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21.01.21
The first laser pixels
Based on an idea given by Gérard Mourou, Professor Emeritus of the Ecole Polytechnique and recipient of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, the XCAN...
Research
21.01.21
What looks alike comes together: the origin of actine's branching networks
The role of the actin filaments as the skeleton of the cell is very well identified, but its implementation has so far been unclear. It is the veil of...
Campus
19.01.21
Sustainable development: Pledges honored, towards carbon neutrality
At the international symposium "RefleXions: Research, training and action for sustainable development", the School took five major commitments that...
Campus
18.01.21
A master plan for the X and IP Paris campus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-kCsOaKrzE Improving campus life and the layout of the premises is a priority of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris...
Institution
15.01.21
Ecole Polytechnique looks beyond the pandemic with its 2021 agenda
École Polytechnique's priority remains to protect the health of everyone - students, teachers, researchers and staff - while ensuring the continuity...
Research
05.01.21
New experiments at CERN
© 2020 CERN, Noemi Caraban Gonzalez Heavy ion physics is a fundamental area of physics explored by two teams at the Leprince Ringuet Laboratory (LLR*)...
Research
05.01.21
Towards an understanding of the reaction of plants to the wind
Electrical response of the "switch" MSL10 of the Arabidopsis thaliana model plant solicited by a continuous stimulation or by a stimulation mimicking...
Research
16.12.20
Tribute to François Mathey
François Mathey, born in 1941, was a committed chemist from an early age. He took a place at the École Polytechnique (X 1961) and, upon finishing his...
Research
15.12.20
Two research awards for Mercedes Pelegrín García
Operational Research (OR) is the science of decision making, mathematical optimisation and modelling. It focuses on the optimal resolution of decision...
Research
14.12.20
The contributions of co-creation to universal design
Since the adoption of the European Accessibility Act in 2018, industrial players have been encouraged to apply the principles of universal design and...
Entrepreneurship
10.12.20
Innovation in Covid-19 times: Codi, the new work from home alternative
Christelle Rohaut, alumni of the Ingénieur Polytechnicien Program, says the innovation competitions she participated in while studying at l’X were a...
Research
09.12.20
An ERC grant to understand the first moments of the Universe
Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) is a physical theory that describes the strong interaction, one of the three fundamental forces of the Standard Model of...