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As part of the Alliance program with Columbia University, Solène Léger and Lucie Chicaud - students in the Ingénieur Polytechnicien program – completed a five-month research internship at Columbia University’s Irving Medical Center. They worked in the Pediatric Heart Valve laboratory, dedicated to …

On 26 and 27 September 2024, L’X Interdisciplinary Laboratory (LINX) hosted a conference on "Science and fiction". Discover the links between these two concepts.

On September 10 and 11, École Polytechnique hosted the world premiere demonstration of the project called ROSS (for Remotely Operated Service at Sea).This proof of concept, which illustrates the involvement of l’X, its students, its professors and researchers and its alumni in the development…

At LULI, laser beams are amplified and used for nuclear fusion experiments, among other studies.On 18 August, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California announced that it had released 1.3 megajoules of energy in a fraction of a second during a nucle…

The start of the new academic year for the Cycle ingénénieur polytechnicien program class of 2023 (X23) is marked by the launch of the course “Engineering Sustainability, s'ingénier pour durer”, led by economist Céline Guivarch. Featuring some real teaching innovations, the course was launched on M…

Thales Alenia Space and ArianeGroup inaugurate with the École polytechnique the « Espace: Sciences et Défis du Spatial » academic sponsorship program. Started in July 2019, This program develops teaching in the space field thanks to the creation of a specialization track for 3rd year st…

Ines El-Bouzaidi Tiali (X22), a student at École Polytechnique, is one of the finalists for the McCall MacBain scholarship from McGill University, an important partner institution of École Polytechnique in Canada. The only student from a French higher education institution among the finalists, Ines…

From May 31st to June 2nd, at the premises of the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Natalia Pietruszewska, a Master of Science & Technology student at École Polytechnique, and Abu Bakar Ali, a Bachelor student at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), both represented the EuroTeQ Engineering U…

Scientists from the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP*) co-organized a scientific program at NASA Ames Research Center, combining applied mathematics and aerospace. They collaborated on projects involving about entry systems modeling.

Bruno Cattan, X1993 and a 1998 graduate of Télécom Paris, has been appointed Director of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the École Polytechnique from June 7. He began his career in telecommunications and was involved in the early days of the mobile Internet, at Motorola, Nokia Networks, and then…

A team of Ecole Polytechnique’s students has won the tenth Tournament of Young French Physicists, qualifying for the International Physicist’s Tournament (IPT) to be held at the Ecole Polytechnique from April 23rd to 29th.

Organised by the students of the Sustainable Development Association at l’X (Association Développement durable à l'X-DDX), the 13th edition puts ecological issues at the heart of debates and conduct on the campus through a wide variety of activities.Taking place from the 18th to the 23rd …

Abdoulaye Ndiaye (X2010) is the winner of the first Africa NextGen Economist Prize, which was presented on May 15, 2026, in Kigali, on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum. The prize, created by the media outlets Jeune Afrique and The Africa Report in partnership with the African Development Bank,…

École Polytechnique Academic and Research Departments bring together professors and researchers from the Research Center laboratories, combining academic studies and research for each given discipline.

Maria Martinez, department assistant, maria.martinez[@]polytechnique.edu Ndieme Ndiaye, Practical work center Olivier Bec, workshop The Chemistry Department is located in the Salle Lavoisier in the Ecole Polytechnique laboratory building.Director: Grégory Nocton, gregory.nocton[@]…