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The price of bitcoin has experienced a new surge exceeding 50,000 dollars after the car manufacturer Tesla and its founder Elon Musk declared their interest for this cryptoasset. Is Bitcoin just a giant speculative bubble?When the bitcoin booms, it’s always the same story! Everyone focuses on…

The CBDC report of the Blockchain@X Research Center at Ecole Polytechnique offers the most comprehensive summary to date on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Supported by Capgemini, Nomadic Labs and Caisse des Dépôts, Blockchain@X brings together a research team and proposes teaching on bloc…

École Polytechnique Bachelor's program (BX) ranked first in its category for the second consecutive year in the list of French Engineering School Bachelor's programs published by Le Figaro Étudiant. The EPITA Bachelor's program in Cybersecurity, in partnership with École Polytechnique, confirmed it…

The TechInnov Days were held from January 26 to 27, 2023, in Ben Guerir, Morocco. This conference dedicated to data science and artificial intelligence was co-organized by the École Polytechnique through its Chair "Data Science & Industrial Processes".

X2019, Amaury Lancelin is conducting his doctoral research at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*), in partnership with RTE (Réseau de transport d’électricité). The goal is to improve the study of heat waves, cold waves, intense precipitation, and other extreme weather events.

Cilmate emergency is at the heart of the 15th Ecological Awakening Week at École polytechnique, organized from September 28th to 30th by the student association NeXt. It follows on from the mobilization of the last three classes of Polytechnic students in the face of this major challenge

A major scholarship program as part of the “CMA CGM Excellence Fund for Lebanon” The CMA CGM Group will support 10 Lebanese students per year, for a duration of 10 years. The scholars, who will have been admitted to École Polytechnique, will come from Lebanese universities in particular. As a glo…

The Department is supported by its Laboratory, LIX. Click here to access the LIX website.The abbreviation LIX stands for Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'École polytechnique (the École Polytechnique Computer Science Laboratory). The letter X is used in France as a longstanding nickname for École Pol…

Since the adoption of the European Accessibility Act in 2018, industrial players have been encouraged to apply the principles of universal design and thus make their products and websites accessible to all. Based on three co-creation workshops with people with disabilities (PWD) around distinct pro…

This new pedagogical partnership applies to École Polytechnique’s Master of science and technology (MScT) “Data and economics for public policy”, which will be launched in September 2023. By participating in this Master's programme, the Cour des comptes wishes to contribute to the training…

Currently under construction at two sites in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTA) will be the world's largest array of telescopes capable of detecting high-energy gamma rays. The Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet (LLR*) is heavily involved in this projec…

Fabian Cadiz of the Condensed Matter Physics Laboratory, Adrien Leblanc of the Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée and Félix Tropf of the Centre for Research in Economics and Statistics have been awarded ERC Starting Grants by the European Research Council to set up research teams in their respective f…

The commitment of the Executive Master community to the promotion of high-impact technological innovation was illustrated on two occasions in November.The X-Impact Tech Prize, launched this year by graduates of the second class of the Executive Master of the Ecole Polytechnique, alongside the X inc…

Newly arrived at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, Clément Livache conducts research on quantum dots, semiconductor nanocrystals whose light absorption and emission properties can be controlled. These are among the innovative materials that the interdisciplinary center Materials for S…

École Polytechnique has hosted the seminar for the first French Tech 2030 class. It gathered the program's institutional partners and the 125 winning start-ups, of which 16 from Ecole Polytechnique’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. At the same time, a ranking by the the French newspaper …