Alliance Visiting professor at École Polytechnique, Reshmi Mukherjee, research professor at Barnard College of Columbia University, has developed her joint research with Deirdre Horan, researcher at the Leprince-Ringuet laboratory for particle physics and astrophysics (LLR), focusing on blazars. Moreover, her visit and exchanges with the LLR research team has further strengthened the ties between the astrophysics research groups at l’X and Columbia.
Pilar Acosta is a professor in the Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Department at École Polytechnique. Her research focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility and their practices in the context of sustainable development.
At the “AI, Science and Society” conference organized by Institut Polytechnique de Paris on February 6 and 7, 2025 at École polytechnique, the “Frontiers in Generative AI” symposium explored advances in generative AI, of which ChatGPT is the emblematic example. In particular, Vicky Kalogeiton presented her research work at the Computer Science Laboratory of the École polytechnique (LIX*).
As part of the “AI, Science and Society” conference organised by Institut Polytechnique de Paris on February 6 and 7, 2025, the “Road to Trustworthy AI” symposium addressed the issue of trust in artificial intelligence systems. Between the need to avoid bias, promote fairness and transparency while preserving the privacy of personal data, several specialists provided their insights.
Professor in the Department of Computer Science and member of the joint team Cedar of Inria and the Computer Science Laboratory at École Polytechnique (LIX*), Yanlei Diao will lead the ExplainableAD project on large-scale data processing.
Operated by École polytechnique and CNRS, Apollon is one of the few facilities in the world with multiple laser beams whose power exceeds one petawatt (one million billion watts). Take a behind-the-scenes look at this infrastructure and the fundamental research being carried out there.
On 24 and 25 February 2025, the Data Science and Industrial Processes Chair is co-organising the Winter School: Next Generation AI and Economic Applications at EMINES-UM6P in Ben Guérir, Morocco. Registrations are open until 30 January.
Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, Donna Strickland presented her current research work on ultrashort laser pulses and multi-frequency Raman generation processes.
The École polytechnique and the Fondation de l' École polytechnique are renewing the “Space: sciences and challenges of the space sector” teaching chair, with the support of ArianeGroup and Safran. This program, led by Pascal Chabert, initially launched in 2019, contributes to teaching activities and student projects around space, and to the École polytechnique Student Space Center (CSEP).
École Polytechnique, through its "Internet of Everything" and "Stress-test, risk management and financial steering" Chairs, and ENSAE Paris have joined forces to organise the "Cyber-risk and Cyber-resilience in Finance and Insurance" conference on 6 June 2024.
On 26 and 27 September 2024, L’X Interdisciplinary Laboratory (LINX) hosted a conference on "Science and fiction". Discover the links between these two concepts.
Yves Le Yaouanq, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at École Polytechnique and researcher at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*), has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to lead the PROSPECT project using behavioral economics