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Attendees of the course Control and Operation of Tokamaks © Federico Felici / EPFL 2023

A new generation facing the challenges of high power fusion devices

23.02.23Education

It brought together an audience from all over Europe, Switzerland and the United States. The great success of the course organized this February by five research scientists from the Swiss Plasma Center of EPFL, confirms the growing importance in control solutions in the research towards a fusion reactor.

Nicolas Grandjean teaches a physics class © 2022 EPFL, Alain Herzog, CC BY-SA 4.0.

“My classes are constantly evolving”

20.02.23EPFL

Nicolas Grandjean, who won the PolySphère award for best teacher in EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences as well as the PolySphère d’Or for best teacher overall, has a unique approach to teaching physics.

Ultrafast control of spins in a microscope

27.01.23Research

Researchers at EPFL have developed a new technique that can visualize and control the rotation of a handful of spins arranged in a vortex-like texture at the fastest speed ever achieved. The breakthrough can advance “spintronics”, a technology that includes new types of computer memory, logic gates, and high-precision sensors.

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Upcoming Events

SDSC-AI4Science seminar: Advancing cosmology with deep learning

22-03-202322-03-2023

With: Dr. Tomasz Kacprzak and Dr. Nathanaël Perraudin, Sr. Data Scientists at SDSC
Place and room: GA 3 21
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67864899458
Category: Conferences – Seminars

MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Kristian Sommer Thygesen

23-03-202323-03-2023

With: Kristian Sommer Thygesen, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/68869286373?pwd=MlFlVmNWQWRXaGlXdjkvbEhBR3BYZz09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Symposium à la mémoire de François Rothen

21-04-202321-04-2023

With: Gervais Chapuis, EPFL, Giovanni Dietler, EPFL, Marc Donnet Monay, ancien étudiant, Jacques Dubochet, Prix Nobel, UNIL Martin Kunz, ancien doctorant ,Philippe Martin, EPFL Michel Mayor, Prix Nobel, UNIGE, Pawel Pieransky, Univ. Paris-Saclay.
Place and room: Salle annoncée ultérieurement
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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