Alessio Figalli, professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich, and former professor at École Polytechnique, was awarded the Fields Medal on Wednesday, August 1, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

A Summer School on Cell Migration in Health and Diseases took place at École Polytechnique from June 27th to July 3rd, 2018. This academic scientific event was organized by two long-standing partners, l’X and Tsinghua University.

Three École Polytechnique students will present their research on genetic and evolutionary algorithms at the GECCO World Conference that will be held in Kyoto, Japan, in July. These algorithms have numerous applications in artificial intelligence, but their theoretical understanding is still limited.