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EPFL to host the International Physicists' Tournament 2019

— Physics enthusiasts will descend on Switzerland for this year’s tournament, as the School defends the gold medal it won in 2018 – this time on its home turf.

Tobias J. Kippenberg awarded an ERC Advanced Grant

— Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for the study of “Extremely Coherent Mechanical Oscillators and circuit Cavity Electro-Optics”

In a new quantum simulator, light behaves like a magnet

— Physicists at EPFL propose a new “quantum simulator”: a laser-based device that can be used to study a wide range of quantum systems. Studying it, the researchers have found that photons can behave like magnetic dipoles at temperatures close to absolute zero, following the laws of quantum mechanics. The simple simulator can be used to better understand the properties of complex materials under such extreme conditions.

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Upcoming Events

Before, Behind and Beyond the Standard Model

2019-04-23 12:15:00

With: Andrea Wulzer
Place and room: BSP 234
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves

2019-04-29 16:15:00 17:15:00

With: Prof. Vitor Cardoso, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences - Seminars

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2019-05-06 16:15:00 17:15:00

With: Prof. Philippe Grangier, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences - Seminars

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2019-05-13 16:15:00 17:15:00

With: Prof. Per Helander, Max Planck Institut, Garching
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Metrology with Light: Bright Perspectives!

2019-05-17 03:15:00 04:15:00

With: Karsten Buse, director of Fraunhofer Institute of Physical Measurement Techniques IPM and Professor at the Department of Microsystems Engineering at the University of Freiburg, heading the group “Optical Systems”. He obtained his PhD at the University of Osnabrück in 1993 in the field of photorefractive materials and effects and received his postdoctoral lecturer qualification (habilitation) at the same place in 1997. He was first a post-doc and then visiting professor at the California Institute of Technology CalTech for more than then 10 years. In 2000, he co-founded the Ondax Inc., Monrovia CA, a company producing Bragg gratings for laser applications. From 2000 to 2010, Karsten Buse was Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Bonn. For his research, he has received several awards, including a NASA Technical Briefs Award and the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award for volume Bragg filters. Moreover, for his work on the optical properties and device applications of lithium niobate, the OSA just recently appointed him as a new Fellow Member (2019). His interests are optical materials, nonlinear optics and whispering gallery resonators. He is the author and co-author of more than 400 publications and patents.  
Place and room: BS 270
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Events

Deep learning for cosmology: parameter measurement and generation of simulations

2019-04-17 11:00:00 12:00:00

With: Dr Tomasz Kacprzak
Place and room: Martigny, room 106
Category: Public Science Events

Campus Lecture - Our New International System of Units

2019-04-15 16:15:00 17:15:00

With: Prof. Klaus von Klitzing, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
Place and room: Rolex Learning Center, Forum
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Film Gravity

2019-04-15 18:30:00 20:00:00

Place and room: BC 420
Category: Movies

MARVEL April Junior Seminars

2019-04-11 12:15:00 13:30:00

With: Giulio Imbalzano (COSMO, EPFL) & Thomas Bischoff (CSEA, EPFL)
Place and room: MED 0 1418
Category: Conferences - Seminars

Constraints on parity violating CFTs in d=3

2019-04-11 14:00:00 15:30:00

With: Subham Dutta Chowdhury
Place and room: BSP 727
Category: Conferences - Seminars

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