News & events

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.

An official delegation from Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) will be participating in COP 28, which will take place in Dubai this December. It includes representatives from Ecole Polytechnique, which has been granted the RINGO observer status since 2022.

At the Laboratoire des solides irradiés (Irradiated Solids Laboratory - LSI*), Luca Perfetti's team uses the FemtoArpes instrument to scrutinize the movement of electrons in materials in real time. Based on the principle of photoemission, the instrument has received a €500,000 grant from the Île-de-France region for a technical upgrade that will enable researchers at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris to maintain their leading role in the field.

Institut Polytechnique de Paris is deeply saddened to announce the passing this week of Berrie Giebels, physicist at the Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory (LLR) and Deputy Director of IN2P3, from an illness. Berrie was a major figure in high-energy gamma-ray astronomy in France.

Manon Blanc and Oliver Bournez, researchers at the Computer Science Laboratory of the École Polytechnique, have been awarded a prize at the international symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science for their work characterizing the complexity of functions over real numbers.