Events

Events organized by the Doctoral School

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PhD Welcome event

The Doctoral School of EPFL organizes every year a PhD Welcome event open to all first year PhD candidates at EPFL.

La Doctorale

At this annual event, EPFL celebrates all doctoral graduates for the successful completion of their PhD and presents the EPFL Research Awards to selected laureates in recognition of their outstanding research contributions.

More events for the PhD community

Famelab Registration Flyer

FameLab Switzerland 2026 competition

 16.02.202630.04.2026  

Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

FirstGen Network – Being the First in the Family to Attend University

 27.04.202605.05.2026  

Speaker: FirstGen Network 
Category: Miscellaneous
Target audience: General public

Startup Champions Seed Night 2026

 07.05.2026   17:0021:00

Location:  RLC E1 240
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

Finale suisse MT180. Graphisme: Laura Persat

Swiss Final of the Competition Ma thèse en 180 secondes (MT180)

 21.05.2026   18:3020:00

Speaker: Finalistes EPFL: Mehdi Ali Gadiri, Camille Lambert, Antoni Gralak
Location:  EPFL Lausanne, Forum Rolex
Category: Public Science Events
Target audience: General public

BRIDGE Proof of Concept: 38th call

 01.06.2026  

Category: Call for proposal
Target audience: General public

Formation COSEC (FR)

 02.06.2026   09:0016:00

Speaker: Sébastien Gex, Kirstin Friedrich, Marc Matthey, Patrick Gerber, Simona Frateschi, Yvan Belaieff, Thomas Laporte.
Location:  BS 182
Category: Internal trainings
Target audience: General public

MoRAT: Mathematics of Randomized linear Algebra Techniques – Summer School 2026

 31.08.202604.09.2026   10:0012:00

Speaker: Daniel Kressner (EPFL), Laura Grigori (EPFL/PSI), Alice Cortinovis (Università di Pisa), Afonso S. Bandeira (ETH Zurich), Yuji Nakatsukasa (Oxford), Hussam al Daas (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory)
Location:  Hotel Murtenhof & Krone
Category: Conferences – Seminars
Target audience: General public

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