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Sébastien Lecornu, Minister of the French Armed Forces, was on hand to inaugurate the Research Department of the Ministerial Agency for Artificial Intelligence in Defense (MAAID) at École Polytechnique, and announced the construction of a Defense Institute on the School’s campus. The new building, …

The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, announced at École polytechnique the creation as early as summer 2024 of a new Ministerial Agency for Artificial Intelligence in Defense (MAAID). The agency's research center will be located on Ecole Polytechnique’s campus. The minister al…

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The French Prime Minister, Élisabeth Borne (X81), closed the event organized by École Polytechnique to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the admission of women to the School. The event brought together many alumni and representatives of the Polytechnic community as well as 50 high school femal…

Xavier Niel, telecommunications and digital entrepreneur, press owner, co-founder of the Station F incubator and several digital training schools, held a round-table discussion with students from École Polytechnique, focusing on entrepreneurship. He emphasized the contribution of École Polytechniqu…

July 4, 1959 The “research springboard” is instated by the Guillaumat Decree, enabling students to start working in research directly after graduating from the school. 1970 The school becomes a public establishment, placed under the Ministry of Defense. 1972 The first women are admitt…

Research topics Research Area Functionalizing surfaces                               Molecules and precursors for functional materials                      Sensors and probes for health and the environment            Thin-film devices                       …

École Polytechnique formalized its actions in favor of sustainable development in June 2019 by setting up five ambitious commitments that have since become embedded in its strategy. The rollout of these five commitments - implementation of a dedicated training certification, training of 100% of stu…

X2020 Class   The students of the X2020 class during the training week at CNES, accompained by the educational team: Sarah Al Humaikani, Idriss Ben Abdallah, Thomas Bras, Grégoire Charleux, Axel Durand-Allizé, En…

Enceladus is one of the moons of the planet Saturn. A study led by researchers at the Plasma Physics Laboratory (LPP*) reveals that the magnetic interaction between the two bodies extends over much greater distances than previously known—more than 500,000 kilometers. This finding was made possible …

The Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor Program allows top-level researchers from around the world to join École Polytechnique for a period of 4 to 12 months to conduct research in one of the institution’s 23 laboratories and teach as a visiting professor. The program is supported by the Fondation de …

In December, Gauthier Vermandel was awarded the Banque de France's 2023 "Young Researchers in Green Finance" prize for his work on the impact of the carbon tax on financial markets.

École Polytechnique commitment for gender equality constitutes the grounds for building an internal diverse environment that faces current social challenges.As part of its commitment to gender equality in the workplace, École Polytechnique has established a new action plan for 2024-2027, approved b…

For the start of the 2021 academic year, the "Personalised reconstruction of the tumour process" teaching sponsorship offers third-year students of the Polytechnique engineering cyclethe opportunity to identify the "Achilles heel" of tumour cells from breast cancer. Each year, t…

How much of the inequalities in our wealth, health, and family planning can we explain with our current statistical models and data? This is one of the questions that Felix Tropf, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*) wishes to answer with his FINDME pr…