High School activities

Together with the Service de promotion de l’éducation de l’EPFL, we propose various mathematical activities and participate to different scientific m nous proposons plusieurs activités mathématiques et participons à différentes manifestations scientifiques

Throughout the year, the EPFL and the Service de promotion de l’éducation (SPE) organise scientific events for students in high school, in which the Institute and the Mathematics Section participate. 

1011+1101=24 using Minecraft

Build a calculator in Minecraft and add up binary numbers. 

The dates for the 2021 edition will be announced soon.

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Nomination of Professor Mats Julius Stensrud

— The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of Professor Mats Julius Stensrud as Associate Professor of Statistics in the School of Basic Sciences (SB)

Emmanuel Abbé. Credit: EPFL

Emmanuel Abbé receives Frontier of Science Award

— EPFL Professor Emmanuel Abbé has been honored with the 2024 Frontier of Science Award for his pioneering work on principal component analysis and spectral clustering.

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Large Language Models feel the direction of time

— Researchers have found that AI large language models, like GPT-4, are better at predicting what comes next than what came before in a sentence. This “Arrow of Time” effect could reshape our understanding of the structure of natural language, and the way these models understand it.

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11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics

— On August 12th, Victor Panaretos, who holds the EPFL chair of mathematical statistics, opened the Bernoulli-IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics) 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics 2024, in his capacity of President of the Bernoulli Society (jointly with Michael Kosorok the president of the IMS).

Maria Colombo. Credit: Alain Herzog (EPFL)

Maria Colombo awarded EMS Prize

— EPFL mathematician Maria Colombo has been awarded an EMS Prize from the European Mathematical Society.

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