Name: Space Day @ EPFL – A journey through space on campus
Start: 2022-03-30T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-03-30T17:00:00+02:00

Space Day @ EPFL – A journey through space on campus

30 March 2022 @ 09:00 - 17:00

Hybrid Event

The Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW) and its partners present Space Week! Join us to discover Switzerland the space nation.

The global space industry is booming. Half a century after the first space race that led mankind to set foot on the Moon, new public and private actors are redoubling their efforts to explore, understand and use space. This new era opens up tremendous opportunities, but it also presents many challenges.

How does space contribute to improving our life on Earth and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? What role does Switzerland play? Find out from March 28 to April 1 during Space Week.

EPFL Space Day

A journey through space on campus

EPFL associations and research laboratories working in the field of space will introduce themselves to the EPFL community during a day of conferences and workshops. Discover the current projects, career opportunities and actors in this exciting field.

For organisational purposes, register below if you will attend the event live on campus. We are looking forward to seeing on site with us!

For those who really absolutely cannot make it in person, a Zoom link is available down below in the details section.

Programme

09:00 - 09:05: Intro

Presented by Martine Harmel

Space Innovation

09:05 - 09:20: Featured Startup: Coactum

Presented by Pau Molas-Roca, CEO

Coactum

10:10 - 10:20: Featured Startup: Astrocast - Taking IoT Further

Presented by Louis Masson

10:20 - 10:25: Featured organisation: Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)

Presented by Louis Masson

10:25 - 10:35: BREAK

10:35 - 10:50: Student Association: XPLORE

EPFL Xplore

10:50 - 11:10: eSpace activities

Presented by Prof. Jean-Paul Kneib

11:10 - 11:30: Student Association: EPFL Spacecraft Team

EPFL Spacecraft Team

11:30 - 11:50: Design for demise: Complementary composite concepts for spacecraft structural panels

Presented by Alexandre Looten

Alexandre Looten studied Materials Science and Engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and graduated in 2019 with a minor in space technologies. January 2020, he started a Ph.D. at EPFL in collaboration with the European Space Agency in the Laboratory for Processing of Advanced Composites (LPAC) where he is working in the field of design for demise applied to spacecraft structure.

11:50 - 12:10: Student Association: Asclepios

Asclepios

12:10 - 12:30: Networking break & posters presentation

12:30 - 13:30: Lunch Time

13:30 - 13:50: ADRIOS - Capture System Technologies

Presented by Mohamed Bouri and Guillaume Anciaux

13:50 - 14:10: ADRIOS - Relative Navigation Technologies

Part 1: Deep Learning for 6D Pose Estimation

Presented by Mathieu Salzmann

Mathieu Salzmann is a Senior Researcher at EPFL-CVLab, and, since May 2020, an Artificial Intelligence Engineer at ClearSpace (50%). Previously, Mathieu was a Senior Researcher and Research Leader in NICTA's computer vision research group. Prior to this, from Sept. 2010 to Jan 2012, he was a Research Assistant Professor at TTI-Chicago, and, from Feb. 2009 to Aug. 2010, a postdoctoral fellow at ICSI and EECS at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Trevor Darrell. Mathieu obtained his PhD in Jan. 2009 from EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Fua.

Part 2: An ensemble-based approach to improve robustness against errors in AI applications

Presented by Flavio Ponzina

Flavio Ponzina received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2018. He is currently a PhD student at the Embedded Systems Laboratory (ESL), EPFL. His main research interests include low power architectures and AI-based systems optimization.

14:10 - 14:20: Student Association: Callista

Callista

14:20 - 14:30: BREAK

14:30 - 14:50: Student Association: SSA - Studying space biggest problem

SSA

14:50 - 15:10: Learning Programming with Rocket Science

Presented by Anatolii Kmetiuk

15:10 - 15:30: Student Association: Space@Your Service

Space@Your Service

15:30 - 15:50: Modular Origami Robots: Folding Space

Presented by Kevin Holdcroft

15:50 - 16:00: Close out