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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…

The kick-off meeting of the E4C 2023 International Student Challenge took place on February 1st. The new edition of the challenge is labelled « Save the ernegy, save the world ». Participants will have to to create projects which responds to the following question: What solution would you adopt to …

Created to support various scientific activities associated to the field of cosmology, the Alexander Friedmann Fund was launched on December 05, 2022 by the first Colloquium Friedmann. Frank Eisenhauer from Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Germany) inaugurated these conferences by…

The launch of the construction work on the Pôle mécanique marks a new stage in the deployment of the master plan for the campus of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), which is designed to improve the working and living environment of its students, teacher-researchers and staff, while at…

The launch of Polytechnique Ventures, an investment fund created and managed by X alumni is broadening the range of École Polytechnique's entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem The fund, which has closed an initial round of financing of €20 millions, enriches the innovation and entr…

The Solar Orbiter satellite, before its integration into the Atlas V rocket. Credit: ESAThe European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission took off the night of February 9 to 10 from Cape Canaveral. Like her American sister Parker Solar Probe, she will get closer to the Sun at such a short dista…