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04.11.21
A new scientific interest group for additive manufacturing
Mainly used in numerous industrial sectors such as transport, space, biomedical and defence, additive manufacturing is constantly developing. In order...
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02.11.21
Combinatorial optimisation work awarded the Vicent Caselles prize
credits : BBVA Foundation Combinatorial optimisation is used to decide where to place facilities such as vehicle charging points in a city....
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02.11.21
A look back at the symposium "What escapes artificial intelligence?”
Artificial intelligence has been developing exponentially in recent years, in the context of a revival of algorithmic methods and the massive increase...
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26.10.21
Laurence Bodelot, winner of the Jean Mandel Prize 2021
This article is a partial translation of an article published on the École Polytechnique Foundation website on 20/10/2021. After a PhD thesis devoted...
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15.10.21
CNRS bronze medal for Eleonora Di Nezza
© Laurent Ardhuin pour le CNRS At the beginning of her higher education studies in Italy, mathematics was like a game. "That's what made me want to...
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11.10.21
Claire Dessalles, winner of the L'Oréal - UNESCO "For Women in Science" award
Portrait ©Fondation L’Oréal Claire Dessalles (X2013), a young researcher in the "Cardiovascular Cellular Engineering" Chair, is the winner of the "For...
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06.10.21
The Student Space Centre at the International Astronautical Congress
Every year since 2011, the Student Space Centre has enabled more than forty students in the 2nd and 3rd years of the Polytechnique engineering cycle...
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01.10.21
Céline Dorval, awarded for her work on cobalt catalysis
Catalysis plays a very important role in chemistry as it promotes and accelerates reactions. In particular, organometallic catalysis, which uses metal...
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27.09.21
Laser-plasma acceleration awarded by the French Physical Society
The experiments conducted by Cédric Thaury consist in focusing an energetic light beam on a target material in order to create a plasma, i.e. a gas of...
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17.09.21
Inauguration of SIRTA, a new Atmospheric Research Observatory
SIRTA (Site instrumental de recherche par télédétection), an infrastructure supported by the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL*) and the result of...
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16.09.21
Binaural audio synthesis in the world of Star Wars
In the famous Star Wars film released in 1977, a scene shows Luke Skywalker learning the art of Jedi combat from his mentor Obiwan Kenobi. Using his...
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16.09.21
Genetic scissors in the hands of students at the Ecole Polytechnique
For the start of the 2021 academic year, the " Personalised reconstruction of the tumour process" teaching sponsorship offers third-year students of...