From July 18 to 21, École Polytechnique hosted the International Physics Olympiad, the first time this event has been held in France since its inception in 1967. The event was an acknowledgement of École Polytechnique's eminent role in physics research and transmission. The event was also an opportunity to highlight the role played by women in key advancements of this scientific discipline.
École Polytechnique and the University of Pisa have renewed their double degree agreement, which enables students of the Ingenieur Polytechnicien program to specialize in physics at the prestigious partner institution in Italy during their 4th year of studies. Upon completing their studies for the Master of Physics degree at the University of Pisa, students will be awarded a diploma from the Italian partner university, in addition to their diploma in engineering sciences of the École Polytechnique.
Three student teams from École Polytechnique’s Master's program STEEM (Energy Environment: Science, Technology & Management) participated in the international competition EuroTeQaThon 2025, which was organized at Eindhoven University of Technology from June 14 to 16, 2025. The event brought together over twenty teams of students from the EuroTeQ Engineering University alliance, of which École Polytechnique is a member.
The internationally renowned Slovenian mathematician Igor Klep is joining the Laboratory of Computer Science (LIX) and the Center for Theoretical Physics (CPHT) at École Polytechnique as a Gaspard Monge Visiting Professor. A professor of mathematics at both the University of Ljubljana and the University of Primorska in Slovenia, Igor Klep is collaborating on quantum information theory research with the PhIQus research group, led by Marc-Olivier Renou, INRIA Saclay Junior Professor Chair and affiliated researcher at LIX and CPHT.
Two PhD students from École Polytechnique's laboratories took top prizes at the final of the Three Minutes Thesis (3MT) competition, following their...
École Polytechnique has signed a partnership agreement with one of Argentina's leading universities of technology – the Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA). The two partner institutions will offer a new double degree program that will enable students from ITBA at Bachelor's level to pursue a Master of Science & Technology program at l’X while continuing to complete their four-year Bachelor's degree at ITBA.
The annual summit of the International Alliance of university presidents U7+ focused this year on "The Role of Universities in Advancing Artificial Intelligence". Invited as a panelist in the opening session, Laura Chaubard, President of École Polytechnique, was among the 37 university leaders who participated in this seventh edition of the U7+ Presidential Summit. The event brought together representatives from 42 universities across 16 countries at the University of Ottawa on April 22–23, 2025. As Canada prepares to host the G7 Summit in June 2025, this year's U7+ Summit concluded with the official delivery of a communiqué, endorsed by U7+ member universities, to the Canadian government. The document underscores higher education institutions' crucial role in shaping responsible AI.
Since 2020, the European university EuroTeQ, of which Ecole Polytechnique is a founding member, has been offering innovative programs to train the European engineers of tomorrow. To promote the on-going education of professionals and respond to contemporary technological challenges on a European scale, it is launching the EuroTeQ Professional Education catalog.
École polytechnique students finished 3rd in the International Physicists' Tournament 2025 (IPT 2025). The aim of this tournament is to have teams debate physics problems they have researched beforehand.
In the latest episode of the podcast of the Alliance program, of which École Polytechnique is a member, Antoine Guibal speaks about American expatriate writers who settled in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. Antoine Guibal chairs the Department of Languages and Cultures at the École Polytechnique and spent a semester as a Visiting professor at Columbia University at the beginning of this academic year.
Alliance Visiting professor at École Polytechnique, Reshmi Mukherjee, research professor at Barnard College of Columbia University, has developed her joint research with Deirdre Horan, researcher at the Leprince-Ringuet laboratory for particle physics and astrophysics (LLR), focusing on blazars. Moreover, her visit and exchanges with the LLR research team has further strengthened the ties between the astrophysics research groups at l’X and Columbia.
École Polytechnique and the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to promote joint projects in education, research, and innovation in the field of artificial intelligence. As researchers from both institutions carry out collaborative research projects, the MoU will serve as a framework to facilitate further initiatives.
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