Past events

  • From women's eyes

    Feb 14, 2024, from 14:00 until 15:00, Online

    We would like to invite you to join us for the CECAM online celebration of the UN International Day of Women and Girls in Science on February 14. Shobhana Narasimhan (JNCASR, Jakkur, Bangalore) and Virginie de Mestral (ETH Zurich) will share with us their experiences and perspective on women’s access and participation in our domain. We are also looking forward to contributions and questions from the audience — boys and girls alike! 

  • Fix the leaky pipeline! — Kickoff event 2024

    Feb 06, 2024, from 12:15 until 14:00, Online/hybrid

    The next run of the Fix the Leaky Pipeline program (FLP), a career building program for women in science, will be launched by an online/hybrid kickoff event on Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 12:15 – 14:00.

  • MARVEL Review and Retreat January 2024

    Jan 17, 2024, 17:00 until Jan 19, 2024, 14:00, Sunstar Hotel, Grindelwald

    The tenth MARVEL Review and Retreat will take place on January 17-19, 2024. 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. 

  • Webinar: the Lhumos training portal

    Jan 15, 2024, from 14:00 until 15:00, Zoom

    Tune in online on January 15, 2024, at 2pm CET and get to know Lhumos, the novel e-learning platform for the material sciences community! Lhumos (Learning HUb for MOdeling and Simulation) is a novel educational platform developed to facilitate the upskilling of students, scientists, and industrial users in HPC applications in the material sciences domain.

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — December 2023

    Dec 14, 2023, from 12:15 until 13:15, Coviz2 (MED 2 1124), EPFL + Zoom

    The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is held 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 56th MARVEL Junior Seminar: Philip Loche (Lab. of computational science and modelling - COSMO, EPFL) and Yuri Cho (Computational molecular design lab. - LCMD, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Alessandro Carbone (Lab. of theory and simulation of materials - THEOS, EPFL).

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — November 2023

    Nov 16, 2023, from 12:15 until 13:15, Coviz2 (MED 2 1124), EPFL + Zoom

    The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is held 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 55th MARVEL Junior Seminar: Serena Nasrallah (Uni Fribourg and TU Vienna) and Iurii Timrov (Laboratory for Materials Simulations, PSI) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Sanggyu Chong (Laboratory of computational science and modelling EPFL).

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — October 2023

    Oct 19, 2023, from 12:15 until 13:15, Coviz2 (MED 2 1124), EPFL + Zoom

    The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is held 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 54th MARVEL Junior Seminar: Yann Müller (Laboratory of Materials Design and Simulation - MADES, EPFL) and Edward Linscott (Laboratory of Theory and Simulation of Materials - THEOS, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Miriam Pougin (Laboratory of Molecular Simulation - LSMO, EPFL).

  • MARVEL Communication open mic session

    Oct 03, 2023, from 14:00 until 15:00, Online + Coviz2 (MED 2 1124) EPFL

    This one-hour session will be an opportunity for all  members to meet and interact with Nicola Nosengo, who since May 2023 is Communication Officer for NCCR MARVEL.

  • Open Science Showcase: the Story of Materials Cloud

    Sep 29, 2023, from 12:00 until 13:00, Online + Room CE 1 5, EPFL

    Come and discover Materials Cloud - a pioneering open platform from NCCR MARVEL that changes the way researchers access, share, and collaborate on computational materials science.

  • CECAM-MARVEL Classics in molecular and materials modelling: Eberhard Gross and Angel Rubio

    Sep 28, 2023, from 18:00 until 20:30, Online + BCH 2103, EPFL

    Eberhard Gross (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Angel Rubio (Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter) will give a joint lecture on "Time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT)", in what will be the ninth event in the series "Classics in molecular and materials modelling" hosted by CECAM and MARVEL.

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — September 2023

    Sep 21, 2023, from 12:15 until 13:15, Coviz2 (MED 2 1124), EPFL + Zoom

    The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is held 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 53rd MARVEL Junior Seminar: Sanggyu Chong (Laboratory of Computational Science and Modeling - COSMO, EPFL) and Martin Uhrin (Laboratory of Theory and Simulation of Materials - THEOS, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Virginie de Mestral (Integrated Systems Lab., ETHZ).

  • MARVEL Junior Retreat 2023

    Sep 12, 2023, 17:00 until Sep 15, 2023, 14:00

    The fifth MARVEL Junior Retreat will take place from September 12 to 15, 2023. 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.