Past events

The eleventh MARVEL Review and Retreat will take place on January 13-15, 2025. 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. 

The MARVEL Junior Seminars aim to intensify interactions between the MARVEL Junior scientists belonging to different research groups – this is held in hybrid mode, in order to maintain in-person contacts and allow off-campus attendees to follow the seminars remotely! We are pleased to propose the 63rd MARVEL Junior Seminar: Mauro Dossena (Integrated systems laboratory, ETHZ) and Stefan Riemelmoser (Chair of atomic scale simulation - CSEA, EPFL) will present their research. 

The MARVEL Junior Seminars aim to intensify interactions between the MARVEL Junior scientists belonging to different research groups – this is held in hybrid mode, in order to maintain in-person contacts and allow off-campus attendees to follow the seminars remotely! We are pleased to propose the 62nd MARVEL Junior Seminar: Flaviano dos Santos (Laboratory for materials simulations, PSI) and Fatemeh Haddadi (Lab. of theory and simulation of materials - THEOS, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Manuel Rudolph (Lab. of quantum information and computation - QIC, EPFL).

During the 2024 edition of Scientastic, the EPFL Science Festival, being held on Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 November, you will discover how science works! In particular, meet Lidia Favre-Quattropani, MARVEL scientific manager, telling the the story of Jacutingaite, or how a wonder material went from the mine to theory, crystal growth and experiments.

On 28-29 October, CECAM will host a workshop on "Challenges and perspective in computational modelling for fusion reactors", co-organised by MARVEL Director Nicola Marzari with over 30 talks on how simulations help fusion technology.

The MARVEL Junior Seminars aim to intensify interactions between the MARVEL Junior scientists belonging to different research groups – this is held in hybrid mode, in order to maintain in-person contacts and allow off-campus attendees to follow the seminars remotely! We are pleased to propose the 61st MARVEL Junior Seminar: Manuel Rudolph (Lab. of quantum information and computation, EPFL) and Davide Tisi (Lab. of computational science and modelling, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Alessandro Carbone (Lab. of theory and simulation of materials, EPFL).

This MARVEL seminar will be given by Julia Wiktor, Assistant Professor at Chalmers university (Sweden). She will be giving a presentation entitled: "Charge localization, dynamics, and phase transitions in halide perovskites".

The sixth MARVEL Junior Retreat will take place from dinnertime September 10 until lunch on September 13, 2024. It will give PhD students and Postdocs involved in MARVEL groups the opportunity to interact, share their experiences, learn about each other’s research, start new collaborations and discuss various aspects that are relevant for young researchers. The focuses of this year’s MARVEL Junior Retreat are “entrepreneurship, technology transfer, intellectual property rights”.

Emmanouil Kioupakis is a professor of Materials Science and Engineering and of Applied Physics at the University of Michigan, and is currently a visiting professor at EPFL, hosted by MARVEL, until June 2025.

The MARVEL Industry Day will take place on September 5, 2024 at the Empa-Akademie in Dübendorf. The day-long workshop will bring together members of industry, academia, and public research institutions to discuss areas in which computer simulations can provide important insights to industry.  The workshop will include invited seminars from academic and industrial partners. The keynote presentation for the event will be given by Prof. Roberto Car from Princeton University. Speakers from companies such as IBM, BASF, Bosch, Microsoft, Schott and Beyond Gravity will present their outlook on how computer simulations can provide critical real-world insights to industry.

This MARVEL seminar will be given by Felipe H. da Jornada, Assistant Professor at Stanford University (CA, USA). He will be giving a presentation entitled: "Designing excited states for energy and quantum-information applications".

The 38th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. David Srolovitz, The University of Hong Kong. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Grain boundaries are natural Brownian ratchets: directional GB anisotropy".