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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…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp6egT_v5lwÉcole Polytechnique is a founding member of the U7+ Alliance, which has been launched under the patronage of France’s President Emmanuel Macron at Sciences Po during the run-up to the G7 summit in 2019. A unique international alliance of university p…

The annual summit of the International Alliance of university presidents U7+ focused this year on "The Role of Universities in Advancing Artificial Intelligence". Invited as a panelist in the opening session, Laura Chaubard, President of École Polytechnique, was among the 37 university leaders who …

According to a 2023 study, published yesterday in Communications Earth & Environment , global aviation carbon dioxide emissions increased by 1% in 2023 because planes had to fly longer routes to avoid Russian airspace.After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, western airlines were banned f…

Xenon plasma, gas mixture consisting of electrons, ions and atoms, is of real interest for space propulsion. By ejecting gas at a speed ten times higher than a conventional chemical thruster, plasma thrusters require ten times less fuel. Nevertheless, although plasma thrusters are already operation…

Their dimensions and distances make most astrophysical phenomena inaccessible to experimentation. To better understand them, researchers use laboratory astrophysics, that is to say, they reproduce on a small scale the conditions in which different phenomena are formed or evolve. This month, the pre…

On October 14, 2025, École Polytechnique hosted the University Fair, bringing together six Grand Corps of the French State, fifteen international universities, and twelve French higher education institutions. Organised by the International Affairs Office, the Direction of the Ingénieur Polytechnici…

École Polytechnique signs a new mobility agreement with the prestigious University of Chicago, enabling undergraduate students of both institutions to enroll in an exchange semester at the respective partner university.

The research internship period of the University of Michigan’s "Optics in the City of Light" program concluded on July 28, 2025, at École Polytechnique. Eight students from eight different American universities participated in the program this year, each spending two months in the laboratories of t…

Participants during the U7+ Summit on October 25, 2021The annual summit of the Alliance U7+ occurred in a virtual format on October 25, 2021, prior to the 26th Conference of the Parties, which took place from October, 31st to November, 13th.The members of the U7+ Alliance of World Universities emph…

The Presidential Summit of the international alliance U7+, in which École Polytechnique is a founding member, took place at Bocconi University in Italy from April 11 to 12, 2024. Laura Chaubard, Director General and Acting President of École Polytechnique, attended the conference, which brought tog…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_weDO1h6AStemming from a partnership initiated in 2019 with Google Arts & Culture, which specializes in virtual visits of museums and the visualization of works in high definition, in March 2021, École Polytechnique unveils seven exhibitions from the reserves o…

Figure extracted from the publication: (a) Relaxation of the precession motion of a magnetic dipole (i.e. a magnet), (b) nutation motion superimposed on the precession.An incomplete modelWhen a magnetic field is applied to a magnetic dipole (a compass for example), the axis of the dipole starts to …

Every year, the Useful Fictions international summer school, initiated by the Arts & Sciences Chair and now run by the Useful Fictions Lab programme at the SPIRAL interdisciplinary centre, brings together artists, researchers and citizens around a common theme. The fifth edition, devoted to the atm…