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300 high-school students visit EPFL in German and Italian
05.12.13 - Promotion of EPFL studies German- and Italian-speaking high school students came to EPFL yesterday for an information day tailored for them. The number of participants turned out to be significantly higher than last years, showing a growing interest in EPFL from non-French speaking regions of Switzerland.
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Sun, coffee and bacteria
05.12.13 - Cooperation These three ingredients, which for some people equal ‘holiday’, were the subjects of a study pursued by a few EPFL students during the summer in the laboratories of the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia and this, in the framework of the EPFL-UNIVALLE biannual plan.
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Christopher Tucci at the helm of the CDM - Interview
05.12.13 - Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship The appointment of Professor Christopher Tucci is considered a stimulating breakthrough for the College of Management of Technology (CDM) which, for the past five years, had been managed ad interim. This is excellent news for Management Sciences and the spirit of Entrepreneurship at EPFL.
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Two EPFL Professors win the SCS Werner Prize 2014
05.12.13 - SB Professors Clémence Corminboeuf and Jérôme Waser have each been awarded the Werner Prize 2014 from the Swiss Chemical Society.
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Ten Times More Throughput on Optic Fibers
05.12.13 - Mediacom Two EPFL scientists have shown how to achieve a dramatic increase in the capacity of optical fibers. Their simple, innovative solution reduces the amount of space required between the pulses of light that transport data. The breakthrough could increase the throughput of data in telecommunications systems by a factor of ten.
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Andrea Kraus is the First Lambert Award Winner
04.12.13 - SB The Lambert Award for Young Statisticians has been presented to Dr. Kraus, during the Swiss Statistics Meeting in Basel, on the 17th of October 2013.
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3 papers at the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
04.12.13 - IC - Prizes & Awards Dependable Systems Laboratory, Distributed Programming Laboratory, and Operating Systems Laboratory each presented a paper at this year's ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, which is the top venue for computer systems research. The papers represented 10% of the conference program.
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Tuberculosis: Nature has a double-duty antibiotic up her sleeve
04.12.13 - Mediacom A natural antibiotic turns out to be a lethal weapon in the fight against tuberculosis. Scientists have discovered it has an unexpected dual action that dramatically reduces the probability that TB bacteria will become resistant.
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LIONS @ GlobalSIP 2013
03.12.13 - Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems Two papers "Tractability of Interpretability via Selection of Group-Sparse Models" by Nirav Bhan, Luca Baldassarre and Volkan Cevher and "Sparse Simplex Projections for Portfolio Optimization" by Anastasios Kyrillidis, Stephen Becker, Volkan Cevher, Christoph Koch will be presented at the GlobalSIP 2013 conference.
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LIONS @ CAMSAP 2013
03.12.13 - Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems Two papers "To Convexify or Not? Regression with Clustering Penalties on Graphs" by Marwa El Halabi, Luca Baldassarre and Volkan Cevher and "Manifold Sparse Beamforming" by Baran Gözcü, Afsaneh Asaei and Volkan Cevher will be presented at the CAMSAP 2013 workshop.