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Arnaud Magrez awarded the Polysphère d'Or 2019

Education

During the Graduation Ceremony, the AGEPoly has presented the Polysphère d’Or to Arnaud Magrez, teacher in the Physics Section.

Former EPFL PhD student wins APS award

EPFL

Edoardo Baldini, a former PhD student in the labs of Majed Chergui and Fabrizio Carbone, has won the 2019 Carl E. Anderson Division of Laser Science Dissertation Award from the American Physical Society.

Creating a single phonon in ambient conditions

Research

EPFL physicists have for the first time successfully observed a single quantum of vibrational energy at ambient conditions, involving the oscillation of more than 100 billion atoms. The work opens up new possibilities for the study of quantum phenomena and ultrafast quantum technologies at room temperature.

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Upcoming Events

Hidden, Entangled and Resonating Orders

2019-10-1815:15:00

With: Prof Nicola Spaldin from Department of Materials ETH Zurich
Place and room: CE 1 5
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Direct Multipixel Imaging of an exo-Earth with a Solar Gravitational Lens Telescope

2019-10-2116:15:0017:15:00

With: Prof. Slava Turyshev, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory / CALTECH
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Light-matter interaction in plasmonic nanoparticle crystals

2019-10-2515:15:00

With: Stephanie Reich (Freie Universität Berlin)
Place and room: CE 1 5
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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