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On Saturday 11 April, almost 350 secondary school girls from the Île-de-France region were welcomed to the École Polytechnique campus. There, they had the opportunity to learn about scientific study programmes and careers in various fields, such as aeronautics, defence, artificial intelligence, ene…

The Financial Risk Chair, hosted by the Risk Foundation, led by Nicole El Karoui, professor emeritus at Sorbonne University, alongside Huyên Pham, professor at École Polytechnique, and supported by Société Générale, École des Ponts, École Polytechnique and its Foundation, and Sorbonne University, o…

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.  

Sergio Rajsbaum, researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) and CNRS, has spent seven months at École Polytechnique as a Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor. During his visit, he and Professor Éric Goubault further developed a new research line focused on the connections between …

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Credit : Pix Videos Production CompanyGuiding lightning by laser. This could be a superpower. However, this is not a science fiction scenario, but the aim the European research project FET-OPEN Laser lightning rod, in which the Laboratory for Applied Optics (*LOA) is involved. The aim is to build a…

Alain Aspect, Professor at École Polytechnique and the Institut d'Optique Graduate School-Université Paris-Saclay, Emeritus Director of Research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and 2022 winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics, gave a lecture on “Quantum entanglement and th…

Artificial intelligence has been developing exponentially in recent years, in the context of a revival of algorithmic methods and the massive increase in the amount of data. Detection of rare diseases, automatic translation, driving assistance... certain uses seem to be 'revolutionised' by …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-kCsOaKrzEImproving campus life and the layout of the premises is a priority of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), created in May 2019 and bringing together five renowned engineering schools, namely École Polytechnique, ENSAE Paris, ENSTA Paris, Télécom…

Congratulations on your inclusion in the 2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 - Europe list. According to you, what are the key factors of this nomination?Thank you! It is indeed a great honor when we see the number of nominations received by Forbes each year. I think two main factors played a role: I was …

Scientists are taking a step forward in smart buildings. Their micro-grid, set at the Drahi - X Novation Center to explore smart energy management systems in buildings, will be inaugurated in the coming weeks. It is the first of three micro-grids in the unique "Grid Power for Sustainability&qu…

The historical tie between the École Polytechnique and the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and the military status of its students, instituted by Napoleon in 1804, makes the École Polytechnique a unique institution of higher education and research and is a safeguard of national sovereignty.

Image Credits : Salomé Forel"There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom": In a founding speech for nanotechnology, physicist Richard Feynman encouraged researchers to explore the "world" of the infinitely small. Sixty years later, the discoveries continue and the applications are …

Variable renewable energies such as wind and solar power are expected to become the main contributors to the world's power systems as a large number of countries, including France, set ambitious targets to achieve carbon neutrality.In a long-awaited joint report commissioned by the Ministry of …

An international team has published a study in the journal Nature analyzing how the quantum phenomenon of superfluorescence appears in perovskite materials. The Irradiated Solids Laboratory (LSI*) is involved, thanks in particular to the work of Antonia Ghita, a former student of École polytechniqu…