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In situ monitoring of femtosecond laser-induced modifications in dielectrics
Over the last decades, the progress made in the generation of laser pulses shorter than a picosecond (10^-12 s) has allowed us to reach extreme optical power intensities exceeding 10^15 W cm^-2. This tremendous power has triggered an abundance of original ...
EPFL2023Type and Elementary Structure: The Anthropological Turn
As Vidler suggests, the Third Typology’s radical proposition was to identify the nature of architectural elements as neither scientific nor technical but essentially architectural. For Martí Arís, this ‘essence’ of architecture is rooted in form-making, th ...
2023Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Summer Saud Islam
This acclaimed and bestselling book by design and research practice Material Cultures brings together a series of short, incisive essays on the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fo ...
Mack2023Manning's Formula and the Strickler Scaling Derived from a Co-spectral Budget Model
Gabriele Manoli, Sara Bonetti, Gabriel George Katul
Manning's empirical formula in conjunction with Strickler's scaling is widely used to predict the bulk velocity (V) from the hydraulic radius (Rh), the roughness size (r), and the slope of the energy grade line (S) in uniform channel flows at high bulk Rey ...
2023Things that Talk: On a new perspective for engaging with scientific instruments
Jérôme Baudry, Ion-Gabriel Mihailescu
Our contribution will propose a new approach for engaging with scientific instruments inspired by a recent exhibition which we have designed and organized. Inverting the current trope of presenting history through many objects, the exhibition weaved togeth ...
2023Teaching Circular Architecture On-site
Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Camille Lucie Elisabeth Fauvel
The Land of a Thousand Dances is an interdisciplinary one-week workshop for architecture, civil engineering, and environmental sciences students at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The course proposes to study design through maintenance, by ...
2023Emotions in Engineering Education
Contrary to common stereotypes, engineering education and practice are not purely rational activities. Emotions, just like cognition, play important roles in teaching, learning, and professional practice. Today, there is a nascent body of research explorin ...
Routledge2023Beyond Spectral Gap: The Role of the Topology in Decentralized Learning
Martin Jaggi, Thijs Vogels, Hadrien Hendrikx
In data-parallel optimization of machine learning models, workers collaborate to improve their estimates of the model: more accurate gradients allow them to use larger learning rates and optimize faster. In the decentralized setting, in which workers commu ...
Brookline2023Nature-Inspired Stalactite Nanopores for Biosensing and Energy Harvesting
Aleksandra Radenovic, Mukeshchand Thakur, Andrey Chernev, Vasily Artemov, Lucie Navratilova, Nianduo Cai, Yunfei Teng, Tzu-Heng Chen
Nature provides a wide range of self-assembled structures from the nanoscale to the macroscale. Under the right thermodynamic conditions and with the appropriate material supply, structures like stalactites, icicles, and corals can grow. However, the natur ...
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023Alchemical analysis of FDA approved drugs
Philippe Schwaller, Daniel Probst, Jean-Louis Reymond, Markus Orsi
Chemical space maps help visualize similarities within molecular sets. However, there are many different molecular similarity measures resulting in a confusing number of possible comparisons. To overcome this limitation, we exploit the fact that tools desi ...
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