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Methods for reducing the risks of melting glaciers

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Under a pilot project being spearheaded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), a team of experts – including civil and environmental engineers from EPFL – are studying methods to help protect a region of the Andes Mountains threatened by glacial retreat. The testing phase of the pilot project will conclude at the end of the month. If successful, their methods could be used in other parts of the world as well.

Optic nerve stimulation to aid the blind

19.08.19 News EPFL

EPFL scientists are investigating new ways to provide visual signals to the blind by directly stimulating the optic nerve. Their preliminary study on animals uses a new type of neural electrode and provides distinct signals.

When liver disease affects the brain

19.08.19 News Research

Scientists have demonstrated how chronic liver diseases cause molecular changes in the brain. They carried out their research using the 9.4 Tesla high-magnetic-field MRI machine at the Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM) at EPFL.

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Grégoire Courtine wins the Rolex Awards for Entreprise

The EPFL researcher is one of five laureates of the 2019 Rolex Awards for Entreprise. The laureates will receive financial support for their innovative projects that contribute to the common good.

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Camp d'été pour les filles de 13 à 15 ans Durant ce camp de quatre jours, les participantes programment une application pour téléphone portable. Comment ? En créant tout en s’amusant un programme pour partager et...

2019-08-12 2019-08-22

Place and room: EPFL
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Le numérique au service de la mobilité: quelles opportunités, quels défis?

2019-09-03 18:00:00 20:00:00

With: David Raedler, avocat en protection des données et président de l'Association Transports et Environnement Vaud (ATE VD), Sara El Kabiri, responsable mobilité numérique à la Direction générale de la mobilité et des routes du Canton de Vaud, Christophe Follonier, directeur marketing chez Vaudoise Assurances, Alain Barbey, directeur régional voyageurs ouest et coordinateur régional Romandie CFF
Place and room: Lausanne Gare
Category: Conferences - Seminars

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2019 FAI/DIAS International Drone & Digital Aviation Conference

2019-09-13

Place and room: RLC E1 240
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Architects of Structural Biology: Bragg, Perutz, Kendrew and Hodgkin

2019-10-03 18:15:00

With: Sir John Meurig Thomas The lecturer, a personal friend of Perutz, Kendrew, Klug, Hodgkin and Phillips, was formerly the Director of the Royal Institution of GB, former Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and former Master of Peterhouse, University of Cambridge. He is a solid-state, surface and materials chemist and recipient of several awards, including the Willard-Gibbs, Pauling, Kapitza, Natta, Stokes, Davy and Faraday medals. A New mineral, meurigite, is named after him. He was awarded the Royal Medal for Physical Sciences by the Royal Society in 2016.
Place and room: Forum Rolex
Category: Conferences - Seminars