Programme of External Visits 2007

24 students joined this tour, which visited three high-tech sites in Grenoble: the HP/Intel Business Solutions Centre, at the HP facility; MINATEC, France's largest micro and nanotechnology centre, and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

HP/INTEL
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10.00

Arrival at HP Site and welcome  

10.30

HP Intel Solution Center  Xavier Taillemite

11.00

HP Procurve  Sophie Pasquier

11:45

HP IPTV  Gilles Noisette

 12:30

End of visit  

Lunch

MINATEC
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13h00

Arrivée sur le parvis Minatec   

14h00

présentation Minatec  

14h40

présentation minalogic  

15h30

visite du showroom du bâtiment des objets communicants (capteurs)  

 

ESRF
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16.00

Arrival and general presentation in the auditorium  M. Wulff

16.45

Presentation Advanced computing for X-ray science in the auditorium  C. Ferraro

17.30

Beamline visit Group 1 to visit id20  L. Paolisini
  Beamline visit Group 2 to visit id09tr M. Wulff / M. Cammarata

18:00

Departure  

 

This tour, co-organised with the University of Delaware, took a group of 22 openlab students and 13 from Delaware to EPFL. The 'Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne' is one of the top two technical universities in Switzerland. A series of lectures gave a cross-section of research activities at EPFL, with an emphasis on computer science and its applications.

Monday 6 August 2007, EPFL BC Building
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08:47

Geneva-Airport, train departure    

09:34

Train arrival in Renens, change platform    

09:37

M1 (Métro) departure from Renens    

09:43

M1 (Métro) arrival at EPFL    

 

Walk from EPFL station to the BC building    
       

10:00

Guillaume Zufferey, EPFL CRAFT BC 01, ground floor 021/6937521

10:30

Bernard Moret, EPFL Bioinformatics BC 01, ground floor  
11:00 Patrick Amon, EPFL Information Security BC 01, ground floor  

11:30

Katerina Argyraki, EPFL Networking BC 01, ground floor  
       

12:00

Lunch in the BC cafeteria, self-service BC 430, 4th floor  
       
13:30 Victor Jongeneel, Vital-IT BC 01, ground floor  
14:00 Pascal Vuilliomenet, EPFL and Alinghi BC 01, ground floor  
14:30 Felix Schuermann, the BlueBrain project at EPFL BC 01, ground floor  
15:00 Mark Meagher, from virtual to physical-the EPFL Media and Design Lab BC 01, ground floor  
15:30 Mehdi Amnian & Marc Gander, from ideas to business at EPFL BC 01, ground floor  
16:00 Lab Tours : audience splits into three groups of 12    
  Tour 1 : BlueBrain Lan and movie (Felix Schuermann & Michel Jaunin)    
  Tour 2 : Media and Design Lab (Mark Meagher)    
  Tour 3 : Vital IT Lab (Victor Jongeneel)    
17:00 Close of the day    
       
17:15 EPFL M1 (Métro) departure    
17:22 M1 (Métro) arrival in Renens, change platform    
17:25 Renens, train departure    
18:13 Train arrival in Geneva-Airport