NCCR SPIN collaborations with the international comic festival BDFIL
27.04.2024 - Quantum is fantastic! (La Quantique, c’est fantastique!)
The event was centered around the two comic books “Mysteries of the Quantum Universe” by Mathieu Burniat, and “Quantix” by Laurent Schafer, and the discussion was joined by Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, professor and head of the Laboratory of semiconductor materials at EPFL. The discussion was followed by a graphic challenge with live drawings of the two authors.
23.09.2023 - Museum Night in Lausanne
NCCR SPIN and the Lausanne comic festival BDFIL partnered to organize an illustrated discussion on clichés in scientific research! The event took place in the beautiful Aula of the Palais de Rumine.
14.05.2023 - Drawing the invisible
As the festival’s theme of this year is science in comics, NCCR SPIN collaborated with them to organize a public discussion between Laurent Schafer, author of comic books Quantix and Infinix (ed. Dunod) and NCCR SPIN scientists Prof. Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (EPFL) and Pierre Chevalier Kwon (University of Basel).