Past events

Welcome to the 27th MARVEL Junior Seminar on Friday October 11, 2019, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Maria Fumanal (LSMO/LCMD, EPFL and IBM) and Thibault Sohier (THEOS, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar will be chaired by Stefano Falletta.

NCCR MARVEL and CCMX, the Competence Centre for Materials Science and Technology, are co-organizing their third Materials Science Day where both experimental and modeling approaches will be addressed. The morning will be dedicated to MARVEL projects related to Materials for Energy, including modeling and first experimental validation. During the afternoon, we will present progress with ongoing CCMX Materials Challenges. Participants from industry and academia are welcome to discover new projects, make new contacts and initiate collaborations.

To celebrate EPFL's 50th anniversary, there will be a special open house over the weekend of 14–15 September 2019. This family-friendly event will be free of charge and open to anyone with an interest in science – from children on up! MARVEL will be part of the adventure.

The sixth MARVEL Review and Retreat will take place on September 5-6, 2019. The event will gather all MARVEL members, group leaders as well as postdocs and students. On Thursday, all projects will be presented for evaluation by the MARVEL Scientific Advisory Board, with a poster session being held during lunch and in the evening. On Friday, the morning will be devoted to the presentation of the Open Science Platform and the HPC platform.

On Jul 25, MARVEL and CECAM are hosting the second lecture in the series "Classics in molecular and materials modeling" at EPFL.

In this THEOS-MARVEL seminar, Prof. Jennifer L. M. Rupp (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) will address "lithionics" to store energy and compute data neuromorphically.

On July 8-10, 2019, the Summer School on Advanced Electronic Structure Methods in Condensed Matter Physics will take place at EPFL.

The 1-week camp entitled Des atomes aux ordinateurs, à la découverte de la programmation scientifique  is open to teenagers in the last two years of high-school, with no high-level in maths or physics prerequisite and no prior programming knowledge required. Half of the seats are reserved for young women.

The 18th NCCR MARVEL Distinguished Lecture will be given by Prof. Emily A. Carter, Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University on "Quantum Simulations of Sustainable Energy Materials".

Welcome to the 26th MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday June 13, 2019, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Andrea Grisafi (COSMO, EPFL) and Alberto Fabrizio (LCMD, EPFL) will present their research. The seminar is chaired by Kun-Han Lin.

This 3.5-day tutorial is designed to get Master students, PhD students and Postdocs from the field of computational materials science started with writing reproducible workflows. Participants will be introduced to the state of the art in workflow management and high-throughput computations by experts in the field, and gain in-depth hands-on experience using a tool that they can directly apply to their own research.

Join us to watch Good Will Hunting, the story of an unrecognized genius who, as part of an agreement after assaulting a police officer, becomes a client of a therapist and studies advanced mathematics with a renowned professor.