News EPFL

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.

Understanding international affairs

Published:18.11.10 — UNIL and EPFL are offering a new course in the international domain. The program will begin in March 2011.

A cube materializes in the curves of the Rolex Learning Center

Published:17.11.10 — The Module, a very unusual structure, offers an astonishing experience to visitors to the EPFL library

Racetrack memory

Published:16.11.10 — Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that’s 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks.Professor Mathias Kläui from EPFL and PSI is working on a new kind of “Racetrack” memory, a high-volume, ultra-rapid non-volatile read-write magnetic memory that was invented at IBM and may soon make such a creature possible.