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this building really hit me
Rolex Learning Center, EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)
SAANA , Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa
arquitectos.
WPC 2022, Abu Dhabi, December 11 - Jacques Biot, Board member and Advisor to companies in the field of digital transformation and artificial intelligence, former President of the École Polytechnique in Paris ; Anders Nordström, Ambassador for Global Health at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden ; Lionel Zinsou, Co-Founder and Co-Chair of SouthBridge, Chairman of Terra Nova think tank, former Prime Minister of Benin, former Chairman of PAI Partners
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Idée originale de : Hanna Mergui et Jérémy Barande
Modèles: Hanna mergui, Haiyang Jiang et Mathieu gierski Maquilleuse : Léa lechan
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Nelle chiese abbandonate si preparano rifugi
E nuove astronavi per viaggi interstellari
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The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
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European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif address reporters following negotiations between the P5+1 member nations and Iranian officials about the future of their country’s nuclear program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on April 2, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Jardani Fatme et Mariam Ezzedine du Laboratoire de Physique des Interfaces et des Couches Minces (LPICM)
Mariam Ezzedine and Fatme Jardali are two postdoc researchers at LPICM, Ecole Polytechnique. They both hold a PhD degree in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique in 2017. Ezzedine and Jardali are the co-founders of the future start-up HIPERSSYS, taking actions to make their vision a reality and devoting their full time for the creation of the company.
HIPERSSYS targets to fundamentally change the way we power our world by the implementation of breakthrough lithium ion (Li-ion) battery technology. HIPERSSYS is developing advanced hybrid nanostructured electrode architectures that enable fabrication of Li-ion batteries with theoretical specific energies that are five times higher than that of today commercial Li-ion batteries. So, imagine the impact this technology can have not only on what is in one’s pockets or hands, but on the global energy economy as a whole!
HIPERSSYS won the first edition of the innovative competition “i-PhD” and the prestigious Jean Louis Gerondeau- Safran prize in 2020.
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The title of Duke of Gramont (duc de Gramont) was a prominent dukedom and peerage in the French nobility. It was created in 1643 and abolished in 1790 (and again in 1848) but retains its title by decree of 1852 administered by the Minister of Justice.
The dukedom was in the Peerage of France, and the Gramont family also held the additional titles of Prince de Bidache, Sovereign of Bidache, Count of Guiche and Louvigny, Viscount of Aster, Baron d'Andouins and of Hagetmau.The younger generation, however, were Bonapartist in sympathy; Gramont's cousin Antoine Louis Raymond, comte de Gramont (1787–1825), though also the son of an émigré, served with distinction in Napoléon's armies, while Antoine Agénor owed his career to his early friendship for Louis Napoleon.
Educated at the École Polytechnique, Gramont early gave up the army for diplomacy. It was not, however, till after the coup d'état of 2 December 1851, which made Louis Napoleon supreme in France, that he became conspicuous as a diplomat. He was successively minister plenipotentiary at Cassel and Stuttgart (1852), at Turin (1853), ambassador at Washington DC (1854), Rome (1857) and at Vienna (1861).
In 1854 he was involved in the disastrous sinking of the SS Arctic, while en route to Washington DC. De Gramont was observed leaping from the ship into the last lifeboat; he was one of the 85 survivors (61 crewmembers and 24 male passengers). More than 300 lives were lost, including all the women and children on board.
On 15 May 1870, he was appointed minister of foreign affairs in the Ollivier cabinet, and was thus largely, though not entirely, responsible for the bungling of the negotiations between France and Prussia arising out of the candidature of Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen for the throne of Spain, which led to the disastrous war of 1870-71.
The exact share of Gramont in this responsibility has been the subject of much controversy. The last word may be said to have been uttered by Émile Ollivier himself in his L'Empire libéral (tome xii, 1909, passim). The famous declaration read by Gramont in the Chamber on 6 July, the "threat with the hand on the sword-hilt," as Bismarck called it, was the joint draft of the whole cabinet; the original draft presented by Gramont was judged to be too "elliptical" in its conclusion and not sufficiently vigorous; the reference to a revival of the empire of Charles V was suggested by Ollivier; the paragraph asserting that France would not allow a foreign power to disturb to her own detriment the actual equilibrium of Europe was inserted by the emperor. So far, then, as this declaration is concerned, it is clear that Gramont's responsibility must be shared with his sovereign and his colleagues (Ollivier op. cit. xii. 107; see also the two projets de déclaration given on p. 570).
It is clear, however, that he did not share the "passion" of his colleagues for "peace with honour", clear also that he wholly misread the intentions of the European powers in the event of war. That he reckoned upon the active alliance of Austria was due, according to Ollivier, to the fact that for nine years he had been a persona grata in the aristocratic society of Vienna, where the necessity for revenging the humiliation of 1866 was an article of faith. This confidence made him less disposed than many of his colleagues to make the best of the renunciation of the candidature made, on behalf of his son, by the prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen.
Agénor, duc de Gramont.
It was Gramont who pointed out to the emperor, on the evening of the 12th, the dubious circumstances of the act of renunciation, and on the same night, without informing Ollivier, despatched to Benedetti at Ems the fatal telegram demanding the king of Prussia's guarantee that the candidature would not be revived. The supreme responsibility for this act must rest with the emperor, "who imposed it by an exercise of personal power on the only one of his ministers who could have lent himself to such a forgetfulness of the safeguards of a parliamentary regime." As for Gramont, he had "no conception of the exigencies of this regime; he remained an ambassador accustomed to obey the orders of his sovereign; in all good faith he had no idea that this was not correct, and that, himself a parliamentary minister, he had associated himself with an act destructive of the authority of parliament." "On his part," adds Ollivier, "it was the result only of obedience, not of warlike premeditation" (op. cit. p. 262). The apology may be taken for what it is worth. To France and to the world Gramont was responsible for the policy which put his country definitely into the wrong in the eyes of Europe, and enabled Bismarck to administer to her the "slap in the face" (soufflet) as Gramont called it in the Chamber by means of the Bismarck-edited "Ems telegram," which was the immediate cause of the French declaration of war on the 15th.
In his memoirs written long after the war, Bismarck wrote: "I always considered that a war with France would naturally follow a war against Austria... I was convinced that the gulf which was created over time between the north and the south of Germany could not be better overcome than by a national war against the neighbouring people who were aggressive against us. I did not doubt that it was necessary to make a French-German war before the general reorganization of Germany could be realized." As the summer of 1870 approached, pressure mounted on Bismarck to have a war with France as quickly as possible. In Bavaria, the largest of the southern German states, unification with (mostly Protestant) Prussia was being opposed by the Patriotic Party, which favoured a confederacy of (Catholic) Bavaria with (Catholic) Austria. German Protestant public opinion was on the side of unification with Prussia, but might not remain so forever.
In France, patriotic sentiment was also growing. On 8 May 1870, French voters had overwhelmingly supported Napoleon III's program in a national plebiscite, with 7,358,000 votes yes against 1,582,000 votes no, an increase of support of two million votes since the legislative elections in 1869. The Emperor was less popular in Paris and the big cities, but highly popular in the French countryside. Napoleon had named a new foreign minister, Antoine Agenor, the Duke de Gramont, the French ambassador to Berlin, who was hostile to Bismarck. The Emperor was weak and ill, but the more extreme Bonapartists were prepared to show their strength against the republicans and monarchists in the parliament.
Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern
In July 1870, Bismarck found a cause for a war in an old dynastic dispute. In September 1868, Queen Isabella II of Spain had been overthrown and exiled to France. The new government of Spain considered several candidates, including Leopold, Prince of Hohenzollern, a cousin of King Wilhelm I of Prussia. At the end of 1869 Napoleon III had let it be known to the Prussian king and his Chancellor Bismarck that a Hohenzollern prince on the throne of Spain would not be acceptable to France. King Wilhelm had no desire to enter into a war against Napoleon III and did not pursue the subject further. At the end of May, however, Bismarck wrote to the father of Leopold, asking him to put pressure upon his son to accept the candidacy to be King of Spain. Leopold, solicited by both his father and Bismarck, agreed.
The news of Leopold's candidacy, published 2 July 1870, aroused fury in the French parliament and press. The government was attacked by both the republicans and monarchist opposition, and by the ultra-bonapartists, for its weakness against Prussia. On 6 July Napoleon III held a meeting of his ministers at the château of Saint-Cloud and told them that Prussia must withdraw the Hohenzollern candidacy or there would be a war. He asked Marshal Leboeuf, the chief of staff of the French army, if the army was prepared for a war against Prussia. Leboeuf responded that the French soldiers had a superior rifle to the Prussian rifle, that the French artillery was commanded by an elite corps of officers, and that the army "would not lack a button on its puttees." He assured the Emperor that the French army could have four hundred thousand men on the Rhine in less than fifteen days.[142]
King Wilhelm I did not want to be seen as the instigator of the war; he had received messages urging restraint from the Czar, Queen Victoria, and the King of the Belgians. On 10 July, he told Leopold's father that his candidacy should be withdrawn. Leopold resisted the idea, but finally agreed on the 11th, and the withdrawal of the candidacy was announced on the 12th, a diplomatic victory for Napoleon. On the evening of the 12th, after meeting with the Empress and with his foreign minister, Gramont, he decided to push his success a little further; he would ask King Wilhelm to guarantee the Prussian government would never again make such a demand for the Spanish throne.
The French Ambassador to Prussia, Count Vincent Benedetti, was sent to the German spa resort of Bad Ems, where the Prussian King was staying. Benedetti met with the King on 13 July in the park of the château. The King told him courteously that he agreed fully with the withdrawal of the Hohenzollern candidacy, but that he could not make promises on behalf of the government for the future. He considered that the matter was closed. As he was instructed by Gramont, Benedetti asked for another meeting with the King to repeat the request, but the King politely, yet firmly, refused. Benedetti returned to Paris and the affair seemed finished. However, Bismarck edited the official dispatch of the meeting to make it appear that both sides had been hostile: "His majesty the King," the dispatch read, "refused to meet again with the French ambassador, and let him know, through an aide-de-camp of service, that His Majesty had nothing more to say to the Ambassador." This version was communicated to governments, and the next day was in the French press.[143]
The Ems telegram had exactly the effect that Bismarck had intended. Once again, public opinion in France was inflamed. "This text produced the effect of a red flag to the Gallic bull," Bismarck later wrote. Gramont, the French foreign minister, declared that he felt "he had just received a slap." The leader of the conservatives in Parliament, Thiers, spoke for moderation, arguing that France had won the diplomatic battle and there was no reason for war, but he was drowned out by cries that he was a traitor and a Prussian. Napoleon's new prime minister, Émile Ollivier, declared that France had done all that it could humanly and honourably do to prevent the war, and that he accepted the responsibility "with a light heart." A crowd of 15–20,000 persons, carrying flags and patriotic banners, marched through the streets of Paris, demanding war. On 19 July 1870 a declaration of war was sent to the Prussian government.
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Idée originale de : Hanna Mergui et Jérémy Barande
Modèles: Hanna mergui, Haiyang Jiang et Mathieu gierski Maquilleuse : Léa lechan
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / J.Barande
View towards North of the entire slope from South. The tower to study slope wind turbulence is located in image centre upslope of the dirty snow patch. Measurements taken as part of a research project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (ENAC / EFLUM) Photo: Andreas Christen, UBC.
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Gaspard Monge, 9 May 1746 – 28 July 1818) was a French mathematician, the inventor of descriptive geometry(the mathematical basis of technical drawing), and the father of differential geometry. During the French Revolution he served as the Minister of the Marine, and was involved in the reform of the French educational system, helping to found the École Polytechnique.
Monge died in Paris on 28 July 1818. His remains were first interred in a mausoleum in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and later transferred to the Panthéon in Paris.
A statue portraying him was erected in Beaune in 1849. Monge's name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the base of the Eiffel Tower.
Since 4 November 1992 the Marine Nationale operate the MRIS FS Monge, named after him.
Monge was an atheist.
The Rolex Learning Centre ("EPFL Learning Centre") is the campus hub and library for the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Lausanne, Switzerland. Designed by the winners of 2010 Pritzker Prize, Japanese-duo SANAA, it opened on 22 February 2010.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, partners of the Tokyo-based design firm SANAA, were selected as the lead architects in EPFL's international competition of December 2004. The team was selected among famous architects and even some Pritzker Prize Laureates such as Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Jean Nouvel, Herzog & de Meuron, Ábalos & Herreros and Xaveer De Geyter.
The construction took place between 2007 and 2009. It cost 110 million Swiss francs and was funded by the Swiss government as well as by private sponsors (Rolex, Logitech, Bouygues Construction, Crédit Suisse, Nestlé, Novartis and SICPA).
The building opened on 22 February 2010 and was inaugurated on 27 May 2010. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolex_Learning_Center
In remembrance of the 14 women that were killed at Montreal's École Polytechnique by a lone gunman professing to hate feminists and the place women took in society.
Philosopher's Walk, University of Toronto
Die École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) ist eine technisch-naturwissenschaftliche Universität in Lausanne, Schweiz. Der Campus befindet sich ausserhalb des Stadtzentrums in unmittelbarer Nähe des Genfersees, er schließt direkt an den Campus der Universität Lausanne an – zusammengenommen das größte Bildungs- und Forschungszentrum der Schweiz.
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and is located in Lausanne, Switzerland.
The school was founded by the Swiss Federal Government with the stated mission to:
Educate engineers and scientists
Be a national center of excellence in science and technology
Provide a hub for interaction between the scientific community and industry.
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École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (ETHZ) - ETH Hönggerberg
Grosses Hörsaal - gebaüde der Physik HPH (A.H Steiner, 1968-1973)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters following negotiations between the P5+1 member nations and Iranian officials about the future of their country’s nuclear program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on April 2, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
This research conducted by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, EFLUM) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) investigated turbulence and surface-atmosphere exchange over a snow-covered glacier (Plaine Morte, Switzerland). Photo by Andreas Christen, UBC.
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Rolex Learning Center
Das Rolex Learning Center ist ein multifunktionales Gebäude der École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Lausanne, liegt nahe am Nordufer des Genfersees und wurde am 22. Februar 2010 eröffnet. (wiki)
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On the lake's shore, at Ecole Polytechnique, near Paris, France.
Model & Make-up: Anastasia.
Taken at the Rolex Learning Center, on the campus of the "Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne" (EPFL), Lausanne.
AlasKès / Kes de la promotion X 2017 des élèves de l'Ecole polytechnique
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This research conducted by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, EFLUM) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) investigated turbulence and surface-atmosphere exchange over a snow-covered glacier (Plaine Morte, Switzerland). Photo by Andreas Christen, UBC.
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Every December 6 across Canada is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. It was on this day in 1989 that 14 women were killed at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal simply because they were women, by what we would, these days, call an incel. It is a dark stain on Canada's history.
Master Management Innovation Entrepreneuriat MIE - MIE541
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters following negotiations between the P5+1 member nations and Iranian officials about the future of their country’s nuclear program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on April 2, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
The École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is a research institute and university in Lausanne, Switzerland, that specializes in natural sciences and engineering. It is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology, and it has three main missions: education, research and technology transfer at the highest international level.
EPFL is widely regarded as a world leading university. The QS World University Rankings ranks EPFL 12th in the world across all fields in their 2017/2018 ranking, whilst Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranks EPFL as the world's 11th best school for Engineering and Technology.
EPFL is located in the French-speaking part of Switzerland; the sister institution in the German-speaking part of Switzerland is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). Associated with several specialised research institutes, the two universities form the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology Domain (ETH Domain), which is directly dependent on the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. In connection with research and teaching activities, EPFL operates a nuclear reactor CROCUS, a Tokamak Fusion reactor, a Blue Gene/Q Supercomputer and P3 bio-hazard facilities. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89cole_Polytechnique_F%C3%A9d...
Parcours sportif autour du lac de l'Ecole polytechnique
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Thirty-one years go, fourteen women lost their lives at École Polytechnique.
Their only crime?
Pursuing their dreams and the education to take them there.
There are those out there who would keep women down, and kill to do it.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters following negotiations between the P5+1 member nations and Iranian officials about the future of their country’s nuclear program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on April 2, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Incorporation de la promotion 2021 pour les élèves de l'Ecole polytechnique / Cycle ingénieur
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This CSAT-3 ultrasonic anemometer by Campbell Scientific Inc. measures measures turbulence and heat exchange over snow during a field campaign conducted by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, EFLUM) and the University of British Columbia (UBC). Measurements characterize surface-atmosphere exchange over a snow-covered glacier (Plaine Morte, Switzerland). Photo by Andreas Christen, UBC.
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Visit of Carrie Lam, Chief Executive of Hong Kong
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Flanked by Acting Spokesperson Marie Harf, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry addresses reporters following negotiations between the P5+1 member nations and Iranian officials about the future of their country’s nuclear program at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland on April 2, 2015. [State Department photo/ Public Domain]
Incorporation de la promotion 2021 pour les élèves de l'Ecole polytechnique / Cycle ingénieur
Crédit photographique : © École polytechnique - J.Barande
This research conducted by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, EFLUM) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) investigated turbulence and surface-atmosphere exchange over a snow-covered glacier (Plaine Morte, Switzerland). Photo by Andreas Christen, UBC.
Part of album Snow-atmosphere interactions
Studying slope wind turbulence with seven ultrasonic anemometer-thermometers (Campbell Scientific CSAT-3) on a small mast located on a steep alpine slope in Val Ferret in July 2013 during a research project at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (ENAC / EFLUM) Photo: Andreas Christen, UBC.
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The new Rolex Learning Center at the EPFL* campus in Ecublens near Lausanne, canton of Vaud, Switzerland. From Japanese architectural firm SANAA it saw its grand opening in February 2010.
*Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).
Shot with ZI RF & Cosina-Voigtlander Super-Wide-Heliar 15mm f/4.5 @ f/8, 1/60sec on Agfa Vista ISO-100 film.
This research conducted by the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, EFLUM) and the University of British Columbia (UBC) investigated turbulence and surface-atmosphere exchange over a snow-covered glacier (Plaine Morte, Switzerland). Photo by Andreas Christen, UBC.
Part of album Snow-atmosphere interactions