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Two teams of students from l’X ranked respectively 1st and 4th at the prestigious Southwestern Europe Regional Contest (SWERC) 2019-2020 organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The School thus bagged a gold and a silver medal for the first time ever and qualified for the ACM-ICPC world finals in Moscow.
Maxime Grangereau, alumnus of the X2012 Class and PhD student at École Polytechnique in collaboration with EDF, is recipient of the prestigious 2020 Siebel Scholars award. This international program founded by the Siebel Foundation rewards the most talented students in the fields of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Business and Energy.
Gérard Mourou, professor at École Polytechnique and winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, has officially been admitted as a Foreign Member into the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).
Researcher at the Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films, Tatiana Novikova is the winner of the G.G. Stokes Award from the international society of optics and photonics SPIE. This prize rewards her research in optics, in particular the study of the propagation of polarized light through the atmosphere and biological tissues.
On November 7, 2019, the prize Jean-Louis Gerondeau - Safran was awarded to 3 start-ups: InBolt, Néolithe and Omini. The winners of this 9th edition are rewarded for their innovations in industry, waste management and health.
Among the 40 most promising start-ups in France unveiled by the President of the Republic at the launch of Next40, nine were founded by members of École Polytechnique's community.
Professor at the Collège de France and Director of the Flatiron Institute's Centre de physique quantique numérique, Antoine Georges (class X 1980) is also a professor at the École Polytechnique.
L'X’s Center for Theoretical Physics will benefit from two ERC grants to support its research. Andréa Puhm has been awarded an ERC starting grant and Razvan Gurau an ERC consolidator grant that starts in September.
Thanks to an ERC Consolidator Grant, Razvan Gurau, CNRS research scientist at the Center of Theoretical Physics (CPHT), will be able to further his work on random tensors and field theory, an area of theoretical physics that may make it possible to solve equations that are challenging scientists today.
CNRS researcher at École polytechnique’s Center of Theoretical Physics, Andrea Puhm was awarded an ERC Starting Grant that will allow her to put together a research team on “Information Encoding in Quantum Gravity and the Black Hole Information Paradox.”
Holder of a master’s in fluid mechanics from the École Polytechnique and currently a doctoral student at ONERA, Jahnavi Kantharaju has just been awarded an Amelia Earhart fellowship from Zonta International.
On July 4, the i-Lab 2019 innovation contest named 75 winners, among them Aimee Wessel and Raphaël Tomasi from the Physical Microfluidics and Bioengineering Unit (Institut Pasteur / Ecole Polytechnique / CNRS) for their Multiscreen project.
Emmanuel Beaurepaire, research scientist at École Polytechnique’s Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences, received Thursday July 4 the prestigious prize awarded every two years by the French Society of Microscopies.
