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Sloppy models, differential geometry, and why science works

Models of systems biology, climate change, ecology, complex instruments, and macroeconomics have parameters that are hard or impossible to measure directly. If we fit these unknown parameters, fiddling with them until they…

11-11-202411-11-2024

With: Prof. James Sethna, Cornell University
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Physics with artificial atoms

28-10-202428-10-2024

With: Prof. Per Delsing, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. Director of the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology. Per is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), and of the Royal Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). He is also a Distinguished Professor appointed by the Swedish Research Council (VR), Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and a Wallenberg Scholar.
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Massive Redshift Surveys and First Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI)

23-09-202423-09-2024

With: Dr David Schlegel, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Practical Quantum Computing with Trapped Ions

27-05-202427-05-2024

With: Prof. Jungsang Kim, Multifunctional Integrated Systems Technology , Duke University
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Super-resolution imaging of transcription in living cells

13-05-202413-05-2024

With: Prof. Ibrahim Cissé
Place and room: CE1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Towards Quantum Computing with Spins on Surfaces

02-04-202402-04-2024

With: Prof. Andreas Heinrich, Center for Quantum Nanoscience, Seoul & Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Imaging Electronic and Atomic Motion in Molecules

25-03-202425-03-2024

With: Prof. Manish Garg, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

What Do We Know Today About the Two-Dimensional Hubbard Model ?

11-03-202411-03-2024

With: Prof. Antoine GEORGES, Collège de France, Paris – Flatiron Institute, New York – Université Genève
Place and room: CM 1 120
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Novel approaches to scaling trapped-ion quantum computing

05-02-202405-02-2024

With: Prof. Jonathan Home, ETHZ, Institut für Quantenelektronik
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/64905394203
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Epigenetic factor competition can reshape the EMT landscape in breast cancer cells

23-10-202323-10-2023

With: Prof. Herbert Levine, Northeastern University, Boston
Place and room: CE 1 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Local quantum probes of quantum matter

04-10-202304-10-2023

With: Prof. Amir Yacoby, Harvard University
Place and room: CE 1 4
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Exploring New Computational Frontiers in Quantum Many-Body Physics

30-05-202330-05-2023

With: Prof. Giuseppe Carleo, Computational Quantum Science Laboratory, EPFL
Place and room: BSP 231
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Whole brain approaches to C. elegans neuroscience

15-05-202315-05-2023

With: Prof. Aravinthan Samuel, Harvard University
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Improved operation of fusion plasmas via innovative shaping

17-04-202317-04-2023

With: Prof. Christian Theiler, Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 2
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62347702816
Category: Conferences – Seminars

On the physics and prospects of fusion energy – an exciting journey

20-03-202320-03-2023

With: Prof. Frank Jenko, Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Testing relativity in the laboratory with a miniature network of optical lattice atomic clocks

20-02-202320-02-2023

With: Prof. Shimon Kolkowitz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Place and room: CE 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Quantum simulations with atoms and photons

16-01-202316-01-2023

With: Prof. Jean-Philippe Brantut, Lab for Quantum Gases, EPFL
Place and room: CE 1 5
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63907315396
Category: Conferences – Seminars

A Quantum Future of Computing

12-12-202212-12-2022

With: Matthias Troyer, Technical Fellow and Corporate Vice President, Microsoft
Place and room: CM 1 2
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Non-equilibrium matter through the prism of quantum entanglement

25-11-202225-11-2022

With: Prof. Dmitry Abanin, Université de Genève
Place and room: CE 1 3
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Nonequilibrium Physics in Living Systems and Machine Learning

17-10-202217-10-2022

With: Dr Yuhai TU, IBM research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA
Place and room: CM 1
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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