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SUMMARY:MARVEL Fest: party-ing away
DTSTART:20260709T090000
DTEND:20260709T190000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Several speakers\nRegistration is required. Please register he
 re to confirm your attendance by June 30.\n\nOn July 9\, 2026\, the MARVEL
  Final Event "MARVEL Fest: party-ing away" at EPFL will close 12 years of 
 research and activities on computational materials science. This event wil
 l be dedicated to the accomplishments of MARVEL and to the relevance of th
 ese to the industrial and technological ecosystem\, inviting alumni and ke
 y players worldwide in academia and industry\, SNSF review panel\, scienti
 fic and industrial advisory boards\, EPFL leadership\, and scientific jour
 nalists.\n\n09:00 - Welcome and introduction: Nicola Marzari (MARVEL Dire
 ctor\, EPFL)\n\n09:15 - The quantum of materials\nChair: Joost VandeVondel
 e\n\n\n\n\n	Quantum and AI for a Future of Materials Marvels\n	Matthias Tr
 oyer (Microsoft)\n	Title TBC\n	Ana Akrap (University of Zagreb)\n	First-Pr
 inciples Methods for Magnetotransport Calculations in Real Materials with 
 WannierTools\n	Quansheng Wu (Institute of Physics - Chinese Academy of Sci
 ences)\n	There’s Plenty of MARVEL at the Bottom: Quantum Materials from 
 Topology to Technology and Industry\n	Antimo Marrazzo (SISSA\, Trieste\, I
 taly)\n\n10:55 - Coffee break\n\n11:30 - The design of materials\nChair: T
 BC\n\n\n\n\n	From alchemy to AI and back\n	Anatole Von Lilienfeld (Univers
 ity of Toronto)\n	From Promising to Realistic Energy Materials\n	Julia Wik
 tor (Chalmers University of Technology)\n	Unraveling subnanocluster stabil
 ity\, fluxionality and adsorbate coverage with MLIPs\n	Rubén Laplaza Sola
 nas (University of Sevilla)\n\n12:45 - Signature\, CECAM-PSI agreement (A
 ndrea Cavalli\, Barbara Montanari\, Christian Rüegg)\n\n12:55 - Lunch\n\n
 14:15 - Round Table: The future of materials\nChair: Nicola Nosengo\n\n\n\
 n\n	Raffaela Cabriolu (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)\n	A
 nya Gryn’ova (University of Birmingham)\n	Giulia Mangione (Stellantis)\n
 	Kevin Jablonka (Technical University of Munich)\n	Senja Barthel (Vrije Un
 iversitet Amsterdam)\n\n15:00 - The machine learning of materials\nChair: 
 Michele Ceriotti\n\n\n\n\n	The MARVELous age of atomistic machine learning
 \n	Jigyasa Nigam (MIT\, Boston)\n	Sample-efficient design of molecules and
  materials — towards synthesis\n	Philippe Schwaller (EPFL\, Lausanne)\n	
 Enabling Catalyst Innovation with Machine Learning: Connecting High‑Thro
 ughput Computation and Experiment\n	Sandip De (BASF\, Germany)\n\n16:15 - 
 Coffee break\n\n16:45 - The materials community \nChair: Sara Bonella\n\n
 \n\n\n	From Research Communities to AI‑enhanced Collectives: Why the Soc
 ial Fabric of Science Matters More Than Ever\n	Barbara Montanari (STFC Rut
 herford Appleton Laboratory\, UK)\n	Electronic-structure research and comm
 unity in sub-Saharan Africa: a personal and a collective journey\n	Garu Ge
 breyesus (University of Ghana)\n	Project GlasAgent - Building blocks for a
 gentic glass development\n	Leopold Talirz (SCHOTT\, Germany)\n\n18:00 - Ap
 ero\n\n19:00 - End
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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