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École Polytechnique is at the top of the 2022 ranking of the 30 best French Engineering Schools by Le Figaro Etudiant, ahead of CentraleSupélec and Mines Paris, as in the previous two years. These schools of excellence, selected by Le Figaro Étudiant, are the most sought-after by students in the mo…

During their official visit to France, Adama Diawara, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Ivory Coast, and his delegation met with Eric Labaye, President of École Polytechnique and Institut Polytechnique de Paris, to discuss important projects in the field of higher education in…

École Polytechnique has won for the first time ever the SWERC (SouthWestern Europe Regional Contest) programming competition, which took place on January 25 and 26. One of its three competing teams out of 98 thus got a gold medal and qualified for the world finals which will take place in June in M…

On June 7, 2019, École polytechnique hosted an international scientific symposium on sustainable development as part of its 225th anniversary celebrations. L’X took the opportunity of this event to announce its own five key commitments to sustainable development : 1/ ensure that all of i…

On Thursday, January 28, the Times Higher Education (THE) unveiled its ranking of the most international universities in the world. L'X scores 33rd in this ranking and is the first French institution ahead of Université PSL (55th) and Sorbonne University (70th).The World’s Most Internatio…

On Tuesday, January 28, the Times Higher Education unveiled its ranking of the most international universities in the world. L'X scores 32nd in this ranking and is the first French institution ahead of Université PSL (49th) and Sorbonne University (67th).The World’s Most International Uni…

École Polytechnique, member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris alongside four other prestigious French engineering schools, ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris, Télécom Paris and Télécom SudParis, ranks second for the third time in a row in the World's best small universities 2020 ranking released by …

BIOC Structural Biology of the Cell Laboratory CMAP Center for Applied Mathematics CMLS Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center CPHT Center for Theoretical Physics CREST Center for Research in Economi…

RESEARCH LABORATORIESMolecular Chemistry Laboratory (LCM, UMR 9168)Organic Synthesis Laboratory (LSO, UMR 7652)Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory (LPMC, UMR 7643)Laboratory of Interfaces and Thin Films Physics (LPICM, UMR7647) RESEARCH PLATFORMSInterdisciplinary Center for X-ray Electron Micr…

Following the instructions from the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, laboratory activities (including that of doctoral students) are maintained as follows:Physical presence is forbidden in labs on school premises, regardless of the employer of the personnel in question…

Sketch of a one-atom Josephson junction (up left), an Andreev reflexion (bottom left) and a Schrödinger cat synthetized by quantum Zeno dynamics (right). Each year, Oxford Instruments awards the Nicholas Kurti Science Prize, which promotes promising young European scientists working in the field…

For more than a century, Quantum Physics has revolutionized our understanding of nature behavior at small-scale and low-energy. Promising applications, such as quantum computation, secured long-distance communication, and analog simulation of complex problems seem to be within reach. However, there…

The experiments conducted by Cédric Thaury consist in focusing an energetic light beam on a target material in order to create a plasma, i.e. a gas of negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions.  These charges are then separated at most, creating a strong electric field capable o…

Ion radiography of Weibel instability: protons accelerated by laser-plasma interaction in a first target (left) pass through a second target, itself irradiated by another laser beam (middle and framed). The Weibel instability induced there by energetic electrons (blue trajectories) generates magnet…

The chirped-pulse amplification (CPA) technique allows lasers to become ever more powerful and to take up unprecedented challenges. As soon as the laser was invented in 1958, Gordon Gould described in his patent many applications that have emerged today, such as welding, drilling or telecommunicati…