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The Institut Polytechnique de Paris will be present at the third edition of the Paris Saclay Summit Choose Science, on February 18 and 19 at CentraleSupélec. A driving force in the fields of engineering sciences and disruptive technologies, anchored at the interface between science and society, IP Paris supports this unmissable scientific event, which is open to all and whose 2026 edition will focus on European cooperation.

A series of meetings designed to facilitate exchange between the Materials community and the Artificial Intelligence community, the internal workshop of the interdisciplinary center Materials for Society (M4S) are held on the third Tuesday of every month.

On January 13, 2026, the Interdisciplinary Center for Seas and Oceans (CIMO) hosted the first Seas and Oceans Forum at the Paris Polytechnic Institute. Nearly 30 speakers took the stage to present the interdisciplinary challenges bringing together academic, industrial, and institutional stakeholders in the maritime sector. Watch researchers from IP Paris and Ifremer recap the event in this video.

The offshore wind turbines of 2030 will be floating, gigantic, and capable of producing tens of megawatts of electricity. Several technologies exist to keep these behemoths afloat. Among them are damping plates designed to reduce the vertical movements—known as pounding—that they undergo and improve their efficiency. Luc Pastur, associate professor at ENSTA's Laboratory of Mechanics and Interfaces (LMI*) and director of the Offwind program, is co-supervising a thesis aimed at studying the fluid dynamics around these plates.

Aref Einizade is a researcher at the SAMOVAR* at Télécom SudParis. After approximately three years as a postdoctoral researcher at the Information Processing and Communication Laboratory (LTCI**) at Télécom Paris, he recently joined SAMOVAR through Tenure Track funding supported by the interdisciplinary Engineering for Health (E4H) center at IP Paris***, as part of the DaTSHealth**** program. He will thus continue his work in machine learning, particularly in the modeling of complex graphs, with applications in neuroscience and the biomedical field.

One year after the AI Action Summit, and ahead of the upcoming international event, the “India AI Impact Summit” in New Delhi, Institut Polytechnique de Paris and Université PSL, together with HEC Paris, are joining forces to explore how French research is shaping the standards for innovative and responsible AI. “AI in Paris: One Year After the Summit — Building the Future” will bring together French scientists and decision-makers on Monday, February 9, in the afternoon at the Collège de France. The event will highlight the interdisciplinary approach that strengthens our ecosystems, with active participation from the AI clusters Hi! PARIS and PR[AI]RIE, as well as the AI and Society Institute.

Equity is an essential condition for combating climate change, says Céline Guivarch, professor at École Polytechnique. The theme will be discussed at the REFLEXIONS conference on energy transition, along with sustainability and security. Also a Research Director in climate change economics at the Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement (CIRED*) at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées, the scientist will chair the roundtable on energy justice on February 5, 2026.

The IP Paris Research Day held on December 1, 2025, was dedicated to numerical modeling and the ecological transition. Twenty-one PhD students from the Institut Polytechnique de Paris had the opportunity to present their research by pitching their doctoral work to the scientific community in one minute. On the occasion of the 2026 REFLEXIONS Conference about Energy Transition, this is a look back at several topics presented on December 1st, representative of the research conducted in this field at IP Paris.

On March 12, 2026, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris will host the local final of the “My Thesis in 180 Seconds” competition, a public science outreach event. Held from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at École Polytechnique, the competition will bring together PhD candidates from a wide range of scientific disciplines. Their challenge: to present their research topic clearly, accessibly, and engagingly in just three minutes. At the end of the presentations, both the jury and the audience will vote to select the most compelling participants. The winners of the 1st and 2nd Jury Prizes, as well as the Audience Prize winner — or, if the Audience Prize is awarded to one of the first two Jury Prize winners, the 3rd Jury Prize winner — will represent the Institut Polytechnique de Paris at the Île-de-France regional final on April 16, 2026, alongside PhD candidates from Université Paris-Saclay, Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC), and CY Cergy Paris Université.

Ensuring the stability and sustainability of an energy system has strategic political implications, emphasizes Mathieu Xémard, defense engineer and project manager at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Defence and Security (CIEDS) at IP Paris. Energy security will be the focus of the round table he will chair at the REFLEXIONS conference organized by Institut Polytechnique de Paris on February 5, 2026.

On December 1, 2025, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris held the fourth edition of its Research Day, focusing on numerical modeling and ecological transition. Around thirty speakers took part in the event, which was aimed at the IP Paris scientific community. It was an opportunity to create synergies and promote major projects for 2025, such as the creation of the Interdisciplinary Center Seas and Oceans (CIMO). Here is a video review of this important event in the IP Paris calendar.

The necessary decarbonisation of the energy sector raises many challenges related to resources, conflicts of resources use and the environment. These issues will be at the heart of the round table on energy sustainability to be held during the REFLEXIONS Conference, which is organised on February 5, 2026 by Institut Polytechnique Paris. This round table will be chaired by Philippe Drobinski, Director of Research at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*) and Director of the Energy 4 Climate (E4C) interdisciplinary center at IP Paris.