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

Management of technology

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2 % SVLife Sciences

Evolution N of students Nb of students

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6’328

4’295

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ENAC - Architecture, Environment& Civil Engineering

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EPFL academic activity

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398

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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