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Let me introduce myself....My name is Aurelio BAY
I live in Switzerland
Federal capital: BERNFinancial capital (banks) : ZuerichInternational capital (United Nations, Red Cross,...): GenevaSport capital (Olympic committee) : Lausanne => where I am
Lausanne andneighbours
Vevey : Nestle
Montreux: Jaz festival
Lausanne, the Leman lake,the Alps
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Funded in 1918 as an institute of engineering of the Lausanne UniversityIn 1946 became "Polytechnic school of the Lausanne University"In 1969 became federal (like the old sister in Zuerich, ETHZ)
http://panorama.epfl.ch
The Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
6500 Students210 Faculty members (FTE)
3200 Staff (FTE)
Federal budget 424 MCHFExternal funding 132 MCHF(total ~500 M$)
Campus EPFL : 55 haBuildings : 365’000 m2
On the same campus, the University with 10'000 students
EPFL academic activity
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1990: 354 doctorants
2004: 1’374 doctorants
Evolution relative 1990 - 2004
PhD students
6500 students at EPFL
SBBasic Sciences
STIEngineeringSciences andTechniques
I&CComputer and
CommunicationSciences
ENACArchitecture, Civil and
EnvironmentalEngineering
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Evolution N of students Nb of students
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Programs with highpriority
•Information and Communication Sciences•Life Sciences - Engineering•Micro & Nanosciences and Technologies•Material Sciences•Urbanism and Mobility•Energy - Renewable energies
Institute of Energy andParticles IPEP
of the Faculty of basic sciences
http://ipep.epfl.ch/
Plasma Research CenterLaboratory of AstrophysicsLaboratory for Particle Accelerators PhysicsThe Laboratory for High Energy PhysicsThe Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour
Laboratory for High Energy PhysicsLPHE
http://lphe.epfl.ch/
Physicists: 6 seniors (3 professors, 1 assistant professor) 7 post-docs 18 PhD students
Academics: 2 - 4 master students/year in HEP and ~ 3 PhD
Infrastructure: Electronics workshop
2 electronic eng. + 2 technicians Mechanics workshop (in common with Solid State group)
1 draughtsman + 6 technicians
LPHE activitiesIPHE has participated in several experiments at PSI, at CERN (UA6, L3, NOMAD), and FermiLab (HyperCP)and to R&D projects in Positron Emission Tomography
Most of our resources allocated to B physics:LHCb : 4 seniors, 3 post-docs, 9 PhD studentsBELLE : 1 senior, 2 post-docs, 1 PhD student
Accelerator studies (mainly CLIC) with CERN PhD students