Winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, Donna Strickland presented her current research work on ultrashort laser pulses and multi-frequency Raman generation processes.
The École polytechnique and the Fondation de l' École polytechnique are renewing the “Space: sciences and challenges of the space sector” teaching chair, with the support of ArianeGroup and Safran. This program, led by Pascal Chabert, initially launched in 2019, contributes to teaching activities and student projects around space, and to the École polytechnique Student Space Center (CSEP).
École Polytechnique, top of Figaro Étudiant's 2025 ranking of French Engineering Schools, stands out for its academic performance, international outlook and employability. Against a backdrop of a shortage of engineers in France, this recognition underlines its key role in training talent to meet technological and ecological challenges.
École Polytechnique, through its "Internet of Everything" and "Stress-test, risk management and financial steering" Chairs, and ENSAE Paris have joined forces to organise the "Cyber-risk and Cyber-resilience in Finance and Insurance" conference on 6 June 2024.
On 26 and 27 September 2024, L’X Interdisciplinary Laboratory (LINX) hosted a conference on "Science and fiction". Discover the links between these two concepts.
Yves Le Yaouanq, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at École Polytechnique and researcher at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST*), has been awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to lead the PROSPECT project using behavioral economics
Discover the quarterly meetings of the "Mathematical Modelling and Biodiversity" Chair, a partnership between the École polytechnique and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle supported by Veolia and the Fondation de l’École polytechnique. These events provide a platform for sharing and scientific innovation around biodiversity and applied mathematics. The next meetings will take place on 5 December 2024.
On November 26 and 27, the 32nd edition of X-Forum, the annual event bringing together students from l'X and the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and over 150 international companies, schools and universities on the X campus, attracted almost 2,000 participants, including 1,000 Polytechnique students. Students from the Cycle ingénieur polytechnicien program, Master's and PhD students from École Polytechnique and other Schools came to meet their future employers.
The Entrepreneurship, Enterprise and Innovation Center of the École Polytechnique is looking for its new class for its X-Up Incubation offer for technology startups.
Professor of Applied Mathematics at École Polytechnique, Sylvie Méléard has been awarded the Prix Irène Joliot-Curie Prize - Woman Scientist of the Year by the French Academy of Sciences, which recognizes a woman who has made an outstanding contribution to research.
Data from the H.E.S.S. collaboration telescopes, in which Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet is involved, have revealed the most energetic electrons from space ever observed. Their study shows that they come from the environment of the Solar System, a few hundred light-years away. These results are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
Leading École Polytechnique's student delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Patricia Crifo, professor at l'X, participated as a speaker in the official COP29 side event "Enhancing and Enabling Climate Solutions with Higher Education" on 18 November. In addition to Patricia Crifo, also Juan Diego Avila Hurtado, a student in École Polytechnique's Master's program in Economics for Smart Cities and Climate Policy, contributed as a panelist to the conference, which aimed to highlight the transformative impact of higher education institutions in addressing climate change.
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