15.02.21 – Professor Tobias J. Kippenberg at EPFL’s School of Basic Sciences has been awarded the 2021 Robert W. Wood Prize from The Optical Society. Established in 1975, the Wood Prize is named after renowned physicist Robert W. Wood, who … Continue reading →
26.01.21 – Analyzing a classic paper that has influenced the size of parliaments for almost half a century, an EPFL physicist discovers major flaws with its methodology, challenges its fundamental assumptions, and calls for a complete and careful re-think of … Continue reading →
08.01.21 – An international team of scientists have developed a photonic processor that uses rays of light inside silicon chips to process information much faster than conventional electronic chips. Published in Nature, the breakthrough study was carried out by scientists … Continue reading →
07.01.21 – EPFL Associate Professor Lenka Zdeborová gives the prestigious 2021 Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture, posing the question of which computational problems are actually tractable with computers, which are not, and what is the theory behind this? Lenka Zdeborová, who … Continue reading →
23.12.20 – Prof. Christian Theiler received the IAEA’s Nuclear Fusion Journal Award 2020 for his paper presenting ‘Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV’. The awarding of the 2020 IAEA’s Nuclear Fusion Journal Prize to Ch. … Continue reading →
21.12.20 – Scientists from EPFL, MIT, and CEA Saclay demonstrate a state of vibration that exists simultaneously at two different times. They evidence this quantum superposition by measuring the strongest class of quantum correlations between light beams that interact with … Continue reading →
10.12.20 – Prof. Frédéric Courbin (LASTRO) associated with CIS was allocated, for the 3rd time in a row, a SNSF sinergia grant related to the ESA-NASA Euclid space mission. The grant, to be shared between EPFL (PI), UniGE, UniZH and … Continue reading →
18.11.20 – On October 29th, 2020, MAST Upgrade, UK’s new fusion experimental device, came to life. Inside the machine’s vessel, hydrogen was heated into a plasma hotter than the temperature in the center of the Sun. The Swiss Plasma Center … Continue reading →
09.11.20 – Using a unique material, EPFL scientists have been able to design and study an unusual state of matter, the Quantum Spin Liquid. The work has significant implications for future technologies, from quantum computing to superconductivity and spintronics. In … Continue reading →
02.10.20 – Optical frequency combs can link frequencies in the microwave domain to high-purity laser emissions, yielding unprecedented precision in time-keeping and metrology. Now EPFL scientists and their colleagues have generated variable low-noise microwave signals by building variable microwave gears … Continue reading →