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FRANCE –A study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters by an international team* coordinated by Tahar Amari, CNRS research director at the Center for Theoretical Physics (CPHT**) at École Polytechnique, shows that twisted flux ropes (TFRs) are omnipresent in the Sun, even in its quietest re…

École Polytechnique, through its "Internet of Everything" and "Stress-test, risk management and financial steering" Chairs, and ENSAE Paris have joined forces to organise the "Cyber-risk and Cyber-resilience in Finance and Insurance" conference on 6 June 2024.

Theoretical physicist Carlota Andres and economist Julien Combe are the winners of two ERC Starting Grants supported by Ecole Polytechnique. This funding from the European Research Council helps early-career researchers to build their teams and pursue their most ambitious ideas.

Operational Research (OR) is the science of decision making, mathematical optimisation and modelling. It focuses on the optimal resolution of decision-making problems and the identification and use of the mathematical properties featured by each case. This is the field of research of Mercedes Peleg…

Josselin Garnier, researcher at the Centre for Applied Mathematics (CMAP) and Sandrine Bony, Research Director at the CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique within the Laboratory of Dynamic Meteorology (LMD) are among the 18 scientists newly elected to the French Academy of Sciences.

The two École Polytechnique’s teams ended 3rd and 4th in the prestigious SWERC 2023 programming contest (Southwestern Europe Regional Contest) of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), which took place in Paris. The best of the two will take part in the European EUC 2024 contest i…

École Polytechnique bagged two silver medals at the SWERC (Southwestern Europe Regional Contest) programming competition, its teams ranking respectively 4th and 6th. SWERC is a 5-hour programming contest for teams of three students, focused on algorithmic problem solving and practical coding. It is…

The founders of two start-ups incubated at École Polytechnique’s incubator, X-Up, took part in the European Venture Program organized once a year as part of the EuroTech Universities Alliance, which includes École Polytechnique. This year’s edition of this entrepreneurship boot camp took place from…

The final international competition, EuroTeQaThon, took place at the Technical University of Munich from November 23 to 25, 2022. The event brought together the best teams from EuroTeQ Engineering University's member institutions, including two teams from École Polytechnique, who presented their in…

Nicolas Cruaud (X2016), co-founder of Néolithe, won the Ivy 2023 prize, and David Henri (X2013), co-founder of Extrotrail, was one of the finalists. Two distinctions that underline Ecole Polytechnique's dynamism in entrepreneurship and innovation.

Accenta develops smart storage of building energiesLaunched in 2016 by Pierre Trémolières and boosted by the X-Tech Centre, Accenta has developed a smart low-carbon boiler that allows inter-seasonal energy storage. By exploiting, for example, solar heat or heat recovered from air conditioning syste…

The European Innovation Council (EIC) has selected 68 innovative European companies for combined grant and equity funding. Inspek and Omini, two start-ups from École polytechnique's entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem, are among them.

The research papers of two École Polytechnique students in the field of responsible investment has been distinguished by the Forum for Responsible Investment - Principles for Responsible Investment Awards, which recognize outstanding academic research in the field of finance and sustainable develop…

David Henri and Paul Lascombes, two of the four founders of Exotrail, are among the 300 under 30 selected by the European edition of Forbes magazine for their innovative projects that are transforming various sectors of the economy and innovating in areas of rapid technological change.

Optimisation of the shape of a 3-d hydraulic system for maximising heat transfer.Defended in 2019, the theses of Florian Feppon, a young researcher at the Centre for Applied Mathematics at École polytechnique (CMAP*) and Tomáš Jagelka, who completed his thesis at the Centre for Research in Economic…