26.08.21 – An international collaboration with EPFL has developed a method to improve the performance of COVID-19 contact-tracing apps by taking into account a user’s recent contacts, risk levels and shared information about tests and symptoms. Contact-tracing apps like SwissCovid … Continue reading →
26.08.21 – Physicists at EPFL have found a way to get photons to interact with pairs of atoms for the first time. The breakthrough is important for the field of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), a cutting-edge field leading the way … Continue reading →
17.08.21 – Professor Yimon Aye has won the 2022 Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award. Founded in 2005, the Tetrahedron Young Investigator Award is given each year by the Executive Board of Editors and the Publisher of Tetrahedron Publications. It is given … Continue reading →
12.08.21 – NICEdrug.ch, a new database developed by a group of researchers from EPFL, may help scientists assess potential drugs more quickly, including how they are metabolized by the body and their potential side effects. Researchers from EPFL have created … Continue reading →
03.08.21 – Two physicists, from EPFL and Columbia University, have introduced an approach for simulating the quantum approximate optimization algorithm using a traditional computer. Instead of running the algorithm on advanced quantum processors, the new approach uses a classical machine-learning … Continue reading →
30.07.21 – SUMMER SERIES: HOW SCIENCE WORKS – For millennia scientists have manually combed through data in a bid to find meaningful patterns to solve complex problems. Now, many researchers believe that Machine Learning will fundamentally change the way science … Continue reading →
28.07.21 – Frédéric Blanc, an EPFL senior scientist specialized in particle physics, has been named best teacher in the physics section. In the general physics class he gives to first-year students, the focus is on interactive lectures and hands-on demos. … Continue reading →
25.07.21 – Anna Kiesenhofer, who is a post-doctoral fellow in Mathematics at EPFL’s Faculty of Basic Sciences, won the road race gold medal at the Tokyo Olympic Games this Sunday. Anna Kiensenhofer won an incredible victory after a 40-kilometer solo … Continue reading →
22.07.21 – Professor Ardemis Boghossian has won the European Society of Photobiology Young Investigator Award. Each year, the European Society for Photobiology (ESP) offers the Young Investigator Award to a young researcher who has conducted original research of exceptionally high … Continue reading →
21.07.21 – Jeremy Imboden, apprentice of the Mechanical and Electronic Engineering Workshops, and Florian Monnier, apprentice of the Crystal Growth Facility, obtained their federal certificate of competence with honors. For his individual practical work, Florian Monnier finalized the development of … Continue reading →