École polytechnique

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…

Three teams of students from École Polytechnique participated in the International Mathematics Competition (IMC), open to university-level students, aged 23 years or less, of all nationalities. It took place online from August 2nd to…

The X-HEC Master of Science and Technology (MSc&T) in Data Science for Business comes in third place worldwide out of 120 comparable programs for its first ranking by QS. Launched in 2016, this Master's degree is taught jointly by…

Predictive (or positive) maintenance is a major challenge for the railway sector. The "Artificial Intelligence and Positive Maintenance" research initiative supported by Europorte (Getlink Group) is innovative in its approach through the…

The U7+ Intergenerational Roundtable Series prolonged the discussions on Intergenerational Justice – the 2020 U7+ Presidential Summit theme – in a format enabling stakeholders from across generations to engage directly with one another.…

The Platform for Artificial Intelligence (PFIA) is a major annual event in artificial intelligence research. It addresses issues and research common to both research and industry. The 14th PFIA, supported by more than ten industrial…

Within the framework of a national funding for very large research infrastructures (TGIR), the Leprince-Ringuet laboratory for particle physics and astrophysics (LLR*) has acquired a new milling machine. With a mass of 30 tonnes, it can…

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 supervision of Marios Petropoulos. His work,…

An ecological packagingLéon Rembotte and Thomas Metzger won 3rd prize for tackling an issue related to waste generated by food packaging, which is mostly made from non-biodegradable products from the petrochemical industry. The two…

A new method allows to study parchments without touching nor destroying them. The approach, which scientists from the Optics and Biosciences Laboratory helped develop, uses non-linear optical microscopy.A new method allows to study…