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The Odd One Out: An interview with Dr Laura Chaubard, Director General at École Polytechnique

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The Olivier Lecerf Prize awarded to Michel Berry

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.

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The Optics and Biosciences Laboratory Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

By bringing together specialists in optics and biology within the same laboratory, the LOB stands out among research laboratories. This unique setup was established 25 years ago, spearheaded by Jean-Louis Martin, who was then leading a team using lasers for biological applications at the Applied Op…

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The partnership between École Polytechnique, a member of IP Paris, and the CNRS renewed

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…

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The physics of droplet hurdles race

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 …

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The Polytechnique Community

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…

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The Prix Pierre Faurre 2024 awarded to Claire Fauvarque Nuytten (X2009), specialist in elastomer processes

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…

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The quest for better science: an interview with John Ioannidis

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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The second international conference, REFLEXIONS - Regulation to fight climate change

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…

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The second quantum revolution in Ecole Polytechnique's laboratories

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…

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The Social Role of Universities in a Divided World

PREAMBLEAt a time of global crisis, the U7+ Alliance of World Universities seeks to partner with G7 governments to strengthen our democracies, advance economic growth and innovation, and promote effective multilateral cooperation. Universities are engines of renewal. We educate new generations…

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The Student Space Centre at the International Astronautical Congress

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…

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The third Réflexions conference at École Polytechnique on the challenges of energy transition

École Polytechnique hosted the third edition of the international scientific conference “Réflexions,” organized by the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which École Polytechnique is a founding member. The Energy4Climate interdisciplinary research center and renowned researchers associated with Éc…

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The X-HEC Master Data Science & AI for Business, in the Top 3 of the QS 2025 worldwide rankingsement QS 2025

The X-HEC Master's in Data Science & AI for Business remains in third place worldwide out of 164 comparable programs in the 2024 QS Masters in Business Analytics ranking. It is once again ranked No. 1 worldwide in terms of employer reputation.

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