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Our school is responsible for teaching chemistry, mathematics and physics and other domains of basic science for all the EPFL schools.
The School of Basic Sciences develops a strategy of research and dissemination with the top-priority objective of producing fundamental knowledge in chemistry, mathematics, physics and other domains of basic science. It is also responsible for the long-term applications of its research.
The school encourages interdisciplinary research.

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Professor Jean-Claude Bünzli receives the « Terrae Rarae 2009 » prize in "special recognition of his outstanding work in the field of complex lanthanide molecular and supra-molecular materials with excellent luminescent properties".

Papers in the Spotlight

Observation of Half-Quantum Vortices in an Exciton-Polariton Condensate
K. G. Lagoudakis, T. Ostatnick, A. V. Kavokin, Y. G. Rubo, R. André, Benoît Deveaud-Plédran

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Explanation of Photon Correlations in the Far-Off-Resonance Optical Emission from a Quantum-Dot-Cavity System
Martin Winger, Thomas Volz, Guillaume Tarel, Stefano Portolan, Antonio Badolato, Kevin J. Hennessy, Evelyn L. Hu, Alexios Beveratos, Jonathan Finley, Vincenzo Savona, and Ataç Imamoglu

Spin Amplitude Modulation Driven Magnetoelectric Coupling in the New Multiferroic FeTe2O5Br
M. Pregelj, O. Zaharko, A. Zorko, Z. Kutnjak, P. Jeglic, P. J. Brown, M. Jagodic, Z. Jaglicic, Helmuth Berger, and D. Arcon

Ultrafast Structural Phase Transition Driven by Photoinduced Melting of Charge and Orbital Order
P. Beaud, S. L. Johnson, E. Vorobeva, U. Staub, R. A. De Souza, C. J. Milne, Q. X. Jia, and G. Ingold

Near-field cavity optomechanics with nanomechanical oscillators
G. Anetsberger, O. Arcizet, Q. P. Unterreithmeier, R. Rivière, A. Schliesser, E. M. Weig, J. P. Kotthaus & T. J. Kippenberg

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