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Heat transport in hot plasmas
The question of heat transport is fundamental to understand the radiative or hydrodynamic properties of hot plasmas. Thanks to the development of numerous plasma diagnostics, LULI plays a major role in the elucidation of these complex phenomena.The question of heat transport is fundamental not only…
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HERA
The CRONOS platform brings together two academic laser facilities in the Paris region dedicated to laser shock applications: HERA and HEPHAISTOS.The HERA facility, located at the LULI on the Ecole Polytechnique site, offers two beams of 200 Joules at 1053 nm in collinear geometry, for a varia…
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History
Brief historyFollowing the demonstration of the first laser light by Théodore H. Maiman, the research activities on high-power high-energy pulsed lasers, laser-generated plasmas and applications started at École Polytechnique in Paris as soon as in the early 60's. After the first generations of ru…
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History of CMAP
Creation of CMAP in 1974
When the Ecole Polytechnique moved from central Paris to Palaiseau, the decision was taken to reorganize research, leading to an overhaul of existing laboratories and the creation of new ones. There was already a fundamental mathematics laboratory, led by Laurent Schwa…
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History of the BIOC
On January 1st, 1975, the BIOC, the biochemistry laboratory, was officially created on the site of the Ecole Polytechnique which had just moved to Palaiseau. This was the School’s first biology laboratory. “There was a desire to establish research and teaching in biology, more particularly in its a…
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How to find us
The LCM is located on the Ecole Polytechnique campus in Palaiseau, 20 km south of Paris. Directions to the laboratory are available on the Ecole Polytechnique website via this linkLaboratoire de Chimie MoléculaireÉcole Polytechnique, CNRSRoute de Saclay91128 Palaiseau cedexFranceYou can also contac…
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HPC@Maths
The main objective of this team is to develop within the École Polytechnique, and more specifically at the Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP), a competence in applied mathematics and High-Performance Computing (HPC) articulated around the laboratory's axes of excellence, in particular numeri…
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Hugo Mercier - ENS
Microeconomics Seminar: MondaysTime: 14h00 – 15h15Date: 13/10/2025Room: 3001Hugo MERCIER (ENS) – “Why do Humans Reason?”CV : Dan Sperber and I have developed the interactionist theory of reasoning (AKA the argumentative theory of reasoning). According to this theory, the main functions of human rea…
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