News EPFL

Shrinking reactors down to size

Published:30.11.10 — EPFL’s Lioubov Kiwi and her group are developing new reactors by using micro- et nano-technologies.

Chasing Bug Fingerprints

Published:29.11.10 — A new technique augments existing bug reports

Reuters ranks EPFL top in Europe

Published:25.11.10 — In a purely citations-based ranking, EPFL comes out on top in European engineering

Urban and rural typologies – Albania under the microscope

Published:24.11.10 — The CEAT, responsible for the study of town and country planning at EPFL, is publishing an article on the classification of communes in Albania. This document will be used in many ways, in particular in the context of the preparation of the 2011 census of the population. Its publication is also part of the process of reinforcing their national statistics, an important element in the evaluation of Albania’s application to join the European Union.

PPUR: going digital for its 30 years

Published:23.11.10 — Based at EPFL, for whom it’s the preferred publisher, the Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR) is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its foundation, with nearly 900 titles published and one-and-a-half million works distributed, by strengthening its digital publishing.

An exceptional musical event for the Rolex Learning Center!

Published:22.11.10 — An original musical show has been created to mirror the renowned fluid architecture designed by the Japanese architects SANAA: a variation on the links between technology and art, architecture and acoustics, and dream and reality.

With a little help from the wind

Published:19.11.10 — At EPFL’s Laboratory of Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy (WIRE), researchers are studying wind movements in the lower part of the atmosphere, and this research is helping to optimize the positioning of turbines in wind farms.