Past events

On Friday November 10, 2017 at 12:15, Prof. W. Craig Carter from MIT and invited professor at EPFL will give a MARVEL ACCES Seminar entitled ''What is — and what isn’t — computational thinking?  And, why and how should universities include it in curricula'', in the framework of the 2017 ACCES Visualisation Contest. The seminar will take place at EPFL, in room ME B3 31.

Welcome to the tenth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday November 9, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Bingqing Cheng (EPFL, COSMO) gives a presentation on 'Bridging the gap between atomistic and macroscopic models of homogeneous nucleation' and Jose A. Flores-Livas (University of Basel) on 'Computational screening of useful hole-electron dopants in SnO2'. The seminar is facilitated by Francesco Ambrosio.

Welcome to the ninth MARVEL Junior Seminar on Thursday October 12, 2017, 12:15 pm, EPFL, room MED 0 1418. Nicholas John Browning (EPFL, LCBC) gives a presentation on Genetic Optimization of Training Sets for Improved Machine Learning Models of Molecular Properties and Bing Huang (University of Basel) on The “DNA” of chemistry: Scalable quantum machine learning with “amons”. The seminar is facilitated by Francesco Ambrosio.

A privileged lunch with Suzi LeVine, the former United States' ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein under President Barack Obama, is organised for the female PhD students and postdocs on Friday 6 October 13:15-14:15. 

Current challenges in materials science: modeling or experimental approach? What can be expected from quantum mechanics modeling to accelerate R&D in industry?

Female PhD students, postdocs and professors are invited to an informal lunch with Prof. Mary O'Kane, the Erna Hamburger Prize Laureate 2017, who has accepted to give a presentation of her research and career Monday 25 September 12:30-14:00 at EPFL. In the evening of the same day at 18:00, the WISH foundation will hold the prestigious Erna Hamburger Prize and Conference.

Thursday September 21, 2017, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room SG 0211, Prof. Chris G. Van De Walle (University of California, Santa Barbara), Using the right criteria for design and discovery

Monday September 11, 2017, 16:15 pm, EPFL, Room MXF1,  Prof. Yang Shao-Horn (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), The Future of Electrochemistry

The fourth MARVEL Review and Retreat, gathering all MARVEL members, will take place on September 7-8, 2017.

The NCCR-MARVEL will attend the exhibition of the ETHZ Industry Day 2017 from 12.00 until 18.00. An opportunity for companies to have an insight on our activities in materials design and discovery. Come and visit us !

The Symposium on Theoretical Chemistry (STC) is an annual meeting gathering scientists from all areas of Theoretical Chemistry in which a specific topical focus is featured each year. This year's theme is ''Big Data in Chemistry: From Molecular Structure to Condensed Phase Dynamics''.

MARVEL organizes topical sessions on “Correlated-Electron Physics in Transition-Metal Oxides” and on “Emergent phenomena in novel low-dimensional materials” at the Joint Annual Meeting of the Swiss and Austrian Physical Societies (SPS-ÖPG 2017), to be held in Geneva on August 21-25, 2017.