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A dedicated Welcome Desk for international students and scientists (BasiX) provides support and assistance to international students and scientists who join École Polytechnique. The BasiX department offers help with formalities linked to the arrival in France (residence permit, medical insurance, o…

As part of the École Polytechnique’s international academic exchange program, more than sixty students from thirty excellent partner institutions across the globe have joined l’X for the start of the 2024 academic year. Students will get the opportunity to discover the French academic and scientifi…

With more than 100 nationalities on campus, 40% international students, and 40% international professors and researchers, École Polytechnique is highly internationalized. This strong international framework is a result of the School’s policies aimed at attracting and training talents from around th…

The role of the actin filaments as the skeleton of the cell is very well identified, but its implementation has so far been unclear. It is the veil of this mystery that Alexis Gautreau, CNRS Research Director at the Laboratory of Structural Biology of the Cell (BIOC)* and professor at the École pol…

Credits: Antoine Desjardins, artist, professor at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs - EnsAD and researcher at EnsadlabThe first edition of "Useful Fictions", the summer school of the arts & sciences Chair, allowed 18 international students, supervised by some fifteen artists, scientists a…

The extinction of fish populations due to overexploitation is a current problem that stems in particular from the lack of models capable of simulating the dynamics of fishing boats. This is what José Moran and Antoine Fosset, young researchers at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), Michael Benz…

Some fluorescent molecules used to produce microscopic images of biological processes cause the cells into which they are introduced to stiffen. This phenomenon has just been demonstrated and quantified by a collaboration involving the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*). He is featured on the cover…

Studying Retroactions between society and biodiversity, analysing the evolution of small bacteria population and a phylogenetic approah of cancer: these are the new themes handled by the Chair « Modélisation mathématique et biodiversité ». thanks to its international influence at the in…

In early 2024, Charles Baroud, professor and researcher at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), was awarded an ERC Advanced Grants for his Melcart project. Acronym for Mechanical Characterization and Stimulation of Microtissues, this research project aims to develop technologies and knowledge ar…

Wolfram SchlenkerProfessor, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and The Earth InstituteCo-director, Center for Environmental Economics and Policy (ceep.columbia.edu)Co-director, Energy & Environment Concentration at SIPAYou have studied the effect of weather and climate on agricul…

 Mariam Ezzedine (on the right) and Fatme Jardali (on the left), co-founders of HiperssysHow did the idea of Hiperssys come about?This entrepreneurial project started while I was working on my doctoral thesis in the Laboratoire of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM* - NanoMa…

Networks, whether economic or financial, raise complex data processing and organization problems and generate new questions regarding how individuals behave in their network. These questions are tackled scientists from different disciplines. To address these issues, the Economics Department and the…

Smilei is an open-source code for plasma simulation, the result of a collaboration between physicists and high-performance computing experts. It can simulate relativistic interactions between lasers and plasma or astrophysical phenomena. The workshop from 9 to 11 March explored this vast field of a…

Several of the start-ups developing innovative nuclear reactors supported by the French government as part of the France 2030 Plan were co-founded or are supported by X alumni.

Students from École Polytechnique, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, as well as from the ESPCI-PSL and the EPITA, put forward proposals as part of the consultations organized by the French government for upcoming French 2030 Recovery Plan, which President Emmanuel Macron set out on October 12.