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EDMX News and Events

Next EDMX Social and Scientific Events 2024-2025 :

Tuesday, October 1st, 18:00 – Labéro!

This is a newly created Lab-Apéro event: Labs get the chance to present themselves & their relationship with materials and we will have a fun game around it!

Tuesday, November 5th, 10:00 – EDMX Breakfast

Come have your morning coffee and a croissant (or two) with us!

Tuesday, December 10th, 12:00 – EDMX Christmas Lunch

Let’s end the year with a good lunch and in good spirits!

SAVE THE DATE

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, EDMX Research day

EPFL's My Thesis in 180 Seconds 2024 – Swiss Finale on 20.06.2024 at Université de Fribourg

Congratulations to Stella Laperrousaz from FIMAP, who won the Public Prize !

EPFL's My Thesis in 180 Seconds 2024 – EPFL Competition

Congratulations to EDMX finalists of the 8th Edition of the EPFL Competition MT180 which took place on 21 March 2024 at the Forum Rolex:

Maria Marcineck from LP, 1st place

Stella Laperrousaz from FIMAP, 3rd place

They will have the opportunity to compete in the Swiss finale organised by CUSO on June 20 at the University of Fribourg.

EDMX Research Day 2024

The EDMX Research Day is an annual event that brings together all materials science Doctoral Candidates at EPFL as well as other members of our scientific community.

The event took place on Wednesday February 7th, 2024.

EDMX Eat'N'Meet & Coffee with LMGN, PBL and LAFT

The information session Eat’n Meet EDMX took place on November 15, 2023. We organize this event together with the section MX to promote the doctorate in Material Sciences and Engineering. Three Doctoral Candidates presented their project and experience:

– Huixin Guo from LMGN with the presentation “My Dynamic 3D work and life”

– Cem Tekin from PBL with the presentation “Engineering Supramolecular 2D Crystals”

– Biruktait Lemecho from LAFT with the presentation “”Harmonizing the Cosmos: Integrating CO2 Capture, Conversion, and Advanced Material Manufacturing for Sustainable Space Exploration”

Discussion has been followed around a buffet-lunch.

EDMX Eat'N'Meet & Coffee with LMSC and SML

The information session Eat’n Meet EDMX took place on May 10, 2023. We organize this event together with the section MX to promote the doctorate in Material Sciences and Engineering. Two Doctoral Candidates and an Alumni presented their project and experience:

– Alexandra Thoma from Soft Materials Laboratory (SMAL) with the presentation “From Food to Drops”

– Chuen-Ru Li from Soft Materials Laboratory (SMAL) with the presentation “Charge-selectively of permeable microcapsules”

– Alejandra Slagter from Laboratory of Mechanical Metallurgy (LMM) with the presentation “Steelmaking: insights from micromechanics”

Discussion has been followed around a buffet-lunch.

A coffee break was then organized by our PhD representatives Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas with the presentation of 2 laboratories:

– Tribology and Interfacial Chemistry Group (TIC)

– Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials (LMSC).

 

EPFL's My Thesis in 180 Seconds 2023 – EPFL Competition

Congratulations to EDMX finalists of the 7th Edition of the EPFL Competition MT180 which took place on 30 March 2023 at the Forum Rolex:

Eva Baur from SMAL, 1st place and public award prize,

Armand Kurum from LBI, 3rd place

EDMX Research Day 2023

The EDMX Research Day 2023 took place on Wednesday February 8th, 2023.

EDMX Christmas Lunch 2022

The EDMX Christmas lunch, organised by our Doctoral Candidates Representatives, Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas, took place on December 6th 2022.

This lunch gave a chance to Doctoral Candidates to discuss various topics that concern their PhD: how the TAs are going, any new publications, any new projects you are working on, and so on.

EDMX Breakfast 2022

On October 6, 2022, the EDMX Breakfast Event, organised by our Doctoral Candidate Representatives, Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas, took place.

It was a moment of sharing in good atmospher between Doctoral Candidates, Post-docs and Professors.

EDMX Summer Event 2022

On July 21st, 2022, the EDMX Summer Event, organised by our Doctoral Candidate Representatives, Gaia De Angelis and Kyle Haas, took place.

The event started with interesting talks given by EDMX alumni, Alvaro Charlet and Amin Rostamian. Then a buffet dinner has been shared.

EDMX Research Day 2022

On February 9, 2022 virtually by webinar

The EDMX Research Day is an annual event that brings together all materials science Doctoral Candidates at EPFL as well as other members of our scientific community.

Pitch talks – Doctoral Candidates talks – Poster sessions – EDMX Alumni experience

EPFL Memento

Journée Intelligence artificielle

Artificial Intelligence Day

23-11-202423-11-2024

With: Programme complet
Place and room: Rolex Learning Center
Online: https://journee-ia.epfl.ch/
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Journées d’information 2024

20-11-202422-11-2024

Place and room: STCC 2 9428
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Cartoon on Human resources and AI

Cartooning for Science

02-12-202402-12-2024

With: Patrick Chappatte, Tom Toro, Martin Vetterli
Place and room: STCC 2 8020
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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