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Newsletter - August 29, 2019

Dear MARVEL'ers, 

Please find below our latest newsletter, with all the news, highlights, feature stories, and events related to the MARVEL community. 

MARVEL is getting ready for next week’s Review and Retreat taking place September 5-6 at EPFL. Gathering all MARVEL members, group leaders as well as postdocs and students, it is an important event, essential to communicating and evaluating the work being done throughout the NCCR.   

You can also read about how our group leaders are continuing to gain wide recognition, with Prof. von Lilienfeld named editor-in-chief, and Prof. Corminboeuf named to the editorial board of new open access journal Machine Learning: Science and Technology. 

Finally, you can read about the next generation of researchers, already getting their start through programs such as the MARVEL Summer Camp, and the Coding Club for girls. You can also discover the latest round of INSPIRE Potentials fellows – the next application deadline is October 15.

MARVEL Review and Retreat 2019

MARVEL Review and Retreat 2019

Sep 05, 2019, 9:00 until Sep 06, 2019, 11:15, CO1, EPFL, Lausanne

The sixth MARVEL Review and Retreat will take place on September 5-6, 2019. The event will gather all MARVEL members, group leaders as well as postdocs and students. On Thursday, all projects will be presented for evaluation by the MARVEL Scientific Advisory Board, with a poster session being held during lunch and in the evening. On Friday, the morning will be devoted to the presentation of the Open Science Platform and the HPC platform.

News

von Lilienfeld named editor-in-chief, Corminboeuf named to editorial board of new open access journal Machine Learning: Science and Technology

Machine Learning: Science and Technology (MLST), a new open access journal devoted to the application and development of machine learning for the sciences, has appointed two NCCR MARVEL members to it editorial team. Prof. Anatole von Lilienfeld of the Institute of Physical Chemistry at the University of Basel and project leader of MARVEL Incubator Project 2 has been named Editor-in-Chief. Prof. Clémence Corminboeuf, professor at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL and part of MARVEL's Executive Committee, has been named to the editorial board. The journal is now open for submissions.

Clémence Corminboeuf Featured on Swiss TV Mini-Documentary Series "Le Court du Jour"

Swiss television station RTS's « Le Court du Jour » is a series of short programs meant to provide the general public with a daily educational exploration of different domains. From culture to the environment, passing through the sciences, sport and health, “Le Court du Jour” addresses different topics with the aim of providing clear, entertaining information. Clémence Corminboeuf, professor at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at EPFL and a member of MARVEL's Executive Committee, recently took part in a series called "Femmes de Science".

Read MARVEL Highlights here.

MARVEL for the younger generation

MARVEL Summer Camp students “had a lot of fun, while working and learning new things”

This year’s Summer Camp “Des atomes aux ordinateurs” at EPFL attracted 21 high school students — 10 women and 11 men — for a full week of lectures, exercises and lab visits built around the theme of scientific programming. With motivations ranging from a general desire to learn more about EPFL overall to a passion for the chemical properties of different materials, students came from the Romandie and other parts of Switzerland — as well as France, the U.S. and even Hong Kong — to deepen their knowledge of the programming language Python. 

Coding club for girls in French-speaking Switzerland

MARVEL supports the "Coding club des filles", a project initiated by the EPFL Science Outreach Department with the support of the Federal Office for Gender Equality. It offers coding workshops for girls 11 to 15 years old organized throughout French-speaking Switzerland.

INSPIRE Potentials

Three new INSPIRE Potentials fellows will join MARVEL for their Master's research projects

We are happy to announce that Jigyasa Nigam (Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology (IIST), Trivandrum, Kerala, India), Joanna Stoycheva (Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria) and Linnea Mørch Folkmann (University of Copenhagen, Danemark) were granted INSPIRE Potentials – MARVEL Master's Fellowships after the April 2019 call. All three women will join MARVEL labs for a 6-month Master's research project — congratulations!

Upcoming events

EPFL Open House 2019

Sep 14, 2019, 10:00 until Sep 15, 2019, 17:00

To celebrate EPFL's 50th anniversary, there will be a special open house over the weekend of 14–15 September 2019. This family-friendly event will be free of charge and open to anyone with an interest in science – from children on up! MARVEL will be part of the adventure.

CCMX-MARVEL Materials Science Day 2019

Oct 08, 2019, from 9:00 until 17:30, Welle 7, Bern

NCCR MARVEL and CCMX, the Competence Centre for Materials Science and Technology, are co-organizing their third Materials Science Day where both experimental and modeling approaches will be addressed. The morning will be dedicated to MARVEL projects related to Materials for Energy, including modeling and first experimental validation. During the afternoon, we will present progress with ongoing CCMX Materials Challenges. Participants from industry and academia are welcome to discover new projects, make new contacts and initiate collaborations.

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