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Yohan Hadji with the probe before launch at MeteoSwiss © 2024 Yohan Hadji

New type of weather radiosonde can find its way back

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Some 80% of weather radiosondes – remote measurement instruments containing plastic, batteries and electronic parts – end up lost in nature after one flight. But a startup created by a microengineering master’s student is set to change that with a new, ultra-lightweight “glidersonde” that can automatically return to where it was launched.

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ClearSpace to use EPFL software to protect satellites

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A convolutional neural network developed in the Embedded Systems Lab (ESL) in the School of Engineering will be implemented by EPFL spin-off ClearSpace to shield satellite communications from interference by solar radiation.

Three STI professors win ERC Synergy Grants

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The European Research Council announced on Tuesday that professors Andras Kis, Edoardo Charbon, and Tobias Kippenberg of the EPFL School of Engineering (STI) have been awarded ERC Synergy Grants to tackle major scientific challenges.

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Events

SAMCE 2024 – 31 October 2024 – FHNW, Brugg-Windisch
3rd Symposium on Modeling and Simulation for Additive Manufacturing – 5 September 2024 – FHNW Brugg-Windisch

IEM Distinguished Lecturers Seminar: Ultracompact nonlinear platforms based on layered semiconductors for phase-matched up- and down-conversion

19-11-202419-11-2024

With: Chiara Trovatello, PhD, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University, USA  & Department of Physics, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Place and room: BM 5202
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/67449285011
Category: Conferences – Seminars

IEM Seminar Series: Innovative Neurotechnologies for Brain Disorder Treatment: Merging Efficiency and Intelligence

19-11-202419-11-2024

With: Prof Mahsa Shoaran, Integrated Neurotechnologies Laboratory (INL), IEM and NeuroX
Place and room: BM 5202
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69136574555
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Direct high-temperature MOCVD growth of GaN on foreign substrates

15-11-202415-11-2024

With: Alessandro FLORIDUZ
Place and room: BS 270
Category: Thesis defenses

On quality assessment and learning-based compression of point clouds for conventional and DNA-based storage

15-11-202415-11-2024

With: Davi NACHTIGALL LAZZAROTTO
Place and room: CM 1 3
Category: Thesis defenses

An Angular Framework for Ultrasound Imaging

25-11-202425-11-2024

With: Baptiste Ghislain Emmanuel HÉRIARD-DUBREUIL
Place and room: CM 1 4
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/66387924044
Category: Thesis defenses

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