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International, Education
14.04.22
Civil training in Ivory Coast for two Ingénieur Polytechnicien students
Two students (X2021) completed the civil training part of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien program in Yamoussoukro, at the high school Mamie Adjoua, and at Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny. To both, the training represented an opportunity to engage as citizens and to discover the teaching profession.
Research
09.03.22
Research from LIX presented at AAAI 2022
The first mathematical runtime analysis of NSGA-II, a widely-used algorithm for optimization problems, has been performed by a collaboration including the Computer Science Laboratory and presented at AAAI, one of the major conferences in artificial intelligence.
Research
04.03.22
Targeting unusual DNA structures against parasitic diseases
In a research paper published in Nucleic Acids Research, an international collaboration involving the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory shows the presence of nucleic acid knots called G-quadruplexes in helminth parasites. The researchers also identify molecules that can bind to these structures.
Education, Research
15.02.22
Results of the student data science challenge "Flights"
The "Flights" challenge proposed to use a supervised learning approach to predict the number of passengers based on the date of their reservation and the route of the plane. It was organised jointly by the Data Science Institute and Data Science and Industrial Processes sponsorship programmes and closed on February 3rd.
Research
Moyen
04.02.22
A new step forward for spin photodiode physics and technology
An international collaboration involving the Irradiated Solids Laboratory has just published a paper in Physical Review Letters detailing the mechanisms at work for detecting circularly polarised light using spin-optoelectronic devices called spin photodiodes.
22.11.21
L’X welcomes a ministerial delegation of Ivory Coast
During their official visit to France, Adama Diawara, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Ivory Coast, and his delegation met with...
Research
18.11.21
Proving that one knows a secret without revealing it, the future of blockchain?
At the beginning of 2009, bitcoin was created, a fully digital currency based on blockchain technology. However, a blockchain offers few guarantees of...
Research
02.11.21
Combinatorial optimisation work awarded the Vicent Caselles prize
credits : BBVA Foundation Combinatorial optimisation is used to decide where to place facilities such as vehicle charging points in a city....
20.10.21
École Polytechnique and INP-HB in Ivory Coast strengthen their cooperation
The delegation from INP-HB during their visit, surrounded by École Polytechnique’s Ivorian students. To the right of the President of École...
Entrepreneurship
25.06.21
A talk with Bruno Cattan, the new Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at École polytechnique
Bruno Cattan, X1993 and a 1998 graduate of Télécom Paris, has been appointed Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the École Polytechnique...
Research
22.04.21
Science and video games conference: AI and cooperation
Since the work of Google DeepMind researchers in 2019, Hanabi has been described as "the new frontier of artificial intelligence research". Antoine...
14.04.21
Renewal of the Data Science Institute programme
At the beginning of 2021, the Orange Group, Orange Côte d'Ivoire and Société Générale are supporting the " Data Science Institute" programme. The...