College of Management of Technology

Is research in Switzerland condemned to growth?

Published:18.01.22 — Is it worth it for a small country like Switzerland to lead this incessant "race for size" to remain competitive in science?

Daniel Kuhn appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Programming

Published:11.01.22 — As of 1 January 2022, Daniel Kuhn was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Programming Series A and B.

First place in ML4Science project pitches

Published:10.01.22 — Francesca Nicoletti and Maxime Dulon, students in Mechanical Engineering, and Zineb Agnaou, a student in Mathematics, have obtained first place in the pitch contest for the highly popular ML4Science project as part of the Machine Learning Course CS-433. This course, co-taught by Profs. Nicolas Flammarion and Martin Jaggi, seeks to provide fundamental principles and machine learning methods. In the ML4Science project, students can bring their ML skills to practice by joining forces with any lab on the EPFL campus, or other academic institutions, across any discipline and topic of their choice.

9th Deloitte OES Prize for Optimizing “Co-Working” at Cafetaria Niki

Published:06.01.22 — The 2021 Deloitte OES Prize for the best student project in Prof. Weber’s graduate course “Operations: Economics and Strategy” has been awarded to Arsenii GAVRILENKO, Nils HASSELMARK, and Hugo PARENT-LEDUC. The Deloitte OES Prize competition, which involves finding operational improvements in local businesses, has been held each year since 2013. The 2021 edition represents the 9th year of continuous cooperation between Deloitte and the EPFL Chair of Operations, Economics and Strategy.