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Screenshot of the jury and the finalists - 2021Alliance Social Enterprise ChallengeTo support new or existing ventures aimed at improving the common good, the Alliance Program has launched the Alliance Social Enterprise Challenge (ASEC), partnering with the Columbia Venture Competition.Open to team…

To create a strong European company in the field of oceantech and AI. This is the ambition of the team behind the start-up Amphitrite. We had the pleasure to interview the Co-founder and CEO of Amphitrite: Alexandre Stegner. Continue reading to know everything about the project !

In June 2020, École polytechnique will welcome 300 teenagers volunteering to do their Service national universel (SNU), an initiative in line with l’X’s core values and its expertise in personal development and military training.

From its initial outbreaks in the Hubei province in China, the CoViD-19 (Coronavirus) epidemic, which has spread to a growing number of countries in just a few weeks, has brought back the issue of health hazard to the forefront.The Coronavirus has received global attention in January 2020 and since…

Since October 2022, École Polytechnique has been working with École Penninghen to develop a demonstrator for the XSeaO2 program, financed by the Ifker fund, and aimed at recovering CO2 dissolved in seawater to produce synthetic fuel. The Nautilus project, designed by students at École Penninghen, w…

A team from École Polytechnique is among the finalists of the world's most prestigious student programming contest, the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC). The X finalists had already distinguished themselves at the ICPC's Southwestern Europe Regional Constest (SWERC) 2021-2022.

Sylvie Méléard, Professor at the Centre for Applied Mathematics and Member of the Institut Universitaire de France, has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant to develop her project called SINGER. It will study mathematically specific evolutionary dynamics of cell populations, mainly using stochastic m…

Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is a physical theory that describes the strong interaction, one of the three fundamental forces of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. It seeks to describe the interactions between quarks and gluons, elementary particles that make up atomic nuclei.Understanding thes…

Stéphane (X93) and Agnès Ifker have renewed their commitment to Polytechnique through an exceptional donation to support research on the energy transition. In this way, they are helping to position the Energy4 Climate interdisciplinary center as a world reference. This donation underlines the decis…

Research topics Research areas Chemical ecology                              Imaging by mass spectrometry                Metabolomics                                 Photochemistry and envionment

On the occasion of the International Women in Science Day, the Chair "Econophysics & complex systems" opens the 2022 call for applications for the "CFM Woman in quantitative finance" PhD scholarship. This award encourages the careers of young female researchers in this field, where there are still …

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Dear All,École Polytechnique will be closed from August 9th to August 18th for its annual summer vacation.Thank you for your understanding.Best regards,École Polytechnique's Press Office

The annual workshop "Current Trends in Cancer Modelling and Research" in November 2021 enabled Polytechnique students to come into contact with high-level cancer research. For Alexis Gautreau, CNRS research director at the Structural Biology of the Cell Laboratory (BIOC*) organiser of the…

Antoine Georges, physicist at the Centre for Theoretical Physics and Professor at the Collège de France, has been awarded the Feenberg Memorial Medal along with Gabriel Kotliar and Dieter Vollhardt for his theoretical work on quantum systems consisting of a large number of interacting particles.