\nDate: Thursday\,
  3 April 2025\n\nProgram: \n\n	18:00-18:05: Introduction by Elisa Orrich
 io\, ISREC Director and Andrew Oates\, Dean of the School of Life Sciences
 \n	18:05-18:35: Inaugural Lecture Prof. Charlotte Bunne\n	18:35-18:45: Q 
 & A\n	18:45-18:50: Introduction by Prof. Rüdiger Urbanke\, Dean of the I
 C School\n	18:50-19:20: Inaugural Lecture Prof. Thomas Vidick\n	19:20-19:3
 0: Q & A\n	19:30-21:00: Apéritif in the FoodLab Alpine restaurant\n\nLoca
 tion:  CE 1 6\n\nRegistration: Click here\n\n**************************
 **************************************\n\nVirtual Cells and Digital Twins:
  AI in Personalized Medicine\n\nAbstract\nThe future of medicine lies in p
 ersonalization - delivering treatments precisely matched to each patient's
  unique biology. This inaugural lecture explores how our research on artif
 icial intelligence aims to transform this vision into reality through comp
 utational approaches that span molecular\, cellular\, and tissue scales. R
 ecent breakthroughs in AI architectures have enabled the processing of com
 plex biological data from diverse experimental technologies\, leading to a
  future where AI systems can integrate vast amounts of biomedical data to 
 guide clinical decisions. By creating detailed computational models of pat
 ient biology\, medical teams may better understand disease mechanisms and 
 test treatment options. The lecture will address both the challenges and o
 pportunities in developing AI systems that can effectively navigate the co
 mplexity of human biology and clinical constraints\, ultimately contributi
 ng to a new era in personalized medicine guided by comprehensive\, multi-s
 cale analysis of patient data.\n \nAbout the speaker\nCharlotte Bunne is 
 an assistant professor at EPFL in the School of Computer and Communication
  Sciences and the School of Life Sciences\, and affiliated to the Personal
 ized Oncology Unit of HUG. Before\, she was a PostDoc at Genentech and Sta
 nford with Aviv Regev and Jure Leskovec and completed a PhD in Computer Sc
 ience at ETH Zurich working with Andreas Krause and Marco Cuturi. During h
 er graduate studies\, she was a visiting researcher at the Broad Institute
  of MIT and Harvard hosted by Anne Carpenter and Shantanu Singh and worked
  with Stefanie Jegelka at MIT. Charlotte has been a Fellow of the German N
 ational Academic Foundation and is recipient of the ETH Medal.\n\n********
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 idick\n\nThe Computational Lens: Insights from Quantum Computing\n\nAbstra
 ct\nFundamental phenomena in quantum mechanics\, such as the uncertainty p
 rinciple and entanglement\, underlie the phenomenal promise\, for algorith
 ms as for cryptography\, of quantum computers. Yet these same phenomena cr
 eate major challenges for us\, classical users of such powerful yet subtle
  machines. Can a quantum computer be tested\, can its output be certified\
 , and how? In the lecture I will expose some of quantum computing's most s
 ubtle features and demonstrate how classical tools from computer science\,
  complexity and cryptography can bring them to new light.\n\nAbout the spe
 aker\nVidick received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. His Ph.D. thesis was awa
 rded the Bernard Friedman memorial prize in applied mathematics. After a p
 ostdoc at MIT he joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technol
 ogy\, where he became professor in 2018. In 2022 he moved to the Weizmann 
 Institute of Science in Israel. He was awarded the Michael and Sheila Hel
 d prize of the U.S. National Academy of Science (2023)\, and the Blavatnik
  award for young scientists in Israel (2024)\, for his work on the theory 
 quantum interactive proof systems. He joined EPFL as a Full Professor in F
 all 2024.\n 
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