École Polytechnique, through its "Internet of Everything" and "Stress-test, risk management and financial steering" Chairs, and ENSAE Paris have joined forces to organise the "Cyber-risk and Cyber-resilience in Finance and Insurance" conference on 6 June 2024.
On 26 and 27 September 2024, L’X Interdisciplinary Laboratory (LINX) hosted a conference on "Science and fiction". Discover the links between these two concepts.
Discover the quarterly meetings of the "Mathematical Modelling and Biodiversity" Chair, a partnership between the École polytechnique and the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle supported by Veolia and the Fondation de l’École polytechnique. These events provide a platform for sharing and scientific innovation around biodiversity and applied mathematics. The next meetings will take place on 5 December 2024.
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.
Xavier Niel, telecommunications and digital entrepreneur, press owner, co-founder of the Station F incubator and several digital training schools, held a round-table discussion with students from École Polytechnique, focusing on entrepreneurship. He emphasized the contribution of École Polytechnique and its graduates to France's performance in digital technology and artificial intelligence.
École Polytechnique strengthens its ties with Bocconi, the world-renowned Italian university specialized in economics, management, finance, law, political science, data and computer science. A Memorandum of Understanding, signed on November 13th will facilitate specific joint projects such as academic student exchanges and the development of double degree programs at master level, combining the strengths of the two institutions.
Discovered in the late 1970s, archaea are unicellular organisms with characteristics of both bacteria and more complex organisms. Once cast aside, advances in molecular biology and genomics have brought them back into the spotlight. In the laboratories of École Polytechnique, several research teams are exploring the scientific potential of these microorganisms.
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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.
École Polytechnique is launching the first season of a series of mini-videos on its achievements in favor of sustainability, as part of its Climate plan. The first episode is devoted to the audio tour of the campus offered to cycle ingénieur polytechnicien students as an introduction to a new multi-disciplinary course on sustainability
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.
Physicist and CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, Claude Weisbuch has been honored by the French Academy of Sciences.
École Polytechnique is strengthening its ties with two first-class academic and scientific institutions in India. During her visit to India in early October 2024, École Polytechnique’s President, Laura Chaubard, signed two student exchange agreements - the first with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT Bombay) and the second with the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi).
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