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Based on an idea given by Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Polytechnique and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, the XCAN prototype is a system composed of 61 laser beams from the same source, allowing them to be combined together in a coherent beam (i.e. without losing the …

The French Minister for the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, came to Ecole polytechnique to talk with the Polytechnicien students and to preside over the military parade for the X2019 Class leaving the campus. Faced with crises, France needs top-flight engineers, she said.

Roland Lescure (X87), the French Minister in charge of Industry, came to meet École Polytechnique’s students and start-ups of its ecosystem of entrepreneurship and innovation supported by its incubator, the Drahi X-Novation Center. He pleaded for École Polytechnique’graduates to fully support the n…

The annual hackathon organised by the chair of the École polytechnique « Next Gen RetAIl » has, for this second edition, gathered 132 students organised in 26 teams. This challenge of data science applied to retail lasted from the 3rd of February to the 8th of April. Carrefour…

École Polytechnique resumed its on-site activities on May 12. How are this post-lockdown phase and preparations for the Fall semester 2020 being handled? Eric Labaye - The campus reopened officially on May 12. This is a very gradual process, and the highest priority is being given to the health and…

Discovered in the late 1970s, archaea are unicellular organisms with characteristics of both bacteria and more complex organisms. Once cast aside, advances in molecular biology and genomics have brought them back into the spotlight. In the laboratories of École Polytechnique, several research teams…

Orange Group, Société Générale Côte d'Ivoire, the Institut National Polytechnique Félix Houphouët-Boigny (INP-HB), the Institute of Statistics and Applied Economist (ENSEA), École Polytechnique (l’X) and the Foundation of École Polytechnique are renewing the “Data Science Institute” international C…

Orange Group, Société Générale Côte d'Ivoire, INP-HB, ENSEA, École Polytechnique and the Foundation of École Polytechnique are renewing the ‘Data Science Institute’ international Chair to continue its international teaching programme in data science. The renewal was celebrated on 8 July 2024.

The Mooc "Studying in France" created by the team of the French professors at the École Polytechnique and distributed on the Coursera platform comes 77th in the ranking of the 250 most Most Popular Online Courses of All Time, established by the Mooc aggregator Class Central.

The piece on loan is a preparatory drawing for the Belisarius begging for alms by Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825). This drawing, classified as « historical monument », is kept at the mus'X.

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The historic partnership between École polytechnique, a member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), and the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) was renewed during a ceremony on the CNRS campus in Gif-sur-Yvette, bringing together for the occasion all the academic ins…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg7WjY1siNYWater-glycerol droplets with various viscosities are running down a tilted track. Reproduced from Hélène de Maleprade, Rafid Bendimerad, Christophe Clanet, and David Quéré, "Droplet hurdles race", Applied Physics Letters 118, 171601 (2021), with …

The Polytechnique community is embodied first and foremost in its students, alumni, graduates and their families. It is, of course, born at the École polytechnique, but it exists and develops just as much thanks to and through its alumni and the Fondation de l'École polytechnique.Consult the X Grad…

Claire Fauvarque Nuytten (X2009), responsible for new elastomer process developments within the the French tire company Michelin Group's R&D department, was awarded the Pierre Faurre 2024 prize on March 26, 2025. In particular, she has developed a patented sustainable elastomer that is now essentia…