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22.03.21
Eric Moulines: EURASIP 2020 Technical Achievement Award
An influential European learned society in the field of signal processing, EURASIP has awarded its 2020 Technical Achievement Prize to Éric Moulines, professor at the Centre for Applied Mathematics, for his major contributions in statistical inference, in particular on hidden Markov chains and non-linear filtering.
Research
17.03.21
Covid-19: An update on research, a year after the first lockdown in France
The month of March marked the anniversary of a nationwide lockdown in France, decided by the government to stem the pandemic of Covid-19, which...
Research
17.03.21
Rigid and viscous, the truth about white blood cells
Credits : Julien Husson, LadHyX, https://cellmechanics.jimdofree.com/ In the continuation of their research on the physical properties of cells...
Campus
11.03.21
Unprecedented historical collections of l'X on Google Arts & Culture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn_weDO1h6A Stemming from a partnership initiated in 2019 with Google Arts & Culture, which specializes in virtual...
Chairs
10.03.21
Hackathon of the "Next-Gen RetAIl" Chair to rethink e-commerce
For its third edition, the annual hackathon of the "Next-Gen RetAIl" Chair welcomed two teams for a more in-depth challenge than the previous ones...
Campus
08.03.21
Two silver medals for l’X at the SWERC programming contest
École Polytechnique bagged two silver medals at the SWERC (Southwestern Europe Regional Contest) programming competition, its teams ranking...
Entrepreneurship
05.03.21
Women entrepreneurship: 3 questions for Mariam Ezzedine, co-founder of Hiperssys
Mariam Ezzedine (on the right) and Fatme Jardali (on the left), co-founders of Hiperssys How did the idea of Hiperssys come about? This...
03.03.21
QS ranks l’X in the Top 40 worldwide for the study of 4 subjects
École Polytechnique has been named as one of the world’s top universities for the study of 11 subjects according to the 2021 edition of the QS World...
Research
26.02.21
“Emotional" algorithms for artworks
Recognizing images A key problem in computer science is teaching computers to “understand” images. Traditionally this means developing algorithms that...
Research
26.02.21
First laureate of the "CFM Women in quantitative finance" grant
First winner of the "CFM Women in Quantitative Finance" thesis grant from the " Econophysics & Complex systems" Chair, Cécilia Aubrun is a young...
25.02.21
MSc&T: Two-thirds of graduates get a job before graduation
The second « First Job survey » of the École polytechnique's Master of Science and Technology (MSc&T) graduates highlights the strong appeal of the...
Research
24.02.21
A miniature gas sensor based on carbon nanotubes
Image Credits : Salomé Forel "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom": In a founding speech for nanotechnology, physicist Richard Feynman encouraged...