Past events

Welcome to the eleventh MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday December 7, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Robert Baldock (EPFL, THEOS) gives a presentation on 'Calculating Multicomponent Phase Diagrams with Nested Sampling' and Alexander Hampel (ETHZ) on 'Describing the combined structural and metal-insulator transition in rare-earth nickelates with ab-initio (DFT+U and DFT+DMFT) methods'. The seminar is facilitated by Gloria Capano.

The deadline for entries has been extended to 31 December 2017. Organized this semester by ACCES, the platform for Application-Centered Computational Engineering Science, this visualization contest is open to all the students and postdocs at EPFL, alone or in groups up to four people and is part a broader effort at EPFL to embed Computational Thinking into the education of scientists and engineers.

An informal coffee talk with Claudia Binder, full professor at EPFL – ENAC, and Carlotta Guiducci, tenure track assistant professor at EPFL – STI is organized for the female PhD students and postdocs on Thursday 23 November at 13:45. 

ETHZ and UZH are organizing a gender equality event "Let's Redress the Leaky Pipeline" at ETHZ on Monday 20 November from 13:15 until 16:00, followed by an apero. 

Many of the breakthroughs of the early days of simulation would not have been possible without skilled  programmers who translated new scientific ideas into efficient codes that would run without errors on the supercomputers of the 1950s and 1960s. CECAM and NCCR MARVEL have the pleasure to invite you on Wednesday November 15 at 17:30 to meet a truly outstanding representative of the first  generation of coders: Mary Ann Mansigh Karlsen.

An exclusive lunch with Mary Ann Mansigh Karlsen, a truly outstanding representative of the first generation of coders, is organized for the female researchers on Tuesday 14 November at 12:15. 

Are you familiar with the work of women as so-called “human computers”? The movie Hidden Figures by Theodore Melfi is the story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years of the U.S. space programme. A free screening is organized at EPFL on Monday November 13, 2017 at 18:00.

On Friday November 10, 2017 at 12:15, Prof. W. Craig Carter from MIT and invited professor at EPFL will give a MARVEL ACCES Seminar entitled ''What is — and what isn’t — computational thinking?  And, why and how should universities include it in curricula'', in the framework of the 2017 ACCES Visualisation Contest. The seminar will take place at EPFL, in room ME B3 31.

Welcome to the tenth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday November 9, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Bingqing Cheng (EPFL, COSMO) gives a presentation on 'Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation' and Jose A. Flores-Livas (University of Basel) on 'Computational screening of useful hole-electron dopants in SnO2'. The seminar is facilitated by Francesco Ambrosio.

Welcome to the ninth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday October 12, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Nicholas John Browning (EPFL, LCBC) gives a presentation on Genetic Optimization of Training Sets for Improved Machine Learning Models of Molecular Properties and Bing Huang (University of Basel) on The “DNA” of chemistry: Scalable quantum machine learning with “amons”. The seminar is facilitated by Francesco Ambrosio.

A privileged lunch with Suzi LeVine, the former United States' ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Barack Obama, is organised for the female PhD students and postdocs on Friday 6 October 13:15-14:15. 

Current challenges in materials science: modeling or experimental approach? What can be expected from quantum mechanics modeling to accelerate R&D in industry?