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EPFL course content

• Astrophysics II : interactions radiation-matter
  
  

  This course provides the essential concepts for understanding how stars form, evolve, radiate, and synthesize their chemical elements. These are fundamentals to tackle the variety of galaxy properties, and how their interstellar medium is gradually enriched with metals.

  
  
  Teachers: Pascale Jablonka
  Language: En
  

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• Astrophysics III : galaxy formation and evolution
  
  

  Galaxy formation & evolution is about studying how galaxies in our Universe come into existence, how they evolve and what shapes their properties. This course describes the observational facts of galaxies and the various processes of galaxy evolution as seen from theoretical/numerical models.

  
  
  Teachers: Michaela Hirschmann
  Language: En
  

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• Astrophysics IV : stellar and galactic dynamics
  
  

  The aim of this course is to acquire the basic knowledge on specific dynamical phenomena related to the origin, equilibrium, and evolution of star
  clusters, galaxies, and galaxy clusters.

  
  
  Teachers: Yves Revaz
  Language: En
  

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• Astrophysics V : observational cosmology
  
  

  Cosmology is the study of the structure and evolution of the universe as a whole. This course describes the principal themes of cosmology, as seen
  from the point of view of observations.

  
  
  Teachers: Jean-Paul Kneib
  Language: En
  

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• General physics : mechanics
  
  

  Give the student the basic notions that will allow him or her to have a better understanding of physical phenomena, such as the mechanics of point masses. Acquire the capacity to analyse quantitatively the consequences of these effects with appropriate theoretical tools.

  
  
  Teachers: Yves Revaz
  Language: Fr
  

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• General physics : mechanics (english flipped classroom)
  
  

  The principles of classical mechanics successfully describe many phenomena encountered in the world. In this course students will develop a conceptual understanding of the core concepts and an ability to apply the theoretical framework to describe and predict the motions of solid bodies.

  
  
  Teachers: Emma Tolley
  Language: En
  

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• General physics : thermodynamics (English)
  
  

  Students acquire the abilities to analyze physical systems through the lens of thermodynamics and statistical physics.

  
  
  Teachers: Michaela Hirschmann
  Language: En
  

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• Introduction to astrophysics: the basics
  
  

  General presentation of the methods and knowledge of modern astrophysics to illustrate our perception and understanding of the universe. This course constitutes the basis for more advanced courses, but also provides general 'astrophysics' culture for any student.

  
  
  Teachers: Jean-Paul Kneib
  Language: Fr
  

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• Lecture series on scientific machine learning
  
  

  This lecture presents ongoing work on how scientific questions can be tackled using machine learning. Machine learning enables extracting knowledge from data computationally and in an automatized way. We will learn on examples how this is influencing the very scientific method.

  
  
  Teachers: David Richard Harvey
  Language: En
  

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• Robotics practicals
  
  

  The goal of this lab series is to practice the various theoretical frameworks acquired in the courses on a variety of robots, ranging from industrial robots to autonomous mobile robots, to robotic devices, all the way to interactive robots.

  
  
  Teachers: Jean-Paul Kneib
  Language: En
  

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• Space sustainability, a multidisciplinary approach
  
  

  The students will learn the history and geopolitical challenges of space sustai. Different tools and methods to measure, understand and act for space sust. will be presented. Throughout group work, the students will evaluate the technical, economical, governance and geopolitical aspects of space sus

  
  
  Teachers: Stephan Hellmich
  Language: En
  

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