Past events

  • 2023 Summer camp for high-school students

    Jun 26, 2023, 9:00 until Jun 30, 2023, 16:00, EPFL, Lausanne

    The 1-week camp entitled Des atomes aux ordinateurs, à la découverte de la programmation scientifique  is open to teenagers in the last two years of high-school, with no high-level in maths or physics prerequisite. A prior knowledge of the basics of programming is recommended. It is possible to acquire these notions independently if necessary (within 3-4 hours). Half of the seats are reserved for young women.

  • MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Emmanouil Kioupakis

    Jun 20, 2023, from 15:00 until 16:15, Zoom + MED 2 1124 (EPFL)

    The 35th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Emmanouil Kioupakis, University of Michigan. He will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Advancing the state of the art in semiconductor technology through predictive atomistic calculations: from uncovering fundamental limitations to discovering new materials." 

  • Joint MARVEL-QSE seminar: Andrew Briggs

    Jun 16, 2023, from 11:00 until 12:00, MED 2 1124 (Coviz2), EPFL

    This seminar, hosted jointly by MARVEL and EPFL's Centre for Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE), will feature Andrew Briggs, Professor of Nanomaterials at the University of Oxford. He will be giving a presentation entitled: "Accelerating quantum technologies with machine learning".

  • MARVEL seminar: "Thermal phonon transport for energy applications" (Zhiting Tian)

    Jun 02, 2023, from 11:00 until 12:00, MED 2 1124 (Coviz2), EPFL

    This MARVEL seminar will be given by Zhiting Tian, Associate Professor at Cornell University. She will be giving a presentation entitled: "Thermal Phonon Transport for Energy Applications".

  • NCCR Open Research Data Meeting in Basel

    Jun 02, 2023, from 9:00 until 17:45, Biozentrum, Spitalstrasse 41, Basel

    As part as the Open Research Data — NCCR Network Ventures, we have the pleasure to invite you to a series of three joint NCCR meetings on open science and open research data, to be held in Zurich, Lausanne, and Basel, featuring presentations and practical workshops by experts and researchers who have developed methods for practicing various aspects of Open Research Data.

  • Joint MARVEL - Physical Chemistry Seminar: Vojtech Vlcek

    May 25, 2023, from 11:00 until 12:00, MED 2 1124 (Coviz2), EPFL

    This joint MARVEL - Physical Chemistry seminar will be given by Prof. Vojtech Vlcek, University of California Santa Barbara. He will be giving a presentation entitled: "Excitations Dynamics Driving Electronic Correlations in Molecules and Solids" 

  • Seminar "Julia for materials modelling" (Michael Herbst)

    May 24, 2023, from 15:00 until 16:00, MED 2 1124 (Coviz2), EPFL

    The Julia programming language has emerged in the past years as an alternative to the traditional python / Fortran / C++ mix in scientific computing. In this seminar, Prof. Michael Herbst (EPFL) will be giving an overview of Julia codes, with perspectives for using it in the field of atomistic materials modeling.

  • NCCR Open Research Data Meeting in Lausanne

    May 08, 2023, from 9:00 until 17:45, morning: EPFL, CM 1 4, EPFL and afternoon: UniL, Anthropole

    As part as the Open Research Data — NCCR Network Ventures, we have the pleasure to invite you to a series of three joint NCCR meetings on open science and open research data, to be held in Zurich, Lausanne, and Basel, featuring presentations and practical workshops by experts and researchers who have developed methods for practicing various aspects of Open Research Data.

  • MARVEL Distinguished Lecture — Claudia Felser

    May 02, 2023, from 15:00 until 16:15, Zoom

    The 34th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Claudia Felser, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids (Dresden, Germany). She will be presenting a lecture entitled: "Chirality and Topology".

  • EPFL Open Days 2023

    Apr 29, 2023, 10:00 until Apr 30, 2023, 17:00, EPFL

    In April 2023, EPFL will once again open its doors to a large public of all ages. This is an opportunity for thousands of visitors to discover the secrets of the school through events, animations, meetings, workshops and many other surprises. MARVEL will be part of the adventure.

  • NCCR Open Research Data Meeting in Zurich

    Apr 28, 2023, from 9:00 until 17:45, UZH, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich

    As part as the Open Research Data — NCCR Network Ventures, we have the pleasure to invite you to a series of three joint NCCR meetings on open science and open research data, to be held in Zurich, Lausanne, and Basel, featuring presentations and practical workshops by experts and researchers who have developed methods for practicing various aspects of Open Research Data.

  • MARVEL Junior Seminar — April 2023

    Apr 20, 2023, from 12:15 until 13:30, Coviz2 (MED 2 1124), EPFL + Zoom

    The MARVEL Junior Seminar series is continuing 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 51st MARVEL Junior Seminar: Virginie de Mestral (Integrated Systems Lab, ETHZ) and Giovanna Lani (THEOS, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Alessandro Carbone (THEOS, EPFL).