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SUMMARY:Tailoring materials properties locally at will\, fulfilling an old
  dream?
DTSTART:20160907T171500
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CATEGORIES:Inaugural lectures - Honorary Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Yves Bellouard\, Institute of Microengineering\, EPFL\nI
 NAUGURAL LECTURE\nAbstract:\nSince the dawn of humanity\, shaping and tran
 sforming materials have played a decisive and ever increasing role in our 
 life. Materials are the basic constituents of devices surrounding us\, but
  could they themselves be turned into devices or even systems on their own
 \, becoming not just a constituent of more complex objects?  Could we sim
 ply imprint in the material a sophisticated behavior?\nTransforming materi
 als into ‘intelligent object’ has fed the imagination for centuries an
 d forms the basis of numerous myths such as Pygmalion and Galatea or the G
 olem. But beyond legends and myths\, Science is now providing us tools to 
 tailor materials properties in a way that part of this dream is becoming a
 ttainable.\nFor instance\, ultrashort laser pulses – the fastest man-mad
 e time events and among the highest generated instant power\, allow unprec
 edented opportunities for locally tailoring material properties in three d
 imensions\, turning them into something more than just a block of matter w
 ith a given set of physical properties.\nHere\, we will discuss how this p
 eculiar laser-matter interaction and generic concept of material-device ha
 ve the potential to revolutionize manufacturing\, and ultimately\, how it 
 may define a new paradigm in system design at the smaller scale. Further\,
  we will illustrate the premises and achievements towards this ambitious e
 ndeavor\, with concrete examples produced in our laboratory.\nProgram:\n- 
 Introduction by Prof. Christian Enz\, Director of the Institute of Microen
 gineering\n- Inaugural lecture of Prof. Yves Bellouard\, "Tailoring materi
 als properties locally at will\, fulfilling an old dream?"\nPlease registe
 r here : http://go.epfl.ch/bellouard\nBio:\nDr Yves Bellouard is an Associ
 ate Professor in Microengineering at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lau
 sanne (EPFL)\, where he heads the Galatea lab and the Richemont Chair in M
 ultiscale Manufacturing Technologies. He received a BS in Theoretical Phys
 ics and a MS in Applied Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 
 Paris\, France in 1994-1995 and a PhD in Microengineering from Ecole Polyt
 echnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne\, Switzerland in 2000.\
 nBefore joining EPFL in 2015\, he was an Associate Professor at Eindhoven 
 University of Technologies (TU/e) in the Netherlands\, where he stayed ten
  years\, and prior to that\, Research Scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic 
 Institute (RPI) in Troy\, New York for about four years where he started w
 orking on femtosecond laser processing of glass materials.\nHis current re
 search interests are on new paradigms for system integration at the micros
 cale and in particular\, laser-based methods to tailor material properties
  for achieving higher level of integration in microsystems\, like for inst
 ance integrating optics\, mechanics and fluidics in a single monolith.
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