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6 Master projects - spring 2011
30.03.11 - LBE Six Master students started their Master project at LBE, five students from the SIE Section and one from the SSV Section. Two students, supervised by Prof. Christof Holliger, carry out their Master project in the Laboratory for Environmental Biotechnology, four students, supervised by Dr. Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel, carry out their Master project in a Company or University abroad.
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From ballistic to diffusive Brownian motion in a liquid.
30.03.11 - RC Direct observation of the full transition from ballistic to diffusive Brownian motion in a liquid.
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Proteins shed light on the lens of the eye
30.03.11 - Mediacom The lens of the eye, the only transparent part of the human body, is made up of proteins that still hold many mysteries for medical scientists. In order to solve them, it’s necessary to eventually understand both the eye itself and eye diseases. Giuseppe Foffi’s team has been studying the physical properties of our human lens, and their findings have just been published.
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Success of the course on Discrete Choice Analysis
29.03.11 - TRANSP-OR The course "Discrete Choice Analysis: Predicting Demand and Market Shares" took place March 20-24, 2011 and gathered 38 participants.
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Graduate Student Best Paper Award
29.03.11 - TRANSP-OR Carolina Osorio received the Graduate Student Best Paper Award from the Transportation Research Forum.
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Leenards Foundation Award 2011
29.03.11 - RC The Leenaards Foundations awards two scientists in the field of cancer immunotherapies.
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One of the 2011 Leenaards Prizes to Prof. Melody Swartz
29.03.11 - SV Our warm congratulations to Prof. Melody A. Swartz, Head of the Laboratory of Lymphatic and Cancer Bioengineering, at the EPFL School of Life Sciences who, together with Prof. Stephanie Hugues, Department of Pathology and Immunology at the University of Geneva are the winners of one of the 2011 scientific Prizes awarded by the famous Leenaards Foundation...
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Professorship for a MTEI post-doc
29.03.11 - MTEI Dr. Carina Lomberg has been hired by University of Bern as a assistant professor as of April 2011.
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State-of-the-art technology used to reveal ancient walls
29.03.11 - Mediacom The involvement of two start-ups from EPFL will give some unusual perspectives on the remains of the imposing Roman villa uncovered within the perimeter of the Congress Center building site. Sensefly used its drones to make several aerial photos; Pix4d will aggregate them in order to generate a full-scale view of the buildings that may have belonged to a man named Dorinius.
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Vortices in Polariton Superfluids.
28.03.11 - RC Probing the Dynamics of Spontaneous Quantum Vortices in Polariton Superfluids.