MT180: Public Selections - 1st series

This year some thirty EPFL doctoral students have entered the Ma thèse en 180 secondes (MT180) competition.

In three minutes, each student will present his or her research topic in simple terms to a non-specialist audience, in French or English. The aim of this popularization exercise is to present a clear, concise and  yet compelling explanation of their research project, supported by a single slide !

The selections are open to the public and take place on 21, 22 and 28 January. Unlike the final, the selections are not recorded for the public. Colleagues, friends, families, thesis directors, come to listen to them and encourage them!

IMPORTANT:

• Doors open to public at 12:00
• Selections begin at 12:15
• The public arriving after 12:15 is asked to wait outside until the room is opened (between two presentations) so that presenters are not disturbed.

1. Kexin Wu, « Probing heat transport in diamond nanostructures with NV-based thermometry », (Prof. Christophe Galland - Laboratory of Advanced Semiconductors for Photonics and Electronics), English
2. Hongkeng Zhu, « Accurate Characterization and Modeling of High-Frequency Losses in GaN Devices for Efficient Power Conversion », (Prof. Elison Matioli - Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory), English
3. Saqib Javed, « Energy-Efficient Deep Networks for Sustainable Space Activities », (Prof. Pascal Fua - Computer Vision Laboratory), English
4. Dareen Dardor, « Towards Net Zero Aluminium: A Decision Support Framework for Decarbonizing the Aluminium Industry », (Prof. François Maréchal & Prof. Manuele Margni - Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering), English
5. Beatriz Mourino, « A computational approach to the discovery and understanding of COFs and MOFs as photocatalysts », (Prof. Berend Smit - Laboratory of Molecular Simulation), English
6. Rebecca Smith, « Rethinking the logic of neurotransmitters », (Prof. Brian McCabe - Laboratory of Neural Genetics and Disease), English
7. Pengbo Zhu, « Dependable, ubiquitous automation », (Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis & Prof. Giancarlo Ferrari-Trecate - Urban Transport Systems Lab), English
8. Amit Sawant, « Identification of Policy-relevant Estimands in Presence of Unmeasured Confounding », (Prof. Mats J. Stensrud - Chair of Biostatistics), English
9. Tom Enbar, « Armoring CAR-T Cells Against the Fatigue of the Cancer War », (Prof. Li Tang - Laboratory of Biomaterials for Immunoengineering), English
10. Ray Cowen, « NMR Investigations of the Hydration Reaction of Cementitious Calcium Silicate Hydrate », (Prof. Lyndon Emsley –Magnetic Resonance Lab & Prof. Karen Scrivener - Construction Materials Lab), English
11. Mustafa Yalcinkaya, « Towards an accurate prediction of active metal biocorrosion by closer mimicking the in-vivo environment », (Prof. Stefano Mischler (EPFL) - Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry Group Lab & Prof. Patrik Schmutz (Empa) - Joining Technologies and Corrosion Lab), English
12. Manuel Loparco, « Non-perturbative aspects of Quantum Field Theory in curved spacetimes », (Prof. Joao Augusto Penedones - Fields and Strings Laboratory), English