Theoretical physicist Carlota Andres and economist Julien Combe are the winners of two ERC Starting Grants supported by Ecole Polytechnique. This funding from the European Research Council helps early-career researchers to build their teams and pursue their most ambitious ideas.
Orange Group, Société Générale Côte d'Ivoire, INP-HB, ENSEA, École Polytechnique and the Foundation of École Polytechnique are renewing the ‘Data Science Institute’ international Chair to continue its international teaching programme in data science. The renewal was celebrated on 8 July 2024.
In early 2024, Charles Baroud, professor and researcher at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), was awarded an ERC Advanced Grants for his Melcart project. Acronym for Mechanical Characterization and Stimulation of Microtissues, this research project aims to develop technologies and knowledge around mechanobiology, with a view to numerous applications in engineering, pharmacology and health. Focus.
Held at École Polytechnique, Opération CIEDS 2024 brought together researchers, students, companies and Ministry of the Armed Forces personnel to discuss issues at the crossroads of Defense, Innovation and Industry. For its second edition, Opération CIEDS confirmed its success.
A team from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), in collaboration with ETH Zürich and Cornell University, has identified a new physical phenomenon by which bioinspired protein droplets are able to move. This mechanism could play a role in the organization of living cells.
The Cambridge Analytica scandal has shown that targeting technologies on online platforms (Google, Facebook, Tik Tok...) go beyond the simple sale of objects or services to invest in the realm of information. The work of Oana Goga, a researcher at École Polytechnique's Computer science laboratory (LIX), studies the impact of these technologies on privacy, security and the manipulation of public opinion. They have fuelled reflection on the European Union's Digital Services Act and are being continued today as part of an ERC Starting Grants fellowship.
At the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics (PMC*), a team has successfully determined the spin-dependent electronic structure linked to the presence of defects in the arrangement of atoms in a semiconductor. This is the first time that this structure has been measured. The results are published in Physical Review Letters.
Newly arrived at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, Clément Livache conducts research on quantum dots, semiconductor nanocrystals whose light absorption and emission properties can be controlled. These are among the innovative materials that the interdisciplinary center Materials for Society (M4S) intends to promote.
In France, the cement industry emits 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The greenhouse gas comes from the manufacture of cement's active ingredient, clinker. At the Irradiated Solids Laboratory (LSI*), Marie-Noëlle de Noirfontaine and Mireille Courtial are carrying out detailed characterizations of materials likely to replace clinker. An essential step in the decarbonization of the industry.
In November 2023, the “Econophysics & Complex Systems” Chair was celebrating its 5th anniversary, a good time for the EconophysiX research team led by Michael Benzaquen to take stock. Find out more about this discipline, which approaches economics using methods derived from the natural sciences.
How does a bacterial line behave in the face of a cocktail of antibiotics, cancer cells in the face of chemotherapy, or the Guyanese forest in the face of climate change? At the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP), the MERGE team works at the interface between biology and mathematics. It contributes to the emergence of new questions and tools in the latter field, while shedding light on the problems faced by biologists.
Financial crises, currency attacks, social stability... our world's economic activity is particularly sensitive to information and the way it circulates. Led by Olivier Gossner, Research Director at the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and winner of an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Union in 2024, the SInfoNiA project analyzes how the dissemination of information impacts collective choices.
