Past events

  • Seminar "Julia for materials modelling" (Michael Herbst)

    May 24, 2023, from 15:00 until 16:00, MED 2 1124 (Coviz2), EPFL

    The Julia programming language has emerged in the past years as an alternative to the traditional python / Fortran / C++ mix in scientific computing. In this seminar, Prof. Michael Herbst (EPFL) will be giving an overview of Julia codes, with perspectives for using it in the field of atomistic materials modeling.

  • NCCR Open Research Data Meeting in Lausanne

    May 08, 2023, from 9:00 until 17:45, morning: EPFL, CM 1 4, EPFL and afternoon: UniL, Anthropole

    As part as the Open Research Data — NCCR Network Ventures, we have the pleasure to invite you to a series of three joint NCCR meetings on open science and open research data, to be held in Zurich, Lausanne, and Basel, featuring presentations and practical workshops by experts and researchers who have developed methods for practicing various aspects of Open Research Data.

  • MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Claudia Felser

    May 02, 2023, from 15:00 until 16:15, Zoom

    The 34th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany). She will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Chirality and Topology".

  • EPFL Open Days 2023

    Apr 29, 2023, 10:00 until Apr 30, 2023, 17:00, EPFL

    In April 2023, EPFL will once again open its doors to a large public of all ages. This is an opportunity for thousands of visitors to discover the secrets of the school through events, animations, meetings, workshops and many other surprises. MARVEL will be part of the adventure.

  • NCCR Open Research Data Meeting in Zurich

    Apr 28, 2023, from 9:00 until 17:45, UZH, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

    As part as the Open Research Data — NCCR Network Ventures, we have the pleasure to invite you to a series of three joint NCCR meetings on open science and open research data, to be held in Zurich, Lausanne, and Basel, featuring presentations and practical workshops by experts and researchers who have developed methods for practicing various aspects of Open Research Data.

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — April 2023

    Apr 20, 2023, from 12:15 until 13:30, Coviz2 (MED 2 1124), EPFL + Zoom

    The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is continuing in hybrid mode, in order to maintain in-person contacts and allow off-campus attendees to follow the seminars remotely! The MARVEL Junior Seminars aim to intensify interactions between the MARVEL Junior scientists belonging to different research groups.  We are pleased to propose the 51st MARVEL Junior Seminar: Virginie de Mestral (Integrated Systems Lab, ETHZ) and Giovanna Lani (THEOS, EPFL) will present their research.

  • MARVEL site visit 2023

    Mar 28, 2023, 9:00 until Mar 29, 2023, 18:00, SwissTech Convention Center, EPFL

    The Site Visit for MARVEL year 9 will take place at EPFL on March 28-29, 2023. At this occasion, the Review Panel — international board of evaluation of the NCCR MARVEL — will meet the members of the project.

  • MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Kristian Sommer Thygesen

    Mar 23, 2023, from 15:00 until 16:15, Zoom

    The 33rd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Kristian Sommer Thygesen, professor computational atomic-scale materials design at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Emergent Properties in Flatland: When One Plus One is More than Two".

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — February 2023

    Feb 23, 2023, from 12:15 until 13:30, Coviz2 (MED 2 1124), EPFL + Zoom

    The MARVEL Junior Seminar series are back, now in hybrid mode, in order to maintain in-person contacts and allow off-campus attendees to follow the seminars remotely! The MARVEL Junior Seminars aim to intensify interactions between the MARVEL Junior scientists belonging to different research groups.  We are pleased to propose the 50th MARVEL Junior Seminar: Taylor Baird (CECAM, EPFL) and Chiheb Ben Mahmoud (COSMO, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Miriam Pougin (LSMO, EPFL).

  • From women's eyes

    Feb 11, 2023, from 15:00 until 17:00, Online

    "In order to achieve full and equal access to and participation in science for women and girls, the United Nations General Assembly declared February 11 as the International day of Women and Girls in Science in 2015” (from the UN website). CECAM honors this important occasion with a special afternoon dedicated to women who contributed to our field and beyond.

  • MARVEL Review and Retreat January 2023

    Jan 18, 2023, 17:00 until Jan 20, 2023, 14:00, Grindelwald

    The ninth MARVEL Review and Retreat will take place on January 18 to 20, 2023 in the mountains in Grindelwald. The event will gather all MARVEL members, group leaders as well as postdocs and students. Presentations will show to all the community where the projects stand and what are the next steps. 

  • MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Heather Kulik

    Dec 13, 2022, from 15:00 until 16:30, Zoom

    The 32nd NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Heather Kulik, professor of chemical engineering at the MIT. She will be discussing materials discovery in challenging spaces with machine learning, from transition metal complexes to metal-organic frameworks.