Research

A tool for visualizing academic synergies

19.09.18 — Mediacom The Affinity Map showing cross-laboratory collaboration among faculty at EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) is now available to the general public. One of its creators will soon be heading off to MIT on a grant to expand his idea to a global scale. Read the whole article

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EPFL and Jura Canton team up to promote science among young people

18.09.18 — Mediacom EPFL and the Department of Education, Culture and Sports for Jura Canton have renewed their partnership until 2022. The goal is to encourage young people to consider careers in scientific and technical fields. Read the whole article

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What future for the shops in the city of Yverdon?

18.09.18 — Urban Sociology Laboratory In city centers, shops are closing down. What is the current situation in the city of Yverdon? Pierre Dessemontet, geographer, lecturer at EPFL and socialist municipal in Yverdon, expressed his views on this subject in "La Matinale" of "RTS La 1ère". Read the whole article

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Brain areas for remote fear extinction

18.09.18 — Prof. Gräff's Lab Recently published study identifies brain areas responsible for storing and extinguishing long-lasting traumatic memories. Read the whole article

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PhD & SNSF Post-doctoral Fellowship for Shenghan Zhang

18.09.18 — Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory Congratulations to Shenghan Read the whole article

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LIONS in spotlight @ NIPS2018

18.09.18 — Laboratory for Information and Inference Systems Three papers from LIONS lab have been accepted to the thirty-Second Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems conference (NIPS 2018). This year NIPS conference received a record-breaking 4856 submissions of which 1011 were accepted (including 30 orals and 168 spotlights). Read the whole article

Education

Start of the RHODANIE URBAINE design studio in Sion

18.09.18 — Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies By an approach at different levels of intervention - from urban design to constructive detail - Prof. Emmanuel Rey's studio aims at analyzing, exploring and experimenting the specific issues related to the contribution of the architectural project to the evolution of built environment towards sustainability, in particular in the perspective of an urban densification near public transport and an experimentation of new constructive approaches. Entitled RHODANIE URBAINE, the 2018-2019 studio will focus its projectual research on the theme of the reconciliation of the city with the river, focusing on a strategic sector for the future of the city of Sion. Read the whole article

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New Fulbright scholar at EESD laboratory

18.09.18 — Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics Laboratory Welcome to Aaron Appelle Read the whole article

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Xile Hu wins Caltech Resonate Award

18.09.18 — SB | Basic Sciences EPFL Chemistry Professor Xile Hu has won the 2018 Resonate Award from Caltech for his work on for developing abundant and non-precious metal catalysts for sustainable synthesis of added-value chemicals and cost-effective production of solar fuels. Read the whole article

Research

Dr N. Faivre awarded ERC Starting Grant

18.09.18 — Center for Neuroprosthetics CNRS Scientist and senior researcher in Prof O. Blanke Laboratory, Nathan Faivre will start his ERC project "The motor hypothesis for self-monitoring: A new framework to understand and treat metacognitive failures." in 2019 in collaboration with the CNP. Read the whole article