Let me introduce myself....

My name is Aurelio BAY

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Federal capital: BERN

Financial capital (banks) : Zuerich
International capital (United Nations, Red Cross,...): Geneva
Sport capital (Olympic committee) : Lausanne => where I am
 Lausanne and
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Lausanne, the Leman lake, the Alps
 The Ecole Polytechnique Federale
de Lausanne (EPFL)

Funded in 1918 as an institute of engineering of the Lausanne University

In 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 Students
210 Faculty members
(FTE)
3200 Staff (FTE)
Federal budget 424 MCHF
External funding 132 MCHF
(total ~500 M$)

Campus EPFL : 55 ha
Buildings : 365’000 m2

On the same campus, the University with 10'000 students

 EPFL academic activity
Evolution relative 1990 - 2004
400 %
2004: 1’374 doctorants
350 %
PhD students
300 %

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 6500 students at EPFL
Management of technology
ENAC
Architecture, Civil and
Environmental 2%
SB
Engineering Basic Sciences

23 % 22 %
2%
SV
Life Sciences

23 % 28 %
I&C STI
Computer and Engineering
Communication Sciences and
Sciences Techniques
 Evolution N of students
Nb of students
240 %
1’267
220 % IC - Computer &
Communication Sciences
200 %

180 %
1’375
SB - Basic Sciences
160 %
6’328
140 %
TOTAL STI - Engineering Sciences &
120 % Techniques
4’295 1’724
100 % ENAC - Architecture, Environment
& Civil Engineering
80 % 1’536

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 EPFL academic activity

35 %
2’096
30 %

25 % % foreigners
665
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15 %

10 %
326 398
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5%

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 Programs with high priority

•Information and Communication Sciences

•Life Sciences - Engineering
•Micro & Nanosciences and Technologies
•Material Sciences
•Urbanism and Mobility
•Energy - Renewable energies
 Institute of Energy and Particles IPEP

of the Faculty of basic sciences

http://ipep.epfl.ch/
Plasma Research Center
Laboratory of Astrophysics
Laboratory for Particle Accelerators Physics
The Laboratory for High Energy Physics
The Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour
 Laboratory for High Energy Physics
LPHE
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 activities
IPHE 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 students
BELLE : 1 senior, 2 post-docs, 1 PhD student

Accelerator studies (mainly CLIC) with CERN PhD students