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PPUR: going digital for its 30 years

Published:23.11.10 — Based at EPFL, for whom it’s the preferred publisher, the Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes (PPUR) is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its foundation, with nearly 900 titles published and one-and-a-half million works distributed, by strengthening its digital publishing.

An exceptional musical event for the Rolex Learning Center!

Published:22.11.10 — An original musical show has been created to mirror the renowned fluid architecture designed by the Japanese architects SANAA: a variation on the links between technology and art, architecture and acoustics, and dream and reality.

With a little help from the wind

Published:19.11.10 — At EPFL’s Laboratory of Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy (WIRE), researchers are studying wind movements in the lower part of the atmosphere, and this research is helping to optimize the positioning of turbines in wind farms.

Understanding international affairs

Published:18.11.10 — UNIL and EPFL are offering a new course in the international domain. The program will begin in March 2011.

A cube materializes in the curves of the Rolex Learning Center

Published:17.11.10 — The Module, a very unusual structure, offers an astonishing experience to visitors to the EPFL library

Racetrack memory

Published:16.11.10 — Imagine a computer equipped with shock-proof memory that’s 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks.Professor Mathias Kläui from EPFL and PSI is working on a new kind of “Racetrack” memory, a high-volume, ultra-rapid non-volatile read-write magnetic memory that was invented at IBM and may soon make such a creature possible.

All optical transistor

Published:12.11.10 — In an article appearing on November 11th in the journal Science, researchers at EPFL and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics announce the discovery of a method for coupling photons and mechanical vibrations that could have numerous applications in telecommunications and quantum information technologies.