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.
On 24 and 25 February 2025, the Data Science and Industrial Processes Chair is co-organising the Winter School: Next Generation AI and Economic Applications at EMINES-UM6P in Ben Guérir, Morocco. Registrations are open until 30 January.
Six Deeptech projects led by École Polytechnique researchers have been selected as winners of the 2024 call for premature projects issued by IP Paris, of which École Polytechnique is a founding member.
An international scientific conference will be held on February 6 and 7 at École Polytechnique, focusing on the impact of the development of artificial intelligence on science and society. This event will take place ahead of the Summit for Action on AI, organized by the French authorities at the Grand Palais in Paris on February 10 and 11.
From September 2025, École Polytechnique and ENS Louis-Lumière will launch “Extended Cinematography” (XCin), a new Master of Science & Technology, to train image specialists capable of designing tomorrow's tools for virtual production in the viedo and film industries. École Polytechnique thus extends its MSc&T programs, launched in 2016, which today welcome almost 400 students.
L'Usine Nouvelle 2025 ranking of engineering Schools confirms Ecole Polytechnique’s 1st place. École Polytechnique particularly stands out for its international reach and the employability of its graduates.
École Polytechnique has been awarded the Sustainable Development and Social Responsibility (Label Développement Durable et Responsabilité Sociétale - DD&RS) by the Collective for the Integration of Social Responsibility in Higher Education (Collectif pour l'Intégration de la Responsabilité Sociétale et du Développement Durable dans l'Enseignement Supérieur - CIRCES). This label confirms the strategy of societal and environmental transformation deployed for many years by École Polytechnique, and supported since 2024 by a dedicated department.
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.
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