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Marc Rosso has been appointed Head of Entry Examinations at École Polytechnique, effective as of September 1, 2021. He takes on the role previously held by Michel Gonin, now co-director of ILANCE, a new international laboratory for Physics of the “two infinites” in Tokyo.

Waves, whether they are travelling across the surface of the water or sound waves that reach our ears, generally have the property of propagating and filling all the space available to them. However, under certain circumstances a phenomenon called localisation occurs, in which a standing wave becom…

Interview with Margherita Castellano, a doctoral student at the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP), who has qualified for the national finals of the science communication competition “My Thesis in 180 Seconds" (MT180*). She is seeking to better understand the role played by small molecules calle…

The conversion and storage of renewable energies has become a crucial societal challenge for containing climate change. The development of these processes relies on innovative science for the development and shaping of materials to increase their efficiency and enable large-scale deployment of rene…

Research topics Research Areas Materials for the energy transition                                         Nanomaterials and nanocrystals                                Quantum technologies                                            

École Polytechnique and the Berlin Mathematics Research Center MATH+, which brings together several prestigious Berlin universities, are strengthening their ties and expanding their scientific collaboration. The partners signed a Memorandum of Understanding on March 24, 2026, during the visit of a …

Hong Wang (X2010), a Chinese mathematician and academic specializing in harmonic analysis, has just received two prestigious new international mathematics awards: the Clay Research Award and the New Horizons in Mathematics Prize. Hong Wang has distinguished herself in particular by announcing a pro…

Jeremy Quastel, Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto, was awarded the Paul Lévy Prize during the 9th European Congress of Mathematics, being held in Seville from July 15 to 19. Created jointly by the European Mathematical Society, École Polytechnique, the Fondatio…

X2009 and Professor Monge at the Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center (CMLS*), Martin Leguil and his colleague Davi Obata received the Lounsbery 250 Years Award. This award was established to celebrate Franco-American ties in science.

X81 and former chair of the applied mathematics department at École Polytechnique, Stéphane Mallat has been awarded the CNRS Gold Medal, the research organization's highest distinction.

The London Mathematical Society, the French Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SMAI) and the Natixis Foundation have chosen to award the Louis Bachelier Prize 2020 to Mathieu Rosenbaum, professor at the Centre for Applied Mathematics at the École polytechnique (CMAP*) and holder of the…

École Polytechnique, Inria, CNRS and Bañulsdesign have joined forces to launch the MATritime joint laboratory, with funding from the French National Research Agency. The aim is to develop computational and statistical tools that will provide the sea shipping industry with the tools for more sustain…

Maxime Grangereau is an alumnus of the X2012 Class at École Polytechnique and is currently pursuing his PhD in collaboration with EDF and the Center for Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique. He was officially named one of the recipients of the 2020 Siebel Scholars award at a ceremony held on …

Among the finalists for the McCall MacBain scholarship, Elsa Tanré, who studies in the Ingénieur Polytechnicien program (X20), represented École Polytechnique with distinction and has been awarded a scholarship of 20,000 Canadian dollars.

Vignesh Kannan, a young researcher at the Solid Mechanics Laboratory (LMS*), is leading a research team investigating a fundamental question: how can we explain the behavior of materials when subjected to extreme dynamic conditions?