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Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) is an academic partner of the first Paris-Saclay Summit - Choose Science, organized on February 29 and March 1 under the patronage of the weekly magazine Le Point, the Île-de-France Region and the Communauté d'agglomération Paris-Saclay. The aim of this international event is to place science at the heart of our society and demonstrate its crucial role in the environmental, economic and societal challenges we face.

The Rencontres Technology for Change, organised by the Technology for Change Research Chair, are back this year for their 3rd edition, which will take place from 26 to 28 March in Paris and on the IP Paris campus.

A team from the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*) has published an article in Biophysical Journal describing measurements of the mechanical properties of cells. An image of their experiment is featured on the cover. Here is what it looks like. Learn more...

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) celebrates the fifth edition of its Prémat’ Call for Projects. Since its creation, this call for projects has seen a steady increase in momentum and has helped identify and fund innovative research projects providing crucial support by identifying innovative projects within IP Paris’s laboratories.

On February 8, 2024, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will be presenting around 40 startups from its 3 incubators (Drahi-X Novation Center in Palaiseau, Incubateur Télécom Paris in Paris and IMT Starter in Évry) at its first Demo Day at Station F.

On January 1, 2024, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) officially joined the EuroTech Alliance, a strategic partnership of six leading science and technology universities. This move reinforces Institute’s role in building a strong, sovereign and sustainable Europe

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) welcomes the latest statements by the French President and Prime Minister, who have expressed reservations about the measure to introduce a deposit for international students, as part of the immigration law. The...

Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) and the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU Boulder) are strengthening their collaboration through an academic partnership based on a PhD thesis co-supervision program.

On December 1, Thierry Coulhon, acting Chairman of the Board of Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) since September 27, 2023, presented his first report to French Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. This note is the result of the president's concerted work with the directors of the IP Paris member schools, and his many meetings with the administrative and academic staff, students and partners of IP Paris. These discussions will continue, and a second, more operationally-oriented strategic note will be issued in the first quarter 2024.

On November 29, 2023, the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research awarded its "Science ouverte du logiciel libre de la recherche" prizes. The open source plasma simulation software Smilei, the result of a collaboration between researchers from...

18 new permanent members have joined the Académie des Sciences. Among them, Josselin Garnier, researcher at the Center for Applied Mathematics (CMAP)* and professor at École polytechnique, was elected to the inter-section "Science Applications" of the...

The discovery was a milestone in the history of particle physics. Thanks to experiments carried out with the "Gargamelle" bubble chamber designed at the Laboratoire Leprince Ringuet (LLR*) at École Polytechnique, "weak neutral currents" were demonstrated at CERN in 1973.