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Physicist and CNRS research director at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter for Physics, Claude Weisbuch has been honored by the French Academy of Sciences.

Claudine Hermann was the first woman to be appointed as a professor at l’X, a renowned physicist and a champion of the promotion of women in the scientific world. She died on July 17th in her 76th year.Born on December 19, 1945 in Paris, Claudine Hermann was a former student of the École norm…

The second CLIFIRIUM conference (Climate finance, risk and uncertainty modelling) was held from 09 to 11 October 2023 at the Banque de France and the French Banking Federation. It was organised by the "Stress-Test: Risk Management and Financial Steering" Chair, headed by Emmanuel Gobet (professor a…

Since 1997, the Rare-Event Simulation Workshop (RESIM) has been an interdisciplinary event bringing together experts in rare event simulation theory and applications. With more than 150 participants from 22 different countries from Europe, America and Africa, the 13th edition of RESIM in May 2021 a…

Two years after the publication of École Polytechnique's Climate Plan and its commitment to make sustainable development a core part of its fundamental missions of education, research and innovation, the implementation of all of its ten objectives has been launched.

The MAESTRO project led by Sandrine Bony at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory has just received an Advanced grant from the European Research Council. The aim is to better understand the organisation of clouds and convection processes. Clouds formed by convective processes in the atmosphere affe…

© Laurent Ardhuin pour le CNRSAt the beginning of her higher education studies in Italy, mathematics was like a game. "That's what made me want to continue, because the idea of making a profession out of it was quite far from my imagination at the start," says Eleonora Di Nezza, …

Jean Dalibard is a physicist, researcher at the Kastler Brossel laboratory of the École normale supérieure, professor at the Collège de France and member of the Académie des sciences. He was also a professor at École polytechnique where he taught quantum physics. As a specialist of this field, he h…

Constraining the movement of vascular cells by culturing them on engineered microgrooved substrates generates a new pattern of collective motion that can be predicted using the physical framework of active fluids. This work has been published in Nature Communications by a team from the Hydrodynamic…

credits : BBVA FoundationCombinatorial optimisation is used to decide where to place facilities such as vehicle charging points in a city. "Combinatorial optimisation problems involve trying to find the best solution from a set of solutions defined by a series of conditions. In the context of …

Confirming its contribution to research excellence in France and to the development of tomorrow's space technologies, École Polytechnique is participating alongside CNRS and Safran Electronics & Defense in the creation of a joint laboratory, COMHET, dedicated to improving space thruster technologie…

The vast range of student clubs at École Polytechnique contributes to creating a lively and stimulating atmosphere for students. There are around 250 clubs which enable students to participate in numerous cultural, artistic, social, scientific, religious and sporting activities. Overview of communi…

On December 5th, École Polytechnique's Computer Science Department (DIX) organized a companies day for its students. The event allowed the School's computer science students to meet with a panel of companies, most of which are partners of the Department and its Laboratory (LIX). The companies prese…

École Polytechnique unveils the results of the first First Job survey of its Master of Science and Technology program, whose first class graduated at the end of 2018. This degree, launched in September 2016, delivers a multidisciplinary scientific education, entirely taught in English, and industry…

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