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Opening of the application website: Mid-MayApplication deadline: 14 September 2025Admissions results: 10 October 2025Oral admission tests: From 3 November to 16 November 2025Admission results: 25 November 2025The exact address of your examination centre and the times of your oral admission tests wi…

Applications can only be made online Go to the application site Documents to enclose with your online application:MANDATORY DOCUMENTSPhoto IDOfficial document proving the applicant's nationality: copy of passport or identity cardCurriculum Vitae (CV)Letter of motivationList of courses takenA…

Key stages of the competition Eligibility based on academic recordEligibility is based on an assessment of the applicant's academic record (transcripts, letter of recommendation, letter of motivation, etc.).The Eligibility Committee draws up a list of eligible candidates based on the results of the…

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PRESENTATION:Fluid-Solid Interactions happen when the motion of solids and fluids are coupled. The aim of the course is to give you the basic tools to be able to understand, predict and eventually mitigate these interactions.ABOUT THE COURSEWhat is fluid-solid interactions ? It is what happens when…

PRESENTATION:Waves are everywhere. On water of course, but also in the air as you hear a plane, and under your feet during an earthquake certainly. Vibrations, too, are everywhere In your bike as you go over a bump, in you guitar as you play, and of course in your smartphone. You can guess that the…

Cédric Giry is an associate professor at the Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, in the civil engineering department. He develops his research activities at the LMT (Mechanics and Technology Laboratory) on the analysis of civil engineering structures subjected to static and severe loads (earthqu…

François Golse is a professor at the École Polytechnique since 2006 and chairman of the Mathematics Department. He was professor at the University of Paris-Diderot Paris 7 from 1989 to 2006 and member of the Institut Universitaire de France from 1999 to 2004.

Carl Graham is a CNRS researcher and a lecturer at the École Polytechnique. His research focuses on stochastic modeling, particularly as applied to communication networks and their algorithms. He is based at the Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées of the École Polytechnique. PUBLICATIONS Stochasti…

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Professor of physics in preparatory classes for the grandes écoles. He participates in numerous juries for entrance exams to the major scientific schools. In collaboration with the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon and the online university Unisciel, he produces physics videos and practices the "inv…

A unique case in the history of the École polytechnique: there was no entrance examination in 1915, due to the war.The declaration of war on August 2, 1914 had a direct impact on both the students and the entrance examination. Les students from the classes of 1912 and 1913 were still at school and …

Martial Haeffelin is a senior research scientist with 25-year experience in atmospheric remote sensing research. He conducted research on the effect of clouds on the global Earth radiation budget at the NASA Langley Research Center (VA, USA) from 1993-2001. In 2002, he initiated a surface-based atm…

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