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École Polytechnique welcomes international students from scientific universities outside France within two dedicated exchange programs, allowing them to study at l’X for one or two semesters as part of their respective studies.

Mathematical representation of an hyperbolic disk, corresponding to a two-dimensionnal anti-de Sitter space.Charles Marteau won the honorable mention of the Daniel Guinier Prize of the French Physical Society (SFP). He completed his doctorate at the Centre for Theoretical Physics (CPHT*) under the …

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Crédit : ESO/L. CalçadaIn 1987, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a supernova (SN1987A) explodes. Being very close to Earth, this supernova has been particularly well studied and has made it possible to validate one of the most important theoretical models of neutron star formation with the detectio…

Radiowave and X-ray pictures of G296.5+10.0 supernova from SNRcat A supernova happens when a star runs out of fuel and dies, generating a huge explosion that causes shock waves in the surrounding medium. These shock waves, known as supernova remnants, spread out for thousands of years across vast d…

Surface functionalization can modify the reactivity of a surface, enabling a device to function properly. Properties range from hydrophobicity and passivation to selective interactions with chemicals and biological molecules. Several teams in the Chemistry Department are dedicated to surface functi…

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…

École Polytechnique is taking action on the major challenges of sustainable development. Responsible on its campus, it uses education, research and innovation with its partners at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris to gain knowledge about the evolution of ecosystems, climate change and the develop…

At the international symposium "RefleXions: Research, training and action for sustainable development", the School took five major commitments that are now an integral part of its strategy:*The implementation of a sustainable development training certification. The School has continued it…

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe mission has detected magnetic distortions in solar wind, known as switchbacks. To better understand these phenomena, whose origins remain uncertain, a study was conducted by a network of collaborators including the Laboratory for Plasma Physics (LPP – Sorbonne University /…

Sylvie Jacquemot from the Laboratoire pour l'Utilisation des Lasers Intenses (Luli)* located at École Polytechnique, has been elected as the new Coordinator of Laserlab-Europe. She takes on the role previously held by Claes-Göran Wahlström from Lund Laser Centre at Lund University (Sweden), who…

On March 28, 2023, École Polytechnique is organising a symposium to which researchers, students and leaders of the EuroTech universities are invited to discuss their institutions’ initiatives and a common action plan to accelerate the shift towards sustainability, for a strong, sustainable…

Michel Bastide, CEO of the start-up Synaplus worked in transformation through IT (or by IT) for over 30 years before joining Synaplus in 2018 specializing in artificial intelligence technology. He shares his entrepreneurial experience, challenges, goals and ambitions.

In a research paper published in Nucleic Acids Research, an international collaboration involving the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory shows the presence of nucleic acid knots called G-quadruplexes in helminth parasites. The researchers also identify molecules that can bind to these structures.

The SPIE G. G. Stokes Award in Optical Polarization is presented for exceptional contribution to the field of optical polarization. This year, the winner is Tatiana Novikova, researcher at the Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films* in which she heads the research group of Applied optic…