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Huge Success for the 2019 Open House

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The EPFL campus was full of fun this weekend during the Open House organised for the School's 50th anniversary. Nearly 40,000 visitors were on site over the weekend.

A high-precision instrument for ophthalmologists

12.09.19 News Research

EPFL scientists have helped develop a microscopic glass device that doctors could use to inject medicine into retinal veins with unprecedented accuracy. Their instrument meets an important need in eye surgery, delivering exceptional stability and precision.

A smart artificial hand for amputees merges user and robotic control

11.09.19 News EPFL

EPFL scientists have successfully tested new neuroprosthetic technology that combines robotic control with users’ voluntary control, opening avenues in the new interdisciplinary field of shared control for neuroprosthetic technologies.

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With over 350 laboratories and research groups on campus, EPFL is one of World's most innovative and productive scientific institutions. Discover the main actors, projects and services within EPFL's research community.

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EPFL transforms scientific excellence into value for companies and society in general. Its innovation park, which houses 170 companies, creates a unique ecosystem that fosters innovation and entrepreneurship on campus.

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Photo-souvenir des étudiant·e·s en Ingénierie de l'environnement — © Gregory Eaves / EPFL

50 Fifty Campaign: The Student Support Programme

As part of our university’s 50th Anniversary, EPFL has decided to launch the 50 Fifty Campaign, and place its most important community, the student community, at its core. This campaign provides philanthropists with a unique opportunity to directly empower the next generation of brilliant minds.

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School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering

ENAC

School of Computer and Communication Sciences

School of Basic Sciences

School of Engineering

STI

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College of Humanities

CDH

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College of Management of Technology

CDM

Middle East

Le professeur Michael Grätzel tient une cellule solaire à pigment photosensible. — © Alain Herzog / EPFL

Michael Grätzel tops new ranking of scientists

EPFL Professor Michael Grätzel is ranked #1 in a list of 100,000 top scientists across all fields. The ranking method is a based on new, more accurate standardized citation metrics developed by scientists led by Stanford University.

Events

Behind the Scenes at EPFL

Three sociologists from the College of Humanities and a group of students present the results of a study aimed at shining a spotlight on EPFL’s non-academic staff. Through a series of photographs and interviews, this...

2019-09-12 2019-10-06

With: Marc Perrenoud, Marta Roca Escoda, Michael Meyer
Place and room: Hall du Rolex Learning Center
Category: Exhibitions

Infinity Room 2 - ArtLab exhibition

2019-09-13 2020-01-26

With: Laboratory for Experimental Museology (eM+)
Place and room: ArtLab pavillon B
Category: Exhibitions

Bus des sciences à l'EPFL

2019-09-14 2019-09-20

Place and room: Devant l’entrée du bâtiment BC, sur le Parking Alan Turing
Category: Sciences Activities for Youth

Les humanités digitales se dévoilent

2019-09-14 2019-09-22

With: Institut et Master en Humanités Digitales de l'EPFL
Place and room: ArtLab, pavillon A (DataSquare)
Category: Exhibitions

What can a historian expect of Digital Humanities? - Talk by Prof. Béla Kapossy, EPFL/UNIL

2019-09-18 16:00:00 18:00:00

With: Prof. Béla Kapossy
Place and room: BC 420
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Game Design - Atelier Coding Club à Lausanne

2019-09-21 09:15:00 16:00:00

Place and room: EPFL
Category: Sciences Activities for Youth

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SwissCube 10 Years Celebration

2019-09-23 18:30:00 20:30:00

With: Andreas Mortensen Muriel Richard CHESS : Tristan Trebaol, Alfonso Villegas, Nicolas Martinod
Place and room: ART A0 100
Category: Celebrations

SatRocks XII

2019-09-27 2019-09-28

Place and room: CE 0 91.0
Category: Cultural events

Recital by Cédric Pescia - Piano and prepared piano

2019-10-01 19:30:00 21:00:00

With: Cédric Pescia, pianiste
Place and room: Forum Rolex
Category: Cultural events

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