Past events

  • Informal coffee talk with Claudia Binder and Carlotta Guiducci

    Nov 23, 2017, from 13:45 until 15:00, EPFL, PAC88

    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. 

  • Let's redress the leaky pipeline

    Nov 20, 2017, from 13:15 until 16:00, ETHZ, ML H 37.1

    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. 

  • Almost famous, a woman behind the codes

    Nov 15, 2017, from 17:30 until 20:00, EPFL, Auditorium CO1

    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.

  • Exclusive female lunch with Mary Ann Mansigh Karlsen

    Nov 14, 2017, from 12:15 until 13:30, EPFL PAC88

    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. 

  • Screening of the movie Hidden Figures

    Nov 13, 2017, from 18:00 until 21:00, EPFL, Auditorium CO1

    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.

  • MARVEL ACCES Seminar — W. Craig Carter

    Nov 10, 2017, from 12:15 until 13:15, EPFL, ME B3 31

    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.

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — November 2017

    Nov 09, 2017, from 12:15 until 13:30, EPFL, MED 0 1418

    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.

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — October 2017

    Oct 12, 2017, from 12:15 until 13:30, EPFL, MED 0 1418

    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.

  • Privileged lunch with Suzi LeVine

    Oct 06, 2017, from 13:15 until 14:15, EPFL, PAC88

    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. 

  • CCMX-MARVEL Materials Day 2017

    Oct 05, 2017, from 9:45 until 17:00, Empa, Dübendorf

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

  • Informal lunch with Prof. Mary O’Kane

    Sep 25, 2017, from 12:30 until 14:00, EPFL, PAC88

    Female PhD students, postdocs and professors are invited to an informal lunch with Prof. Mary O'Kane, the Erna Hamburger Prize Laureate 2017, who has accepted to give a presentation of her research and career Monday 25 September 12:30-14:00 at EPFL. In the evening of the same day at 18:00, the WISH foundation will hold the prestigious Erna Hamburger Prize and Conference.

  • MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Chris G. Van de Walle

    Sep 21, 2017, from 16:15 until 17:15, EPFL, room SG 0211

    Thursday September 21, 2017, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room SG 0211, Prof. Chris G. Van De Walle (University of California, Santa Barbara), Using the right criteria for design and discovery