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Crédit photo : Bengt Nyman - (CC BY 2.0)Invented in 1985 by Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou, the Chirped Pulse Amplification method (CPA) paved the way for ultra-intense lasers and revolutionized their uses, ranging from eye surgery to the particles physics.Today, thousands of researchers arou…

Sixteen École Polytechnique’s alumni and students appear in the 2023 edition of the French think tank Institut Choiseul ranking of business leaders under 40. Seven of them are in the Top 100.

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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 …

Portrait ©Fondation L’OréalClaire Dessalles (X2013), a young researcher in the "Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering" Chair, is the winner of the "For Women in Science" prize awarded annually by the L'Oréal Foundation and UNESCO. This prize aims to develop the visi…

On March 26, 2025, Claire Fauvarque Nuytten was awarded the 2024 Pierre Faurre prize by Jean-Paul Cottet (class X 1974), Executive Director of École Polytechnique Foundation. A graduate of École Polytechnique (class X 2009), she is currently in charge of new elastomer process developments in the Mi…

Claude Sabbah, a mathematician at Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center (CMLS*), has just been awarded two Frontiers of Science prizes for two of his scientific articles.

Physicist and CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, Claude Weisbuch has been honored by the French Academy of Sciences.

Claudine Hermann was the first woman to be appointed as a professor at l’X, a renowned physicist and a champion of the promotion of women in the scientific world. She died on July 17th in her 76th year.Born on December 19, 1945 in Paris, Claudine Hermann was a former student of the École norm…

The second CLIFIRIUM conference (Climate finance, risk and uncertainty modelling) was held from 09 to 11 October 2023 at the Banque de France and the French Banking Federation. It was organised by the "Stress-Test: Risk Management and Financial Steering" Chair, headed by Emmanuel Gobet (professor a…

Since 1997, the Rare-Event Simulation Workshop (RESIM) has been an interdisciplinary event bringing together experts in rare event simulation theory and applications. With more than 150 participants from 22 different countries from Europe, America and Africa, the 13th edition of RESIM in May 2021 a…

Two years after the publication of École Polytechnique's Climate Plan and its commitment to make sustainable development a core part of its fundamental missions of education, research and innovation, the implementation of all of its ten objectives has been launched.

The MAESTRO project led by Sandrine Bony at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory has just received an Advanced grant from the European Research Council. The aim is to better understand the organisation of clouds and convection processes. Clouds formed by convective processes in the atmosphere affe…

© Laurent Ardhuin pour le CNRSAt the beginning of her higher education studies in Italy, mathematics was like a game. "That's what made me want to continue, because the idea of making a profession out of it was quite far from my imagination at the start," says Eleonora Di Nezza, …

Jean Dalibard is a physicist, researcher at the Kastler Brossel laboratory of the École normale supérieure, professor at the Collège de France and member of the Académie des sciences. He was also a professor at École polytechnique where he taught quantum physics. As a specialist of this field, he h…