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Thierry Coulhon, officially appointed Acting Chairman of the Board of Institut Polytechnique de Paris on September 27, has received an engagement letter signed by the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu and the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, Bruno Le Maire. The letter instructs him to "prefigure key transformations at Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) and take over its executive management".

The 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics honored experiments capable of producing extremely short flashes of light, of the order of a billionth of a billionth of a second. These attosecond flashes can now be used to "see" the movement of electrons. The Laboratoire d'optique appliquée (Applied Optics Laboratory LOA*) has played a major role in the development of these techniques, and is continuing research in this field today. Focus on this science of the ultrafast and the infinitely small.

The WHIRLS project is led by a team of international scientists, including Sabrina Speich, a researcher at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory (LMD*). Its aim is to study the influence of small-scale processes in the ocean, such as whirls, on climate and marine biodiversity. It is funded by a Synergy grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

Join Institut Polytechnique de Paris and its various Master and PhD programs. Within one of the largest innovation centers in Europe, we have about 80 courses in 15 science and technology programs.

Stéphane Gaubert, Inria research director at CMAP, Véronique Lazarus, professor at ENSTA Paris and researcher at IMSIA, and Oana Goga, CNRS research fellow at LIX, were honored by the French Academy of Sciences on October 17, 2023. They respectively received the Michel Montpetit - INRIA Prize, the ONERA Mechanical Sciences for Aeronautics and Aerospace Prize and the Lovelace Babbage Prize.

The European Optical Society has awarded its 2023 Best Paper prize for a publication by a team led by Tatiana Novikova from the Laboratory of Physics of Interfaces and Thin Films (LPICM*). Their research studies show that the transmission Mueller microscopy combined with the machine learning methods and statistical analysis can help to assess the gastric tissue pathologies.

A strong dose of curiosity, a deep desire to understand the world and a pinch of happy encounters... this is briefly Margaux Zaffran's recipe for success. At the age of 27, this doctoral student in the 3rd year of her thesis with EDF R&D, Inria (PREMEDICAL project team) and the Center for Applied Mathematics, has been awarded the L'Oréal-Unesco Jeunes Talents prize for women in science for her work on electricity market price prediction models.

Four years after its creation, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (IP Paris) has positioned itself as one of the world's leading higher education institutions in science and technology. After an initial phase dedicated to its creation and positioning under the presidency of Eric Labaye, the Institute is now entering the second phase of its development, dedicated to its acceleration and growth, reinforced by a reform of its governance. To lead this ambitious project, Professor Thierry Coulhon was officially appointed Acting Chairman of the Board of Institut Polytechnique de Paris on September 27.

Supported by the French Ministry of the Armed Forces and the Defense Innovation Agency, the Centre Interdisciplinaire d'Études pour la Défense et la Sécurité - CIEDS (Interdisciplinary Center for Defense and Security Studies) at the Institut Polytechnique de Paris announces the launch of the "Distributed Intelligence" challenge, Edition 2023, as well as its presentation session. This challenge is a simulation-based drone swarm programming competition, on topics with real impact!

The interdisciplinary center on artificial intelligence Hi! PARIS and Capgemini have agreed to continue their partnership. This renewed commitment is aimed at continuing the joint effort to innovation, research, and education, thereby creating new opportunities for the community and empowering society with artificial intelligence and datascience.

French Minister for Higher Education and Research Sylvie Retailleau visited the campus of Institut Polytechnique de Paris on Friday, September 1. She visited the Drahi X-Novation Center, the École Polytechnique incubator, and Télécom Paris. Also, the Minister met with students, PhD students, researchers, teachers and entrepreneurs from IP Paris and its 5 member schools.

Camille Duprat, a professor at the Ecole Polytechnique and researcher at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX*), was awarded the ERC Consolidator grant in 2023 for her ElCapiTex research project.