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Education
31.05.22
A first certifying course on Blockchain in France
École Polytechique Executive Education, which develops L’X's professional training programs, will launch a certifying online program dedicated to the Blockchain technology in the fall of 2022.  
Research
24.05.22
Collective movement of cells viewed through the lens of fluid mechanics
Constraining the movement of vascular cells by culturing them on engineered microgrooved substrates generates a new pattern of collective motion that can be predicted using the physical framework of active fluids. This work has been published in Nature Communications by a team from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory.
Research
19.05.22
Tomography system will probe ancient materials
An optical coherence tomography device has been inaugurated at the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory. It will allow three-dimensional imaging at the micrometre scale for research on heritage and ancient materials.
Institution
27.04.22
L'X sets 10 objectives to boost its growth and attractiveness
On April 11, 2022, the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and L'X signed a new Contract of Objectives and Performance (COP) that sets the institution's 2022-2026 strategic objectives. L’X will devote the coming period to enhance the impact of its research, stengthen its multi-course training offer and launch the renovation of its buildings.
Entrepreneurship, Innovation
20.04.22
Invisensing.io: advanced acoustic sensing and fiber optic data analysis technologies
Today, the Drahi-X-Novation Center offers you an interview with Feng YANG, co-founder and CEO of Invisensing.io, a start-up following our X-TECH program that is working on long-distance sensing based on optical fibers, to collect useful information and integrate it into control and preventive maintenance systems.
Research
20.04.22
Phagocytosis hits the front page of Biophysical Journal
A study on the mechanical properties of white blood cells has been carried out in collaboration between the Hydrodynamics Laboratory at École Polytechnique and the Institute of Physical Chemistry at Université Paris-Saclay. It makes the cover of the latest issus of Biophysical Journal.
21.03.22
École Polytechnique partners with first-class high schools across the globe
Launched in 2017, École Polytechnique’s Bachelor of Science program is designed for top-level students with a strong interest in Mathematics and...
21.03.22
Wolfram Schlenker, visiting professor at L’X, discusses climate change effects on agricultural yields, asylum applications and pollution
Wolfram Schlenker Professor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and The Earth Institute Co-director, Center for Environmental Economics...
Entrepreneurship, Innovation
20.03.22
Metyos: A connected wearable biosensor to help weight loss
Meeting with Alexandre Boulanger, CEO of Metyos. The startup, both medtech and deeptech, is developing a personal biosensor to address the problem of the great pandemic of overweight and obesity in the world.
Research
18.03.22
Workshop on the Smilei code for simulating plasmas
Smilei is an open-source code for plasma simulation, the result of a collaboration between physicists and high-performance computing experts. It can simulate relativistic interactions between lasers and plasma or astrophysical phenomena. The workshop from 9 to 11 March explored this vast field of applications.
Research
16.03.22
Enhanced nanoscale imaging in liquids
Aleix Güell, researcher at Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films, has been awarded an ERC Proof of Concept grant. It will allow him to explore the commercial potential of an imaging technique that combines scanning probe microscopy and Raman spectroscopy to study materials in liquids, from battery to living cells.
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.