The goal of the QCMX Lab is to explore the quantum properties of electronic circuits and matter. Its strategy consists in coupling superconducting circuits normally used to process quantum information to materials in order to probe their quantum properties and discover new electronic states of matter.
Laura Chaubard, President and CEO of École Polytechnique, opened this international scientific conference by emphasizing the far-reaching upheavals that AI is already causing, and X's long tradition of supporting the profound scientific and societal transformations that have taken place since its creation.
École Polytechnique Executive Education will train MEDEF business leaders in Artificial Intelligence (AI), as well as organizing “learning expeditions” on the theme of quantum and cybersecurity. This mission was entrusted to X-EXED following a collaboration agreement between the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, of which École Polytechnique is a founding member, and the Mouvement des Entreprises de France (MEDEF), the main French business organisation.
Leading École Polytechnique's student delegation to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Patricia Crifo, professor at l'X, participated as a speaker in the official COP29 side event "Enhancing and Enabling Climate Solutions with Higher Education" on 18 November. In addition to Patricia Crifo, also Juan Diego Avila Hurtado, a student in École Polytechnique's Master's program in Economics for Smart Cities and Climate Policy, contributed as a panelist to the conference, which aimed to highlight the transformative impact of higher education institutions in addressing climate change.
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École Polytechnique’s Foundation (FX) is launching its third fund-raising campaign with a strong commitment to “Serving Science”. It aims to raise 200 million euros over the next 5 years from private individuals and companies, and has announced that it has already raised over 40% of this target.
Since welcoming its first Moroccan student in 1948, École Polytechnique has fostered strong academic and scientific partnerships with institutions in Morocco. This longstanding collaboration was highlighted by the invitation extended to École Polytechnique’s President, Laura Chaubard, to join the French presidential delegation on a state visit to Morocco from October 28 to 30, 2024.
In an article published in the journal Science, an international collaboration involving researchers from the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CPHT*) proposes a tool for estimating the difficulty of many problems yet to be solved, as well as the effectiveness of methods developed to tackle them, including quantum algorithms.
École Polytechnique hosted the international competition EuroTeQathon, which brought together more than 130 students, teachers, and experts on June 8-10, 2024. Aligned with this year’s theme, “Enhance Connections for a Sustainable Future,” the participants developed projects proposing innovative solutions to specific environmental and social challenges and pitched them to a jury of experts in entrepreneurship and innovation.
Awarded by the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs, the Eiffel scholarships benefit international students who have distinguished themselves through academic excellence. Fourteen international students of École Polytechnique are among the recipients of the Eiffel Excellence Scholarships 2024, illustrating the global reputation of l’X.
The Presidential Summit of the international alliance U7+, in which École Polytechnique is a founding member, took place at Bocconi University in Italy from April 11 to 12, 2024. Laura Chaubard, Director General and Acting President of École Polytechnique, attended the conference, which brought together the presidents and executives of over 80 universities worldwide to focus on this year’s theme "Inclusive Education for Inclusive Societies". The summit concluded with a formal statement on Global Access to Higher Education, also calling on the G7 to collaborate in four key areas.
École Polytechnique's Executive Education division is launching five new programs for executives and managers of private and public organizations, focusing on technological innovation, cybersecurity, cloud, data and artificial intelligence, and sustainable performance and governance.
École Polytechnique welcomed the delegates from its partners within the alliance RESCIF (Network of Excellence in Engineering Sciences of the French-speaking Community) on campus from October 12 to 14, 2023. The agenda of the meeting included the results of the entrepreneurship summer school, organized by the University Saint Joseph of Beirut in Lebanon in July 2023, as also the results of the call for projects to establish joint laboratories within the RESCIF network.
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