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From July 18 to 21, École Polytechnique hosted the International Physics Olympiad, the first time this event has been held in France since its inception in 1967. The event was an acknowledgement of École Polytechnique's eminent role in physics research and transmission. The event was also an opport…

The Master Data Science & AI for Business X-HEC has moved up one place to rank second worldwide out of 164 comparable programs in the 2026 QS Masters in Business Analytics ranking. It once again ranks first worldwide in terms of employer reputation.

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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Former director of the Center for Management Studies (CRG*), Michel Berry received the Olivier Lecerf Prize, awarded by the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, for his career achievements.

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…

The Laboratoire d'informatique de l'X and the Centre interdisciplinaire Hi! PARIS jointly organised a visit to the École polytechnique on 10 November by John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Stanford University School of Medicine. In a lectur…

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FRANCE, June 2nd, 2023 - Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris), in partnership with the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (ENPC), is organizing the second international REFLEXIONS conference, which will take place on Friday 9 June 2023 at the Ecole Polytechnique. This academic an…

The year 2025 has been proclaimed International Year of Quantum Science and Technology by the United Nations. In the 20th century, quantum mechanics radically changed the way we think about the physical world. Today, quantum physics is in the midst of a renaissance that is opening up new and une…

Every year since 2011, the Student Space Centre has enabled more than forty students in the 2nd and 3rd years of the Polytechnique engineering cycle to propose and carry out their projects in systems and space engineering. This year, two collective scientific projects (PSC) dealing respectively wit…