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20.07.21
Claudine Hermann, renown physicist and fisrt woman appointed professor at the École Polytechnique, passed away
Claudine Hermann was the first woman to be appointed as a professor at l’X, a renowned physicist and a champion of the promotion of women in the...
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20.07.21
A new non-invasive technique for parchment diagnosis
Pictures of the nonlinear optical microscope from the Laboratory for Optics and Biosciences (LOB – CNRS, École Polytechnique – Institut Polytechnique...
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07.07.21
« Artificial photosynthesis » team of scientists wins Royal Society of Chemistry's Horizon Prize
Principle of the device demonstrated in "Low-cost high-efficiency system for solar-driven conversion of CO 2 to hydrocarbons" Tran Ngoc Huan et al...
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28.06.21
Integrated circuits : Controlling the design is a major issue
Two large-scale events celebrated the achievements and potential of high tech and digital technology in June: Vivatech, where the Institut...
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24.06.21
Modeling aerosol flows in hospital rooms
Simulation of aerosol's propagation in an hospital room. The Covid-19 pandemic has put unprecedented pressure on hospitals in France and around the...
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22.06.21
A new approach to creating language generation algorithms
"Currently, most language generation algorithms are based on deterministic neural networks, resulting in word sequence decoding mechanisms that...
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18.06.21
Climate change at the heart of banking risks
Since 1997, the Rare-Event Simulation Workshop (RESIM) has been an interdisciplinary event bringing together experts in rare event simulation theory...
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04.06.21
When ants pilot themselves like fishing boats...
The extinction of fish populations due to overexploitation is a current problem that stems in particular from the lack of models capable of simulating...
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02.06.21
What projects emerge from the arts & science Chair's summer school?
Credits: Antoine Desjardins, artist, professor at the Ecole des Arts Décoratifs - EnsAD and researcher at Ensadlab The first edition of "Useful...
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31.05.21
50 years of particle physics with IN2P3
Reynald Pain, director of IN2P3, at Ecole polytechnique, May 19th 2021 “Exploring the two infinities” is how Reynald Pain describes the mission of the...
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28.05.21
École Polytechnique fills the space at SpaceConnect'21 on June 24
SpaceConnect'21, an event dedicated to the European space community, will take place in a hybrid format on June 24 in Meudon with a strong involvement...
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27.05.21
Josselin Garnier receives the Grand Prix Scientifique of the Simone and Cino Del Duca Foundation
What do an earthquake, a sonar at sea and a laser shot into the atmosphere have in common? All three emit waves which, as they travel through these...