Lectures related to Beta diversity

Understanding Urban Life: From Building to Neighborhood

Delves into the dynamics of urban life, focusing on buildings and neighborhoods' impact on community interactions.

Showcases testimonials from EPFL PhD Excellence Program members, emphasizing leadership training, community diversity, and essential transversal skills for industry transition.

Polarization and Radicalization: Self-Selecting Groups

Delves into polarization, radicalization, and self-selecting groups, discussing negative consequences and mitigation strategies.

Equal Opportunity and Diversity at EPFL

Covers equal opportunity, diversity, course organization, Zoom interactions, coursebook, exercise series, exam, and feedback mechanisms at EPFL.

Exploring New York

Explores the vibrant atmosphere and aspirations of New York City.

Community Engagement: Team Composition

Discusses the importance of team composition in community engagement and empowering communities in decision-making.

Spatial arrangement and neighbourhood

Discusses the indices describing the arrangement of geographical objects and their neighborhood relations.

Normative News Recommender Systems

Explores challenges in developing normative news recommender systems and the ethical considerations in AI, journalism, and diversity.

Student Teams: Learning Team Skills

Discusses strategies for forming diverse teams and tools for making collective decisions in student project teams.

Team-building Exercise: Reading Assignments and Breakout Rooms

Covers team-building, reading assignments on migration, and breakout room organization.

Habitat and Urban Dynamics: Segregation, Relocation, Oppression

Explores the impact of individual biases on societal segregation.

Avoiding Implicit Bias in Faculty Hiring

Covers strategies to avoid implicit bias in faculty hiring.

Promoting Respect: You are not alone

Promotes respect and offers skills to address inappropriate situations within the EPFL community.

Advanced Machine Learning: Feature Selection

Explores machine learning algorithms, feature selection techniques like FAST and BRIEF descriptors, and the limitations of deep learning.

Biodiversity Project: Senegal-Mauritania Case Study

Explores GIS in a biodiversity project in Senegal and Mauritania.

ENAC Sustainability Initiatives

Explores ENAC's sustainability initiatives through interdisciplinary research, data-driven approaches, and strong partnerships.

Promoting Respect: You Are Not Alone

Focuses on promoting respect within the EPFL community and providing support in difficult situations.

Diversity and Inclusion at ENAC

Explores efforts to increase diversity and inclusion at ENAC, emphasizing an inclusive environment and support mechanisms.

Gender Equality in Academia: Challenges and Solutions

Explores challenges faced by female faculty in academia and emphasizes the importance of diversity and gender balance for scientific success.

Entropy in Neuroscience and Ecology

Delves into entropy in neuroscience data and ecology, exploring the representation of sensory information and the diversity of biological populations.