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Starting September 17, 2021, EPFL Pavilions will host an exceptional exhibition, "Deep Fakes: Art and Its Double". Organised by EPFL and University of Lausanne, using artificial intelligence and the latest scientific imaging technologies, it immerses the public in the depths of artistic and cultural doubles.

An architectural exhibition linking light exposure to health

16.09.21NewsResearch

EPFL and HEAD researchers have set-up an installation to raise awareness around the importance of exposure to natural light for human health and the role of the architecture in urban settings in modulating that light. The exhibition will take part in the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism this fall 2021.

EPFL inspired technology helping Swiss COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign

14.09.21NewsEPFL community

Two EPFL alumni bring their OneDoc platform ‘home’ as a COVID-19 vaccination center is to open on the Ecublens campus.

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Une souris dans une animalerie, tenue dans une main © Selina Slamanig, GBS Saint-Gall

Research with animals, a necessity for scientific progress

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Despite the many advancements in developing innovative alternative methods, animal testing still plays an important role in biological and medical research, enabling scientists to make key new discoveries. At EPFL, performing high-quality research is a priority for scientists, as is taking proper care of the mice, rats and fish in the facilities.

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“In the South, you can't talk just about global warming”

Published:19.09.21 — Alongside his postdoc research at EPFL, Arindam Roy works hard to communicate about climate change in his native language of Bengali. The workshops he runs don’t focus on polar bears on ice caps, but rather on concrete solutions to the very real problems faced by people in the Global South.

Daniel Sage, scientific advisor at the EPFL Center for Imaging holds regular Image Analysis Breakfasts © 2021 Alain Herzog

"Used incorrectly, algorithms and AI can waste time"

Published:15.09.21 — Algorithms and machine learning let scientists compare and analyze images quickly and precisely, but using them often requires advanced skills in programming. To give EPFL scientists advice on employing these tools, Daniel Sage from the EPFL Center for Imaging holds regular Image Analysis Breakfasts, bringing together researchers from all disciplines.

Ravinithesh Annapureddy is a second-year student in EPFL's DH master program © Ravinithesh Annapureddy

“DH creates the chance to re-create, re-present, and re-interpret”

Published:14.09.21 — Ravinithesh Annapureddy is a second-year student in the Master of Science in Digital Humanities program, offered by EPFL’s College of Humanities. Ravinithesh describes his experience in the program, and what inspired him to enter this exciting emerging interdisciplinary field.

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Campus Lecture with Shoshana Zuboff

In Conversation on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Monday September 27, 6:00-7:15pm Shoshana Zuboff, Author, of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Harvard Business School Professor Emerita We are living in the…

27-09-202127-09-2021

With: Shoshana Zuboff, Hanna Henkel, Carmela Troncoso, Edouard Bugnion, Mirko Bischofberger
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66220257590?pwd=YjdKOXlleFRyelRRc3dqSTBpZHBIZz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

135 visions du Rolex Learning Center

07-09-202131-10-2021

Place and room: Rolex Learning Center
Category: Exhibitions

GHI Floor Seminars

21-09-202121-09-2021

With: Xavier Pierrat – Persat lab & Mark Hanson – Lemaitre lab
Place and room: SV 1717
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64924921252?pwd=VkNteFUrVllzY0ljUWRheUZrcFg2dz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

MechE Colloquium: Deciphering Shock-Induced Amorphization in Ultrahard Ceramics

21-09-202121-09-2021

With: Prof. Ghatu Subhash, Laboratory for Dynamic Response of Advanced Materials (LDRAM), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of Florida
Place and room: BM 5202
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/65093257313
Category: Conferences – Seminars

"Machine learning in chemistry and beyond" (ChE-650) seminar by Prof. Volker Deringer (University of Oxford)

21-09-202121-09-2021

With: Volker Deringer studied chemistry at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), where he obtained his diploma (2010) and doctorate (2014) under the guidance of Richard Dronskowski. In 2015, he moved to the University of Cambridge as a fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation; in 2017, he was awarded a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the same institution. He joined the Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory of the University of Oxford in September 2019. In addition to his Associate Professorship in the Department, he holds a Tutorial Fellowship at St Anne’s College, Oxford.
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64473017589?pwd=Vmpnd1pleGhEb1hFb3kxUlNIUWJyQT09
Category: Conferences – Seminars