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The way in which the dandelion opens or closes in order to fly has been modelled in a paper in Nature Communications co-authored by researchers from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory at École Polytechnique.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmLZaiSVQlY&feature=youtu.beOn september 24th, 2019, École Polytechnique, along with its fondation and Ubistoft, launched the "Science and Video Games" Chair.In that context, a seminar took place recently, that put the spotlight on the bridges between t…

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Six start-ups created or run by X alumni or incubated at École Polytechique are among the winners of the I-Lab 2024 competition, including two in the Grand Prix category. They illustrate the entrepreneurial dynamism of X researchers and graduates, the now well-established multi-curricular nature of…

École polytechnique's team involved in the 44th edition of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) ranked 24th in the world with "High Honors" and ahead of all the teams from South-West Europe. This is the best performance ever recorded by a team from a French higher e…

One of the main challenges of the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 epidemic was and still is the availability of intensive care unit (ICU) beds and the need for invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV). To address these issues, a team of doctors and researchers developed ICUBAM (ICU - Bed Activity…

In France, the cement industry emits 10 million tonnes of CO2 per year. The greenhouse gas comes from the manufacture of cement's active ingredient, clinker. At the Irradiated Solids Laboratory (LSI*), Marie-Noëlle de Noirfontaine and Mireille Courtial are carrying out detailed characterizations of…

Beyond the analysis of samples in liquid or gaseous media, as traditionally approached by metabolomics, we are developing new methodologies in imaging mass spectrometry (IMS). This technique makes it possible to map a large number of molecules in a mixture, using laser desorption/ionization (MALDI)…

Generate an intense electromagnetic field using a relativistic plasma mirror, in order to collide it with electrons: this is the ambition of the EXAFIELD project of Adrien Leblanc, CNRS researcherat the Laboratoire d’Optique Appliquée (Laboratory of Applied Optics, LOA*), funded by an Starting Gran…

On 24 and 25 February 2025, the Data Science and Industrial Processes Chair is co-organising the Winter School: Next Generation AI and Economic Applications at EMINES-UM6P in Ben Guérir, Morocco. Registrations are open until 30 January.

The "Data Science and Industrial Processes" Chair, in partnership with UM6P, co-directed at École Polytechnique by Eric Moulines and supported by the OCP Group, helped organize the "Winter School - Generative AI" conference held from February 26 to March 1, 2024 in Morocco.

Located in the heart of the École polytechnique district on the Saclay plateau, this architecturally unique building will house the teaching and learning facilities of seven higher education and research establishments, including École polytechnique, which have spearheaded this ambitious collective…

The construction of the Shared Learning Center has been completed. This singular building will accommodate classes from seven engineering schools: École Polytechnique, AgroParisTech, Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT), ENSTA Paris, ENSAE Paris and Institut d’Optique Graduate School. This bold project was…

SIRTA (Site instrumental de recherche par télédétection), an infrastructure supported by the Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL*) and the result of collaboration between CNRS, École Polytechnique and Région Ile-de-France, was inaugurated on Friday 17 September 2021.This atmospheric research observ…

Crédit Agricole S.A., École Polytechnique and the École Polytechnique Foundation are launching the Chaire "Trustworthy and Responsible Artificial Intelligence". Its aim is to explore and define new methods for designing Artificial Intelligence systems that are ethical, robust, secure, frugal, and e…