SB@EPFL Jun 2024

June 2024 Newsletter - School of Basic Sciences

New Appointments

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At its meeting of 22-23 May 2024, the ETH Board has appointed Drs Nikita Kavokine and Suong Nguyen as Tenure-Track Assistant Professors at the School of Basic Sciences.

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24 May 2024

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Since June 1, 2024, Prof. Paolo Ricci has succeeded Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli as Director of the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC).

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10 Jun 2024

News

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Atom-thin graphene membranes make carbon capture more efficient …………………..

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24 Jun 2024

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High-precision measurements challenge the understanding of Cepheids …………………..

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17 Jun 2024

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New method unlocks cyclopropenes’ potential for drug discovery ………………….. ……………

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3 Jun 2024

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Gamma-ray method monitors nuclear reactors safely and quickly……………

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22 May 2024

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An AI leap into chemical synthesis …………… ……………

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21 May 2024

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Machine learning accelerates discovery of solar-cell perovskites ……………….

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20 May 2024

Awards and Grants

Prof. Matthieu Wyart awarded the Physik-Preis Dresden 2024
“For his pioneering contributions to various problems of complex systems, in particular the theory of financial markets, the physics of disordered and glassy systems as well as the theory of neural networks and machine learning”

Prof. Berend Smit elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has elected Professor Berend Smit at EPFL as a Foreign Member.

The 2024 “Prix Schläfli” for Mathematics has been awarded to J. Gruber
For his thesisGeneric direct summands of tensor products for simple algebraic groups and quantum groups at roots of unity

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