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Collaboration between IMT and BrightView Systems

Published:07.07.09 — The Thin-Film Photovoltaics Laboratory at IMT, a world leading lab in silicon-based thin-film solar cells research, part of the renowned Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), and BrightView Systems, an innovative developer of production process optimization tools for the solar industry are joining forces to introduce novel solutions for the optimization of next generation thin-film solar cells production.

The James H. Wilkinson Prize to Assyr Abdulle

Published:23.06.09 — Professor Assyr Abdulle (Chair of Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis at EPFL) has been awarded by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics the James H. Wilkinson Prize in numerical analysis and scientific computing for "outstanding contributions in a broad range of fields, including stability analysis and mathematical software for stiff initial value problems, efficient solution algorithms for stochastic differential equations, and error analysis of hetergeneous multiscale methods".

Motilis Medica wins W.A. de Vigier Foundation Prize

Published:19.06.09 — The oldest and most generous prize for young Swiss entrepreneurs was awarded June 18 in Soloturn: the W.A. De Vigier Foundation recognized five young entrepreneurs for their forward-looking projects. They each received starting capital of 100,000 CHF. One of these prizes was won by the Lausanne Company Motilis Medica SA, whose CEO and co-founder, Vincent Schlageter, is a member of EPFL's Signal Processing Laboratory. His innovation: a pill which transforms itself into a "special agent" in the digestive system to pinpoint GI tract problems. Read the Press release (French).

Best Demo Award at MDM 2009 for Ali Salehi, Karl Aberer and Sebastian

Published:18.06.09 — At the International Conference on Mobile Data Management Systems (MDM 2009), the demo "GSN, Middleware for Streaming World" by Ali Salehi (EPFL), Mehdi Riahi (Isfahan University of Technology, Iran), Karl Aberer and Sebastien Michel (EPFL) won the Best Demo Award.

EPFL professor wins the 2009 Fresnel Prize

Published:17.06.09 — The 2009 Fresnel Prize has been awarded to Tobias Kippenberg, assistant professor in the Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements at EPFL and quantum optics researcher in the Max Planck Institute in Germany. The prize, accompanied by 3000 Euros, is awarded for outstanding work by a researcher under the age of 35 and is given every two years by the European Physical Society. This young scientist has been recognized for his work in optomechanics and its novel applications in the area of metrology.

CSE Prize 2009 awarded to scientists for rbMIT software package

Published:16.06.09 — Springer, a leading global scientific publisher, has awarded the Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Prize 2009 to Phuong Huynh, Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen and Gianluigi Rozza for developing the software package rbMIT, used in solving parametrized partial differential equations by the reduced basis method. Phuong Huynh is currently a research fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the National University of Singapore. Ngoc-Cuong Nguyen is a research scientist in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gianluigi Rozza is a senior research scientist in the Chair of Modelling and Scientific Computing and Lecturer at the Doctoral School of Mathematics, both at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. The rbMIT software package is an outstanding example of CSE software and is being used for both research and CSE education. The CSE Prize is accompanied by US$ 10,000. Read the press release.

Forty Years of Sustainable Campus

Published:12.06.09 — Just a few days after receiving the 2009 national prize for the most bike-friendly company, EPFL has been awarded a major token of recognition for its efforts in the environmental field: on 11 June it was presented with The First International Sustainable Campus Award on the occasion of the International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN) Conference held at the EPFL until 12 June.