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15.12.21
Global Student Challenge on Generative Models of Financial Markets
The " Generative Modelling for Financial Losses" challenge was attended by nearly 300 students from masters' degrees specialising in finance and data...
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01.12.21
Looking back on the 12th European Symposium on Cubesats
With their low-cost and public technologies, small satellites were at the heart of the discussions from 24 to 26 of November at the 12th European...
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30.11.21
The quest for better science: an interview with John Ioannidis
The Laboratoire d'informatique de l'X and the Centre interdisciplinaire Hi! PARIS jointly organised a visit to the École polytechnique on 10 November...
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29.11.21
Annual workshop: state of the art in cancer research
The annual workshop "Current Trends in Cancer Modelling and Research" in November 2021 enabled Polytechnique students to come into contact with high...
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26.11.21
Polarised light, a new biomedical diagnostic tool
The development of medical imaging techniques during the 20th century has greatly improved diagnosis, treatment and patient care. New techniques...
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23.11.21
Marcel Filoche awarded for his work on localization of waves
Waves, whether they are travelling across the surface of the water or sound waves that reach our ears, generally have the property of propagating and...
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18.11.21
Proving that one knows a secret without revealing it, the future of blockchain?
At the beginning of 2009, bitcoin was created, a fully digital currency based on blockchain technology. However, a blockchain offers few guarantees of...
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08.11.21
First meeting of the GDR EMILI on low temperature plasmas
Plasmas represent a state of matter in which electrons are torn from the atoms with which they are usually associated in solids, liquids or gases...
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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...