Presentations and Talks

2024

Data Champions Lunch Talks – Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability

M. S. P. Cubero-Castan; M. Peon Quiros; C. Gabella; F. Varrato; Loïc Lannelongue 

Data Champions Lunch Talks – Green Bytes: Data-Driven Approaches to EPFL Sustainability, EPFL, CM 1 221, April 18, 2024.

Quantifying the effects of rainfall temporal variability on landscape evolution processes

T. Lian; N. Peleg; S. Bonetti 

EGU 2024, Viena, April 14–19, 2024.

Towards a metabolic theory of catchments: scaling of water and carbon fluxes with size

F. Bassani; S. Fatichi; S. Bonetti 

EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.

3D Geomechanical Modelling of CO2 Storage with Focus on Fault Stability

E. Gallyamov; B. Lecampion; N. Richart; G. Anciaux; J-F. Molinari 

MEGA Seminar , EPFL, Switzerland, 2024-03-21.

Anthropological Insights into the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Surrounding Beijing’s Forbidden City

F. Graezer Bideau 

Open Fields Lunch: Landscape Habitats, EPFL, Switzerland, April 9, 2024.

La realité augmenté au service de l’usinage de charpente

A. Settimi 

13e Forum International Bois Construction (FBC), Épinal, Nancy, April 3-5, 2024.

Numerical investigation of two-dimensional Mode-II delamination in composite laminates

C. Wang; A. Vassilopoulos; T. Keller 

9th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, 24-27 March 2024.

Transitions: que faire de la mobilité dans l’architecture?

V. Kaufmann 

Cycle de conférences local/global, ENSA Toulouse, 28 mars 2024.

Analyses des flux de carbone du secteur Praille-Acacias-Vernets (PAV) à Genève

U. Liman 

Quartiers post-carbone : nouvelle génération d’écoquartiers compatibles avec les plans climats, Aula Magna du Château d’Yverdon, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, March 12, 2024.

Enjeux et potentialités du concept de quartier post-carbone

E. Rey 

Quartiers post-carbone : nouvelle génération d’écoquartiers compatibles avec les plans climats, Aula Magna du Château d’Yverdon, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland, March 12, 2024.

The Past’s Traces in the Future of Museums

D. Bertschi 

The Future of Museums: Perspectives from the Arts, Research and Beyond, ETH Zürich, Atavism — Architecture Heritage and Sustainability , March 5, 2024.

Intangible culture in built heritage: Practices of heritage-making at international and national scales

F. Graezer Bideau 

Future Heritage, Kernfach Master FS24, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, 14 March 2024.

La voie vers le net zéro – Une chance pour l’économie

P. Thalmann 

CEO4Climate (Swisscleantech), Lausanne, Switzerland, 26 mars 2024.

Researching with values for more ethical decisions

L. Ferrarello 

Lunch talk: A Fresh Look at Ethics in Research and Scientific Integrity, Academia Retica, November 21, 2023.

A Value–Led Landscape Design as Model for Ethical Governance

L. Ferrarello 

Setting the Course: Future Core Studio Pedagogies in Landscape Architecture, Harvard GSD, October 18-20, 2023.

Aeolian snow transport induces airborne snow metamorphism with implications for snowpack physical properties

S. Wahl; B. Walter; F. Aemisegger; L. Bianchi; M. Lehning 

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.

Using stable water isotopes to improve our understanding of snow processes across scales

S. Wahl; B. Walter; H. C. Steen-Larsen; F. Aemisegger; L. Dietrich et al. 

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.

Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation and Dry Spells in Alpine Catchments under Changing Climatic Conditions

T. Milojevic; C. Steger; M. Lehning 

European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria, April 14-19, 2024.

Costs of the energy transition and solution – Housing

P. Thalmann 

Fireside Event: Social justice and economic impacts of the energy transition, Lausanne, Switzerland, 07.03.2024.

Esprit du Grand Genève, es-tu là?

V. Kaufmann; J-L. Meynet 

Table-rondes débat de la librairie des affamé.es, Annemasse, 7 mars 2024.

Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain

M. Lehning 

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), Berlin, Germany, July 12-16, 2023.

Synthetic Population Projections and Unforeseen Events

M. Kukic 

2nd EPFL Symposium on Transportation Research, Barcelona, Spain, February 06, 2024.

Quels scénarios pour décarboner la mobilité ?

V. Kaufmann 

Climact Seminar, Lausanne, 4 mars 2024.

Biodiversity: Economics v Financials

S. Nick 

E4S Meet-Up: Biodiversity, UNIL Internef, March 5, 2024.

Intra-household interactions in ABMs

N. Rezvany; T. Hillel; M. Bierlaire 

Behaviour & Infrastructure Group (BIG) Research Colloquium, University College London (UCL) [Online], 23.02.2024.

Intra-household interactions in ABMs: Household-level choice set generation

N. Rezvany; T. Hillel; M. Bierlaire 

2nd EPFL Symposium on Transportation Research, Barcelona, Spain, 5-7 Feb 2024.

Healthier diets, healthier planet? Quantifying the biodiversity pressure of fruit and vegetable consumption in South Africa, India, and the UK.

A. Chapman; C. Dalin; S. Bonetti; R. Green; G. Hadida et al. 

EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, April 24-28, 2023.

Chungking Express : Proximité physique et distance émotionnelle dans le Hong Kong des années 1990

F. Graezer Bideau 

Ecrans Urbains 2024 (Ville, architecture, paysage au cinéma), Lausanne, Suisse, 21 Février 2024.

Entre Communication & Participation. Usage du transmedia storytelling en aménagement et urbanisme

E. Cogato Lanza; L. Matthey; S. Gaberell; J. Ambal; K. Harchi 

Pavillon Sicli, Genève, Février 16-17, 2023.

The Zenodo communities: visibility and FAIRness of your dataset. Example at the EPFL

A. Borel 

Love Data Week 2024, [online], 14.02.2024.

Table ronde: Le Grand Genève, quel avenir ?

V. Kaufmann; D. Hiler; J-L. Meynet 

Conférence de l’Institut National Genevois, Genève, Suisse, 6 février 2024.

The Linz Café and the concept of “wholeness”: Reclaiming the historical feeling of a long-gone building

V. Chanis 

When Architecture Disappears: Challenges in Methods and Media, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus,

The influence of sub-seasonal to seasonal atmospheric temperature variability on alpine permafrost

D. Büeler; E. Sharaborova; M. Pyrina; M. Lehning; D. Domeisen 

EGU2024.

Developing, Testing, and Modeling of an Innovative Thermal Stabilization Method for Alpine Permafrost Protection

E. Sharaborova; H. Huwald; M. Lehning 

EGU2024.

Avalanche Risk Management: from science to practice and from the ground to research

F. Graezer Bideau 

Webinar ICH and climate change, Paris, France, January 18, 2024.

La mobilité repensée

V. Kaufmann 

34ème séminaire CH – Gouverner aujourd’hui, Interlaken, 5 janvier 2024.

La gestion du danger d’avalanches en patrimoine

F. Graezer Bideau; C. M. Bortolotto 

Formation patrimoine culturel immatériel: PCI et gestion des ressources naturelles, Garae Ethnopôle, Carcassonne, France, January 9, 2023.

The discreet charm of ambiguity / Il fascino discreto dell’ambiguità

N. Braghieri 

noAarchitecten – Het Steen Antwerp, Belgium, March 10-21, 2023.

2023

Type and History

A. Thiermann 

Tackle The Type: Filling Stations, Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 27, 2023.

The Broadcasting House: Architecture, Type, and the Culture Industry

A. Thiermann 

The Fifth Typology, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 4-5, 2023.

Infrastructures of Solidarity, Infrastructures of Totalitarism

A. Thiermann 

Listening to the World – 100 Years of Radio organised by the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, Germany, 21-22.10.2023.

Notes on Los Angeles

A. Thiermann 

Translational Histories of Architecture. A London symposium in honour of Jean-Louis Cohen (1949–2023), London, Great Britain, 2023-11-27.

Coupling of submeso-scale motion with near-surface turbulence over patchy snow cover

M. Haugeneder; M. Lehning; I. Stiperski; D. Reynolds; R. Mott 

28th IUGG General Assembly 2023, Berlin, July 11-20, 2023.

Flow and Snow in Complex Terrain: across-scale modelling for a correct surface mass balance

M. Lehning; F. Gerber; V. Sharma; Gonzales-Herrero Sergi; N. Wever et al. 

28th IUGG General Assembly 2023, Berlin, July 11-20, 2023.

Southward shift in the zero-degree isotherm latitude (ZIL) in the Antarctic Peninsula

Gonzalez-Herrero Sergi; Navarro Francisco; Pertierre Luis; Oliva Marc; Dadic Ruzica et al. 

28th IUGG General Assembly 2023, Berlin, July 11-20, 2023.

Towards optimal design and control of wind farms

F. Porté-Agel 

International symposium on offshore wind, Kyushu University, Japan, December 5, 2023.

Mercury Rising: Architecture Beyond Greenwashing

C. Malterre-Barthes 

Mercury Rising: Architecture Beyond Greenwashing, Lausanne, Switzerland, 06.03.2023.
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TERRITORIES OF SWISS COLONIALISM: Writing with/through/about Images

D. Bertschi 

Writing urban landscapes of the Anthropocene / Lecture series by Dr. Nitin Bathla, ETH Zürich, Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS) , April. 21.2023.

Forestscapes and the plantation. The ‚longue-durée‘ of Swiss coloniality shaping Brazilian and Swiss land

D. Bertschi 

sich verlandschaften – auf der Suche nach einer relationalen Praxis, ZHdK. Zurich University of the Arts, May 13-19, 2023.

“Please Ensure the Gate is Properly Closed”: Questioning the Swiss Presence in Apartheid South Africa Through the Swiss Social Club in Cape Town

D. Bertschi 

Cultural relations between Switzerland and South Africa, 1948–1994, Basler Afrika Bibliographien; Universität Basel, May 3-5, 2023.

Swiss Coloniality – Unearthing its (in)visibilities: Tracing a fragmented visual and material history of Swiss coloniality between Switzerland and Brazil

D. Bertschi 

Colonial Endurance. Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures, Nieuwe Institute, Rotterdam (NL), 27 July 2023 – 22 October 2023.

Data Storage and Open Repositories Data sharing, metadata and data curation

G. Anciaux 

ORPER summer school, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, September 9, 2023.

Multiscale simulation of solids by coupling finite elements with discrete models

G. Anciaux 

Internal seminar, Institute for Building Materials, ETH Zurich, April 5, 2023.

Fragmentation: from theory to numerical applications using FEM approaches

G. Anciaux 

GDR, Porquerolles, France, May 9-12, 2023.

On the necessity of curation of datasets to achieve FAIR standard goals in scientific publications

G. Anciaux 

Photo Meca general meeting, Paris, France, November 23, 2023.

What about Diamond Open Access?

G. Anciaux 

Open Access Week 2023, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, 24/10/2023.

Company towns: un’introduzione. Il caso Dalmine come palinsesto delle politiche industriali

A. K. De Almeida Santos 

052991 – Laboratorio di Conservazione dell’Edilizia Storica (ICAR/19), Politecnico di Milano, Milan , 12 October 2023.

Big company, Small town. Spatial and Social Capital in a Persistent Company Town.

A. K. De Almeida Santos 

HRC International PhD Summer School. 2nd Post-extraction territories in transition. Unveiling palimpsests of exploitation: towards a new alliance between ecology and economy in marginal regions, Charleroi, Belgium, 2 to 5 September 2023.

Corporate Urbanism: The Past, Present, and Future of Company Towns and Public Space Governance

A. K. De Almeida Santos 

Eternal buildings in future cities, Roma, Italy, 23-24 november 2023.

Automated planning for the construction of laterally resistant masonry walls using irregular stones

Q. Wang; B. G. Pantoja Rosero; K. R. Maximiano Dos Santos; K. Beyer 

ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute 2023 Conference (EMI 2023), Atlanta, GA, US, June 6-9, 2023.

Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Hue’s Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making

P. Nguyen 

PAAS Colloquium 2023-2024, University of Victoria, Pacific and Asian Studies, September 27, 2023.

Devout Landscape – Migrant Placemaking in Hue, Vietnam

P. Nguyen 

Knowledge Production in Displacement and Forced Migration Workshop, University of California in Santa Barbara, April 17-18, 2023.

Evolution of a Hybrid Type – Catholic Churches in Huế During the Better Half of the Twentieth Century

P. Nguyen 

Global Vietnamese Catholicism Webinar , Singapore, webinar, August 2022-May 2023.

The Territory Subject, three landscapes stories

P. Viganò 

International Congress, “Uncertain Landscapes. Beyond transdisciplinary approaches”, University of Minho, Portugal, November 22-24, 2023.

Daylightful dynamics and indoor well-being

M. Andersen 

Architectural Engineering Seminar PennState University, State College, PA, USA, April 6, 2023.

Craving daylight indoors – more than meets the eye

M. Andersen 

Metropolis Initative Seminar Series Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, April 3, 2023.

Daylightful indoors – what we see and what we perceive

M. Andersen 

Center for Healthy Indoor Environments (CHIE), Lund University, Lund, Sweden, April 27, 2023.

Human needs vs. modern living expectations: a case for daylight access

M. Andersen 

Cause and Consequence’ symposium, Kingston School of Art, Kingston-upon-Thames, UK, June, 16, 2023.

Craving daylight while living indoors – the challenges of a good light hygiene

M. Andersen 

Joint Seminar Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine, Nortwestern University, Chicago, Il, USA, October 3, 2023.

Craving daylight – psychology, light and healthy buildings

M. Andersen 

IIT Architecture Fall 2023 Lecture Series, Chicago, Il, USA, October 4, 2023.

Daylightful indoors beyond what eyes can see

M. Andersen 

MIT Fall 2023 Architecture Lecture Series, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 9-10, 2023.

Évolution du tressage sur une plaine alluviale alpine : relevés combinés de granulométrie de surface, changements topographiques et répartition du débit liquide.

I. Pascal; R. Miazza; A. Baratier; B. de Graffenried; A. Foglia et al. 

Apports des nouvelles technologies à l’étude du transport sédimentaire et de la morphodynamique., Grenoble, France (SHF), June 1-2, 2023.

Sediment and large wood supply in proglacial streams: insights from the Upper Navisence catchment monitoring.

I. Pascal; J. de Hoyo; J. Aamink; B. Finch; B. de Graffenried et al. 

21st Swiss Geoscience Meeting, Mendrisio, Switzerland, November 17-18, 2023.

Technology co-adoption patterns in the Swiss residential building sector

M. A. Hecher; G. Serra Coch; C. R. Binder 

3rd Swiss Social Science and Humanities Energy Research Workshop , Sion, Switzerland, 02.06.2023.

Elevator dispatching

F. Torres 

23rd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, May 10-12, 2023.

Elevator dispatching Branch and price

F. Torres 

INFORMS annual meeting 2023, Phoenix, Arizona, October 15-18, 2023.

DEM crack propagation using a FEM-DEM bridging coupling

M. E. Voisin–Leprince; A. J. Garcia Suarez; G. Anciaux; J-F. Molinari 

EGU, Vienna, Austria, April 23–28, 2023.

Adaptive FEM-DEM bridging coupling

M. E. Voisin–Leprince; J-F. Molinari; G. Anciaux 

USNCCM, Albuquerque, USA, July 23-27, 2023.

Dynamic fragmentation using phase-field modeling of fracture

S. A. Durussel; G. Anciaux; L. De Lorenzis; J-F. Molinari 

Seventh International Conference on Computational Modeling of Fracture and Failure of Materials and Structures (CFRAC 2023), Prague, Czech Republic, 21-23 June 2023.

From contact mechanics to wear

J-F. Molinari 

CCMX tribology and surfaces interactions summer school, Visp, Switzerland, July 3-7, 2023.

Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface

J-F. Molinari 

Jean-Mandel Symposium, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, France, June 29, 2023.

Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface

J-F. Molinari 

ERC TECTONIC-FEAR online seminar , France, March 20, 2023.

Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface

J-F. Molinari 

STAMS 2023 – Mechanics across the scales, Toledo, Spain, October 3-6, 2023.

Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface

J-F. Molinari 

Modelling complexity in mechanics conference, Alghero, Italy, September 25-29, 2023.

Numerical modelling of dynamic crack branching instabilities

J-F. Molinari 

CECAM Workshop: 3D cracks and crack stability, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 14-16, 2023.

Modeling friction and wear across scales

J-F. Molinari 

Materials IQ Workshop, Hightech Zentrum, Aargau, Swizterland, May 23, 2023.

Richness and complexity of slip events at a frictional interface

J-F. Molinari 

Physics Workshop: Interaction Disorder and Elasticity, Les Houches, France, April 3-7, 2023.

Modeling intra-household interactions and in-home activities in activity-based models

J. Pougala; N. Rezvany; M. Bierlaire 

Seminar of the Department of Technology, Management and Economics, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Lyngby, Denmark, February 24, 2023.

Mathematical Modeling of Irrational Behavior: towards a linear formulation

M. Bierlaire 

Seminar of the Department of Information Systems, Decision Sciences and Statistics, ESSEC, Paris (France), May 16, 2023.

From one-day to multiday activity scheduling: Extending the OASIS framework

J. Pougala; T. Hillel; M. Bierlaire 

23rd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, May 10-12, 2023.

Optimization and Discrete Choice Models

M. Bierlaire 

Distinguished Seminar Series, Koc University, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, April 25, 2023.

Initial Comparisons Between MDCEV model and OASIS Framework

M. Wang; J. Pougala; M. Bierlaire 

23rd Swiss Transport Research Conference (STRC), Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland, May 10-12, 2023.

Further Development of Multiple Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value (MDCEV) Model and Comparisons with OASIS Framework

M. Wang 

1st EPFL Symposium on Transportation Research, Annecy, February 17, 2023.

A Spatial Branch and Benders Decomposition Algorithm for Continuous Pricing with Advanced Discrete Choice Demand Modeling

T. Haering; I. Ljubic; M. Bierlaire 

Network Optimization Workshop, CIRRELT, La Spezia, Italy, June 29, 2023.

Modelling the impact of activity duration on utility-based scheduling decisions: a comparative analysis

J. Pougala; T. Hillel; M. Bierlaire 

15th workshop on Discrete Choice Models, Lausanne, June 1-3, 2023.

Modelling the impact of activity duration on utility-based scheduling decisions: a comparative analysis

J. Pougala; T. Hillel; M. Bierlaire 

11th Symposium of the European Association for Research in Transportation (hEART 2023), Zurich (ETH Campus Hoenggerberg), September 6-8, 2023.

Modelling the impact of activity duration on utility-based scheduling decisions

J. Pougala; T. Hillel; M. Bierlaire 

MATSim User Meeting 2023 (Mult-Agent Transport Simulation User Meeting), Zurich (ETH), September 5, 2023.

Disaggregate activity scheduling models

J. Pougala; N. Rezvany; M. Bierlaire 

Seminar of the Industrial Process and Energy Systems Engineering group, EPFL, Sion, February 24, 2023.

New features in Biogeme

M. Bierlaire 

15th workshop on Discrete Choice Models, EPFL, Lausanne, June 1-3, 2023.

Solving a pricing problem under irrational behavior

M. Bierlaire 

Seminar of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Data Science for Real-Time Decision-Making, [Montréal, Canada], July 18, 2023.