École Polytechnique has published online a dynamic digital presentation in French and English of its 23 laboratories, their teams and ambitions. École Polytechnique, a founding member of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, has made the promotion of its research within IP Paris a cornerstone of its 2022-2026 development plan.
Manas Upadhyay, an Assistant Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, is awarded the Jean & André Rist Medal 2022 for his work on understanding the microstructure of materials. His research at the Solid Mechanics Laboratory is currently directed towards making metal additive manufacturing more sustainable.
In many astrophysical processes such as solar flares, particle acceleration is likely to result from the reconnection of different magnetic field lines. In a paper published in Nature Communications, a team including researchers from the Intense Laser Laboratory and the Plasma Physics Laboratory shows that the geometry of these field lines plays a crucial role.
Created to support various scientific activities associated to the field of cosmology, the Alexander Friedmann Fund was launched on December 05, 2022 by the first Colloquium Friedmann. Frank Eisenhauer from Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (Germany) inaugurated these conferences by speaking about “The galactic center black hole, the effects of general relativity, and how to observe them”.
