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Operated by École polytechnique and CNRS, Apollon is one of the few facilities in the world with multiple laser beams whose power exceeds one petawatt (one million billion watts). Take a behind-the-scenes look at this infrastructure and the fundamental research being carried out there.

The École polytechnique incubator is looking for its new Promo for its X-UP CREATE support package for innovative technology start-ups in the seed stage.

Applied mathematics offers the possibility of describing and analyzing complex problems or data from all scientific disciplines, covering a very broad spectrum of engineering jobs in the industrial and service sectors: physics, mechanics, chemistry, economics, finance, biology, medicine, ecology, c…

France's Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications, Postal Affairs and Press Distribution (Arcep) has signed an educational partnership with École Polytechnique, ENSAE Paris and Telecom Paris, as part of the MSC&T "Data and Economics for Public Policy”. Launched at the start of the 2023 ac…

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Researcher at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*), a laboratory of which he is also director, Arnak Dalalyan has just received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) for a research project on generative artificial intelligence.

Arthur Mensch (X2011), co-founder and CEO of Mistral, the French AI gem, came to meet École Polytechnique students for a talk on entrepreneurship and the implications of AI, two topics which he addressed by echoing his School's motto: “For the Nation, for Sciences, and for Glory.”

On March 21 and 22, the conference "Aspects of Gravity, Mathematics and Physics" took place. It was organised by the Laurent Schwartz Mathematics Center and the Center for Theoretical Physics for scientists to discuss issues related to gravitation as well as the theory of general relativity and its…

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Fabian Cadiz, a researcher at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for OneSpin, a project on two-dimensional semiconductors.

The 13 Group Science Projects (GSPs) selected by the education and research departments among the 113 GSPs of the X2019 class were presented on September 13 before a jury composed of academic and business personalities.Three projects were awarded during this final examination and a fourth was award…

For the first time, the three Bachelor's classes welcomed to Ecole Polytechnique at the start of the 2023-2024 academic year all benefited from training in the challenges of ecological transition. The BX26 class attended a "sustainability day" while 2nd and 3rd year students (BX25-24) uderwent a tw…

The idea of a universal criteria to quantify beauty haunts artists and philosophers since Ancient Greece. Centuries after the golden number theory, Michael Benzaquen, CNRS researcher with his thesis student S. Lakhal and his collaborators A. Darmon (Art in Research) and J.-P. Bouchaud, studied this…

École Polytechnique creates many opportunities for companies to develop their employer brand for students. In doing so, companies can boost their visibility and attract our talent.

On its way to study Mercury, the BepiColombo probe flew over Venus. On board, the MSA instrument, for which the Plasma Physics Laboratory contributed to the design, detected carbon and oxygen ions escaping into space from the Venusian atmosphere. A first in this region.