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PTOLEMY: Experimental Quest to Detect Relic Neutrinos from the Big Bang

Neutrinos produced in the early moments of the Big Bang are believed to be the second most abundant particle in the Universe.  A method of experimental detection, called PTOLEMY, has been developed to map the flux of…

06-12-202106-12-2021

With: Prof. Chris Tully, Princeton University – video and powerpoint of the colloquium : https://indico.cern.ch/event/1090250/
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62025059723
Category: Conferences – Seminars

ITER – An Essential Step Toward Fusion Energy

29-11-202129-11-2021

With: Dr Tim Luce, Head of Science and Operations, ITER
Place and room: CM 1
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62025059723
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Black Holes as Extreme Quantum Information Processors

17-05-202117-05-2021

With: Prof. Brian Swingle, University of Maryland  —   video of the colloquium  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5oJ6J-wLRU
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Shaping fluid lipid membranes with proteins and cytoskeletal filaments

03-05-202103-05-2021

With: Prof. Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, Laboratoire Physico Chimie Curie, Paris
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/82443983203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Connecting and scaling semiconductor quantum systems

22-04-202122-04-2021

With: Prof. Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford University
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85936312779
Category: Conferences – Seminars

ETHZ Sustainability Week 2021

08-03-202112-03-2021

Online: https://www.nachhaltigkeitswoche.ch/programm/
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Learning to navigate turbulent environments

14-12-202014-12-2020

With: Prof. Massimo Vergassola, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84048962946
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The magic of moiré quantum matter

16-11-202016-11-2020

With: Prof. Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84048962946
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Search for Quantum Gravity

09-11-202009-11-2020

With: Prof. Shiraz Minwalla Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/84048962946
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Computational Quantum Matter

19-10-202019-10-2020

With: Prof. Andreas Läuchli, Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/85265970380
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Silicon-based quantum computing:the path from the laboratory to industrial manufacture

11-12-201911-12-2019

With: Prof. Andrew Dzurak, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

In silico discovery and design of novel materials

18-11-201918-11-2019

With: Prof. Oleg Yazyev, Chair of Computational Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Physics of Morphogenesis

11-11-201911-11-2019

With: Prof. Boris Shraiman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

The Route to Commercial Fusion — Bringing Down the Cost

04-11-201904-11-2019

With: Prof. Steven Cowley, Director Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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

21-10-201921-10-2019

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

Scaling down the laws of thermodynamics

03-06-201903-06-2019

With: Prof. Christopher Jarzynski, University of Maryland
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Why does actomyosin contract ?

27-05-201927-05-2019

With: Dr. Martin Lenz, Senior CNRS researcher, Université Paris-Sud
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Fusion energy, stellarators, and the Wendelstein 7-X project

13-05-201913-05-2019

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

From Bell’s inequalities to quantum technologies

06-05-201906-05-2019

With: Prof. Philippe Grangier, Institut d’Optique, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
Place and room: CE 1 6
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Testing General Relativity with Gravitational Waves

29-04-201929-04-2019

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

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