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Catalysis plays a very important role in chemistry as it promotes and accelerates reactions. In particular, organometallic catalysis, which uses metal-based catalysts, is now widely deployed. However, the metals still most commonly used -…

Every year since 2011, the Student Space Center has enabled more than forty students in the 2nd and 3rd years of the Polytechnique engineering cycle to propose and carry out their projects in systems and space engineering. This year, two…

École Polytechnique's team involved in 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…

This year, the EuroTech Universities Alliance celebrates its 10th anniversary and the many successful initiatives it has brought about since its foundation in 2011. The European Venture Program (EVP) is one of them. Designed to foster…

The experiments conducted by Cédric Thaury consist in focusing an energetic light beam on a target material in order to create a plasma, ie a gas of negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions. These charges are then…

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.…