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Economic and social consequences of the lockdown to fight the Covid-19 pandemic argues for a fast exit strategy. Olivier Gossner and Christian Gollier, two economists working respectively at Ecole polytechnique and the Toulouse School of Economics are vying for group testing to address the Covid-19 tests shortage and speed the recovery process.
The 2020 Nicholas Kurti Science Prize was awarded to Landry Bretheau, assistant professor at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and to Rebeca Ribeiro-Palau, CNRS researcher from Université Paris-Saclay.
Due to the closure of the school and the strict access restrictions on campus, the existing procedures regarding lab access and the continuation of research activities have been updated.
The outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in the Chinese province of Hubei has outlined the growing footprint of China on global value chains, according to a research paper from Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Institut des Politiques Publiques.
On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the invention of the chirped-pulse amplification technique (CPA), for which Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou won the Nobel Prize, prestigious researchers from all over the world met at Ecole Polytechnique to discuss its major applications and promising prospects.
By reproducing for the first time the explosion of a supernova, researchers from the Laboratoire d’Utilisation des Lasers Intenses, the CEA-DAM, the Paris Observatory and the University of Osaka (Japan) were able to unveil the hotspots mystery surrounding one of them.
École Polytechnique and Cisco reinforce their academic and research partnership for developing the internet of tomorrow for the next five years. This agreement follows the "Internet of Everything" Chair, funded by Cisco between 2014 and 2019.
Researchers at the Plasma Physics Laboratory are involved in the Solar Orbiter mission, launched on the night of 9 to 10 February 2020. Its objective: understand the creation of the heliosphere by comparing high-resolution images of the Sun and measurements in situ in the solar wind.
With the "Science and Video Games" Chair, of École polytechnique and Ubisoft, scientists and video game professionals gather to improve video games' realism and to develop science edutainment.
On February 14, 2020, L'X celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA) technique with its two inventors, Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus at École Polytechnique, and Donna Strickland, Professor at the University of Waterloo. This scientific breakthrough allowed them to receive the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics.
With the first micro-grid of the "Grid Power for Sustainability" project, installed at the Drahi - X Novation Center, scientists are testing a new energy management system to control and optimize energy use in buildings.
The Department of Economics and the EconophysiX Chair co-organize an international symposium in June 2020 on the theme of economic and financial networks. By bringing together physicists, economists and other network experts, they are using a multidisciplinary approach to advance research in this area.
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.
